Miscellaneous Anthologies Index

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The Best American Short Stories 1979 ed. Joyce Carol Oates & Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin, 1979, tp) xi · Introduction · Joyce Carol Oates · in 1 · A Silver Dish · Saul Bellow · nv The New Yorker Sep 25 1978 28 · An Exile in the East · Flannery O’Connor · ss South Carolina Review Nov 1978 39 · Home and Native Land · Seán Virgo · ss Malahat Review 1978 44 · A Short Walk into Afternoon · Kaatje Hurlbut · ss The Southwest Review 1978 56 · Shadrach · William Styron · nv Esquire Nov 21 1978 79 · The Wedding Week · Rosellen Brown · ss Boston University Journal 1978 84 · A Party in Miami Beach · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss Playboy Jun 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 Win 1978 150 · Spelling · Alice Munro · ss Weekend Magazine 1978 157 · Seasons · Ruth McLaughlin · ss California Quarterly 1978 167 · Living Alone · Robley Wilson, Jr. · ss Fiction International 1978 172 · The Middle Place · Mary Hedin · ss The Southwest Review 1978 184 · The Quarterback Speaks to His God · Herbert Wilner · nv Esquire 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 Atlantic Monthly 1978 312 · The New Music · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker Jun 19 1978 324 · Something That Happened · Jayne Anne Phillips · ss Gallimaufry 1978

The Best British Short Stories 1933 and the Yearbook of the British, Irish and Colonial Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1933, 256pp, hc) 3 · The Pipe-Smoker · Martin Armstrong · ss The Fortnightly Review Oct 1932 11 · Time · H. E. Bates · ss The New Statesman and Nation Aug 20 1932; Story Apr 1933 16 · A Glass of Stout · T. O. Beachcroft · ss The London Mercury Mar 1933 28 · The Facts about Benjamin Creed · Neil Bell · ss The London Mercury Jul 1932 48 · Love’s Labour’s Lost · Anthony Bertram · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Oct 22 1932 58 · The Red Hen · Peter Blundell · ss The Windsor Magazine May 1932 69 · The Tommy Crans · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Listener Mar 29 1933 76 · Prince of Obolo · Roger Dataller · ss The London Mercury Aug 1932 90 · The Inn · Louis Golding · ss Time & Tide Feb 4 1933 94 · A Gamble in Clocks · Richard Plunket Greene · ss Life and Letters Sep 1932 101 · Three, or Four, for Dinner? · L. P. Hartley · ss Life and Letters Dec 1932 117 · Confessional · Myrtle Johnston · ss The Cornhill Magazine Jan 1933 129 · Twenty Years After · Janko Lavrin · ss The New English Weekly Aug 18 1932 135 · The Way Home · Orgill Mackenzie · ss Adelphi Jun 1932 146 · God Came Running · H. A. Manhood · ss The New Statesman and Nation Jan 21 1933 151 · Whispering · Allan N. Monkhouse · ss The Manchester Guardian Aug 15 1932 155 · Bones of Contention · Frank O’Connor · ss The Yale Review Jun 1932 169 · Out Father · James Stern · ss The London Mercury Jul 1932 175 · Flowers for a Lady · Eisdell Tucker · ss Adelphi Feb 1933 184 · Their Fellow-Prisoner · Urith Voyle · ss Blackwood’s Dec 1932 197 · Home to Wagonhouses · Malachi Whitaker · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Mar 25 1933 204 · The Stream · E. H. Young · ss Good Housekeeping (UK) May 1932

