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A Study of the Short Story ed. Jack Fields (McCormick-Mathers Publishing Co., 1965, 296pp, tp); Each story has sections called Questions and Comments, Word Study, and Composition.

1 • Introduction • Jack Fields • in
3 • Miriam • Truman Capote • ss Mademoiselle Jun ’45
19 • A Summer’s Reading • Bernard Malamud • ss
30 • Heartache • Anton Chekhov • ss
38 • The Blue Hotel • Stephen Crane • nv Colliers Nov 26, 1898
74 • Chickamauga • Ambrose Bierce • ss San Francisco Examiner Jan 20, 1889
84 • The Fourth Man • John Russell • ss Colliers Jan 6 ’17
109 • First Confession • Frank O’Connor • ss Harper’s Bazaar Jul ’39
121 • The Rocking-Horse Winner • D. H. Lawrence • ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1926
141 • The Duchess and the Smugs • Pamela Frankau • nv, 1952
196 • Young Goodman Brown • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss New England Magazine Apr, 1835
214 • Red Hanrahan • William Butler Yeats • ss
226 • The Inn of the Two Witches • Joseph Conrad • nv The Pall Mall Magazine Mar ’13
259 • Impulse • Conrad Aiken • ss Story Apr ’33
275 • An Honest Thief • Fyodor Dostoevsky • ss
The Cat-Dogs ed. A. Finnis (Scholastic 0-590-22292-9, 1995, $3.50, 209pp, pb); Anthology of six stories originally published in Point Horror: Thirteen More Tales of Horror, ed. A. Finnis, Scholastic UK, 1994.

1 • The Cat-Dogs • Susan Price • nv Point Horror, ed. A. Finnis, Scholastic UK, 1994
43 • The Piano • Diane Hoh • nv Point Horror, ed. A. Finnis, Scholastic UK, 1994
73 • The Devil’s Footprints • Malcolm Rose • nv Point Horror, ed. A. Finnis, Scholastic UK, 1994
115 • Softies • Stan Nicholls • nv Point Horror, ed. A. Finnis, Scholastic UK, 1994
155 • The House That Jack Built • Garry Kilworth • nv Point Horror, ed. A. Finnis, Scholastic UK, 1994
183 • The Station with No Name • Colin Greenland • nv Point Horror, ed. A. Finnis, Scholastic UK, 1994
A Frog in My Throat: The 1987 Killer Frog Anthology ed. Janet Fox (Scavenger’s Newsletter, 1987, $1.50, 33pp, ph, cover by Marge Simon)

1 • Bat/Moon • T. R. Bingham • pm *
2 • Day of the Ground Hog • Erskine Carter • ss *
6 • The Bander • James P. Roberts • pm *
9 • Septicus • C. B. Leiche • ss *
13 • Handgreiflich Katastrophe • Todd Mecklem & Jonathan Falk • pm *
14 • Frog’s Game • James Loverde • ss *
15 • Rune of the Cogniscenti • Richard A. Dengrove • ss *
17 • Frankenmulch • Donna Dolezal Zelzer • ss *
21 • Take It Off • Chuck (Sleezepulp) Snow • ss *
24 • Three Pointed Star • Jody Carlson • ss *
26 • Jungle Jealousies • Elizabeth Hillman • ss *
27 • Beware the Willows • John Phillips Palmer • pm *
28 • Fun Guy from Yuggoth • Jody Forest • pm *
30 • Predictable • Kathleen Jurgens • ss *
33 • Transylvania Aerobics • Sue Marra • pm *
Classic Lines: More Great Racing Stories ed. Dick Francis & John Welcome (Bellew Publishing 0-947792-651, 1991, £12.95, 211pp, hc, cover by D. M. Hardy)

ix • Introduction • Dick Francis & John Welcome • in
3 • Spring Fever • Dick Francis • ss Woman’s Own, 1980
17 • My First Winner • John Welcome • ss
26 • The Man Who Shot the “Favourite” • Edgar Wallace • ss
32 • Pick the Winner • Damon Runyon • ss Colliers Feb 11 ’33
44 • A Night At the Old Bergen County Race-Track • Gordon Grand • ss
58 • Blister • John Taintor Foote • ss
69 • The Dead Cert • J. C. Squire • ss
81 • The Inside View • C. C. L. Browne • ss
97 • The Tale of the Gypsy Horse • Donn Byrne • ss
136 • Pullinstown • Molly Keane • ss
157 • Occasional Licences • E. O. Somerville & Martin Ross • ss
172 • The Good Thing • Colin Davy • ss
177 • The Losers • Maurice Gee • ss
207 • The Oracle • A. B. (Banjo) Paterson • ss
The Doomed Astronaut ed. Joseph Frank (Winthrop Publishers 0-87626-192-6, 1972, 158pp, tp, cover by Donya Melanson)

