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Saint Mystery Library No. 1 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint Mystery Library #1, 1959.

Saint Mystery Library No. 2 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint Mystery Library #2, 1959.

Saint Mystery Library No. 3 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint Mystery Library #3, 1959.

Saint Mystery Library No. 4 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint Mystery Library #4, 1959.

Saint Mystery Library No. 5 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint Mystery Library #5, 1959.

Saint Mystery Library No. 6 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint Mystery Library #6, 1959.

Saint Mystery Library No. 7 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint Mystery Library #7, 1959.

Saint Mystery Library No. 8 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint Mystery Library #8, 1959.

Saint Mystery Library No. 9 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint Mystery Library #9, 1960.

Saint Mystery Library No. 10 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint Mystery Library #10, 1960.

Saint Mystery Library No. 11 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint Mystery Library #11, 1960.

Saint Mystery Library No. 12 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint Mystery Library #12, 1960.

Saint Mystery Library No. 13 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint Mystery Library #13, 1960.

Saint Mystery Library No. 14 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint Mystery Library #14, 1960.

The Saint’s Choice ed. Leslie Charteris & Hans Stefan Santesson (Hodder & Stoughton, 1967, hc, an)
Revised from The Saint Magazine Reader (Doubleday 1966).

11 · Foreword · Leslie Charteris · fw The Saint Magazine Reader ed. Leslie Charteris & Hans Stefan Santesson, Doubleday, 1966

15 · Editorial · Leslie Charteris · ed The Saint Mystery Magazine March 1963

17 · Something in the Air · David Alexander · ss The Saint Detective Magazine January 1958

31 · Toast to Victory · Lawrence G. Blochman · ss The Saint Detective Magazine November 1956

37 · Nine-Finger Jack · Anthony Boucher · ss Esquire May 1951

45 · The Man Who Ate Oysters · Wenzell Brown · ss The Saint Mystery Magazine (UK) January 1963

57 · A Man’s Foes · Pearl S. Buck · nv This Week 1940

87 · The Proverbial Murderer [Dr. Gideon Fell] · John Dickson Carr · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1943, as “The Proverbial Murder”

109 · The Arrow of God [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #70, September 1949

135 · The Liar · William Faulkner · ss New Orleans Times-Picayune July 26 1925

147 · Bed-Time Story · Robert L. Fish · ss The Saint Mystery Magazine (UK) December 1964

155 · The Wolfram Hunters · Edward D. Hoch · ss The Saint Mystery Magazine (UK) January 1963

173 · The Humming Bird · William Irish · ss Pocket Detective Magazine March 1937, as “The Humming Bird Comes Home” by Cornell Woolrich

193 · Webster and the Wienerwalz [Webster Flagg] · Veronica Parker Johns · ss The Saint Detective Magazine January 1957

211 · José Gaspar and the Princess · Baynard Kendrick · ar Tampa Tribune February 10 1963

217 · Muted Hunger · Judith Merril · ss The Saint Mystery Magazine October 1963

233 · Wriggle Room Only [Katzie’s Saloon; Dubois] · Arthur Moore · ss The Saint Mystery Magazine (UK) November 1965

243 · The Left Pass [Felix Jenks] · Edgar Wallace · ss Pall Mall Magazine December 1928

The Saint’s Choice Vol. 1 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint’s Choice v1, 1945.

The Saint’s Choice Vol. 2 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint’s Choice v2, 1945.

The Saint’s Choice Vol. 3 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint’s Choice v3, 1945.

The Saint’s Choice Vol. 4 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint’s Choice v4, 1945.

The Saint’s Choice Vol. 5 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint’s Choice v5, 1945.

The Saint’s Choice Vol. 6 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint’s Choice v6, 1946.

The Saint’s Choice Vol. 7 ed. Leslie Charteris--- see under The Saint’s Choice v7, 1946.

The American Short Story and Its Writer: An Anthology ed. Ann Charters (Bedford Books, August 1999, 0-312-19176-6, $54.70, tp, an)
Contents from Amazon.com.