The Best British Short Stories 1934 and the Yearbook of the British, Irish and Colonial Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1934, 252pp, hc) 3 · The Gleaner · H. E. Bates · ss Everyman Jul 29 1933 8 · Funeral Service Over a Dead Monkey · W. J. Beamand · ss New Stories Apr-May 1934 16 · Rosie · Arthur Calder-Marshall · ss Life and Letters Jun-Aug 1933 26 · Dark Places · John Cockburn · ss Adelphi Apr 1934 36 · A Fellow Quite Impossible · John Connell · ss The London Mercury Oct 1933 45 · Aftermath · Rearden Conner · ss Lovat Dickson’s Magazine Jan 1934 49 · The Accessory · Guy Dent · ss The Criterion Jan 1934 60 · The Doll · Leslie Halward · ss New Stories Apr-May 1934 65 · The Sight of Blood · John Hampson · ss Story Feb 1934 69 · The Examination · James Hanley · ss New Britain Sep 13 1933 76 · Barrier · J. P. Hogan · ss The Twentieth Century Dec 1933-Jan ’34 83 · Zimin · Janko Lavrin · ss New Stories Apr-May 1934 99 · The Tree · Orgill MacKenzie · ss New Stories Feb-Mar 1934 103 · Carbon Copy · L. A. Pavey · ss New Stories Apr-May 1934 112 · Javni · Raja Rao · ss Asia Nov 1933 127 · Three in a Row · Henry Handel Richardson · ss Lovat Dickson’s Magazine Feb 1934 136 · Brothers · Ashley Smith · ss New Stories Feb-Mar 1934 140 · The Burning Cactus · Stephen Spender · ss The Hound and Horn Jan-Mar 1934 156 · Mère Deux Œufs · L. Steni · ss New Stories Apr-May 1934 167 · On the Sabbath · James Stern · ss Lovat Dickson’s Magazine Feb 1934 182 · Snow Caps · L. A. G. Strong · ss Lovat Dickson’s Magazine Apr 1934 192 · In the Summer We Lived by the Sea · Ronald Tansley · ss New Stories Apr-May 1934 199 · The Old Woman · Sidney Vogler · ss New Stories Apr-May 1934 204 · Who Killed Cock Robin? · Romer Wilson · nv Story Mar 1934

The Best British Short Stories 1935 and the Yearbook of the British, Irish and Colonial Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1935, 252pp, hc) 3 · Stanley Hutchinson · Nugent Barker · ss Life and Letters Mar 1935 13 · Beauty’s Daughters · H. E. Bates · ss Lovat Dickson’s Magazine Mar 1935 28 · The Song of the Scythe · Douglas Boyd · ss Life and Letters Jul 1934 35 · Terminus · Arthur Calder-Marshall · ss Life and Letters May 1934 38 · Fanciful · Peter Chamberlain · ss New Stories Feb-Mar 1935 43 · The Picture · Christopher Christian · ss Lovat Dickson’s Magazine Jun 1934 51 · Escape · Elisaveta Fen · ss New Stories Aug-Sep 1934 71 · The Wayside Spring · Oliver Gossman · ss The London Mercury Apr 1935; Story Apr 1935 83 · “The Practised Hand” · Walter Greenwood · ss The London Mercury Nov 1934 98 · Belcher’s Hod · Leslie Halward · ss New Stories Apr-May 1935 104 · The Curious Little Boy · John Hampson · ss New Stories Oct-Nov 1934 108 · One Night in a City · Narah Hoult · ss Life and Letters Feb 1935 114 · On the Floor · Joan Jukes · ss New Stories Dec 1934-Jan ’35 128 · The Beginning · Mervyn Lagden · ss Life and Letters Aug 1934 133 · A Change of Moods · O. M. Manning · ss New Stories Apr-May 1935 139 · Michael’s Wife · Frank O’Connor · ss Lovat Dickson’s Magazine Feb 1935; Story Mar 1935 155 · Smoking Concert · L. A. Pavey · ss Life and Letters May 1934 161 · “Tune on an Harmonica” · Michael Sayers · ss The New English Weekly Jan 3 1935 166 · Our Mother · James Stern · ss New Stories Dec 1934-Jan ’35 177 · The Falls · L. A. G. Strong · ss Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine Jan 1935 193 · The Visitor · Dylan Thomas · ss The Criterion Jan 1935 201 · Footsteps · Eileen Verrinder · ss New Stories Jun-Jul 1934 207 · The White Line · Malachi Whitaker · ss New Stories Oct-Nov 1934 216 · Marie and the Journeyman · Eric Walter White · ss New Stories Jun-Jul 1934; Story Jul 1934

