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The Best Short Stories of 1924 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard & Company, 1925, 367pp, hc, an) 3 · Champlin · Morgan Burke · ss The Blue Book Magazine August 1924 19 · Billy · Mildred Cram · ss Harper’s Bazar September 1924, as “The Face That Launched a Thousand Quips” 39 · Phantom Adventure · Floyd Dell · ss The Century Magazine December 1923 53 · The Cracked Teapot · Charles Caldwell Dobie · ss Harper’s Magazine January 1924 70 · The Last Dive · Carlos Drake · ss Transatlantic Review July 1924 74 · Adventures of Andrew Lang · Charles J. Finger · nv The Century Magazine July 1924 95 · The Biography of Blade · Zona Gale · ss The Century Magazine July 1924 100 · Corputt · Tupper Greenwald · ss The Midland October 1923 110 · The Young Men Go Down · Harry Hervey · ss The Nation January 30 1924 119 · The Lesser Gift · Leonard L. Hess · ss Phantasmus June 1924 137 · Grudges · Rupert Hughes · ss Liberty July 12 1924 155 · A Postscript to Divorce · Gouverneur Morris · ss Hearst’s International September 1924 167 · Forgiveness · Lizette Woodworth Reese · ss The Outlook July 16 1924 175 · Nocturne: A Red Shawl · Roger Sergel · ss Phantasmus May 1924 191 · The Black Laugh · A. B. Shiffrin · ss The American Hebrew August 8 1924 198 · Four Generations · Ruth Suckow · ss The American Mercury January 1924 211 · Two Women and Hog-Back Ridge · Melvin Van Den Bark · ss The Midland June/August 1924 228 · The Poet · Warren L. Van Dine · ss The Midland January 1924 240 · In a Thicket · Glenway Wescott · ss The Dial June 1924 248 · Shoes · Frances Gilchrist Wood · ss Harper’s Magazine December 1923

The Best Short Stories of 1925 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Small, Maynard & Company, 1926, 449pp, hc, an) 1 · The Gift · Sandra Alexander · ss The Reviewer April 1925 21 · The Return · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Century Magazine May 1925 39 · Gertrude Donovan · Nathan Asch · ss Transatlantic Review December 1924 53 · Guard of Honor · Barry Benefield · ss Pictorial Review July 1925 64 · The Beggar of Alcazar · Konrad Bercovici · ss The Century Magazine February 1925 81 · The Laugh · Bella Cohen · ss The Calendar of Modern Letters July 1925 85 · The Hands of the Enemy · Charles Caldwell Dobie · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1925 105 · The City of Refuge · Rudolph Fisher · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1925 122 · An Army with Banners · Katharine Fullerton Gerould · nv Harper’s Magazine August 1925 148 · Coward’s Castle · Walter Gilkyson · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1924 167 · How Does It Feel to Be Free? · Manuel Komroff · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1925 174 · Haircut · Ring Lardner · ss Liberty March 28 1925 186 · The Ill Wind · Robert Robinson · ss Collier’s August 29 1925 195 · The Old Lady · Evelyn Scott · ss The Dial May 1925 207 · Old Man Ledge · May Stanley · nv Pictorial Review June 1925 228 · Six Dollars · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Pictorial Review March 1925 253 · The Home Town · Milton Waldman · ss The London Mercury December 1924 270 · Fire and Water · Glenway Wescott · ss Collier’s July 4 1925, as “This Way Out” 287 · The Devil Drum · Barrett Willoughby · nv The Century Magazine January 1925 311 · Gideon’s Revenge · Elinor Wylie · ss The Century Magazine January 1925

The Best Short Stories of 1926 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1926, 464pp, hc, an) 1 · Carrie Snyder · Barry Benefield · ss Woman’s Home Companion May 1926, as “With Banners Blowing” 19 · Maudie · Ada Jack Carver · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1926 36 · The Glass Eye of Throgmorton · Donald Corley · ss Pictorial Review June 1926 56 · Take the Stand, Please · Chester T. Crowell · ss The Saturday Evening Post August 28 1926 71 · Bound for the Rio Grande · A. E. Dingle · ss Liberty December 20 1924 90 · Query · Henry Walbridge Dudley · ss The Midland January 1926 98 · Symphonesque · Arthur Huff Fauset · ss Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life #42, June 1926 114 · Evening · Zona Gale · ss The Bookman December 1925 120 · Wheels · Tupper Greenwald · ss The Midland February 1926 127 · The Undefeated · Ernest Hemingway · nv This Quarter Autumn/Winter 1925 156 · The Christian Bite · Manuel Komroff · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1926 171 · Then Christs Fought Hard · Milutin Krunich · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1925 185 · Travelogue · Ring W. Lardner · ss Cosmopolitan May 1926 197 · The First Stone · Grace Sartwell Mason · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1926 210 · Grimaldi · Susan Meriwether · ss Pan: The Fiction Magazine October 1921, as by Susan M. Boogher 220 · A Tale from the Grave · Ira V. Morris, Jr. · ss The Calendar of Modern Letters February 1926 237 · Extra! Extra! · Robert E. Sherwood · ss Scribner’s Magazine July 1926 244 · Out of the Wind · Wilbur Daniel Steele · ss Pictorial Review October 1925 264 · The Other Road · Edward L. Strater · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1926 282 · The Giant’s Thunder · Virginia Tracy · ss Pictorial Review October 1925

The Best Short Stories of 1927 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1927, 460pp, hc, an) 1 · The Right Honorable the Strawberries · Owen Wister · nv Cosmopolitan November 1926 40 · The Killers [Nick Adams] · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1927 50 · Another Wife · Sherwood Anderson · ss Scribner’s Magazine December 1926 59 · Vienna Roast · Harold W. Brecht · vi Brief Stories April 1922 72 · Child of God · Roark Bradford · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1927 86 · Minstrels of the Mist · Ben Lucien Burman · ss Pictorial Review April 1927 103 · Mademoiselle · Elisabeth Finley-Thomas · ss The Century Magazine April 1927 118 · Three Lumps of Sugar · Amory Hare · ss Cosmopolitan May 1927 123 · Triall by Armes · Joseph Hergesheimer · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1927 142 · The Half Pint Flask · DuBose Heyward · ss The Bookman May 1927 158 · When It Happens · James Hopper · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1927 169 · North Is Black · Oliver La Farge, 2nd · ss The Dial January 1927 181 · Yarbwoman · Rose Wilder Lane · nv Harper’s Magazine July 1927 202 · Persephone · Meridel Le Sueur · ss The Dial May 1927 213 · Good Morning, Major · J. P. Marquand · nv The Saturday Evening Post December 11 1926 240 · Cane River · Lyle Saxon · ss The Dial March 1926 255 · The Pawnshop · John S. Sexton · ss The Catholic World December 1926 259 · Little Dombey · Frank Shay · ss Scribner’s Magazine January 1927 279 · In Portofino · Alan Sullivan · ss The English Review 1927 289 · The Hound-Tuner of Callaway · Raymond Weeks · ss The Midland December 1926

