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The Ruins of Contracoeur and Other Presences by Joyce Carol Oates (Swan River Press, 2021, 978-1-78380-040-7, €40.00, xiv+209pp, hc, co, cover by Meggan Kehrli)     Horror collection. Limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by the author, Lisa Tuttle & Meggan Kehrli. Details taken from publisher website. · Introduction · Lisa Tuttle · in · Mr. Stickum · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Playboy Summer 2019 · The Cold · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 2019 · Monstersister · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Conjunctions #74, Spring 2020 · Commencement · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction ed. Al Sarrantonio, Roc, 2001 · The Redwoods · Joyce Carol Oates · ss American Short Fiction Winter 2020 · The Ruins of Contracoeur · Joyce Carol Oates · na 999 ed. Al Sarrantonio, Avon, 1999 · Sources · [uncredited] · ms

The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 ed. Joyce Carol Oates (Houghton Mifflin, October 2005, 0-618-51744-8, $27.50, 324pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 20 stories. ix · Foreword · Otto Penzler · fw xiii · Introduction · Joyce Carol Oates · in 1 · The Identity Club · Richard Burgin · ss TriQuarterly #118, Winter 2004 19 · Disaster Stamps of Pluto · Louise Erdrich · ss The New Yorker December 13 2004 33 · Delmonico · Daniel Handler · ss McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage, 2004 49 · Jack Duggan’s Law · George V. Higgins · nv The Easiest Thing in the World by George V. Higgins, 2004 80 · Old Boys, Old Girls · Edward P. Jones · nv The New Yorker May 3 2004 103 · The Shooting of John Roy Worth · Stuart M. Kaminsky · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 2004 113 · Until Gwen · Dennis Lehane · nv Men from Boys ed. John Harvey, Heinemann, 2003 129 · The Shoeshine Man’s Regrets [Tess Monaghan] · Laura Lippman · ss Murder… and All That Jazz ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet, 2004 141 · When All This Was Bay Ridge · Tim McLoughlin · ss Brooklyn Noir ed. Tim McLoughlin, Akashic Books, 2004 152 · Case Closed · Lou Manfredo · nv Brooklyn Noir ed. Tim McLoughlin, Akashic Books, 2004 173 · Sault Ste. Marie · David Means · ss Harper’s Magazine August 2004 184 · Public Trouble · Kent Nelson · ss The Antioch Review Fall 2004 194 · Officers Weep · Daniel Orozco · ss Harper’s Magazine June 2004 203 · The Last Man I Killer · David Rachel · ss Eureka Literary Magazine Spring 2004 217 · One Mississippi · Joseph Raiche · ss The Baltimore Review Winter/Spring 2004 225 · Cruisers · John Sayles · ss Zoetrope: All-Story Fall 2004 241 · Reconstruction · Sam Shaw · ss Story Quarterly #40, 2004 259 · The Love of a Strong Man · Oz Spies · ss The Ontario Review Fall/Winter 2004 274 · Loyalty · Scott Turow · nv Playboy January 2004 297 · Barracuda · Scott Wolven · ss Plots with Guns November/December 2004 313 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg 323 · Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2004 · [uncredited] · bi

