Miscellaneous Anthologies

Books, Listed by Author

O’DONOVAN, MICHAEL (1903-1966); see pseudonym Frank O’Connor (stories)

OE, KENZABUR, ed. (stories)

• * *The Crazy Iris and Other Stories of the Atomic Aftermath (Grove Press 0-8021-5184-1, 1985, $11.00, 204pp, tp) (Contents)

OFNER, TERRY, ed.

• * *What on Earth? An Ecology Reader (with Rebessa Christian) (Perfection Learning 0-7891-5274-6, Jan 2001, tp) (Contents)

O’GRIOFA, MAIRTIN, ed. (stories)

• * *Famous Irish Ghost Stories (Sterling/Main Street 0-8069-0708-8, 1994, $5.95, 144pp, tp) (Contents)

OLANDER, JOSEPH D(avid), ed. (1939- ) (stories)

• * *Ursula K. Le Guin (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Taplinger Publishing Company 0-8008-7942-2, 1979 [Nov ’81], $5.95, 258pp, tp) Humorous literary SF/associational/art/non-fiction/reference book. A hardcover edition (-7943-0) was announced but not seen. [PSP] (Contents) [Le Guin]

OLENIUS, ELSA, ed. (stories)

• * *Great Swedish Fairy Tales (Delacorte Press 0-440-03041-2, Apr ’78, $6.95, 239pp, tp) Translated by Holger Lundbergh. (Contents)

O’MARA, LESLEY, ed.

• * *Great Cat Tales (Carroll & Graf 0-786-70765-8, Jun 2000, $12.95, 256pp, tp) Contents from Amazon.com. (Contents)

OSTRANDER, ISABEL (Egenton) (1883-1924); see pseudonym Douglas Grant (stories)

PAYNE, ROB, ed. (stories)

• * *Pop Goes the Story! Canadian Fiction Anthology (Quarry Press 1550822330, Jan ’99, $12.95, 256pp, tp) Contents list from Yahoo Books. (Contents)

PEABODY, RICHARD, ed. (stories)

• * _Mondo Elvis (with Lucinda Ebersole) See entry under Lucinda Ebersole.
• * _Mondo Marilyn (with Lucinda Ebersole) See entry under Lucinda Ebersole.

PENCE, RAYMOND WOODBURY, ed.

• * *Short Stories by Present Day Authors (Macmillan, 1927, 431pp, hc) (Contents)

PETRIE, CHUCK, ed. (stories)

• * *Windward Crossings: A Treasury of Original Waterfowling Tales (Willow Creek Press 1-572-23191-2, Nov ’98, $35.00, 144pp, hc) Contents from Amazon.com. (Contents)

PHILIP, NEIL, ed. (1955- ) (stories)

• * *Christmas Fairy Tales (Little Brown UK 0-316-87836-7, Sep ’96, £15.99, 140pp, hc, cover by Isabelle Brent) Juvenile collection of 13 stories. Illustrated by Isabelle Brent. (Contents)

PICKERING, JAMES H., ed. (stories)

• * *Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories (9th edition) (Prentice Hall College Div. 0-130-14328-6, Jun 2000, $49.00, tp) Contents from Amazon.com. (Contents)
• * *Fiction 50: An Introduction to the Short Story (Prentice Hall 0-02-395555-4, 1993, tp) Contents from publisher’s catalog. (Contents)

PIEKARSKI, VICKI, ed. (stories)

• * *The First Five Star Western Series Corral (Five Star 0786218487, May 2000, $21.95, 236pp, hc) (Contents)
• * _The Morrow Anthology of Great Western Short Stories (with Jon Tuska) See entry under Jon Tuska.
• * *Westward the Women: An Anthology of Western Stories by Women (University of New Mexico Press 0-826-31063-X, Jun ’88, $13.95, 179pp, tp) Contents from Amazon.com. (Contents)

PIERCE, CONSTANCE, ed. (stories)

• * _Elvis Rising: Stories on the King (with Kay Sloan) See entry under Kay Sloan.

PLATT, FRANK C., ed.

• * *Famous Short Stories (NEL, 1966, 5/-, pb) Signet/NAL. Anthology of stories from Liberty magazine. [TM] (Contents)

POLLACK, PAMELA, ed.

• * _Tails of Terror (with Kevin Ryan) See entry under Kevin Ryan.

