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- Neonlit: Time Out Book of New Writing Vol. 1 ed. Nicholas Royle (London: Quartet 0704380900, 1998, £7.00, 330pp, tp); Original anthology, design by Namara, illustrations by David Bray.
- The Time Out Book of Paris Short Stories ed. Nicholas Royle (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.
- Worlds of Fiction ed. Roberta Rubenstein & Charles R. Larson (MacMillan College Division 0-024-04185-8, Jan ’93, $60.00, 1472pp, tp); Contents from publisher’s catalog and Amazon.com.
- • Introduction • Roberta Rubenstein & Charles R. Larson • in
- • From The Thousand and One Nights: The Story of the Merchant and the Jinni • Anon.; trans. by Edward William Lane • ss
- • Girls at War • Chinua Achebe • ss
- • Two Sisters • Ama Ata Aidoo • ss
- • Within a Grove • Akutagawa Ryunosuke; trans. by James O’Brien • ss
- • The Kugelmass Episode • Woody Allen • ss New Yorker May 2 ’77
- • And of Clay Are We Created • Isabel Allende; trans. by Margaret Sayers Peden • ss
- • The Unseeing Eye • Hanan Al-Shaykh; trans. by Denys Johnson-Davies • ss
- • B. Traven is Alive and Well in Cuernavaca • Rudolfo Anaya • ss
- • Death in the Woods • Sherwood Anderson • ss The American Mercury Sep ’26
- • Dancing Girls • Margaret Atwood • ss
- • My First Goose • Isaac Babel; trans. by Walter Morison • ss
- • Spilled Salt • BarbaraNeely • ss Breaking In: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Fiction, ed. Terry McMillan, Viking Penguin, 1990
- • The Burning House • Ann Beattie • ss
- • The Black Dog • J. Bernlef; trans. by Frank Scimone • ss
- • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • Ambrose Bierce • ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 13, 1890
- • The Laugher • Heinrich Böll; trans. by Leila Vennewitz • ss
- • Death and the Compass [1945] • Jorge Luís Borges; trans. by Norman Thomas di Giovanni • ss
- • The Falling Girl [1966] • Dino Buzzati; trans. by Lawrence Venuti • ss Restless Nights, North Point Press, 1983
- • A Sign in Space • Italo Calvino; trans. by William Weaver • ss Cosmicomics, Harcourt Brace World, 1968
- • The Guest • Albert Camus; trans. by Justin O’Brien • ss Atlantic Monthly Dec ’57
- • Where I’m Calling From • Raymond Carver • ss New Yorker Mar 15 ’82
- • Paul’s Case • Willa Cather • nv McClure’s May ’05
- • The Swimmer • John Cheever • ss New Yorker Jul 18 ’64
- • The Kiss • Anton Chekhov; trans. by Constance Garnett • ss
- • The Seamstress • Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette; trans. by Una Vicenzo Troubridge & Enid McLeod • ss
- • Amy Foster • Joseph Conrad • nv The Illustrated London News Dec 14-28 ’01
- • The Open Boat • Stephen Crane • nv Scribner’s Jun, 1897
- • The Sailor-Boy’s Tale • Isak Dinesen • ss Winter’s Tales, Putnam, 1942
- • Sarzan • Birago Diop; trans. by Ellen Conroy Kennedy • ss
- • Paseo • José Donoso; trans. by Lorraine O’Grady Freeman • ss
- • The Night Between the Second and the Third • Margareta Ekström; trans. by Eva Claeson • ss
- • Flying Home • Ralph Ellison • ss
- • Love Medicine • Louise Erdrich • ss
- • A Rose for Emily • William Faulkner • ss The Forum Apr ’30
- • The Street-Sweeping Show • Feng Jicai; trans. by Susan Wilff Chen • ss
- • Babylon Revisited • F. Scott Fitzgerald • nv The Saturday Evening Post Feb 21 ’31
- • The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller • Gustave Flaubert • ss
- • The Doll Queen [1969] • Carlos Fuentes; trans. by Margaret Sayers Peden • ss Antæus #13/14 ’74
- • Balthazar’s Marvelous Afternoon • Gabriel García Márquez; trans. by J. S. Bernstein • ss, 1968
- • The Yellow Wallpaper • Charlotte Perkins Gilman • ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
- • The Mother • Natalia Ginzburg; trans. by Isabel Quigley • ss
- • A Jury of Her Peers • Susan Glaspell • nv Every Week Mar 5 ’17
- • The Overcoat • Nikolai Gogol; trans. by Constance Garnett • nv, 1842
- • A Soldier’s Embrace • Nadine Gordimer • ss
- • Boys at the Rodeo • Judy Grahn • ss
- • Karl Katz • Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm • ss
- • The Birthmark • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss The Pioneer Mar, 1843
- • The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses • Bessie Head • ss
- • The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber • Ernest Hemingway • nv Cosmopolitan Sep ’36
- • Thank You, Ma’am • Langston Hughes • ss, 1958
- • The Gilded Six-Bits • Zora Neale Hurston • ss
- • The Lottery • Shirley Jackson • ss New Yorker Jun 26 ’48
- • A Story for Children • Svava Jakobsdóttir; trans. by Dennis Auburn Hill • ss
- • The Real Thing • Henry James • ss Black and White Apr 16, 1892
- • A White Heron • Sarah Orne Jewett • ss, 1886
- • Another Holiday for the Prince • Elizabeth Jolley • ss
- • Eveline • James Joyce • ss
- • The Metamorphosis • Franz Kafka, Willa & Edwin Muir • nv, 1937; Weisse Blätter Oct ’15.