The Best American Short Stories 1979 ed. Joyce Carol Oates & Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin, 1979, tp, an) xi · Introduction · Joyce Carol Oates · in (r) 1 · A Silver Dish · Saul Bellow · nv The New Yorker September 25 1978 28 · An Exile in the East · Flannery O’Connor · ss The South Carolina Review Fall 1978 39 · Home and Native Land · Seán Virgo · ss Malahat Review 1978 44 · A Short Walk Into Afternoon · Kaatje Hurlbut · ss Southwest Review 1978 56 · Shadrach · William Styron · nv Esquire November 21 1978 79 · The Wedding Week · Rosellen Brown · ss Boston University Journal 1978 84 · A Party in Miami Beach · Isaac Bashevis Singer; translated by Joseph Singer · ss Playboy June 1978 97 · The Quail · Rolf Yngve · ss Quarterly West 1978 102 · Some Manhattan in New England · Peter LaSalle · ss Georgia Review 1978 115 · Plaisir d’Amour · Lynne Sharon Schwartz · ss The Ontario Review 1978 131 · Falling Off the Scaffold · Lyn Coffin · ss Michigan Quarterly Review Winter 1978 150 · Spelling · Alice Munro · ss Weekend Magazine 1978 157 · Seasons · Ruth McLaughlin · ss The California Quarterly 1978 167 · Living Alone · Robley Wilson, Jr. · ss Fiction International 1978 172 · The Middle Place · Mary Hedin · ss Southwest Review 1978 184 · The Quarterback Speaks to His God · Herbert Wilner · nv Esquire October 24 1978 206 · Trip in a Summer Dress · Annette Sanford · ss Prairie Schooner 1978 214 · The Eye · Paul Bowles · ss The Missouri Review 1978 222 · Paper Covers Rock · Jean Thompson · ss Mademoiselle 1978 234 · The Missing Person · Maxine Kumin · ss TriQuarterly 1978 243 · Finisterre · Louis D. Rubin, Jr. · nv The Southern Review 1978 270 · A Lingering Death · Silvia Tennenbaum · ss Massachusetts Review 1978 284 · Home Is the Hero · Bernard Malamud · nv The Atlantic Monthly 1978 312 · The New Music · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker June 19 1978 324 · Something That Happened · Jayne Anne Phillips · ss Gallimaufry 1978

New Jersey Noir ed. Joyce Carol Oates (Akashic Books, November 2011, 978-1-61775-026-7, $15.95, 280pp, tp, oa) [Akashic Noir]     Associational original anthology of 14 stories and five poems of noir crime. Authors include Bradford Morrow, Jeffrey Ford, S.J. Rozan, Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini. A hardcover edition (-034-2, $24.95) was announced. 13 · How Blackly Lovely: Noir in New Jersey · Joyce Carol Oates · in 25 · Part I, Inner-City New Jersey 27 · Live for Today · S. A. Solomon · ss; set in University Heights (Newark). 40 · Soul Anatomy · Lou Manfredo · ss; set in Whitman Park (Camden). 61 · New Day Newark · S. J. Rozan · ss; set in Central Ward (Newark). 76 · Newark Black: 1940-1954 · C. K. Williams · pm; set in Vailsburg (Newark). 79 · Part II, Romance & Nostalgia 81 · Lola · Jonathan Santlofer · ss; set in Hoboken. 92 · The Enigma of Grover’s Mill · Bradford Morrow · nv; set in Grover’s Mill. 125 · Broken Glass · Gerald Stern · pm; set on Mickle Street (Camden). 126 · Wunderlich · Sheila Kohler · ss; set in Montclair. 139 · Atlantis · Richard Burgin · nv; set in Atlantic City. 161 · August: Feeding Frenzy · Alicia Ostriker · pm; set in Jersey Shore. 163 · Part III, Commerce & Retribution 165 · A Bag for Nicholas · Hirsh Sawhney · ss; set in Jersey City. 180 · Glass Eels · Jeffrey Ford · ss; set in Dividing Creek. 191 · Meadowlands Spike · Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini · ss; set in Rutherford. 197 · Kettle Run · Robert Arellano · ss; set in Cherry Hill. 217 · Noir, NJ · Paul Muldoon · pm; set in Paramus. 219 · Part IV, Garden State Underground 221 · Too Near Real · Jonathan Safran Foer · ss; set in Princeton. 235 · Excavation · Edmund White & Michael Carroll · ss; set in Asbury Park. 255 · Long Branch Underground · Robert Pinsky · pm; set in Long Branch. 257 · Run Kiss Daddy · Joyce Carol Oates · ss; set in the Kittatinny Mountains. 276 · About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction (Second Edition) ed. Joyce Carol Oates & R. V. Cassill--- see under R. V. Cassill.