The Best Short Stories of 1928 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1928, 429pp, hc, an) 1 · The Guardeen Angel · Frederick Hazlitt Brennan · ss Cosmopolitan December 1927 13 · The Cat That Lived at the Ritz · Louis Bromfield · ss Harper’s Bazar October 1927 31 · Seven Blocks Apart · Katharine Brush · ss Cosmopolitan January 1928 51 · A Country Passion · Morley Callaghan · ss Transition March 1928 60 · At the Sign of the Three Daughters · Dorothy Canfield · ss The Delineator May 1928 77 · John of God, the Water Carrier · María Cristina Chambers · ss The Monthly Criterion October 1927 94 · No Dam’ Yankee · Irvin S. Cobb · ss Cosmopolitan November 1927 113 · The First of Mr. Blue · Myles Connolly · ss Columbia March 1928 125 · The Swamper · Walter D. Edmonds · nv The Dial March 1928 150 · Home to Mother’s · Eleanor E. Harris · ss Scribner’s Magazine August 1927 166 · Lady Wipers—of Ypres · Llewellyn Hughes · ss The Century Magazine January 1928 180 · Give This Little Girl a Hand · Fannie Hurst · nv Cosmopolitan February 1928 211 · Battered Armor · Edward L. McKenna · ss McClure’s December 1927 222 · A Telephone Call · Dorothy Parker · ss The Bookman January 1928 228 · Fences · L. Paul · ss Adventure December 15 1927 246 · On the Mountain-Side · Elizabeth Madox Roberts · ss The American Mercury August 1927 258 · The Jew · Edwin Seaver · ss The New Republic January 25 1928 262 · The Romantic Sailor · James Stevens · ss The Frontier May 1928 267 · Midwestern Primitive · Ruth Suckow · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1928 285 · So-Long, Oldtimer · Edmund Ware · ss Ladies’ Home Journal August 1927

The Best Short Stories of 1929 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1929, 399pp, hc, an) 1 · “Hound of Heaven” · Sarah Addington · ss The Forum March 1929 20 · The Lost Novel · Sherwood Anderson · ss Scribner’s Magazine September 1928 26 · The Country Doctor · Ivan Beede · ss Transition February 1929 38 · “There’s Money in Poetry” · Konrad Bercovici · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1928 48 · Soldier Harmon · Morley Callaghan · ss Scribner’s Magazine August 1928 60 · Double Birthday · Willa Cather · nv The Forum February 1929 86 · Wild Plums · Grace Stone Coates · ss The Frontier March 1929 92 · Death of Red Peril · Walter D. Edmonds · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1928 104 · First Oboe · James Webber Glover · ss The Forum January 1929 112 · Fame for Mr. Beatty · James Norman Hall · ss The Tanager May 1929 123 · Power of Horizon · Leon Serabian Herald · ss The Dial April 1929 130 · Alcantara · MacGregor Jenkins · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1929 146 · Manicure · Margaret Leech · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1928 159 · Potato Picking · Robert McAlmon · ss Transition February 1929 169 · His Friend the Pig · Wilson McCarty · ss The Dial January 1929 181 · I Have Letters for Marjorie · Edward L. McKenna · ss McClure’s June 1928 193 · Light Without Heat · Robert Mullen · ss The Dial May 1929 206 · “Cunjur” · Pernet Patterson · nv The Atlantic Monthly December 1928 (+1) 239 · A Guilty Woman · Glenway Wescott · ss The Century Magazine August 1928 256 · The Venus · William Carlos Williams · ss The Dial June 1928

The Best Short Stories of 1930 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1930, 322pp, hc, an) 1 · Along a Sandy Road · Ellen Bishop · ss Prairie Schooner Winter 1930 6 · Suffer Little Children · Clifford Bragdon · ss The Midland March/April 1930 21 · Two Men Free · Whit Burnett · ss Transition Spring/Summer 1929 34 · The Faithful Wife · Morley Callaghan · ss The New Yorker December 28 1929 39 · The Way of the Transgressor · Grace Stone Coates · ss The Frontier November 1929 46 · The Voice of the Turtle · Edythe Squier Draper · ss Prairie Schooner Summer 1929 54 · Answer · Ruth Pine Furniss · ss Transition Fall 1929 59 · Blue Sky · Walter Gilkyson · ss Scribner’s Magazine November 1929 74 · Summer Dust · Caroline Gordon · ss The Gyroscope November 1929 87 · Adventure · Emily Hahn · ss The New Yorker February 22 1930 91 · Happiness Up the River · Harry Hartwick · ss The Frontier November 1929 104 · September Sailing · Eleanor Hayden Kittredge · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1929 124 · A Red Coat for Night · Manuel Komroff · ss The Yale Review March 1930 135 · At the Swamp · Janet Lewis · ss The Bookman October 1929 142 · The Little Wife · William March · ss The Midland January/February 1930 154 · The Cradle of Civilization · Dorothy Parker · ss The New Yorker September 21 1929 158 · The White Pigeon · Gouverneur Paulding · ss Commonweal March 26 1930 162 · The Patriot · William Polk · ss The Hound and Horn January/March 1930 171 · Theft · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Gyroscope November 1929 177 · The Vineyard at Schloss Ramsburg [Alexander Botts; Earthworm Tractors] · William Hazlett Upson · nv The Saturday Evening Post April 19 1930

The Best Short Stories of 1931 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1931, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · The Enigma · Louis Adamic · ss The American Mercury May 1930 · The Sound That Frost Makes · Solon R. Barber · ss The Agora April 1931 · Only We Are Barren · Alvah C. Bessie · ss The Hound and Horn January/March 1931 · Rest Cure · Kay Boyle · ss Story #1, April/May 1931 · Tabloid News · Louis Bromfield · ss Random House, 1930 · A Day in the Country · Whit Burnett · nv Story #1, April/May 1931 · Dorothy · Erskine Caldwell · ss Scribner’s Magazine April 1931 · The Young Priest · Morley Callaghan · ss The New Yorker September 27 1930 · Water Never Hurt a Man · Walter D. Edmonds · ss Harper’s Magazine December 1930 · That Evening Sun Go Down · William Faulkner · nv The American Mercury March 1931 · Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1931 · One with Shakespeare · Martha Foley · ss Story #1, April/May 1931 · The Flaming Chariot [Colin Glencannon] · Guy Gilpatric · ss The Saturday Evening Post December 27 1930 · Fiddlers of Moon Mountain · Emmett Gowen · ss Pictorial Review September 1930 · I Hear You, Mr. and Mrs. Brown · Josephine Herbst · ss This Quarter April/May/June 1931 · Other Side of the Street · Paul Horgan · ss The Yale Review Winter 1931 · Fifteen from Company K · William March · ss The Midland November/December 1930 · The Other Room · Don Marquis · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1930 · A Pretty Cute Little Stunt · George Milburn · ss The American Mercury February 1931 · Here We Are · Dorothy Parker · ss Cosmopolitan March 1931 · Rhodes Scholar · Allen Read · ss (r) · The Great Hunter of the Woods · James Stevens · ss The Frontier January 1931 · The Model House [Alexander Botts] · William Hazlett Upson · ss The Saturday Evening Post January 10 1931 · The Threshing Ring · Leo L. Ward · ss The Midland July/August 1930 · The Miracle · Anne Elizabeth Wilson · ss Scribner’s Magazine September 1930 · White Man’s Town · Lowry Charles Wimberly · ss Forum and Century March 1931