- • A Hand in the Grave • Ghassan Kanafani; trans. by Hilary Kilpatrick • ss
- • Platonic Love • Kanai Mieko; trans. by Amy Vladeck Heinrich • ss
- • Betel Nut is Bad Magic for Airplanes • John Kasaipwalova • ss
- • The Gold-Legged Frog • Khamsing Srinawk; trans. by Domnern Garden • ss
- • The Children’s Campaign • Pär Lagerkvist; trans. by Alan Blair • ss
- • A Bird in the House • Margaret Laurence • ss
- • Happiness • Mary Lavin • ss New Yorker Dec 14 ’68
- • “Tickets, Please!” • D. H. Lawrence • ss The Strand Apr ’19
- • Sur • Ursula K. Le Guin • ss New Yorker Feb 1 ’82
- • A Woman on the Roof • Doris Lessing • ss
- • Or Else, the Lightning God • Catherine Lim • ss
- • The Story of Hair • Lu Xun; trans. by William A. Lyell • ss
- • The Lemon • Arnost Lustig; trans. by Jeanne Nemcova • ss
- • Half a Day • Naguib Mahfouz; trans. by Denys Johnson-Davies • ss
- • The Jewbird • Bernard Malamud • ss The Reporter Apr 11 ’63
- • The Infant Prodigy • Thomas Mann; trans. by H. T. Lowe-Porter • ss
- • Her First Ball • Katherine Mansfield • ss The Sphere Nov 28 ’21
- • Island of Manhattan • René Marqéus; trans. by Faye Edwards & Gladys Ortiz • ss
- • Brooklyn • Paule Marshall • ss, 1961
- • Shiloh • Bobbie Ann Mason • ss New Yorker Oct 20 ’80
- • The Appointment in Samarra • William Somerset Maugham • ss
- • The Necklace • Guy de Maupassant; trans. by Marjorie Laurie • ss
- • My Mother’s Clothes: The School of Beauty and Shame • Richard McCann • ss Atlantic Monthly Apr ’86
- • Lush Life • John McClusky • ss
- • Bartleby the Scrivener • Herman Melville • nv Putnam’s Monthly, 1853
- • The One Who Goes Farthest Away • Katherine Min • ss
- • Lust • Susan Minot • ss The Paris Review, 1984
- • Swaddling Clothes • Yukio Mishima; trans. by Ivan Morris • ss
- • Tumbling • Kermit Moyer • ss
- • Mrs. Plum • Es ’Kia Mphahlele • ss
- • The Elephant • Slawomir Mrozek; trans. by Konrad Syrop • ss Mademoiselle May ’63
- • A Father • Bharati Mukherjee • ss
- • The Office • Alice Munro • ss
- • One Out of Many • V. S. Naipaul • ss
- • And We Sold the Rain • Carmen Naranjo; trans. by Jo Anne Engelbert • ss
- • A Horse and Two Goats • R. K. Narayan • ss
- • A Meeting in the Dark • Ngugi Wa Thiong’o • ss
- • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? • Joyce Carol Oates • ss Epoch Fll ’66
- • The Pale Fox • Oba Minako; trans. by Stephen W. Kohl • ss
- • A Good Man Is Hard to Find • Flannery O’Connor • ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing, ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953
- • Aghwee the Sky Monster • Kenzaburõ Õe; trans. by John Nathan • nv Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, Grove Press, 1977
- • Black Girl • Sembene Ousmane; trans. by Ellen Conroy Kennedy • ss
- • Nomad and Viper • Amos Oz; trans. by Nicholas deLange & Philip Simpson • ss
- • The Revolver • Emilia Pardo-Bazán; trans. by Angel Flores • ss
- • The Blue Bouquet • Octavio Paz; trans. by Lysander Kemp • ss
- • Insomnia • Virgilio Piñera; trans. by Mark Schafer • ss
- • The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunado] • Edgar Allan Poe • ss Godey’s Lady’s Book Nov, 1846