POND, LILY, ed. (stories)

• * *Yellow Silk: Erotic Arts and Letters (with Richard Russo) (Harmony Books 0-517-58736-X, 1990, $10.00, 296pp, tp) Associational collection. (Contents)

POOL, GAIL, ed. (stories)

• * *Other People’s Mail: An Anthology of Letter Stories (University of Missouri Press 0-826-21246-8, Jan 2000, $16.95, 288pp, tp) Contents from Amazon.com. (Contents)

PORTER, ANDREW

• * _Experiment Perilous: Three Essays on Science Fiction [as by Anonymous] See entry under Anonymous.
• * _Exploring Cordwainer Smith [as by Anonymous] See entry under Anonymous.

PORTER, ANDREW (Ian) (1946- ); see under Anon.

POTTER, ROBERT R., ed.

• * *Beyond Time and Space (Globe Book Company 0-87065-155-2, 1978, 216pp, tp) Textbook with an introduction to each story and a Word Warm-up. Each story followed by “Checking your understanding..., ...And making inferences,” “Building your vocabulary,” and “Thinking it through.” (Contents)

PREISS, BYRON (Cary), ed. (1953-2005) (stories)

• * _First Contact The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (with Ben Bova) See entry under Ben Bova.

PRIOR, AMY, ed. (stories)

• * *Retro Retro: fictional flashbacks (Serpent’s Tail 1-85242-644-6, Jun 2000, £8.99, x+242pp, tp, cover by Martin O’Neill, Alex Williamson & Keenan) Original/reprint mainstream anthology of 16 stories, including some of genre interest: authors include Kenworthy, Oates, Royle, and Tony White with a “Jerry Cornelius” tale. (Contents)

PRONZINI, BILL, ed.; [i.e., William John Pronzini] (1943- ) (stories)

• * *Arbor House Treasury of Great Western Stories (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Arbor House 0-87795-410-0, 1982, 455pp, hc) Revised from Great Tales of the West (Galahad 1982). (Contents)
• * *Combat!: Great Tales of World War II (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Signet 0-451-16571-3, May ’92, $4.99, 345pp, pb) (Contents)
• * *Great Tales of the West (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Galahad Books 0-88365-702-3, 1982, 445pp, hc) Revised as Arbor House Treasury of Great Western Stories (Arbor House 1982). (Contents)
• * _New Frontiers, Volume I (with Martin H. Greenberg) See entry under Martin H. Greenberg
• * _New Frontiers, Volume II (with Martin H. Greenberg) See entry under Martin H. Greenberg
• * _She Won the West (with Marcia Muller) See entry under Marcia Muller.
• * *The Western Hall of Fame (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Morrow, 1984, 376pp, hc) (Contents)
• * *Wild Westerns: Stories from the Grand Old Pulps (Walker, 1986, xii+214pp, hc) [DKL] (Contents)

PROULX, E. ANNIE, ed. (1937- ) (stories)

• * *The Best American Short Stories 1997 (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-79865-5, Nov ’97, $13.00, 381pp, tp) Contents from Amazon.com. (Contents)

PURDOM, THOMAS E(dward), ed. (1936- ) (stories)

• * *Adventures in Discovery (Doubleday 71-84394, 1969 [Oct ’95], $4.95, 182pp, hc) Collection of science fact articles by famous science fiction authors such as Isaac Asimov and John Brunner. [PSP] (Contents)

QUIRK, TOM, ed. (stories)

• * _The Portable American Realism Reader (with James Nagel) See entry under James Nagel.

RABKIN, ERIC S(tanley), ed. (1946- ) (stories)

• * *Stories: An Anthlogy and an Introduction (Longman 0-06-045327-3, 1994, $58.00, 1500pp, tp) (Contents)

RAFFEL, BURTON, ed. (stories)

• * *Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories (Signet Classic 0-451-52279-6, Jan ’90, $5.95, 560pp, tp) Contents from publisher’s catalog. (Contents)

RALEIGH, ROBERT, ed. (stories)

• * *In Our Lovely Deseret: Mormon Fictions (Signature Books 1-560-85119-8, Apr ’98, $17.95, 300pp, hc) Contents from Amazon.com. (Contents)

RANDISI, ROBERT J(oseph), ed. (1951- ) (stories)

• * *Tin Star (Berkley 0-425-17405-0, Apr 2000, $5.99, 274pp, pb) Contents from Amazon.com. (Contents)
• * *White Hats (Berkley 0-425-18426-9, Apr 2002, $5.99, 258pp, pb) Original anthology of 16 western stories, two reprint. (Contents)

RASCOE, BURTON, ed. (stories)

• * *The Smart Set Anthology (with Groff Conklin) (Reynal & Hitchcock no ISBN, 1934, no price, xlviii+844pp, hc) (Contents)

RAVENEL, SHANNON, ed.