The Best Short Stories of 1932 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Dodd, Mead, 1932, 352pp, hc, an) 3 · The Foreigner · Bill Adams · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1932 16 · Horizon · Alvah C. Bessie · ss The Criterion July 1931 25 · Love’s So Many Things · Clifford Bragdon · ss The Midland July 1931 34 · Poisoner in Motley · Louis Brennan · ss Script June 1931 44 · Sand · Wanda Burnett · ss Story #6, March/April 1932 54 · Sherrel · Whit Burnett · ss Story #2, June/July 1931 62 · Warm River · Erskine Caldwell · ss Pagany January/March 1932 70 · The Red Hat · Morley Callaghan · ss The New Yorker October 31 1931 76 · The Honest Wine Merchant · Helena LeFroy Caperton · ss John o’ London’s Weekly January 30 1932 80 · The Story of the Stranger · John Cournos · ss John o’ London’s Weekly December 19 1931 90 · So Tall the Corn · David Cornel De Jong · ss Scribner’s Magazine April 1932 101 · Hansel · Andra Diefenthaler · ss New Copy 1932, Columbia University Press, 1932 108 · Smoke [Yoknapatawpha County] · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine April 1932 134 · Napoleon’s Hat Under Glass · Manuel Komroff · ss Story #6, March/April 1932 138 · Spring Story · Meridel Le Sueur · ss Scribner’s Magazine May 1931 153 · An Arrival at Carthage · Scammon Lockwood · ss The Frontier November 1931 165 · Mist on the Meadow · William March · ss The Midland October 1931 177 · Heel, Toe and A 1, 2, 3, 4 · George Milburn · ss The American Mercury April 1932 187 · The Kimono · Ira V. Morris · ss Story #2, June/July 1931 198 · Shepherd of the Lord · Peter Neagoe · nv Story #4, November/December 1931 216 · Load · Dudley Schnabel · ss The Midland May 1931 231 · Gentleman in Blue · Laurence Stallings · ss The Saturday Evening Post February 20 1932 243 · The Family Chronicle · Bernhard Johann Tüting · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1931 253 · Untitled Story · José Garcia Villa · ss Clay Autumn 1931 264 · The Quarrel · Leo L. Ward · ss Story #3, September/October 1931

The Best Short Stories of 1933 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1933, 365pp, hc, an) 3 · Fame Takes the J Car · George Albee · ss Story #10, December 1932 14 · A Little Walk · Alvah C. Bessie · ss Story #7, May/June 1932 21 · Toadstools Are Poison · John Peale Bishop · ss North American Review June 1932 30 · Elmer · Albert Truman Boyd · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1932 42 · Serenade · Whit Burnett · ss Story #9, October 1932 54 · The First Autumn · Erskine Caldwell · ss Pagany July/September 1932 60 · A Sick Call · Morley Callaghan · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1932 68 · The Land of Plenty · Robert Cantwell · ss The New Republic October 12 1932 77 · The Honey Pot · Charles Caldwell Dobie · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1932 91 · Black Wolf · Walter D. Edmonds · ss The Saturday Evening Post June 18 1932 108 · Helen, I Love You! · James T. Farrell · ss The American Mercury July 1932 115 · Crazy Sunday · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ss The American Mercury October 1932 133 · What Was Truly Mine · Grace Flandrau · ss Scribner’s Magazine August 1932 140 · Martyr · Martha Foley · ss Story #8, August 1932 145 · Fisherman’s Luck · Emmett Gowen · ss The New English Weekly September 22 1932 157 · Simple Aveu · Nancy Hale · ss Scribner’s Magazine May 1932 161 · Going to Market · Albert Halper · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1932 170 · In the Park · Eugene Joffe · vi The New Republic October 5 1932 173 · Sleet Storm · Louise Lambertson · ss The Country Gentleman January 1932 187 · The Facts in the Case · Grant Leenhouts · ss The American Mercury May 1932 202 · The Apostate · George Milburn · ss The New Yorker June 4 1932 208 · The Sampler · Ira V. Morris · vi Story #10, December 1932 210 · Footnote to a Life · Lloyd Morris · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1932 223 · The Cracked Looking-Glass · Katherine Anne Porter · nv Scribner’s Magazine May 1932 254 · Episode at the Pawpaws · Louis Reed · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1932 266 · Ike and Us Moons · Naomi Shumway · ss Story #9, October 1932 280 · How Beautiful with Shoes · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine August 1932 301 · The Joybell · Dorothy Thomas · ss The American Mercury November 1932 314 · The Fence · José Garcia Villa · ss Prairie Schooner Summer 1932

The Best Short Stories of 1934 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1934, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · Winter Meeting · Benjamin Appel · ss (r) · No Final Word · Alvah C. Bessie · ss Story #16, November 1933 · The Cats Which Cried · Whit Burnett · ss Story #13, June 1933 · Horse Thief · Erskine Caldwell · ss Vanity Fair (US) November 1933 · Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks · Morley Callaghan · ss Harper’s Bazaar September 1933 · The Woman on the Shore · Marquis W. Childs · ss Story #16, November 1933 · Amethyst · Edwin Corle · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1933 · Crossroads Woman · Howard McKinley Corning · ss Prairie Schooner Winter 1933 · Beyond · William Faulkner · ss Harper’s Magazine September 1933 · Miss Cynthie · Rudolph Fisher · ss Story #13, June 1933 · She Walks in Beauty · Martha Foley · ss Story #12, April 1933 · My Dead Brother Comes to America · Alexander Godin · ss The Windsor Quarterly 1934 · Tom Rivers · Caroline Gordon · ss (r) · The Broken Wheel · Sirak Goryan · ss Hairenik 1933 · Lord of Marutea · James Norman Hall · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1933 · Cora Unashamed · Langston Hughes · ss The American Mercury September 1933 · Siege of Love · Eugene Joffe · ss The American Mercury December 1933 · Hamlet’s Dagger · Manuel Komroff · ss Story #12, April 1933 · Mother Tanner · John Lineaweaver · ss North American Review January 1933 · Winter · Dorothy McCleary · nv Story #17, December 1933 · The Pension · Louis Mamet · ss (r) · This Heavy Load · William March · ss Forum and Century December 1933 · Death and Transfiguration · Alan Marshall · ss Story #15, October 1933 · The Sacred Thing · Paul Ryan · ss Scribner’s Magazine August 1933 · In a Park · Nahum Sabsay · ss Commonweal November 10 1933 · The Hemlock Tree · Vincent Sheean · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1933 · Now There Is Peace · Richard Sherman · ss Vanity Fair (US) December 1933 · The Immortal Woman · Allen Tate · ss The Hound and Horn July/September 1933 · Money at Home · Upton Terrell · ss North American Review June 1933 · Home Is Where You Hang Your Childhood · Leane Zugsmith · ss Story #17, December 1933