The Best British Short Stories 1936 and the Yearbook of the British, Irish and Colonial Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1936, 270pp, hc) 1 · The Mill · H. E. Bates · nv Newmen Monthly May 1935 38 · May-Day Celebrations · T. O. Beachcroft · ss The Criterion Jul 1935 49 · Reduced · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Listener Jun 12 1935 60 · Straw Hat · Arthur Calder-Marshall · ss Lovat Dickson’s Magazine May 1935 64 · The Tinker Woman · Rearden Conner · ss The Fortnightly Review Dec 1935 71 · Cherry Blossom on the Rhine · Rhys Davies · ss The London Mercury May 1935 82 · Going Away · Clifford Dyment · ss The London Mercury Aug 1935 87 · Monte Estremo · Elisaveta Fen · ss New Stories Aug-Sep 1935 102 · Her Brother Died · George Friel · ss New Stories Feb-Mar 1936 108 · Soldier, Soldier · H. E. Graves · ss New Stories Apr-May 1936 112 · A Death in the Family · G. F. Green · ss The London Mercury Oct 1935 121 · The Mother · Leslie Halward · ss New Stories Feb/Mar 1936 124 · The Butterfly · James Hanley · ss The Spectator Apr 10 1936 128 · Kangaroo Loves Me · Geoffrey Household · ss Atlantic Monthly Apr 1936 134 · The Turn Round the World · Christopher Isherwood · ss The Listener Aug 28 1935 141 · Pigeons · Michael McLaverty · ss New Stories Apr-May 1936 149 · Lulu Gets Married · Alfred H. Mendes · nv New Stories Oct-Nov 1935 179 · A Confession of an Opium Eater · Dermot Murphy · ss The Dublin Magazine Jul-Sep 1935 188 · The Jolly Party · J. W. Palmer · ss The London Mercury Sep 1935 198 · The Fête · L. A. Pavey · ss New Stories Jun-Jul 1935 205 · The Jew in the Moon · Michael Sayers · ss New Stories Apr-May 1936 212 · Opatrnostr! · Eric Walter White · ss Story Jan 1936 228 · The Lorelei · R. J. White · ss The London Mercury Jan 1936

The Best British Short Stories 1937 and the Yearbook of the British, Irish and Colonial Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1937, 226pp, hc) 3 · A Kashmir Idyll · Mulk Raj Anand · ss Life and Letters Today Spr 1937 10 · A Poem of Fire · Martin Armstrong · ss The London Mercury Oct 1936 17 · Cloudburst · H. E. Bates · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Aug 15 1936 25 · Early Summer · Frances Bellerby · ss The New English Weekly Jan 28 1937 29 · Tears, Idle Tears · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Listener Sep 2 1936 37 · A Romany Child · Douglas Boyd · ss The Listener Jul 15 1936 46 · Soul · Penistan Chapman · ss John o’ London’s Weekly May 2 1936 54 · Mourning for Ianto · Rhys Davies · ss Esquire Feb 1937 61 · Jungle · John Gloag · ss The London Mercury Sep 1936 66 · Pale Blue Nightgown · Louis Golding · ss Story-Teller Oct 1936 74 · Saturday Night · Geraint Goodwin · ss The English Review Mar 1937 86 · Initiation · Leslie Halward · ss The London Mercury Nov 1936 97 · The Lamb · James Hanley · ss The Spectator Jun 26 1936 100 · Water of Iturrigorri · Geoffrey Household · ss Atlantic Monthly Aug 1936; Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine Oct 1936 111 · Old Hungary · Elisabeth Kyle · ss The Manchester Guardian Apr 14 1937 114 · The Wild Duck’s Nest · Michael McLaverty · ss Adelphi Jul 1936 118 · Paradise Lost · H. A. Manhood · ss Story Jul 1936 124 · The Outcast · Hector Marvin · ss The Manchester Guardian Oct 27 1936 127 · Womankind · John Royston Morley · ss Story Dec 1936 138 · Darkness · Robert Nicolson · ss The London Mercury Feb 1937 146 · Uprooted · Frank O’Connor · ss The Criterion Jan 1937 163 · No Consolation · J. W. Palmer · ss The London Mercury Oct 1936 174 · Ever Such a Nice Boy · William Plomer · ss The New Statesman and Nation Jan 2 1937 178 · Main Road · V. S. Pritchett · ss The New Statesman and Nation May 9 1936 185 · A Likely Story · John Raynor · ss The New English Weekly Oct 8 1936 188 · The Usual · Michael Sayers · ss Adelphi Nov 1936 194 · Coming to Tea · L. A. G. Strong · ss The Cornhill Magazine Apr 1937 199 · Militia Man · Robert Westerby · ss The Left Review Oct 1936