· Preface · Ann Charters · pr

· Some Precursors of the American Short Story · Ann Charters · in

· The Smith-Pocahontas Legend · John Smith · ss (r)

· The Origin of the Creek Confederacy · Chekilli · ss (r)

· The Theft of Fire · Shasta · ss (r)

· From Concerning the League · John Arthur Gibson · ss (r)

· The Arrival of the Dutch · John Heckewelder · ss (r)

· All God’s Chillen Had Wings · Caesar Grant · ss (r)

· Sunrise in My Pocket · Davy Crockett · ss (r)

· Almanacs

· Peter Klaus the Goatherd · J. C. C. Nachtigal · ss (r)

· Stories

· Early Nineteenth Century: 1819-1860

· Rip Van Winkle · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #1, June 23 1819, as by Geoffrey Crayon

· Peter Rugg, the Missing Man · William Austin · nv New England Galaxy September 10 1824, as “Some Account of Peter Rugg, the Missing Man, Late of Boston, New England in a Letter to Mr. Herman Krauff” by Jonathan Dunwell

· The Indian Hater · James Hall · ss 1828

· Cacoethes Scribendi · Catharine Maria Sedgwick · ss (r)

· The Dance · Augustus Baldwin Longstreet · ss (r)

· The Minister’s Black Veil · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Token and Atlantic Souvenir 1836, 1835, as by The Author of “Sights from a Steeple”

· The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839

· The Big Bear of Arkansas · Thomas Bangs Thorpe · ss The Spirit of the Times March 27 1841

· Slavery’s Pleasant Homes · Lydia Maria Child · ss (r)

· The Land-Fever · Caroline Kirkland · ss (r)

· The Arm-Chair of Tustenuggee · William Gilmore Simms · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book February 1840

· The Two Altars; or, Two Pictures in One · Harriet Beecher Stowe · ss (r)

· The Angel Over the Right Shoulder · Elizabeth Stuart Phelps · ss 1852

· Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited.

· The Two Offers · Frances E. W. Harper · ss (r)

· Circumstance · Harriet Prescott Spofford · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1860, uncredited.

· Late Nineteenth Century: 1861-1899

· Life in the Iron-Mills, or The Korl Woman · Rebecca Harding Davis · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1861, uncredited.

· The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Mark Twain · ss The Californian December 16 1865
revised from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (The New York Saturday Press, November 18, 1865).

· The Luck of Roaring Camp · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly August 1868

· Belles Demoiselles Plantation · George Washington Cable · ss Scribner’s Monthly April 1874

· Rodman the Keeper · Constance Fenimore Woolson · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1877

· One of the Missing · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner March 11 1888

· The Return of a Private · Hamlin Garland · nv The Arena July 1890

· The Revolt of “Mother” · Mary Wilkins Freeman · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine September 1890, as by Mary E. Wilkins

· How Celia Changed Her Mind · Rose Terry Cooke · ss Huckleberries Gathered from New England Hills by Rose Terry Cooke, Houghton, Mifflin, 1891

· The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892

· The Queen’s Twin · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss The Cornhill Magazine February 1899

· The Little Room · Madeline Yale Wynne · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine August 1895

· Athenaise: A Story of a Temperament · Kate Chopin · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1896 (+1)

· The Wife of His Youth · Charles W. Chesnutt · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1898

· The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv McClure’s Magazine February 1898

· Tony’s Wife · Alice Dunbar-Nelson · ss (r)

· Early Twentieth Century: 1900-1940

· The Trial Path · Zitkala-Sä · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine October 1901

· The Duplicity of Hargraves · O. Henry · ss The Junior Munsey February 1902

· A Wagner Matinée · Willa Cather · ss Everybody’s Magazine March 1904

· The Other Two · Edith Wharton · nv Collier’s Weekly February 13 1904

· All Gold Canyon · Jack London · nv The Century Magazine November 1905

· The Walking Woman · Mary Austin · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1907

· The Jolly Corner · Henry James · nv The English Review December 1908

· Its Wavering Image · Sui Sin Far · ss Mrs. Spring Fragrance by Sui Sin Far, A. C. McClurg, 1912

· Hands · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Masses March 1916

· The Lost Phœbe · Theodore Dreiser · ss The Century Magazine April 1916

· A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917
based on material from the play “Trifles”.