The Best Short Stories of 1935 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1935, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · Outside Yuma · Benjamin Appel · ss New Stories (UK) April/May 1934 · The Overcoat · Sally Benson · ss The American Mercury November 1934 · The Party Next Door · Ernest Brace · ss Story #28, November 1934 · Suns That Our Hearts Harden · Carlton Brown · ss (r) · Division · Whit Burnett · na The Plowshare July 1934 · The Cold Winter · Erskine Caldwell · ss Story #29, December 1934 · Father and Son · Morley Callaghan · ss Harper’s Bazaar June 1934 · Bus to Biarritz · Madelene Cole · ss Story #28, November 1934 · Triple Jumps · Charles Cooke · ss (r) · Home-Coming · David Cornel De Jong · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1934 · Lo! · William Faulkner · ss Story #28, November 1934 · Wild Nigger · Elma Godchaux · ss (r) · Little White Girl · Sara Haardt · ss Scribner’s Magazine April 1934 · Remarks: None · William Wister Haines · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1934 · The Double House · Nancy Hale · ss Vanity Fair (US) May 1934 · A Distant Harbour · Paul Horgan · ss Direction Autumn 1934 · Sunday Morning · Dorothy McCleary · ss Story #20, March 1934 · Parish of Cockroaches · Vincent McHugh · ss Story #20, March 1934 · Episode from Life · Louis Mamet · ss New Stories (UK) June/July 1934 · Frozen Stillness · Alfred Morang · ss New Stories (UK) June/July 1934 · Mrs. Lancaster-Jones · Edita Morris · ss New Stories (UK) February/March 1934 · Resurrection of a Life · William Saroyan · ss Story #28, November 1934 · This Town and Salamanca · Allan Seager · ss Story #25, August 1934 · A Boxer: Old · Harry Sylvester · ss Story #18, January 1934 · Souvenir of Arizona · Benedict Thielen · ss Scribner’s Magazine September 1934 · A Pair of Shoes · Max White · ss The Plowshare 1934 · The Sun and the Rain · Thomas Wolfe · ss Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine September 1934

The Best Short Stories of 1936 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1936, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · The Hunch · A. H. Z. Carr · ss Harper’s Magazine November 1935 · Catafalque · Charles Cooke · ss Story #35, June 1935 · The North Wind Doth Blow · Evan Coombes · ss The London Mercury 1936 · That Will Be Fine · William Faulkner · ss The American Mercury July 1935 · That’s What Happened to Me · Michael Fessier · ss Story #40, November 1935 · Torrent of Darkness · S. S. Field · ss (r) · The Doorstop · Roy Flannagan · ss Story #40, November 1935 · Her Own Sweet Simplicity · Martha Foley · ss (r) · Enemy Country · Walter Gilkyson · ss Scribner’s Magazine December 1935 · Two Words Are a Story · Elizabeth Hall · ss Story #40, November 1935 · With Some Gaiety and Laughter · Frank K. Kelly · ss Story #31, February 1935 · Tinkle and Family Take a Ride · Karlton Kelm · ss International Literature March 1934 · That Blowzy Goddess Fame · Manuel Komroff · ss Esquire December 1935 · A Kind of a Sunset · Erling Larsen · ss (r) · Annunciation · Meridel Le Sueur · ss (r) · The Shroud · Dorothy McCleary · ss Story #30, January 1935 · Man on a Road · Albert Maltz · ss New Masses January 8 1935 · The Grave · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review April 1935 · Thanks for Nothing · Roaldus Richmond · ss Story #40, November 1935 · Fugue for Harmonica · Allan Seager · ss Vanity Fair (US) March 1935 · A Life in the Day of a Writer · Tess Slesinger · ss Story #40, November 1935 · Traveling Salesman · Elisabeth Wilkins Thomas · ss The Story-teller December 1935 · The Mustydines Was Ripe · Howell Vines · ss (r) · American Nocturne · Robert Whitehand · ss American Prefaces December 1935 · On the Sidewalk · Calvin Williams · ss New Stories (UK) April/May 1935 · The Lone Pioneer · William E. Wilson · ss (r) · Only the Dead Know Brooklyn · Thomas Wolfe · ss The New Yorker June 15 1935 · The Murder on Jefferson Street · Dorothy Canfield · nv Story #35, June 1935

The Best Short Stories of 1937 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1937, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · The Man Who Won the War · Robert Buckner · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1936 · The Last Equation · Roger Burlingame · ss (r) · The Voyage Out · Morley Callaghan · ss The New Yorker June 27 1936 · Enter Daisy; To Her, Alexandra · Charles Cooke · ss Story #47, June 1936 · Fool About a Horse · William Faulkner · ss Scribner’s Magazine August 1936 · Goodbye to Cap’m John · S. S. Field · ss (r) · Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! · Martha Foley · ss Story #48, July 1936 · Chains · Elma Godchaux · ss The Southern Review Spring 1936 · The Poet · Albert Halper · ss (r) · The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Ernest Hemingway · nv Esquire August 1936 · Homecoming · Edward Harris Heth · ss (r) · The Surgeon and the Nun · Paul Horgan · ss Harper’s Bazaar December 1936 · The Girl with the Flaxen Hair · Manuel Komroff · ss Esquire September 1936 · Awakening and the Destination · David E. Krantz · ss (r) · Second Wife · Harry Harrison Kroll · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1936 · The Intrigue of Mr. S. Yamamoto · R. H. Linn · ss Story #52, November 1936 · Titty’s Dead and Tatty Weeps · Ursula MacDougall · ss New Stories (UK) December 1935/January 1936 · Let Nothing You Dismay · Allen McGinnis · ss (r) · Maybe the Sun Will Shine · William March · ss (r) · A Blade of Grass · Edita Morris · ss Story #49, August 1936 · Marching Orders · I. V. Morris · nv New Stories (UK) April/May 1936 · The Old Order · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Southern Review Winter 1936 · A Passenger to Bali · Ellis St. Joseph · nv Story #52, November 1936 · The Crusade · William Saroyan · ss Scribner’s Magazine April 1936 · Hair · Jesse Stuart · ss The American Mercury July 1936 · Lieutenant Pearson · Benedict Thielen · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1936 · The Iron City · Lovell Thompson · nv Story #44, March 1936 · Arrival on a Holiday · Wilson Wright · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1936 · Room in the World · Leane Zugsmith · ss Story #49, August 1936