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories ed. Joyce Carol Oates (Oxford University Press US, September 1994, 0-195-09262-7, $18.95, tp, an)     Reprint (Oxford University Press 1992) anthology. Contents from Amazon.com. · Rip Van Winkle · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #1, June 23 1819, as by Geoffrey Crayon · The Wives of the Dead · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Token 1832, 1831, as by F… · The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids · Herman Melville · gp Harper’s New Monthly Magazine April 1855, uncredited. _ · The Paradise of Bachelors · Herman Melville · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine April 1855, uncredited. _ · The Tartarus of Maids · Herman Melville · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine April 1855, uncredited. · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843 · The Ghost in the Mill · Harriet Beecher Stowe · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1870, uncredited. · Cannibalism in the Cars · Mark Twain · ss The Broadway November 1868 · The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969 · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 · The Middle Years · Henry James · ss Scribner’s Magazine May 1893 · In a Far Country · Jack London · ss Overland Monthly June 1899 · The Little Regiment · Stephen Crane · nv Chapman’s Magazine June 1896 · A Journey · Edith Wharton · ss Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton, Scribner, 1899 · A Death in the Desert · Willa Cather · ss Scribner’s Magazine January 1903 · A Clean, Well-Lighted Place · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1933 · An Alcoholic Case · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ss Esquire February 1937 · The Girl with a Pimply Face · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories June 1934 · He · Katherine Anne Porter · ss New Masses October 1927 · Red-Headed Baby · Langston Hughes · ss The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes, Alfred A Knopf, 1934 · A Late Encounter with the Enemy · Flannery O’Connor · ss Harper’s Bazaar September 1953 · Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957 · There Will Come Soft Rains [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss Collier’s May 6 1950 · Where Is the Voice Coming From? · Eudora Welty · ss The New Yorker July 6 1963 · The Lecture · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss Playboy December 1967 · My Son the Murderer · Bernard Malamud · ss Esquire November 1968 · Something to Remember Me By · Saul Bellow · ss Esquire July 1990 · The Death of Justina · John Cheever · ss Esquire November 1960 · Texts · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss American Short Fiction 1990 · The Persistence of Desire · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 11 1959 · Are These Actual Miles? · Raymond Carver · ss Esquire May 1972, as “What Is It?” · Heat · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The Paris Review #110, Spring 1989

Prison Noir ed. Joyce Carol Oates (Akashic Books, September 2, 2014, 978-1-61775-239-1, $15.95, 259pp, tp, oa) [Akashic Noir] 13 · Seeds for Next Year · Joyce Carol Oates · in 23 · Part I: Ghosts in the Machine 25 · Shuffle · Christopher M. Stephen · ss; set in the Federal Correctional Institution, Oxford, Wisconsin. 44 · I Saw an Angel · Sin Soracco · ss; set in the California Institution for Women, Corona, California. 56 · Bardos · Scott Gutches · ss; set in the Fremont Correctional Facility, Cañon City, Colorado. 69 · Trap · Eric Boyd · ss; set in the Allegheny County Jail, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 80 · A Message in the Breath of Allah · Ali F. Sareini · ss; set in the Coldwater Correctional Facility, Coldwater, Michigan. 99 · Part II: Caged Birds Sing 101 · Tune-Up · Stephen Geez · ss; set in the Ryan Correctional Facility, Detroit, Michigan. 116 · Foxhole · B. M. Dolarman · ss; set in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma. 133 · There Will Be Seeds for Next Year · Zeke Caligiuri · ss; set in the Minnesota Correctional Facility, Stillwater, Bayport, Minnesota. 155 · Immigrant Song · Marco Verdoni · ss; set in the Marquette Branch Prison, Marquette, Michigan. 170 · Rat’s Ass · Kenneth R. Brydon · ss; set in the San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California. 