· My Own People · Anzia Yezierska · ss Metropolitan Magazine February 1921

· Winter Dreams · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv Metropolitan Magazine December 1922

· The Golden Honeymoon · Ring Lardner · ss Cosmopolitan July 1922

· Miss Furr and Miss Skeene · Gertrude Stein · ss Vanity Fair (US) July 1923

· Blood-Burning Moon · Jean Toomer · ss Prairie March/April 1923

· Soldier’s Home · Ernest Hemingway · ss In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway, Boni & Liveright, 1925

· He · Katherine Anne Porter · ss New Masses October 1927

· You Were Perfectly Fine · Dorothy Parker · ss The New Yorker February 23 1929

· Spotted Horses · William Faulkner · ss Scribner’s Magazine June 1931

· A Summer Tragedy · Arna Bontemps · ss Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life 1931

· The Gilded Six-Bits · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Story #14, August 1933

· Red-Headed Baby · Langston Hughes · ss The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes, Alfred A Knopf, 1934

· Seventy Thousand Assyrians · William Saroyan · ss Story #21, April 1934

· The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories November/December 1933

· The Snake · John Steinbeck · ss The Monterey Beacon June 22 1935

· In Dreams Begin Responsibilities · Delmore Schwartz · ss Partisan Review December 1937

· He Is Thousands · Jack Conroy · ss (r)

· The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss (r)

· Mid-Twentieth Century: 1941-1965

· His Own Country · Pearl S. Buck · ss Cosmopolitan October 1935

· The Portable Phonograph · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review Spring 1941

· The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt · Mary McCarthy · nv Partisan Review July/August 1941

· A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud · Carson McCullers · ss Harper’s Bazaar November 1942

· The Catbird Seat · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker November 14 1942

· Flying Home · Ralph Ellison · ss Cross Section 1944 ed. Edward Seaver, L.B. Fischer, 1944

· We’re the only colored people here · Gwendolyn Brooks · ss (r)

· Winter Night · Kay Boyle · ss The New Yorker January 19 1946

· The Enormous Radio · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker May 17 1947

· The Petrified Woman · Caroline Gordon · ss Mademoiselle September 1947

· The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948

· I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe”

· Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957

· The Conversion of the Jews · Philip Roth · ss The Paris Review #18, Spring 1958

· Promise of Rain · Peter Taylor · ss (r)

· Everything That Rises Must Converge · Flannery O’Connor · ss New World Writing #19, NAL, 1961

· The Sharks · John O’Hara · ss Assembly by John O'Hara, Random House, 1961

· Harrison Bergeron · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1961

· Where Is the Voice Coming From? · Eudora Welty · ss The New Yorker July 6 1963

· Late Twentieth Century: 1966-Present

· In the Heart of the Heart of the Country · William Gass · nv New American Review #1, September 1967

· Title · John Barth · ss (r)

· The Police Band · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker August 22 1964

· How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again · Joyce Carol Oates · ss TriQuarterly #15, Spring 1969

· 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 · Richard Brautigan · ss (r)

· A Conversation with My Father · Grace Paley · ss New American Review #13, 1971

· Are These Actual Miles? · Raymond Carver · ss Esquire May 1972, as “What Is It?”

· Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1973

· Yellow Woman · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss The Man to Send Rain Clouds ed. Kenneth Mark Rosen, Viking Press, 1974

· Separating · John Updike · ss The New Yorker June 23 1975

· Big Bertha Stories · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss Mother Jones April 1985

· In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried · Amy Hempel · ss TriQuarterly #56, Winter 1983

· The Tenant · Bharati Mukherjee · ss The Literary Review 1986

· The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986

· Miss Clairol · Helena María Viramontes · ss (r)

· Second Question · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker June 10 1991

· Related Commentary:

· Where Characters Come From · Ann Beattie · ar (r)

· Texts · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss American Short Fiction 1990

· Newborn Thrown in Trash and Dies · John Edgar Wideman · ss (r)