The Best Short Stories of 1938 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1938, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · Mr. Sycamore · Robert Ayre · na Story #57, April 1937 · Blind Man’s Buff · Libby Benedict · ss (r) · A Tooth for Paul Revere · Stephen Vincent Benet · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1937 · Mr. Mergenthwirker’s Lobblies [Lobblies] · Nelson S. Bond · ss Scribner’s Magazine November 1937 · The Cheat’s Remorse · Morley Callaghan · ss Esquire October 1937 · The Brothers · John Cheever · ss The Yale Review Summer 1937 · What Hurts Is That I Was in a Hurry · Vladimir Cherkasski · ss (r) · Dear Mr. Fessheimer · Whitfield Cook · ss (r) · Niggers Are Such Liars · Richard Paulette Creyke · ss Story #60, July 1937 · Christ in Concrete · Pietro di Donato · ss Esquire March 1937 · Black Wind and Lightning · Michael Fessier · ss Esquire December 1937 · Turkey Hunt · Alberta Pierson Hannum · ss Story #65, December 1937 · The Whole World Is Outside · Manuel Komroff · ss Esquire July 1937 · The Girl · Meridel Le Sueur · ss The Yale Review 1937 · She Always Wanted Shoes · Don Ludlow · ss (r) · Little Bride · Dorothy McCleary · ss Harper’s Bazaar 1938 · The Last Meeting · William March · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1937 · To Those Who Wait · Elick Moll · ss Scribner’s Magazine April 1937 · The Spaniard · Prudencio de Pereda · ss Story #58, May 1937 · A Russian Idyll · Frederic Prokosch · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 1937 · A Real American Fellow · George Thorp Rayner · ss Story #57, April 1937 · The Haunted Palace · Elizabeth Madox Roberts · nv Harper’s Magazine July 1937 · Boy in the Summer Sun · Mark Schorer · ss Story #55, February 1937 · Pro Arte · Allan Seager · ss Scribner’s Magazine February 1937 · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937 · Huey, the Engineer · Jesse Stuart · ss Esquire August 1937 · The Amateurs · Harvey B. Swados · ss (r) · Christmas Gift · Robert Penn Warren · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Winter 1937 · Lily Daw and the Three Ladies · Eudora Welty · ss Prairie Schooner Winter 1937 · Off the Highway · Ira Wolfert · ss Esquire October 1937

The Best Short Stories of 1939 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1939, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · The Blue Sash · Warren Beck · ss Story #68, March 1938 · Vision in the Sea · Ronald Caldwell · ss (r) · It Had to Be Done · Morley Callaghan · ss (r) · Frère Jacques · John Cheever · ss (r) · Indian in the Road · Gean Clark · ss (r) · Passing Through · Robert M. Coates · ss (r) · Black Troubadour · David L. Cohn · ss (r) · Corporal Hardy · Richard Ely Danielson · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1938 · The Rat Is a Mouse · Hal Ellson · ss Story #74, November/December 1938 · Prelude · Albert Halper · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1938 · To the Mountains · Paul Horgan · nv The Atlantic Monthly January 1938 · True Believer · Madge Jenison · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1938 · What Is a Miracle? · Manuel Komroff · ss Esquire January 1938 · Salutation to Spring · Meridel Le Sueur · ss (r) · An Arm Upraised · Alan MacDonald · ss (r) · The Happiest Man on Earth · Albert Maltz · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1938 · Leviathan · Ellis St. Joseph · ss Redbook Magazine September 1938 · Piano · William Saroyan · ss (r) · The Girl from the River Barge · Walter Schoenstedt · ss Esquire August 1938 · Berkshire Comedy · Allan Seager · ss Story #70, May 1938 · Bad Boy from Brooklyn · Michael Seide · ss (r) · Eustacia · Jesse Stuart · ss (r) · The Crazy Guy · Harry Sylvester · ss Esquire April 1938 · The Thunderstorm · Benedict Thielen · ss Story #74, November/December 1938 · How Willie Proudfit Came Home · Robert Penn Warren · ss (r) · A Curtain of Green · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Autumn 1938 · Black Tobias and the Empire · Heinz Werner · ss Esquire May 1938 · The Way the Luck Runs · Ira Wolfert · ss Harper’s Magazine November 1938 · The White Camel · Eugene Wright · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1938 · Bright and Morning Star · Richard Wright · nv New Masses May 10 1938

The Best Short Stories of 1940 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1940, hc, an)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. 1 · Anschluss · Kay Boyle · nv Harper’s Magazine April 1939 20 · The People v. Abe Lathan, Colored · Erskine Caldwell · ss Esquire August 1939 30 · Getting on in the World · Morley Callaghan · ss The American Mercury May 1939 37 · Roof Sitter · Frances Eisenberg · ss Story #77, May/June 1939 53 · The Fall of Machine Gun McGurk · James T. Farrell · ss The Canadian Forum July 1939 65 · Hand Upon the Waters [Yoknapatawpha County] · William Faulkner · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 4 1939 82 · Design in Plaster · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ss Esquire November 1939 89 · Frankie and Thomas and Bud Asbury · Caroline Gordon · nv The Southern Review Spring 1939 109 · Under the Ridge · Ernest Hemingway · ss Cosmopolitan October 1939 123 · Honey House · Mary King · nv The Southern Review Autumn 1939 145 · Death of an Outcast · Manuel Komroff · ss Esquire April 1939 155 · That Fine Place We Had Last Year · Roderick Lull · ss Story #79, September/October 1939 170 · Your General Does Not Sleep · Emilio Lussu · nv The Atlantic Monthly May 1939 194 · Something Jolly · Dorothy McCleary · ss Story #79, September/October 1939 214 · Kullan · Edita Morris · ss Story #77, May/June 1939 229 · The Beautiful Fire · I. V. Morris · ss Story #77, May/June 1939 244 · Family History · P. M. Pasinetti · nv The Southern Review Summer 1939 285 · The Way Death Comes · Prudencio de Pereda · ss Story #79, September/October 1939 296 · Herself · James Pooler · ss Story #76, March/April 1939 311 · The Downward Path to Wisdom · Katherine Anne Porter · nv Harper’s Bazaar #2731, December 1939 333 · The Presbyterian Choir Singers · William Saroyan · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1939 344 · Words Without Music · Michael Seide · ss American Prefaces December 1939 357 · Main Currents of American Thought · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker August 5 1939 368 · The Seven Men of Rouen · George Slocombe · ss Esquire December 1939 381 · Four Worms Turning · Morton Stern · ss Story #77, May/June 1939 387 · The Two Deaths of Kaspar Rausch · Hans Otto Storm · nv The Yale Review June 1939 422 · Rich Men · Jesse Stuart · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1939 433 · Beautifully and Bravely · Harry Sylvester · ss Collier’s February 25 1939 450 · Night and the Lost Armies · Benedict Thielen · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1939 459 · The Hitch-Hikers · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Autumn 1939 476 · Resurgam · Louis Zara · ss Creative Writing May 1939

