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- Combat!: Great Tales of World War II ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Signet 0-451-16571-3, May ’92, $4.99, 345pp, pb)
- Great Tales of the West ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Galahad Books 0-88365-702-3, 1982, 445pp, hc); Revised as Arbor House Treasury of Great Western Stories (Arbor House 1982).
- 11 • Introduction • John Jakes • in
- 23 • Part One: The First Fifty Years
- 25 • Buck Fanshaw’s Funeral • Mark Twain • ss
- 33 • How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar • Bret Harte • ss, 1902
- 46 • The Blue Hotel • Stephen Crane • nv Colliers Nov 26, 1898
- 72 • The Vengeance of Padre Arroyo • Gertrude Atherton • ss, 1902
- 78 • The Reformation of Calliope • O. Henry • ss
- 86 • Timberline • Owen Wister • ss The Saturday Evening Post Mar 7 ’08
- 97 • All Gold Canyon • Jack London • nv The Century Nov ’05
- 115 • The Honk-Honk Breed • Stewart Edward White • ss Everybody’s Magazine Jul ’07
- 124 • The Trouble Man • Eugene Manlove Rhodes • ss The Saturday Evening Post Nov 20 ’09
- 141 • From Missouri • Zane Grey • nv McCall’s Aug ’26
- 164 • Ananias Green • B. M. Bower • ss, 1910
- 175 • The Hold-Up • Clarence E. Mulford • ss, 1913
- 188 • Science at Heart’s Desire [Dan Anderson] • Emerson Hough • ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 1 ’04
- 199 • Last Warning • William MacLeod Raine • ss Short Stories Jan 10 ’43
- 210 • The Weight of Obligation • Rex Beach • ss, 1982
- 229 • Dust Storm • Max Brand • ss Colliers Apr 3 ’37
- 243 • Part Two: The Second Fifty Years
- 245 • Top Hand • Luke Short • ss The Saturday Evening Post, 1943
- 257 • High Wind • Ernest Haycox • ss, 1934
- 271 • The Gift of Cochise • Louis L’Amour • ss Colliers Jul 5 ’52
- 285 • First Principal • A. B. Guthrie, Jr. • ss Gunsmoke, 1953
- 294 • I Woke Up Wicked • Dorothy M. Johnson • ss, 1955
- 308 • Sergeant Houck • Jack Schaefer • ss Colliers Jul 14 ’51
- 327 • The Woman at Apache Wells [“Lobo Loot”] • John Jakes • ss Max Brand’s Western Magazine Sep ’52
- 335 • The Boy Who Smiled • Elmore Leonard • ss Gunsmoke Jun ’53
- 347 • Hired Gun • William R. Cox • ss Argosy, 1951
- 357 • Due Process [“All Legal and Proper”] • Steve Frazee • ss EQMM Mar ’60
- 374 • Riverboat Fighter • Brian Garfield • ss They Opened the West, ed. Tom W. Blackburn, Doubleday, 1967
- 386 • Snowblind • Evan Hunter • ss Gunsmoke Aug ’53
- 395 • The Hanging Man • Bill Pronzini • ss EQMM Aug 12 ’81
- 408 • The Patriarch of Gunsight Flat • Wayne D. Overholser • ss Blue Book Jun ’50
- 419 • Rainbow Captive • Stephen Overholser • ss Antæus #25 ’77
- 430 • The Trap • Clay Fisher • ss, 1962
- The Best American Short Stories 1997 ed. E. Annie Proulx (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-79865-5, Nov ’97, $13.00, 381pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- • Foreword • E. Annie Proulx • fw
- • Introduction • E. Annie Proulx • in
- • Manners and Right Behavior
- • Saboteur • Ha Jin • ss The Antioch Review, 1996
- • Under the Pitons • Robert Stone • ss Esquire Jul ’96
- • Bob Darling • Carolyn Cooke • ss The Paris Review, 1996
- • Chez Lambert • Jonathan Franzen • ss The Paris Review, 1996
- • Identifying the Stranger
- • Transactions • Michelle Cliff • ss TriQuarterly, 1996
- • Nobody in Hollywood • Richard Bausch • ss New Yorker May 13 ’96
- • Save My Child! • Cynthia Ozick • ss New Yorker Jun 24 ’96
- • Eternal Love • Karen E. Bender • ss Granta, 1996