• * _The Best American Short Stories 1978 (with Ted Solotaroff) See entry under Ted Solotaroff.
• * _The Best American Short Stories 1979 (with Joyce Carol Oates) See entry under Joyce Carol Oates.
• * _The Best American Short Stories 1981 (with Hortense Calisher) See entry under Hortense Calisher.
• * _The Best American Short Stories 1982 (with John C. Gardner) See entry under John C. Gardner
• * _The Best American Short Stories 1983 (with Anne Tyler) See entry under Anne Tyler.
• * _The Best American Short Stories 1984 (with John Updike) See entry under John Updike.
• * _The Best American Short Stories 1985 (with Gail Godwin) See entry under Gail Godwin.
• * _The Best American Short Stories 1986 (with Raymond Carver) See entry under Raymond Carver.
• * _The Best American Short Stories 1987 (with Ann Beattie) See entry under Ann Beattie.
• * _The Best American Short Stories 1988 (with Mark Helprin) See entry under Mark Helprin.
• * _The Best American Short Stories 1989 (with Margaret Atwood) See entry under Margaret Atwood.
• * *New Stories from the South: 1999 - The Year’s Best (Algonquin Books 1-565-12247-X, Sep ’99, $14.95, 312pp, tp) Contents from Amazon.com. (Contents)
• * *New Stories from the South: 2000 - The Year’s Best (Algonquin Books 1-565-12295-X, Sep 2000, $14.95, 320pp, tp) Contents from Amazon.com. (Contents)
• * *New Stories from the South: 2001 - The Year’s Best (Algonquin Books 1-565-12311-5, Sep 2001, $14.95, 346pp, tp) Contents from Amazon.com. (Contents)

RAY, CYRIL, ed. (stories)

• * *Cyril Ray’s Compleat Imbiber No.14 (Beaumont Books 1-871073-02-2, 1989, £14.95, 191pp, hc) [NB] (Contents)

READER’s DIGEST, EDITORS of, ed.

• * *Great British Short Stories (London: Reader’s Digest, 1974, 736pp, hc) A compendium of over sixty stories with a high proportion of ghost and strange stories. (Contents)
• * *Great British Short Stories (London: Reader’s Digest, 1974, 736pp, hc) A compendium of over sixty stories with a high proportion of ghost and strange stories. Items of interest include “The Amorous Ghost”, Enid Bagnold, “Running Wolf”, Algernon Blackwood, “The Demon Lover” Elizabeth Bowen, “A Terribly Strange Bed” Wilkie Collins, “The Brute” Joseph Conrad, “The Birds” Daphne Du Maurier, “The End of the Party” Graham Greene, “The Cotillon” L. P. Hartley, “August Heat”, W. F. Harvey, “The Ghost” Richard Hughes, “The Monkey’s Paw” W. W. Jacobs, “The Mezzotint” M. R. James, “The Rocking-Horse Winner” D. H. Lawrence, “The Open Window”, Saki, “The Sire de Malétroit’s Door” Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Man Who Could Work Miracles” H. G. Wells and “The Happy Prince” Oscar Wilde. (Contents)

REAMAN, MICKI, ed.

• * _A Line of Cutting Women (with Beverly McFarland & Teri Mae Rutledge) See entry under Beverly McFarland.