The Best British Short Stories 1938 and the Yearbook of the British, Irish and Colonial Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1938, 220pp, hc) 1 · ‘The 19’ Club · A. J. Alan · ss The Daily Express Apr 18 1938 10 · On the Border · Mulk Raj Anand · ss The Left Review Aug 1937 20 · ’A Funny Thing’ · H. E. Bates · ss The Daily Express Feb 28 1938 26 · The Erne from the Coast · T. O. Beachcroft · ss Atlantic Monthly Apr 1938 39 · Come to an End · Frances Bellerby · ss The Manchester Guardian Jun 9 1937 42 · The Easter Egg Party · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The London Mercury Apr 1938 53 · Virtue · Penistan Chapman · ss The London Mercury Dec 1937 63 · Charity · Rhys Davies · ss The London Mercury Aug 1937 70 · Spring · Padraic Fallon · ss The Dublin Magazine Jul-Sep 1937 94 · A Wedding · G. F. Green · ss The Spectator Aug 6 1937 98 · Old Sweat · Leslie Halward · ss The Left Review Aug 1937 101 · From Five Till Six · James Hanley · ss The Criterion Apr 1938 111 · The Four-Loaded Man · Glyn Jones · ss Wales Aut 1937 115 · Mary Ann and the Duke [Sam Small] · Eric Knight · ss Esquire Dec 1937 126 · Bird in Bottle · H. A. Manhood · ss The (London) Evening Standard Nov 9 1937 131 · Strange Visitor · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Spectator Oct 1 1937 134 · Snake in Hand · Sarah Gertrude Millin · ss The London Mercury Apr 1938 143 · The Story Teller · Frank O’Connor · ss Harper’s Bazaar Nov 1937; Harper’s Bazaar (UK) Dec 1937 150 · Soppit’s Sabbath · T. F. Powys · ss Night and Day Sep 2 1937 154 · George’s Good Deed · John Pudney · ss Time & Tide Sep 11 1937 161 · ’Jumble’ · T. Thompson · ss The Listener Aug 18 1937 166 · They Foreigners! · Fred Urquhart · ss The London Mercury Aug 1937 175 · Dead Loss · Robert Westerby · ss Esquire Mar 1938; The Evening News Mar 10 1938 181 · Grandfather · Winifred Williams · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Apr 15 1938 190 · I Just Love Dogs · Ethel Wilson · ss The New Statesman and Nation Dec 4 1937

The Best British Short Stories 1939 & The Yearbook of the British and Irish Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1939, 296pp, hc) 1 · The Necessity of Invention · A. J. Alan · ss The Daily Express Jun 22-23 1938 13 · Allow Me to Suggest · Martin Armstrong · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Jul 29 1938 18 · The Ox · H. E. Bates · ss Atlantic Monthly Mar 1939 36 · In the Midst of Death We Live · Ralph Bates · ss Esquire Oct 1938 48 · Poaching Isn’t Theft · T. O. Beachcroft · ss The Daily Express Dec 27 1938 59 · Number 16 · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Listener Jan 19 1938 68 · The Man in the Mackintosh · Gerald Bullett · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Jul 15 1938 74 · Sleeping Beauty · John Collier · ss Harper’s Bazaar (UK) May 1938 89 · Resurrection · Rhys Davies · ss The (London) Evening Standard Jan 30 1939 96 · The Guardian · Walter de la Mare · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Jun 10 1938 108 · The Lost Land · Geraint Goodwin · ss The Welsh Review Apr 1939 118 · A Summer Night · G. F. Green · ss The Listener Aug 11 1938 124 · An Impossible Child · Leslie Halward · ss News Chronicle Sep 16 1938 128 · Beyond the Horizon · James Hanley · ss The Fortnightly Review Oct 1938 147 · Mountain Madness · H. T. Hopkinson · ss The Listener Jan 5 1939 155 · An Irishman and a Jew · Geoffrey Household · ss Atlantic Monthly Oct 1938 172 · Children · Daniel Kalicstein · ss The Quest Dec 1938 177 · ’Getcheta’ · A. W. H. Macdonald · ss Life and Letters Today Jan 1939 181 · Seven Miles to Godwhim · H. A. Manhood · ss London Daily Herald Feb 20 1939 185 · Wrong Turning · Campbell Nairne · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Aug 26 1938 191 · Mac’s Masterpiece · Frank O’Connor · ss The London Mercury May 1938 204 · Galway Bay · Liam O’Flaherty · ss Harper’s Bazaar Nov 1938; The London Mercury Jan 1939 216 · Pocock Passes · V. S. Pritchett · ss The London Mercury Apr 1939 230 · Bare Feet · John Raynor · ss The Spectator Jun 17 1938 234 · Deus ex Machina · Stephen Spender · ss The Listener Dec 22 1938 239 · At the Barber’s · L. A. G. Strong · ss Atlantic Monthly Aug 1938 247 · She Wanted a Piano · T. Thompson · ss Picture Post Mar 25 1939 253 · The Murderer · Robert Westerby · ss The London Mercury Feb 1939 259 · Time for Chapel · Malachi Whitaker · ss John o’ London’s Weekly May 13 1938 267 · Gala Night · Winifred Williams · ss John o’ London’s Weekly Sep 9 1938