- • Rope • Katherine Anne Porter • ss
- • The Proof • Rodrigo Rey Rosa; trans. by Paul Bowles • ss
- • The Move • Gabrielle Roy; trans. by Joyce Marshall • ss
- • Yellow Woman • Leslie Marmon Silko • ss, 1974
- • Gimpel the Fool • Isaac Bashevis Singer; trans. by Saul Bellow • ss
- • Death and Transfiguration of a Teacher • María Theresa Solari; trans. by John Benson • ss
- • The Chrysanthemums • John Steinbeck • ss Harper’s Oct ’37
- • The Story of Jumping Mouse • Hyemeyohsts Storm • ss
- • Learning to Swim • Graham Swift • ss
- • Half and Half • Amy Tan • ss
- • The Death of Ivan Ilych • Leo Tolstoy; trans. by Louise & Aylmer Maude • ss
- • The Complete Gentleman • Amos Tutuola • ex The Palm-Wine Drinkard, London: Faber, 1952
- • Luck • Mark Twain • ss Harper’s Monthly Aug, 1891
- • A & P • John Updike • ss
- • Strange Things Happen Here • Luisa Valenzuela • ss
- • Sunday • Marlo Vargas Llosa • ss
- • Everyday Use • Alice Walker • ss
- • Why I Live at the P.O. • Eudora Welty • ss Atlantic Monthly Apr ’41
- • Roman Fever • Edith Wharton • ss Liberty Magazine Nov 10 ’34
- The Journey Prize Anthology 10 ed. Holley Rubinsky (McClelland & Stewart 0-771-04437-2, Mar ’99, $16.99, 208pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- Tails of Terror ed. Kevin Ryan & Pamela Pollack (Allen, TX: Big Red Chair Books 1-570-64480-2, 1999, 154pp, hc); The super adventures of Wishbone; #4. “On Halloween night, as the rest of the Talbot family sleeps, Wishbone imagines himself the hero of classic ghost stories as he chases a mysterious figure through the streets of Oakdale.
- 9 • Grrrreen Tea • Brad Strickland • ss *; inspired by “Green Tea” by J. Sheridan Le Fanu.
- 33 • The Open Doggie Door • Michael Anthony Steele • ss *; inspired by “The Open Door” by Margaret Oliphant.
- 65 • A New Leash on Life • Mary Ryan • ss *; inspired by “The Haunters and the Haunted” by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
- 93 • A Brush with Terror • Nancy Holder • ss *; inspired by “The Portrait Painter’s Story” by Charles Dickens.
- 117 • Fearful Fetch • B. B. Calhoun • ss *; inspired by “Wandering Willie’s Tale” by Sir Walter Scott.
- 149 • Passenger Pup on the Phantom Coach • Joanne Barkan • ss *; inspired by “The Phantom Coach” by Amelia B. Edwards.
- 175 • No Noose is Good Noose • Carla Jablonski • ss *; inspired by “The Judge’s House” by Bram Stoker.
- 203 • Guard Dog of Haunted Hall • Vivian Sathre • ss *; inspired by “The Open Door,” by Charlotte Riddell.
- 237 • About the Authors • Misc. Material • bg
- By and About Women: An anthology of short fiction ed. Beth Kline Schneiderman (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0155056654, Oct ’73, 337pp, hc); Contents from Yahoo Books.
- Angel Love ed. John Scognamiglio (Zebra/Kensington 0-8217-5375-4, Aug ’96, $4.99, 430pp, pb); [BG]
- Heigh-Ho for Halloween! ed. Elizabeth Hough Sechrist (Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1948, 240pp, hc)
- Stories of the Old West: Tales of the Mining Camp, Cavalry Troop, & Cattle Ranch ed. John Seelye (University of Oklahoma Press 0-806-13283-3, Oct 2000, $18.95, 512pp, hc); Contents from Amazon.com.