- • A Girl with a Monkey • Leonard Michaels • ss The Partisan Review, 1996
- • St. Martin • Lydia Davis • ss Grand Street, 1996
- • Perceived Social Values
- • Fiesta, 1980 • Junot Diaz • ss Story, 1996
- • From Willow Temple • Donald Hall • ss Atlantic Monthly Oct ’96
- • Killing Babies • T. Coraghessan Boyle • ss New Yorker Dec 2 ’96
- • Send Me to the Electric Chair • Clyde Edgerton • ss The Oxford American, 1996
- • Missing Women • June Spence • ss The Southern Review, 1996
- • Air Mail • Jeffrey Eugenides • ss The Yale Review Oct ’96
- • Soon • Pam Durban • ss The Southern Review, 1996
- • Rites of Passage
- • Shipmates Down Under • Michael Byers • ss American Short Fiction, 1996
- • Powder • Tobias Wolff • ss Fish Stories, 1996
- • Search Bay • Alyson Hagy • ss Ploughshares, 1996
- • Little Frogs in a Ditch • Tim Gautreaux • ss GQ Mar ’96
- • Contributors’ Notes • Misc. Material • bg
- • 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 1996 • Misc. Material • ms
- • Editorial Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories • Misc. Material • ms
- Stories: An Anthlogy and an Introduction ed. Eric S. Rabkin (Longman 0-06-045327-3, 1994, $58.00, 1500pp, tp)
- • Introduction: On Reading Stories • Eric S. Rabkin • in
- • Bible
- • Genesis • Misc. Material • ex
- • Jonah • Misc. Material • ex
- • On Parables, (Mk 4) • Misc. Material • ex
- • The Prodigal Son, (Lk 15) • Misc. Material • ex
- • Taoism
- • A Ch’an Koan • Misc. Material • ms
- • Outsides • Misc. Material • ms
- • Smelling Essays • Misc. Material • ms
- • Sufism
- • The Ancient Coffer of Nuri Bey • Misc. Material • ms
- • The Bequest • Misc. Material • ms
- • The Limitations of Dogma • Misc. Material • ms
- • Girls at War • Chinua Achebe • ss
- • A Southern Spelling Bee • Alice Adams • ss
- • A Mother’s Tale • James Agee • nv Harper’s Bazaar Jul ’52
- • Something to Talk About on the Way to the Funeral • Ama Ata Aidoo • ss
- • In a Grove [1952] • Ryunosuke Akutagawa • ss Murder in Japan, ed. John L. Apostolou & Martin H. Greenberg, Dembner, 1987
- • The Whore of Mensa • Woody Allen • ss New Yorker Dec 16 ’74
- • Hands • Sherwood Anderson • ss Masses Mar ’16
- • Reason [Mike Donovan (Robot)] • Isaac Asimov • ss Astounding Apr ’41
- • The Resplendent Quetzal • Margaret Atwood • ss
- • Going to Meet the Man • James Baldwin • ss
- • The Death of Horatio Alger • Amiri Baraka • ss
- • The Night We All Got Sick • Lynda Barry • ss
- • Night-Sea Journey • John Barth • ss Esquire Jun ’66
- • The Piano Player • Donald Barthelme • ss New Yorker Aug 31 ’63
- • Nightmare Number Three • Stephen Vincent Benét • pm Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét, Farrar & Rinehart, 1935
- • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • Ambrose Bierce • ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 13, 1890
- • Emma Zunz • Jorge Luís Borges • ss Labyrinths, New Directions, 1962
- • Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote 1939] • Jorge Luis Borges • ss Ficciones, Weidenfeld Nicolson, 1962
- • Homage to the San Francisco YMCA • Richard Brautigan • ss
- • The Ballad of Rudolph Reed • Gwendolyn Brooks • ss
- • Little Red Riding Hood • Olga Broumas • pm Beginning With O, New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press, 1977
- • The King • Dick Bruna • ss
- • A Cap for Steve • Morley Callaghan • ss
- • Things I Did To Make It Possible • François Camoin • ss
- • Viewfinder • Raymond Carver • ss