The Best Short Stories of 1941 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1941, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · Shadow of a Girl · E. B. Ashton · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1940 · All Around the Town · Stephen Vincent Benet · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1940 · Handy · Erskine Caldwell · ss The New Republic September 23 1940 · Big Jules · Morley Callaghan · ss (r) · The Net · Robert M. Coates · ss The New Yorker January 27 1940 · Mamma Is a Lady · David Cornel De Jong · vi Harper’s Magazine November 1940 · To the Least… · Henry Exall · ss (r) · A Nun No More · John Fante · ss (r) · Gold Is Not Always · William Faulkner · ss (r) · Color Trouble · Harold Garfinkel · ss (r) · The Magic Wire · Felicia Gizycka · nv Story #85, September/October 1940 · Smile for the Man, Dear · Justin Herman · ss (r) · The Life of the Mind · Weldon Kees · ss (r) · The White Bull · Mary King · ss (r) · Some People Are Just Plumb Crazy · Arthur Kober · ss The New Yorker March 9 1940 · Scorn and Comfort · Christopher La Farge · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1940 · The System Was Doomed · Meyer Levin · ss Story #85, September/October 1940 · Don’t Get Me Wrong · Roderick Lull · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1940 · Sunday Morning on Twentieth Street · Albert Maltz · ss (r) · Ill-Winds from the Wide World · Peter Neagoe · ss Story #84, July/August 1940 · The Three Swimmers and the Educated Grocer · William Saroyan · ss Story #83, May/June 1940 · Triumph of Justice · Irwin Shaw · ss Esquire December 1940 · The Butcher · Wilma Shore · ss Story #86, November/December 1940 · Goin’ to Town · Wallace Stegner · ss (r) · Love · Jesse Stuart · vi Story #83, May/June 1940 · The Psychologist · Benedict Thielen · ss (r) · Houdini · Jerome Weidman · ss The New Yorker July 20 1940 · Strip-Tease · George Weller · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1940 · Almos’ a Man · Richard Wright · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2732, January 1940

Collected Stories by Fitz-James O’Brien ed. Edward J. O’Brien--- see under Fitz-James O’Brien.

50 Best American Short Stories 1915-1939 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1939, x+928pp, hc, an)     Details supplied by Douglas A. Anderson. 1 · The Yellow Cat · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine March 1915 23 · The Lost Phoebe · Theodore Dreiser · ss The Century Magazine April 1916 42 · The Menorah · Benjamin Rosenblatt · ss The Bellman #512, May 6 1916 49 · Onnie · Thomas Beer · nv The Century Magazine May 1917 73 · Boys Will Be Boys [Judge William Pitman Priest (Old Judge Priest)] · Irvin S. Cobb · nv The Saturday Evening Post October 20 1917 115 · The Meeker Ritual · Joseph Hergesheimer · nv The Century Magazine June 1919 (+1) 142 · Turkey Red · Frances Gilchrist Wood · ss Pictorial Review November 1919 158 · Fanutza · Konrad Bercovici · ss The Dial May 1921 175 · My Old Man · Ernest Hemingway · ss Three Stories and Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway, McAlman's Contract Publishing Co., 1923 191 · Four Generations · Ruth Suckow · ss The American Mercury January 1924 206 · The Return · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Century Magazine May 1925 226 · An Army with Banners · Katharine Fullerton Gerould · nv Harper’s Magazine August 1925 255 · Haircut · Ring W. Lardner · ss Liberty March 28 1925 269 · The Half Pint Flask · DuBose Heyward · ss The Bookman May 1927 288 · North Is Black · Oliver La Farge · ss The Dial January 1927 302 · Good Morning, Major · J. P. Marquand · nv The Saturday Evening Post December 11 1926 333 · A Telephone Call · Dorothy Parker · ss The Bookman January 1928 340 · Double Birthday · Willa Cather · nv The Forum February 1929 370 · Death of Red Peril · Walter D. Edmonds · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1928 383 · The Faithful Wife · Morley Callaghan · ss The New Yorker December 28 1929 389 · The Little Wife · William March · ss The Midland January/February 1930 403 · Rest Cure · Kay Boyle · ss Story #1, April/May 1931 413 · That Evening Sun · William Faulkner · nv The American Mercury March 1931 434 · Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1931 459 · One with Shakespeare · Martha Foley · ss Story #1, April/May 1931 468 · A Pretty Cute Little Stunt · George Milburn · ss The American Mercury February 1931 478 · Sherrel · Whit Burnett · ss Story #2, June/July 1931 487 · Napoleon’s Hat Under Glass · Manuel Komroff · ss Story #6, March/April 1932 491 · Shepherd of the Lord · Peter Neagoe · nv Story #4, November/December 1931 512 · Fame Takes the J Car · George Albee · ss Story #10, December 1932 526 · Helen, I Love You! · James T. Farrell · ss The American Mercury July 1932 535 · Ike and Us Moons · Naomi Shumway · ss Story #9, October 1932 553 · Horse Thief · Erskine Caldwell · ss Vanity Fair (US) November 1933 561 · Winter · Dorothy M’Cleary · nv Story #17, December 1933 588 · Death and Transfiguration · Alan Marshall · ss Story #15, October 1933 606 · Outside Yuma · Benjamin Appel · ss New Stories (UK) April/May 1934 614 · The Overcoat · Sally Benson · ss The American Mercury November 1934 620 · Resurrection of a Life · William Saroyan · ss Story #28, November 1934 633 · This Town and Salamanca · Allan Seager · ss Story #25, August 1934 645 · Man on a Road · Albert Maltz · ss New Masses January 8 1935 655 · A Life in the Day of a Writer · Tess Slesinger · ss Story #40, November 1935 669 · American Nocturne · Robert Whitehand · ss American Prefaces December 1935 678 · Only the Dead Know Brooklyn · Thomas Wolfe · ss The New Yorker June 15 1935 685 · Marching Orders · I. V. Morris · nv New Stories (UK) April/May 1936 716 · Hair · Jesse Stuart · ss The American Mercury July 1936 734 · The Iron City · Lovell Thompson · nv Story #44, March 1936 766 · Christ in Concrete · Pietro di Donato · ss Esquire March 1937 783 · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937 796 · Corporal Hardy · Richard Ely Danielson · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1938 810 · Bright and Morning Star · Richard Wright · nv New Masses May 10 1938 851 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg 869 · Study Guides · Wilbur L. Schramm · ms

The Short Story Case Book ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1935, hc, an) · Introduction · Edward J. O’Brien · in · An Episode Under the Terror · Honoré de Balzac · ss (r) translated from the French (as introduction to Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire de la Révolution française, par Sanson, Librairie Centrale, 1829). · Mateo Falcone · Prosper Merimee · ss International Short Stories ed. & tr. Wm Patten, P.F. Collier's Sons, 1910 translated from the French. · The Little Soldiers · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r) · The Black Monk · Anton Chekhov · nv Hutchinson’s Story-Magazine December 1929 · The Pit and the Pendulum · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present, MDCCCXLIII, Carey & Hart, 1842 · The Gray Champion · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine January 1835, as by The Author of “The Gentle Boy” · A Municipal Report · O. Henry · ss Hampton’s Magazine November 1909 · The Undefeated · Ernest Hemingway · nv This Quarter Autumn/Winter 1925 · That Evening Sun Go Down · William Faulkner · nv The American Mercury March 1931 · The Little Wife · William March · ss The Midland January/February 1930 · Hamlet’s Dagger · Manuel Komroff · ss Story #12, April 1933 · Good Morning, Major · J. P. Marquand · nv The Saturday Evening Post December 11 1926 · Sherrel · Whit Burnett · ss Story #2, June/July 1931 · Ike and Us Moons · Naomi Shumway · ss Story #9, October 1932 · One with Shakespeare · Martha Foley · ss Story #1, April/May 1931 · A Cup of Tea · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Story-teller May 1922 · The Higgler · A. E. Coppard · nv Transatlantic Review May 1924 · Panahard and Mr. Snaith · A. G. Morris · ss Lovat Dickson’s Magazine January 1934