1 • Introduction • Joseph Frank • in
4 • Ulysses in canto xxvi of The Inferno • Dante • pm
6 • From the last scene of Doctor Faustus • Christopher Marlowe • ex
8 • Ulysses • Alfred Tennyson, Lord • pm
10 • On Man on the Moon • Joseph Campbell • ar
• New York City, April 14, 1970 A.D.
13 • Walter Cronkite Narrates the Return of Apollo 13 • Walter Cronkite • nf
• The Tigris-Euphrates Valley, 4,000 B.C.
29 • Of the Cosmogony and Causes of the Deluge • Berosus • nf
31 • On Oannes • Carl Sagan • ar
32 • From The Epic of Gilgamesh • Anon. • ex
• Jerusalem. 700 B.C.
37 • Isaiah 14, 12-15 • Anon. • ex
• Jerusalem. 575 B.C.
39 • Ezekiel 28, 11-19 • Anon. • ex
41 • The Tower of Babel, from Genesis • Anon. • ex
43 • The Tower to Heaven • Ashanti Tale • ms
• Greece. 700 B.C.
45 • The Phaethon Story, from Hesiod’s Theogony • Hesiod • ex
46 • The Story of Phaethon • Ovid • pm
58 • The Man Who Acted as the Sun, North American Indian Story • Anon. • ss
59 • Japanese Story of the Sun • Anon. • ss
61 • The Icarus Story • Apollodorus • ss
62 • Musée des Beaux Arts • W. H. Auden • pm
63 • The Death of Bellerophon • Anon. • ss
• Wales. 1136 A.D.
65 • On King Bladud • Geoffrey of Monmouth • ss
66 • On King Bladud, from The Mirror for Magistrates • Anon. • ss
67 • On Elmer of Malmesbury, from History of England • John Milton • ex
• Italy. 1319 A.D.
69 • From canto 34 of The Inferno • Dante • ex
• Warsaw. 1648 A.D.
73 • Letter from Warsaw: An English Newspaper Account of Attempts to Fly • Anon. • ms
• London. 1667 A.D.
79 • From Book I of Paradise Lost • John Milton • ex
• Yorkshire, England. 1757 A.D.
82 • From The Legend of the Wandering Jew • George K. Anderson • ex
• Kent, England. 1895 A.D.
91 • From The Time Machine • H. G. Wells • ex The New Review Jan, 1895 (+4)
• New York. 1951 A.D.
100 • Flash Gordon [Flash Gordon] • Anon. • ex
101 • Superman • Anon. • ex
103 • Pictures Don’t Lie • Katherine MacLean • ss Galaxy Aug ’51
• Boston. 2008 A.D.
127 • The Astronomical Evidence • Everett Hafner • ss
129 • Bibliographical Note • Misc. Material • bi
Classic Chillers ed. E. M. Freeman (The Globe Pequot Press 0-7627-0317-2, 1998, $10.95, 179pp, tp, cover by Maryann Dubé); Reprint (East Woods Press 1980 as Campfire Chillers anthology of nine stories.

vii • Introduction • E. M. Freeman • in
1 • The Black Cat • Edgar Allan Poe • ss Philadelphia United States Saturday Post Aug 19, 1843
13 • Mrs. Amworth • E. F. Benson • ss Hutchinson’s Magazine Jun ’22
33 • The Monkey’s Paw • W. W. Jacobs • ss Harper’s Monthly Sep ’02
47 • The Phantom Coach • Amelia B. Edwards • ss All the Year Round Christmas, 1864
65 • “Where Angels Fear...” • Manly Wade Wellman • ss Unknown Mar ’39
77 • What Was It? • Fitz-James O’Brien • ss Harper’s Mar, 1859
95 • The Damned Thing • Ambrose Bierce • ss Tales from New York Town Topics Dec 7, 1893
107 • The Ghost of Fear [“The Red Room”] • H. G. Wells • ss The Idler Mar, 1896
119 • The Wendigo • Algernon Blackwood • na The Lost Valley and Other Stories, London: Nash, 1910
177 • About the Editor • Misc. Material • bg
179 • Permissions • Misc. Material • ms
Black Humor ed. Bruce Jay Friedman (Bantam S3005, LCC# 65-22485, Aug ’65, 75¢, 174pp, pb)