- • The Joy of Nelly Deane • Willa Cather • ss The Century Oct ’11
- • The Miller’s Tale • Geoffrey Chaucer • ss
- • The Swimmer • John Cheever • ss New Yorker Jul 18 ’64
- • Vanka • Anton Chekov • ss
- • Désirée’s Baby • Kate Chopin • ss, 1893
- • The Star [Star of Bethlehem] • Arthur C. Clarke • ss Infinity Science Fiction Nov ’55
- • The Other Wife • Colette • ss
- • Heart of Darkness • Joseph Conrad • ss
- • The Brother • Robert Coover • ss
- • A Continuity of Parks [1956] • Julio Cortázar • vi End of the Game and Other Stories, Random House, 1967
- • The Blue Hotel • Stephen Crane • nv Colliers Nov 26, 1898
- • Fred the Teen-age Girl Pigeon • R. Crumb • cs
- • Corona • Samuel R. Delany • ss F&SF Oct ’67
- • The Honest Thief • Feodor Dostoevsky • ss
- • The Adventure of the Speckled Band [Sherlock Holmes] • Arthur Conan Doyle • nv The Strand Feb, 1892
- • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream • Harlan Ellison • ss If Mar ’67
- • Chapter Two: 1932, Sita Kozka • Louise Erdrich • ss
- • Barn Burning • William Faulkner • ss Harper’s Jun ’39
- • Dry September • William Faulkner • ss Scribner’s Jan ’31
- • Babylon Revisited • F. Scott Fitzgerald • nv The Saturday Evening Post Feb 21 ’31
- • The Yellow Wallpaper • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
- • A Point in Morals • Ellen Glasgow • ss Harper’s May, 1899
- • A Jury of Her Peers • Susan Glaspell • nv Every Week Mar 5 ’17
- • The Overcoat • Nikolai Gogol • nv, 1842
- • Six Feet of the Country • Nadine Gordimer • ss New Yorker
- • Rapunzel • Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm • ss German Popular Stories, trans. by Edgar Taylor, 1824
- • The Three Spinsters • Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm • ss
- • The Little Red Cap • Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm • ss
- • The Gutting of Couffignal [The Continental Op] • Dashiell Hammett • nv Black Mask Dec ’25
- • I’m Shaking to Death • Barry Hannah • ss
- • The Son’s Veto • Thomas Hardy • ss
- • The Outcasts of Poker Flat • Francis Bret Harte • ss Overland Monthly Jan, 1869
- • Rappaccini’s Daughter • Nathaniel Hawthorne • nv United States Magazine and Democratic Review Dec, 1844
- • Young Goodman Brown • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss New England Magazine Apr, 1835
- • Rapunzel • Sara Henderson Hay • pm Story Hour, Fayetteville: Univ. of Arkansas Press, 1982
- • Stage to Lordsburg • Ernest Haycox • ss Colliers Apr 10 ’37
- • A Clean, Well-Lighted Place • Ernest Hemingway • ss Scribner’s Mar ’33
- • A Midsummer Knight’s Dream • O. Henry • ss
- • Springtime a la Carte • O. Henry • ss
- • The Whispering Tree • Gilberto Hernandez • ss
- • The Zebra Storyteller • Spencer Holst • vi The Language of Cats and Other Stories, Dutton, 1971
- • The Altar of the Dead • Henry James • na Terminations, Harper, 1895
- • The Tree of Knowledge • Henry James • ss
- • The Turn of the Screw [Turn of the Screw] • Henry James • n. Colliers Jan 27-Apr 16, 1898
- • A White Heron • Sarah Orne Jewett • ss, 1886
- • Counterparts • James Joyce • ss
- • The Dead • James Joyce • ss
- • A Common Confusion • Franz Kafka • ss, 1931
- • The Metamorphosis • Franz Kafka • nv, 1937
- • One Arm • Yasunari Kawabata • ss
- • Girl • Jamaica Kincaid • ss
- • Rain • Tommaso Landolfi • ss
- • Odour of Chrysanthemums • D. H. Lawrence • ss The English Review Jun ’11
- • The Rocking-Horse Winner • D. H. Lawrence • ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1926