185 · Part III: I Saw the Whole Thing, It Was Horrible 187 · Milk and Tea · Linda Michelle Marquardt · ss; set in the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility, Ypsilanti, Michigan. 201 · Angel Eyes · Andre White · ss; set in the Ionia Correctional Facility, Ionia, Michigan. 221 · How eBay Nearly Killed Gary Bridgway · Timothy Pauley · ss; set in the Monroe Correctional Complex, Monroe, Washington. 229 · 3 Block from Hell · Bryan K. Palmer · ss; set in the Jackson State Prison, Jackson, Michigan. 243 · The Investigation · William Van Poyck · ss; set in the Florida State Prison, Raiford, Florida. 256 · About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers ed. Joyce Carol Oates (W.W. Norton, January 1998, 0-393-97176-7, $37.65, 750pp, tp, an)     Contents from Amazon.com. · Introduction: Why We Write, Why We Read · Joyce Carol Oates · in (r) · I. Miniature Narratives · The Student · Anton Chekhov · ss (r) · The Sirens · Franz Kafka · ss (r) · The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories November/December 1933 · The Wind Blows · Katherine Mansfield · ss (r) · Father’s Last Escape · Bruno Schulz · ss Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz, 1937 · I Used to Live Here Once · Jean Rhys · vi Sleep It Off, Lady by Jean Rhys, Andre Deutsch, 1976 · The House of the Crime · Alberto Moravia · ss (r) · The Supper · Tadeusz Borowski · ss (r) · Cities & the Dead · Italo Calvino · ss (r) · Continuous Cities · Italo Calvino · ss (r) · Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet? · Nadine Gordimer · ss (r) · The Turtle Overnight · James Wright · ss (r) · Regret for a Spider Web · James Wright · ss (r) · Harriet Feigenbaum Is a Sculptor · Phyllis Koestenbaum · ss (r) · Distance from Loved Ones · James Tate · ss (r) · Cockroaches in Autumn · Lydia Davis · ss (r) · Coffee · Daniel Halpern · ss (r) · Advice to Young Writers · Ron Padgett · ss (r) · The Last Days of a Famous Mime · Peter Carey · ss (r) · No One’s a Mystery · Elizabeth Tallent · ss (r) story syndicated to newspapers and published by Cincinnati Enquirer and Newsday. · Death of the Right Fielder · Stuart Dybek · ss (r) · 14 May 1905 and 15 May 1905 · Alan Lightman · ss (r) · La Cortada · Ruth Behar · ss (r) · II. Dramatic Monologues · Lethal · Joyce Carol Oates · vi Where Is Here? by Joyce Carol Oates, Ecco Press, 1992 · Twirler · Jane Martin · ss (r) · Testimonies · August Wilson · ss (r) · Still Life · Emily Mann · ss (r) · III. Early Stories · The Judgment · Franz Kafka · ss 1913 · Indian Camp [Nick Adams] · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transatlantic Review April 1924, as “One Night Last Summer” · The Burning Baby · Dylan Thomas · ss Contemporary Poetry and Prose May 1936 · Wunderkind · Carson McCullers · ss Story #53, December 1936, as by Carson Smith · Goodbye, My Brother · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker August 25 1951 · Friends from Philadelphia · John Updike · ss The New Yorker October 30 1954 · Amahl and the Night Visitors: A Guide to the Tenor of Love · Lorrie Moore · ss (r) · The Naked Lady · Madison Smartt Bell · ss The Crescent Review #1, 1983 · The Sutton Pie Safe · Pinckney Benedict · ss The Henfield Prize Stories ed. John Birmingham, Laura Gilpin & Joseph F. McCrindle, Warner, 1992 · A Portrait of a Father · Jonathan Ames · ss (r) · IV. The Art and the Craft of Revision · The Sisters · James Joyce · ss Irish Homestead August 13 1904 · The Sisters (1914) · James Joyce · ss (r) · V. Re-Visions: Reappropriations · Genesis 19 · [uncredited] · ex from The Hebrew Bible (r) · The Cave · Alicia Ostriker · ss (r) · The Story of Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira · Ovid · ss (r) · Hercules, Deianira, Nessus · C. K. Williams · ss (r) · The Story of Daedalus and Icarus · Ovid · ss (r) · Fever · Harlan Ellison · vi Mind Fields by Jacek Yerka & Harlan Ellison, Morpheus International, 1994 · Little Red-Cap · Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss German Popular Stories by trans. by Edgar Taylor, 1823, as by The Brothers Grimm translated from the German (“Rothkäppchen”, 1812). · The Werewolf · Angela Carter · vi The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, Gollancz, 1979 revised from South-West Arts Review, #2, Oct ’77. · Little Snow-White · Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss (r) · Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs · Anne Sexton · ss (r) · VI. Narrative in Other Modes · Memoir, Diary, Personal Document · Passages from the American Notebooks · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ex Smith, Elder, 1868 · From the Journal (May 1853-October 1857) · Henry David Thoreau · ex (r) · From the Diary (February-March 1930) · Virginia Woolf · ex (r) · Moments of Being · Virginia Woolf · ex Harvest/HBJ, 1985 · American Hunger · Richard Wright · ar (r) · How It Feels to Be Colored Me · Zora Neale Hurston · ar (r) · Borges and I · Jorge Luis Borges · ar (r) · Those Who Must Jump · M. F. K. Fisher · ar (r) · Passing Through Tangiers · Jack Kerouac · ar (r) · No Name Woman · Maxine Hong Kingston · ar (r) · Updike and I · John Updike · ar (r) · The Dream · Mikal Gilmore · ar (r) · Poems That Tell Stories · Odysseus Blinds the Cyclops · Homer · pm (r) · The Story of Actaeon · Ovid · pm (r) · Home Burial · Robert Frost · pm (r) · Cherrylog Road · James Dickey · pm (r) · The Car · Raymond Carver · pm (r) · 400-Meter Freestyle · Maxine Kumin · pm (r) · Emergencies · Annie Dillard · pm (r) · Cattle-Killing Winter, 1889-90 · Jana Harris · pm (r) · Avalanche · Jana Harris · pm (r) · Violence · Tom Wayman · pm (r) · Sure Shot · Erica Funkhouser · pm (r) · Testimony · Jon Davis · pm (r) · After the Fact: To Ted Bundy · Robert Phillips · pm (r) · Target Practice · Gary Soto · pm (r) · The Levee · Gary Soto · pm (r) · The Trees That Change Our Lives · Gary Soto · pm (r) · The Wrestler’s Heart · Gary Soto · pm (r) · When Jesus Walked · Carlos Cumpian · pm (r) · Aisle of Dogs · Chase Twichell · pm (r) · The Cleaving · Li-Young Lee · pm (r) · The Flood · Joy Harjo · pm The Best of the West 4 ed. James & Denise Thomas, Norton, 1991 · VII. Genre: Horror · The Rats in the Walls · H. P. Lovecraft · nv Weird Tales March 1924 · The Man in the Black Suit · Stephen King · nv The New Yorker October 31 1994 · VIII. Classics and Contemporaries · “Tickets, Please!” · D. H. Lawrence · ss The Strand Magazine April 1919 · Sun and Moon · Katherine Mansfield · ss (r) · That Evening Sun · William Faulkner · nv The American Mercury March 1931 · A Temple of the Holy Ghost · Flannery O’Connor · ss A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor, Harcourt, 1955 · Anxiety · Grace Paley · ss (r) · The Balloon · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker April 16 1966 · The Writer in the Family · E. L. Doctorow · ss Esquire August 1984 · Why Don’t You Dance? · Raymond Carver · ss (r) · The Man from Mars · Margaret Atwood · ss The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1977 · Jasmine · Bharati Mukherjee · ss (r) · Sister · Tobias Wolff · ss Ploughshares Winter 1983 · Communist · Richard Ford · ss Antæus #55, Autumn 1985 · Any Sport · William Heyen · ss The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1986 · Mourning · Robert Taylor, Jr. · ss The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1981 · My Man Bovanne · Toni Cade Bambara · ss Black World October 1971, as “Mama Hazel Takes to Her Bed” · Cutter · C. E. Poverman · ss Skin by C. E. Poverman, Ontario Review, 1992 · I Dated Jane Austen · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss Georgia Review Summer 1979 · Dating Your Mom · Ian Frazier · ss The New Yorker July 3 1978 · Aren’t You Happy for Me? · Richard Bausch · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1993 · My Mother · Jamaica Kincaid · ss At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid, Plume, 1992 · Fruit of the Month · Abby Frucht · ss The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1984 · Damballah · John Edgar Wideman · ss Damballah by John Edgar Wideman, Avon, 1981 · X and O · Jewel Mogan · ss (r) · The Moths · Helena María Viramontes · ss The Moths and Other Stories by Helena María Viramontes, Arte Publico Press, 1985 · Young Lions · Edward P. Jones · ss (r) · Gravity · David Leavitt · ss A Place I’ve Never Been by David Leavitt, Viking, 1990 · Just Don’t Touch Anything · Russell Banks · ss GQ May 1993 · In the American Society · Gish Jen · ss The Southern Review Summer 1986 · The Pugilist at Rest · Thom Jones · ss The New Yorker December 2 1991 · Family · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Omni December 1989 · Afterword: The Practice of Writing—The Writing Workshop · Joyce Carol Oates · aw (r) · Notes on Authors · [uncredited] · bg (r)