An Arabian Night-mare and Others (1848-1854) by Fitz-James O’Brien (Swan River Press, March 17, 2025, 978-1-78380-051-3, €120.00 for 3 volumes, xlvi+241pp, hc, co, cover by Brian Coldrick) [edited by Brian J. Showers & Jim Rockhill]     Volume 1 of the Collected Speculative Works of Fitz-James O’Brien, only available as part of a three-volume set with The Diamond Lens and Others and What Was It? and Others, limited to 300 copies, the first 100 of which are embossed and hand-numbered. Details supplied by Mike Ashley. vii · Dreaming of Fantasy: The Life and Early Speculative Writings of Fitz-James O’Brien · John P. Irish · in xliii · A Note on the Text · John P. Irish · ms 3 · Forest Thoughts · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm The Cork Magazine December 1848 6 · Philosophy in Disguise · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss The Family Friend November 1849 10 · The Story of a Child · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss The Family Friend March 15 1851 19 · The Sunbeam, the Dew-drop, and the Rose · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss The Parlour Magazine May 17 1851 22 · The Lonely Oak · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm The Parlour Magazine July 12 1851 25 · Dawn · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm The Parlour Magazine August 2 1851 26 · An Arabian Night-mare · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Household Words #85, November 8 1851, uncredited. 36 · A Legend of Barlagh Cave · Fitz-James O’Brien · ex from “The Phantom Light”, The Home Companion January 31 1852 (+8) 41 · The Wonderful Adventures of Mr. Papplewick · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Lantern March 13 1852 (+5) 69 · The Gory Gnome · Fitz-James O’Brien · pl The Lantern February 28 1852 74 · The Demon Tie · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm The Lantern April 3 1852 82 · Aladdin at the Crystal Palace · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss The Leisure Hour April 22 1852 87 · The Shirt Fiend · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm The Leisure Hour April 24 1852 89 · The Spectral Shirt · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm The Lantern June 5 1852 93 · The Old Boy · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss American Whig Review August 1852 108 · Madness · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm American Whig Review August 1852 110 · The Man Without a Shadow: A New Version · Fitz-James O’Brien · vi The Lantern September 4 1852 113 · A Voyage in My Bed · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss American Whig Review September 1852 126 · Pallida · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm American Whig Review September 1852 128 · The Song of the Immortal Gods · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm American Whig Review September 1852 131 · The Old Knight’s Wassail · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm American Whig Review September 1852 132 · One Event · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv American Whig Review October 1852 170 · The Other Night · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss American Whig Review December 1852 176 · The King of Nodland and His Dwarf · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv American Whig Review December 1852 217 · Sir Brasil’s Falcon · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm United States Magazine and Democratic Review September 1853 230 · A Peep Behind the Scenes · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Dublin University Magazine January 1854, uncredited. 235 · Sources · [uncredited] · bi 241 · About the Author · [uncredited] · bg

Behind the Curtain: Selected Fiction of Fitz-James O’Brien, 1853-1860 by Fitz-James O’Brien (University of Delaware Press, May 31, 2011, 978-1-61149-046-6, $143.00, xxxii+269pp, hc, co) [edited by Wayne R. Kime]     Details supplied by Douglas A. Anderson. ix · Preface · Wayne R. Kime · pr xiii · Editorial Note · Wayne R. Kime · ed xv · Introduction · Wayne R. Kime · in 1 · Elegant Tom Dillar · Fitz-James O’Brien (error, actually by Charles F. Briggs) · ss Putnam’s Monthly May 1853, uncredited. 15 · Hard-Up · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Putnam’s Monthly July 1854, uncredited. 39 · Baby Bloom · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1855, uncredited. 53 · The Bohemian · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine July 1855, uncredited. 73 · Duke Humphrey’s Dinner · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine August 1855, uncredited. 87 · The Pot of Tulips [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine November 1855, uncredited. 105 · The Dragon-Fang Possessed by the Conjuror Piou-Lu · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1856, uncredited. 125 · The Mezzo-Matti · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Putnam’s Monthly November 1856, uncredited. 137 · Uncle and Nephew · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1857, uncredited. 155 · The Diamond Lens · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Atlantic Monthly January 1858, uncredited. 177 · The Lost Room · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine September 1858, uncredited. 193 · What Was It? [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1859, uncredited.; subtitled “A Mystery”. 207 · The Wondersmith · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Atlantic Monthly October 1859, uncredited. 237 · Mother of Pearl · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine February 1860, uncredited. 253 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi 261 · Index · [uncredited] · ix 269 · About the Author · [uncredited] · bg

Collected Stories by Fitz-James O’Brien (Albert & Charles Boni, 1925, $2.00, 240pp, hc, co) [edited by Edward J. O’Brien] · Introduction · Edward J. O’Brien · in · The Diamond Lens · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Atlantic Monthly January 1858, uncredited. · The Wondersmith · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Atlantic Monthly October 1859, uncredited. · The Lost Room · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine September 1858, uncredited. · The Pot of Tulips [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine November 1855, uncredited. · The Golden Ingot · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss The Knickerbocker October 1858 · My Wife’s Tempter · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s Weekly December 12 1857, uncredited. · What Was It? [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1859, uncredited. · The Dragon-Fang Possessed by the Conjuror Piou-Lu · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1856, uncredited.

The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O’Brien (Ward & Downey, 1887, hc, co) · The Diamond Lens · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Atlantic Monthly January 1858, uncredited. · The Wondersmith · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Atlantic Monthly October 1859, uncredited. · Tommatoo · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine August 1862, uncredited. · Mother of Pearl · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine February 1860, uncredited. · The Bohemian · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine July 1855, uncredited. · The Lost Room · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine September 1858, uncredited. · The Pot of Tulips [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine November 1855, uncredited. · The Golden Ingot · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss The Knickerbocker October 1858 · My Wife’s Tempter · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s Weekly December 12 1857, uncredited. · What Was It? [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1859, uncredited. · Duke Humphrey’s Dinner · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine August 1855, uncredited. · Milly Dove · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine September 1855, uncredited. · The Dragon-Fang Possessed by the Conjuror Piou-Lu · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1856, uncredited.