RECK, FRANKLIN M., ed. (stories)

• * *The American Boy Anthology (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1951, hc) (Contents)

REDMAN, CROSBY E., ed. (stories)

• * *Introduction to the Short Story (McCormick-Mathers Publishing Co., 1965, 280pp, tp) Each story is followed by sections called Questions and Comments, Word Study, and Composition. (Contents)
• * *Introduction to the Short Story (McCormick-Mathers Publishing Co. 0-800-91851-7, 1977, 281pp, tp) Each story is followed by sections called Questions and Comments, Word Study, and Composition. (Contents)

REED, ISHMAEL (Scott), ed. (1938- ) (stories)

• * *19 Necromancers from Now (Anchor A 743, 1970, $1.95, 369pp, tp) (Contents)

RHYS, ERNEST, ed. (1859-1946)

• * *The Haunters and the Haunted (with M. Larigot) (London: D. O’Connor, 1921, 394pp, hc) 57 ghost stories including 40 from local legends and folk-lore. Only the non-fiction is listed. (Contents)

RIDOUT, ALAN (John), ed. (1934- )

• * *Sea (London: J. Murray 0719536642, 1980, 122pp, pb) The short story series. (Contents)

RIVERS, JAMES, ed. (stories)

• * *MacDonald Medley (with E. R. H. Harvey) (MacDonald no ISBN, 1945, no price, 246pp, hc) [PSP] (Contents)

ROBERTSON, ROBIN, ed.

• * *Firebird 3 (Penguin 0-14-006797-3, 1984, £3.50, 284pp, tp, cover by Andrew Davidson) Annual anthology of new writing. [PSP] (Contents)

ROBERTSON, WENDY, ed. (1941- ) (stories)

• * *Headlines: The Write Around Short Story Anthology (with Heather Bennett) (Write Around 1-899028-05-6, Oct ’94, £4.25, 75pp, tp, cover by Rebecca Bell & Fiona Midgeley) Anthology of original short stories, including several of genre interest. Available from Berwick Hills Library, Ormesby Rd, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, England. (Contents)

ROHY, VALERIE, ed. (stories)

• * _American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920 (with Elizabeth Ammons) See entry under Elizabeth Ammons.

ROSMOND, BABETTE, ed.; [i.e., Babette Rosmond Stone] (1921-1997)

• * *Seventeen from Seventeen (Macmillan, 1967, hc) (Contents)

ROSS, ROBERT L., ed. (stories)

• * *Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction in English: An Anthology (Garland 0815314310, Sep ’99, $75.00, 480pp, hc) Contents from Amazon.com. (Contents)

ROWELL, CHARLES H., ed. (stories)

• * _Shades: An Anthology of Fiction by Gay Men of African Descent (with Bruce Morrow) See entry under Bruce Morrow.

ROYLE, NICHOLAS (John), ed. (1963- ) (stories)

• * *A Book of Two Halves (Gollancz 0-575-06323-8, Sep ’96 [Mar ’97], £9.99, 288pp, tp) Anthology of 23 original stories and a selection of poems about football, most by genre authors. Several are SF or fantasy. [PSP] (Contents)
• * *Neonlit: Time Out Book of New Writing Vol. 1 (London: Quartet 0704380900, 1998, £7.00, 330pp, tp) Original anthology, design by Namara, illustrations by David Bray. (Contents)
• * *The Time Out Book of Paris Short Stories (Penguin 0-14-028121-5, Mar ’99 [May ’99], £6.99, xiv+194pp, tp) Original anthology of 17 stories, at least one being of genre interest. Authors include Kim Newman, Christopher Kenworthy, and Patricia Duncker. (Contents)

RUBENSTEIN, ROBERTA, ed.; [i.e., Roberta Rubenstein Larson] (1944- ) (stories)

• * *Worlds of Fiction (with Charles R. Larson) (MacMillan College Division 0-024-04185-8, Jan ’93, $60.00, 1472pp, tp) Contents from publisher’s catalog and Amazon.com. (Contents)

RUBINSKY, HOLLEY, ed.

• * *The Journey Prize Anthology 10 (McClelland & Stewart 0-771-04437-2, Mar ’99, $16.99, 208pp, tp) Contents from Amazon.com. (Contents)

RUSSO, RICHARD, ed. (stories)

• * _Yellow Silk: Erotic Arts and Letters (with Lily Pond) See entry under Lily Pond.

RUSSO, RICHARD A(nthony), ed. (1946- ) (stories)

• * *Dreams Are Wiser Than Men (North Atlantic 0-938190-94-6, Aug ’87, $14.95, 374pp, tp) Anthology of articles, poems, and stories about dreams, most surreal or fantastic, including five poems by Ursula K. Le Guin from Wild Angels. (Contents)

RUTLEDGE, TERI MAE, ed.

• * _A Line of Cutting Women (with Micki Reaman & Beverly McFarland) See entry under Beverly McFarland.