- • The Day Before the Revolution • Ursula K. Le Guin • ss Galaxy Aug ’74
- • Prince Ferrix and Princess Crystal • Stanislaw Lem • ss The Cyberiad, Seabury Press, 1974
- • Pleasure • Doris Lessing • ss
- • To Build a Fire • Jack London • ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 ’02
- • The German Refugee • Bernard Malamud • ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 14 ’63
- • The Doll’s House • Katherine Mansfield • ss The Nation Feb 4 ’22
- • A New-Wave Format • Bobbie Ann Mason • ss Atlantic Monthly Nov ’82
- • The Jewels • Guy de Maupassant • ss
- • Mother Savage • Guy de Maupassant • ss
- • Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend • Winsor McCay • ss
- • Bartleby the Scrivener • Herman Melville • nv Putnam’s Monthly, 1853
- • Patriotism • Yukio Mishima • ss Esquire Apr ’66
- • How • Lorrie Moore • ss
- • Royal Beatings • Alice Munro • ss, 1977
- • Good Country People • Flannery O’Connor • ss Harper’s Bazaar Jun ’55
- • My Oedipus Complex • Frank O’Connor • ss Magpie Sep ’51
- • I Stand Here Ironing • Tillie Olsen • ss
- • Metamorphoses • Ovid • ss
- • Wants • Grace Paley • ss
- • The Last Tea • Dorothy Parker • ss New Yorker Sep 11 ’26
- • A Life for a Life • Alan Paton • ss
- • Little Red Riding-Hood • Charles Perrault • ss Histoire ou contes du temps passé, France, 1697
- • The Black Cat • Edgar Allan Poe • ss Philadelphia United States Saturday Post Aug 19, 1843
- • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • Edgar Allan Poe • ss American Whig Review Dec, 1845
- • The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] • Edgar Allan Poe • nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, 1844, 1844
- • The Grave • Katherine Anne Porter • ss
- • She Has No Place in Paradise • Nawal El Saadawi • ss
- • Yellow Woman • Leslie Silko • ss, 1974
- • Yentl the Yeshiva Boy • Isaac Bashevis Singer • ss
- • Prisoner on the Hell Planet • Art Spiegelman • gs
- • Miss Furr and Miss Skeene • Gertrude Stein • ss
- • The Chrysanthemums • John Steinbeck • ss Harper’s Oct ’37
- • The Harness • John Steinbeck • ss Atlantic Monthly Jun ’38
- • The Thief • Junichiro Tanizaki • ss Seven Japanese Tales, Knopf, 1963
- • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty • James Thurber • ss New Yorker Mar 18 ’39
- • The Death of Ivan Ilyich • Leo Tolstoy • ss
- • Becky • Jean Toomer • ss
- • The Diary of Adam and Eve • Mark Twain • ss
- • Should Wizard Hit Mommy? • John Updike • ss
- • Something Under the Bed is Drooling • Bill Watterson • ss
- • The Star • H. G. Wells • ss The Graphic Christmas, 1897
- • The Time Machine [Time Machine] • H. G. Wells • na The New Review Jan, 1895 (+4)
- • Lily Daw and the Three Ladies • Eudora Welty • ss
- • Petrified Man • Eudora Welty • ss The Southern Review, 1939
- • Roman Fever • Edith Wharton • ss Liberty Magazine Nov 10 ’34
- • The Man Who Was Almost a Man • Richard Wright • ss
- • Chronicle of Mulberry Tree Village • Xiaoping Zhu • ss
- • The Elements of Narrative • Misc. Material • ms
- • Keeping a Reading Journal • Misc. Material • ms
- • Writing About Narratives • Misc. Material • ms
- • Filmography • Misc. Material • ms
- • Glossary of Literary Terms • Misc. Material • ms
- • Questions for Contrast and Comparison • Misc. Material • ms
- Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories ed. Burton Raffel (Signet Classic 0-451-52279-6, Jan ’90, $5.95, 560pp, tp); Contents from publisher’s catalog.