vii • Foreword • Bruce Jay Friedman • fw
1 • In Which Esther Gets a Nose Job • Thomas Pynchon • ss
17 • Black Angels • Bruce Jay Friedman • ss Esquire Dec ’64
23 • Milo [from Catch-22] • Joseph Heller • ex, 1961
41 • from The Ginger Man • J. P. Donleavy • ex
52 • Scenes from the Life of a Double Monster • Vladimir Nabokov • ss The Reporter Mar 20 ’58
60 • from Powdered Eggs • Charles Simmons • ex
67 • Miss Destiny: The Fabulous Wedding • John Rechy • ss
95 • The Sandbox • Edward Albee • ss
108 • from The Sot-Weed Factor • John Barth • ex
127 • Twirling at Ole Miss • Terry Southern • ss
139 • Don’t Call Me by My Right Name • James Purdy • ss
146 • Pay Day • Conrad Knickerbocker • ss
161 • from Journey to the End of the Night • Louis-Ferdinand Celine • ex
Backstage Passes ed. Amelia G (Rhinoceros/Masquerade 1-56333-438-0, Oct ’96, $6.95, 265pp, pb)

5 • Chanel No. 5 • Johnny Chen • pm *
7 • Preface • Amelia G • pr
11 • When Enter Came • John Shirley • ss Yellow Silk #33 ’90
35 • Sticky Fingers • Thomas S. Roche • ss *
47 • Temporary Assignment • Will Judy • ss *
61 • Rock Steady • Cecilia Tan • ss *
83 • Demon Lover • Nancy A. Collins • ss Blue Blood #2 ’93
99 • Music of My Damnation • William Spencer-Hale • ss *
111 • Bodie • Sèphera Girön • ss *
125 • Accept No Substitutes • Sarah McKinley Oakes • ss *
137 • Dreamgirl • Amelia G • ss *
163 • Not Another Groupie • Andrew Greenberg • ss *
177 • To an Excellent Slave • L. • ss *
191 • The Ceremony of Loneliness • Althea Morin • ss *
201 • Special Guest • Phil Brucato • ss *
215 • Private • t. d. k. • ss *
225 • Lacerations • Yon Von Faust • ss *
237 • Pipe Dreams [as by S. N. Lewitt] • Shariann Lewitt • ss SexMagick, ed. Cecilia M. Tan, Boston, MA: Circlet Press, 1993; revised from All Hallows’ Eve, ed. Mary Elizabeth Allen, Walker 1992.
261 • America • Poppy Z. Brite • ss *
The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satire ed. Mirra Ginsburg (Evergreen/Grove Press E-467, LCC# 65-11758, 1965, $2.95, 305pp, tp)

vii • Introduction • Mirra Ginsburg • in
1 • Note: Panteleymon Romanov • Mirra Ginsburg • bg
3 • About Cows • Panteleymon Romanov • ss
6 • Inventory • Panteleymon Romanov • ss
11 • Inefficiency • Panteleymon Romanov • ss
17 • A Mistake • Panteleymon Romanov • ss
22 • A Gift of God • Panteleymon Romanov • ss
29 • Note: Valentin Katayev • Mirra Ginsburg • bg
31 • The Beautiful Trousers • Valentin Katayev • ss
39 • The Suicide • Valentin Katayev • ss
42 • A Goat in the Orchard • Valentin Katayev • ss
45 • The Struggle Unto Death • Valentin Katayev • ss
51 • Note: Mikhail Bulgakov • Mirra Ginsburg • bg
53 • The Fatal Eggs • Mikhail Bulgakov • na F&SF Dec ’64
135 • Note: Leonid Leonov • Mirra Ginsburg • bg
137 • A Tale About the Furious Calaphat • Leonid Leonov • ss
141 • Note: Vyacheslav Shishkov • Mirra Ginsburg • bg
143 • The Divorce • Vyacheslav Shishkov • ss
149 • Note: Boris Lavrenyov • Mirra Ginsburg • bg
151 • The Heavenly Cap • Boris Lavrenyov • ss
191 • Note: Yevgeny Zamyatin • Mirra Ginsburg • bg
193 • Comrade Churygin Has the Floor [1927] • Yevgeny Zamyatin • ss
205 • Note: Mikhail Zoshchenko • Mirra Ginsburg • bg
207 • The Housing Crisis • Mikhail Zoshchenko • ss
210 • Poverty • Mikhail Zoshchenko • ss
212 • The Wedding • Mikhail Zoshchenko • ss
215 • Earthquake • Mikhail Zoshchenko • ss
221 • Note: Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov • Mirra Ginsburg • bg
223 • How the Soviet Robinson Was Written • Ilya Ilf & Yevgeny Petrov • ss
229 • Note: Mikhail Koltsov • Mirra Ginsburg • bg
231 • Stupidity • Mikhail Koltsov • ss
237 • Note: E. Bermont, Arkady Vasiliev, L. Lagin, N. Vorobyov, Boris Laskin, and E. Vesenin • Mirra Ginsburg • bg
239 • A Timid Soul • E. Bermont • ss
242 • The Crystal Vase • Arkady Vasiliev • ss
247 • Grandmother’s Cake • L. Lagin • ss
250 • A Glass of Water • L. Lagin • ss
252 • For the Birds • N. Vorobyov • ss
256 • Festival in the Town of N. • Boris Laskin • ss
262 • Childhood Friend • Boris Laskin • ss
269 • On the Left Foot • E. Vesenin • ss
277 • Note: Yury Kazakov • Mirra Ginsburg • bg
279 • Goblins • Yury Kazakov • ss
291 • Note: Anonymous • Mirra Ginsburg • bg
293 • Letters to Auntie • Anon. • ss
The Olympia Reader ed. Maurice Girodias (QPBC LCC# 65-14205, 1965, 725pp, tp)