- • Introduction • John Seelye • in
- • from Condensed Novels:
- • Muck-a-Muck • Bret Harte • ss
- • from Spanish and American Legends:
- • The Right Eye of the Commander • Bret Harte • ss
- • from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Stories:
- • The Luck of Roaring Camp • Bret Harte • ss Overland Monthly Aug, 1868
- • The Outcasts of Poker Flat • Bret Harte • ss Overland Monthly Jan, 1869
- • Tennessee’s Partner • Bret Harte • ss Overland Monthly Oct, 1869
- • Brown of Calaveras • Bret Harte • ss Overland Monthly Mar, 1870
- • from Sketches New and Old:
- • The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County • Mark Twain • ss, 1867
- • from Roughing It:
- • Jim Blaine and His Grandfather’s Ram • Mark Twain • ss
- • Scotty Briggs and the Parson • Mark Twain • ss
- • from A Tramp Abroad:
- • What Stumped the Bluejays [“Baker’s Bluejay Yarn (What Stumped the Bluejays)”, chapter 3 of A Tramp Abroad] • Mark Twain • ex, 1880
- • from The $30,000 Request and Other Stories:
- • The Californian’s Tale • Mark Twain • ss, 1893
- • from In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians):
- • A Holy Terror • Ambrose Bierce • ss The Wasp Dec 23, 1882
- • from Can Such Things Be?:
- • The Secret of Macarger’s Gulch • Ambrose Bierce • ss The Wave Apr 25, 1891
- • The Night-Doings at “Deadman’s” • Ambrose Bierce • ss The Argonaut Dec 29, 1877
- • The Stranger • Ambrose Bierce • ss Cosmopolitan Feb ’09
- • from Red Men and White:
- • Specimen Jones • Owen Wister • ss Harper’s Monthly Jul, 1894
- • The Serenade at Siskiyou • Owen Wister • ss Harper’s Monthly Aug, 1894
- • The Second Missouri Compromise • Owen Wister • ss Harper’s Monthly Mar, 1895
- • from Hank’s Woman:
- • Sharon’s Choice • Owen Wister • ex Harper’s Weekly Aug 27, 1892
- • from Crooked Trails:
- • A Sergeant of the Orphan Troop • Frederic Remington • ss Harper’s Monthly Aug, 1897
- • from Sun-Down Leflare:
- • Sun-Down Leflare’s Warm Spot • Frederic Remington • ss Harper’s Sep, 1898
- • Sun-Down’s Higher Self • Frederic Remington • ss
- • from Men with the Bark On:
- • When a Document Is Official • Frederic Remington • ss Harper’s Sep, 1899
- • uncollected:
- • Billy’s Tearless Woe • Frederic Remington • ss McClure’s Mar ’01
- • from The Open Boat and Other Tales of Adventure:
- • A Man and Some Others • Stephen Crane • ss The Century Feb, 1897
- • The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky • Stephen Crane • nv Scribner’s Jun, 1897
- • from The Monster:
- • Twelve O’Clock • Stephen Crane • ss The Pall Mall Magazine Dec, 1899
- • Moonlight on the Snow • Stephen Crane • ss Frank Leslie’s Monthly Apr ’00
- • from Moon-Face and Other Stories:
- • All Gold Canyon • Jack London • nv The Century Nov ’05
- • from A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories:
- • The Passing of Cock-Eye Blacklock • Frank Norris • ss The Century Jul ’02
- • Two Hearts That Beat As One • Frank Norris • ss All Around Magazine Apr ’16
- • from Blazed Trail Stories and Other Stories of the Wild Life:
- • The Girl Who Got Rattled • Stewart Edward White • ss The Century Jul ’01
- • The Prospector • Stewart Edward White • ss
- • from Arizona Nights:
- • The Ole Virginia • Stewart Edward White • ss West Nov ’33
- • A Corner in Horses • Stewart Edward White • ss
- • The Two-Gun Man • Stewart Edward White • ss Colliers Apr 15 ’05
- • from Heart of the West:
- • The Ransom of Mack • O. Henry • ss McClure’s Dec ’04
- • A Call Loan • O. Henry • ss Everybody’s Magazine Jul ’03
- • The Princess and the Puma • O. Henry • ss Everybody’s Magazine Nov ’03
- • from Roads of Destiny:
- • The Passing of Black Eagle • O. Henry • ss
- • A Departmental Case • O. Henry • ss
- • from Sixes and Sevens:
- • The Last of the Troubadours • O. Henry • ss Everybody’s Magazine Jul ’08
- • from Lost Borders:
- • The Land • Mary Austin • ss
- • A Case of Conscience • Mary Austin • ss Harper’s Weekly Aug 14 ’09
- • The Ploughed Lands • Mary Austin • ss Harper’s Weekly Sep 11 ’09
- • The Return of Mr. Wills • Mary Austin • ss The Century Jun ’07
- • The Fakir • Mary Austin • ss Harper’s Sep ’09
- • The Readjustment • Mary Austin • ss Harper’s Monthly Apr ’08
- • The House of Offence • Mary Austin • ss Harper’s Weekly Oct 23 ’09
- • The Walking Woman • Mary Austin • ss Atlantic Monthly Aug ’07
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