- • Introduction • Burton Raffel • in
- • The Spectre Bridegroom • Washington Irving • ss The Sketch Book, 1819
- • Young Goodman Brown • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss New England Magazine Apr, 1835
- • The Gold-Bug • Edgar Allan Poe • nv Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper Jun 21-28, 1843
- • Bartleby the Scrivener • Herman Melville • nv Putnam’s Monthly, 1853
- • Miss Asphyxia • Harriet Beecher Stowe • ss
- • The Iliad of Sandy Bar • Bret Harte • ss Overland Monthly Nov, 1870
- • Who Was She? • Bayard Taylor • ss Atlantic Monthly Sep, 1874
- • Grit • Rose Terry Cooke • ss
- • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • Ambrose Bierce • ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 13, 1890
- • The Return of a Private • Hamlin Garland • nv
- • A New England Nun • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • ss, 1891
- • The Real Thing • Henry James • ss Black and White Apr 16, 1892
- • The Yellow Wallpaper • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
- • The Flight of Betsey Lane • Sarah Orne Jewett • ss Scribner’s Aug, 1893
- • La Grande Demoiselle • Grace Elizabeth King • ss The Century Jan, 1893
- • The War Widow • Harold Frederic • ss
- • Madame Célestin’s Divorce • Kate Chopin • ss, 1894
- • The Blue Hotel • Stephen Crane • nv Colliers Nov 26, 1898
- • A Journey • Edith Wharton • ss Greater Inclination, Scribner, 1899
- • The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg • Mark Twain • na Harper’s Monthly Dec, 1899
- • All Gold Canyon • Jack London • nv The Century Nov ’05
- • The Rajah of Bungpore • F. Hopkinson Smith • ss
- • Nobody Sick, Nobody Poor • Zona Gale • ss The Delineator Nov ’07
- • One Thousand Dollars • O. Henry • ss
- • “Queer” • Sherwood Anderson • ss Seven Arts Dec ’16
- • Up in Michigan • Ernest Hemingway • ss
- • Great Lady on a White Horse • John Dos Passos • ss
- • The King of the Cats • Stephen Vincent Benét • ss Harper’s Bazaar Feb ’29
- • Neighbor Rosicky • Willa Cather • nv
- • Turnabout • William Faulkner • ss The Saturday Evening Post Mar 5 ’32
- • The Evening’s at Seven • James Thurber • ss New Yorker Oct 22 ’32
- • The Long Way Out • F. Scott Fitzgerald • ss Esquire Sep ’37
- • Ever Fall in Love with a Midget? • William Saroyan • ss Love, Here Is My Hat, 1938
- In Our Lovely Deseret: Mormon Fictions ed. Robert Raleigh (Signature Books 1-560-85119-8, Apr ’98, $17.95, 300pp, hc); Contents from Amazon.com.
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