11 • Introduction • Maurice Girodias • in
31 • The World of Sex • Henry Miller • ss
44 • I Hear Voices • Paul Ableman • ss
61 • The Adventures of Father Silas • Beauregard de Farniente • ss
77 • Roman Orgy • Marcus van Heller • ss
99 • Stradella • James Sherwood • ss
119 • The Ginger Man • J. P. Donleavy • ss
135 • The Black Book • Lawrence Durrell • ss
169 • The Pleasure Thieves • Harriet Daimler & Henry Crannach • ss
179 • The Young & Evil • Charles Henri Ford & Parker Tyler • ss
213 • Watt • Samuel Beckett • ss
226 • Plexus • Henry Miller • ex
247 • Fanny Hill • John Cleland • ss
259 • Story of O • Pauline Réage • ss
293 • Kama Houri • Ataullah Mardaan • ss
307 • The Thief’s Journal • Jean Genet • ss
327 • My Life and Loves • Frank Harris • ex, 1922
351 • Candy • Maxwell Kenton • ss
375 • The Enormous Bed • Henry Jones • ss
389 • The Gaudy Image • William Talsman • ss
407 • Justine • Marquis de Sade • ss
448 • The Naked Lunch • William S. Burroughs • ex
462 • Young Adam • Frances Lengel • ss
473 • Teleny • Anon. • ss
484 • Fuzz Against Junk • Akbar del Piombo • ss
505 • Steiner’s Tour • Philip O’Connor • ss
520 • Under the Hill • Aubrey Beardsley & John Glassco • ss The Savoy, 1896
529 • The White Paper • Anon. • ss
534 • A sad, Ungraceful History of Lolita • Maurice Girodias • ss
546 • Quiet Days in Clichy • Henry Miller • ss
555 • Sin for Breakfast • Hamilton Drake • ss
569 • The Ticket That Exploded [Nova Police] • William S. Burroughs • ex
584 • Houses of Joy • Wu Wu Meng • ss
598 • Pinktoes • Chester Himes • nv Evergreen Review Mar ’65
624 • The Soft Machine [Nova Police] • William S. Burroughs • ex
641 • Sexus • Henry Miller • ex
652 • Zazie • Raymond Queneau • ss
661 • Madame Edwarda • Georges Bataille • ss
674 • Our Lady of the Flowers • Jean Genet • ss
691 • The Woman Thing • Harriet Daimler • ss
702 • The American Express • Gregory Corso • ex, 1961
711 • The Black Diaries of Roger Casement • Maurice Girodias & Peter Singleton-Gates • ss
Ch!lls ed. Burton Goodman (Jamestown Publishers 0-89061-858-5, 1997, 139pp, tp, cover by Bob Eggleton); This anthology has many questions and exercises after each story.