· The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red Anymore · Sherman Alexie · ss Full Court ed. Dennis Trudell, Breakaway Books, 1996

· Tiny, Smiling Daddy · Mary Gaitskill · ss (r)

· Four Calling Birds, Three French Hens · Lorrie Moore · ss (r)

· Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am? · Gina Berriault · ss Ploughshares Winter 1995/1996

· New York Day Women · Edwidge Danticat · ss Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat, Soho Press, 1995

· Saul and Patsy Are in Labor · Charles Baxter · ss (r)

· Water Names · Lan Samantha Chang · ss (r)

· The Bunchgrass Edge of the World · Annie Proulx · nv The New Yorker November 30 1998

· Commentaries

· Whirlwind Man Steals Yellow Woman · Paula Gunn Allen · ar (r)

· Form, Not Plot, in the Short Story · Sherwood Anderson · ar (r)

· Regionalism in American Fiction · Mary Austin · ar (r)

· Autobiographical Notes · James Baldwin · bg (r)

· It’s a Short Story · John Barth · ar (r)

· Hemingway’s Short Stories · H. E. Bates · ar (r) [Ref. Ernest Hemingway]

· Where Characters Come From · Ann Beattie · ar (r)

· On Jean Toomer and Cane · Arna Bontemps · ar (r) [Ref. Jean Toomer]

· Creative Writing 101 · Raymond Carver · ar (r)

· Miss Jewett · Willa Cather · ar (r) [Ref. Sarah Orne Jewett]

· On Certain Brisk, Bright Days · Kate Chopin · ar (r)

· Tillie Olsen: The Iron and the Riddle · Robert Coles · ar (r) [Ref. Tillie Olsen]

· Crazy for Stories · Richard Ford · ar (r)

· Local Color in Art · Hamlin Garland · ar (r)

· From Preface to In the Heart of the Heart of the Country · William Gass · pr 1968

· A Feminist Reading of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” · Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar · ar (r) [Ref. Charlotte Perkins Gilman]

· Undergoing the Cure for Nervous Prostration · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ar (r)

· The Rise of the “Short Story” · Bret Harte · ar The Cornhill Magazine July 1899

· Preface to Twice-Told Tales · Nathaniel Hawthorne · pr Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Stationers Co., 1837

· Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt’s Stories · William Dean Howells · ar (r) [Ref. Charles W. Chesnutt]

· What White Publishers Won’t Print · Zora Neale Hurston · ar (r)

· Letter to Henry Brevoort, December 11, 1824 · Washington Irving · lt (r)

· The Morning of June 28, 1948, and “The Lottery” · Shirley Jackson · ar (r)

· From Hawthorne · Henry James · ar (r) [Ref. Nathaniel Hawthorne]

· Looking Back on Girlhood · Sarah Orne Jewett · ar (r)

· How to Write Short Stories · Ring Lardner · ar (r)

· From Short Story Theory at a Crossroads · Susan Lohafer · ar (r)

· Edgar Allan Poe and “The Fall of the House of Usher” · James Russell Lowell · ar (r) [Ref. Edgar Allan Poe]

· On Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” · Bobbie Ann Mason · ar (r) [Ref. Tim O’Brien]

· From The Philosophy of the Short-Story · Brander Matthews · ar (r)

· Edgar Allan Poe---Critical Context · Charles E. May · ar (r) [Ref. Edgar Allan Poe]

· From “Hawthorne and His Mosses” · Herman Melville · ar (r) [Ref. Nathaniel Hawthorne]

· A Deconstructive Reading of Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” · J. Hillis Miller · ar (r) [Ref. Herman Melville]

· Stories of American Life · Mary Russell Mitford · ar (r)

· Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction · Flannery O’Connor · ar (r)

· From The Lonely Voice · Frank O’Connor · ar (r)

· A Conversation with Ann Charters · Grace Paley · iv (r) [Ref. Ann Charters]

· The Short Story, through a Couple of the Ages · Dorothy Parker · ar (r)

· Review of Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales · Edgar Allan Poe · br (r) [Ref. Nathaniel Hawthorne]

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