1 • To the Student • Burton Goodman • fw
5 • The Short Story—Important Literary Words • Anon. • ar
7 • the Old House • W. W. Jacobs • ss
19 • Uneasy Homecoming • Will F. Jenkins • ss Weird Tales Apr ’35;
29 • Mean Rocky • George Shea • ss
37 • The Three Brothers and the Treasure • José Maria Eça de Queiroz • ss
49 • His Best Time • Elizabeth Van Steenwyk • ss
59 • The Attic Door • Judith Bauer Stamper • ss
71 • The Cricket • Joe Hayes, retold by • ss
83 • The Ghost of Wan Li Road • Kara Dalkey • ss Things That Go Bump in the Night, ed. Jane Yolen & Martin H. Greenberg, Harper & Row, 1989
95 • The Family • Anon. • ss; based on a story by Anton Checkhov.
105 • A Helping Hand • Janet Ritchie • ss
115 • The Shop • H. G. Wells • ss
127 • It’s So Wonderful Here • Bill Pronzini • ss Science Fiction Adventures from Way Out, ed. Roger Elwood, Whitman, 1973
137 • Acknowledgments • Misc. Material • ms
138 • Progress Chart • Misc. Material • ms
The World’s Best Short Short Stories ed. Roger B. Goodman (Bantam Pathfinder FP172, LCC# 67-17772, May ’67, 50¢, 136pp, pb)

1 • Preface • Roger B. Goodman • pr
3 • A Wedding without Musicians • Sholom Aleichem • ss
9 • Señor Payroll • William E. Barrett • ss The Southwest Review Aut ’43
14 • How Light Belief Bringeth Damage • Bidpai • ss
16 • A Psychological Shipwreck [“My Shipwreck”] • Ambrose Bierce • ss The Argonaut May 24, 1879
21 • I See You Never • Ray Bradbury • vi New Yorker Nov 8 ’47
25 • Luck • Samuel Clemens • ss
31 • A Game of Billiards • Alphonse Daudet • ss
36 • The Test • Angelica Gibbs • ss New Yorker, 1940
40 • The Disabled Soldier • Oliver Goldsmith • ss
46 • Virtuoso • Herbert Goldstone • ss F&SF Feb ’53
54 • The Hollow of the Three Hills • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss The Salem Gazette Nov 12, 1830
60 • The Boy Who Drew Cats • Lafcadio Hearn • ss, 1898
64 • The Exact Science of Matrimony [Jeff Peters] • O. Henry • ss
71 • The Wife • Washington Irving • ss
80 • If Not Still Higher • Isaac Loeb Perez • ss
85 • The Wild Duck’s Nest • Michael McLaverty • ss Adelphi Jul ’36
90 • How the Devil Lost His Poncho • Ricardo Palma • ss
94 • The Standard of Living • Dorothy Parker • ss
101 • The Oval Portrait • Edgar Allan Poe • ss Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine Apr, 1842
105 • Three Letters... and a Footnote • Horacio Quiroga • ss
110 • An Attempt at Reform • August Strindberg • ss
114 • The Three Hermits • Leo Tolstoy • ss
122 • The Phoenix • Sylvia Townsend Warner • ss The Cat’s Cradle Book, Viking, 1940
127 • The Hour of Letdown • E. B. White • ss New Yorker Dec 22 ’51
133 • How Grandpa Came Into the Money • Else Zantnev • ss
Challenges ed. Harvey R. Granite, Millard H. Black, Virginia F. Lewis & Jo M. Stanchfield (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1970, 120pp, tp)

2 • Making It Big • Dick Gregory • ss
10 • The Health Card • Alice Childress • ss
12 • We Wear the Mask • Paul Laurence Dunbar • pm
14 • I, Too, Sing America • Langston Hughes • pm
18 • The Unicorn in the Garden • James Thurber • vi New Yorker Oct 21 ’39
21 • That’s What Happened to Me • Michael Fessier • ss, 1935
30 • The Fifty-Yard Dash • William Saroyan • ss
41 • I Saw a Man • Stephen Crane • pm
44 • Death and the Dawn • Pearl Buck • ss Ladies Home Journal Dec ’56
56 • Sucker • Carson McCullers • ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 28 ’63
71 • Primer Lesson • Carl Sandburg • pm
74 • A Dangerous Guy Indeed • Damon Runyon • ss
86 • Do You Fear the Wind? • Hamlin Garland • pm
90 • Phone Call • Berton Rouéché • ss New Yorker, 1965
98 • Sorry, Wrong Number • Lucille Fletcher • pl, 1948
114 • Avenue C • Galway Kinnell • pm
118 • Vocabulary • Misc. Material • ms

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