The Diamond Lens and Others (1855-1858) by Fitz-James O’Brien (Swan River Press, March 17, 2025, 978-1-78380-052-0, €120.00 for 3 volumes, xlv+237pp, hc, co, cover by Brian Coldrick) [edited by Brian J. Showers & Jim Rockhill]     Volume 2 of the Collected Speculative Works of Fitz-James O’Brien, only available as part of a three-volume set with An Arabian Night-mare and Others and What Was It? and Others, limited to 300 copies, the first 100 of which are embossed and hand-numbered. Details supplied by Mike Ashley. vii · Bohemian Horrors: The Life and Middle Speculative Writings of Fitz-James O’Brien · John P. Irish · in 3 · The Bohemian · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine July 1855, uncredited. 30 · Duke Humphrey’s Dinner · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine August 1855, uncredited. 47 · The Heath · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm New York Evening Post October 19 1855 49 · The Pot of Tulips [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine November 1855, uncredited. 71 · The Dragon-Fang Possessed by the Conjuror Piou-Lu · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1856, uncredited. 96 · The Hasheesh Eater · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Putnam’s Monthly September 1856 113 · A Terrible Night · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine October 1856, uncredited. 122 · What Befell · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm The Home Journal October 18 1856 124 · By the Alders · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm The Home Journal October 25 1856 125 · The Mezzo-Matti · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Putnam’s Monthly November 1856, uncredited. 140 · The Crystal Bell · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1856, uncredited. 151 · A Day Dream · Fitz-James O’Brien · vi Harper’s Weekly February 21 1857, uncredited. 155 · Uncle and Nephew · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1857, uncredited. 181 · Broadway Bedeviled · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Putnam’s Monthly March 1857 190 · The Comet and I · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s Weekly May 23 1857, uncredited. 200 · The Diamond Lens · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Atlantic Monthly January 1858, uncredited. 231 · Sources · [uncredited] · bi 235 · About the Author · [uncredited] · bg 237 · About the Editor · [uncredited] · bg

Fitz-James O’Brien: Selected Literary Journalism, 1852-1860 by Fitz-James O’Brien (Susquehanna University Press, March 31, 2003, 1-57591-070-5, $65.00, 405pp, hc, co) [edited by Wayne R. Kime]     Details supplied by Douglas A. Anderson. 9 · Preface · Wayne R. Kime · pr 15 · Introduction · Wayne R. Kime · in 47 · Contributions to The New York Times 47 · Signed Articles 47 · Literature as a Profession—Difficulties of Writers · Fitz-James O’Brien · ar The New York Times November 13 1852, as by F. J. O’B. 54 · Sixpence Too Little · Fitz-James O’Brien · ar The New York Times April 16 1853 60 · A Raid Among the Soothsayers · Fitz-James O’Brien · ar The New York Times November 23 1853 76 · Ten Minutes with a Tooth · Fitz-James O’Brien · ar The New York Times January 7 1856, as by F. J. O’B. 79 · Reviews 79 · Noctes Ambrosianae · Fitz-James O’Brien · br The New York Times September 29 1854, uncredited. 85 · Emerson. His “English Traits” Considered · Fitz-James O’Brien · br The New York Times October 18 1856 94 · Dred · Fitz-James O’Brien · br The New York Times November 7 1856 103 · Leaves of Grass · Fitz-James O’Brien · br The New York Times November 13 1856 110 · Contributions to Putnam’s Monthly Magazine 110 · Our Young Authors—Mitchell · Fitz-James O’Brien · ar Putnam’s Monthly January 1853 116 · Our Young Authors—Melville · Fitz-James O’Brien · ar Putnam’s Monthly February 1853 126 · The Editor at Large (September 1854) · Fitz-James O’Brien · ed Putnam’s Monthly September 1854 139 · The Editor at Large (October 1854) · Fitz-James O’Brien · ed Putnam’s Monthly October 1854 156 · Our Authors and Authorship. Melville and Curtis · Fitz-James O’Brien · ar Putnam’s Monthly April 1857 173 · Contributions to Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 173 · Bird Gossip · Fitz-James O’Brien · ar Harper’s New Monthly Magazine November 1855, uncredited. 186 · A Trip to Newfoundland · Fitz-James O’Brien · ar Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1855, uncredited. 203 · How to Keep Well · Fitz-James O’Brien · ar Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1856, uncredited. 214 · A Paper of All Sorts · Fitz-James O’Brien · ar Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1858, uncredited. 233 · Contributions to Harper’s Weekly 233 · “The Man About Town” · Fitz-James O’Brien · cl Harper’s Weekly January 31 1857, uncredited. 239 · “The Man About Town” · Fitz-James O’Brien · cl Harper’s Weekly February 21 1857, uncredited. 247 · “The Man About Town” · Fitz-James O’Brien · cl Harper’s Weekly April 18 1857, uncredited. 250 · “The Man About Town” · Fitz-James O’Brien · cl Harper’s Weekly May 9 1857, uncredited. 255 · “The Man About Town” · Fitz-James O’Brien · cl Harper’s Weekly July 4 1857, uncredited. 258 · “The Man About Town” · Fitz-James O’Brien · cl Harper’s Weekly August 29 1857, uncredited. 262 · “The Man About Town” · Fitz-James O’Brien · cl Harper’s Weekly September 19 1857, uncredited. 265 · Contributions to the New York Saturday Press 265 · “Dramatic Feuilleton” · Fitz-James O’Brien · cl New York Saturday Press October 23 1858 272 · “Dramatic Feuilleton” · Fitz-James O’Brien · cl New York Saturday Press November 20 1858 276 · “Dramatic Feuilleton” · Fitz-James O’Brien · cl New York Saturday Press December 4 1858 279 · “Dramatic Feuilleton” · Fitz-James O’Brien · cl New York Saturday Press December 18 1858 285 · “Dramatic Feuilleton” · Fitz-James O’Brien · cl New York Saturday Press January 1 1859 291 · Contributions to Vanity Fair 291 · The Sybarites of the Shop · Fitz-James O’Brien · ar Vanity Fair (US) January 28 1860 294 · Natural History: The Counter-Jumper · Fitz-James O’Brien · ar Vanity Fair (US) February 4 1860 297 · Opening-Day (After Tennyson) · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm Vanity Fair (US) February 18 1860 298 · Counter-Jumps: A Poemettina--After Walt Whitman · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm Vanity Fair (US) March 17 1860 300 · The Counter-Jumper Swell. The Poem of a Very Little Life That Was a Great Deal Too Long · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm Vanity Fair (US) April 21 1860 303 · Notes · [uncredited] · ms 376 · Checklist of Fitz-James O’Brien’s Published Writings, 1852-1864 · [uncredited] · bi 386 · Index · [uncredited] · ix

The Supernatural Tales of Fitz-James O’Brien, Vol. 1: Macabre Tales by Fitz-James O’Brien (Doubleday, March 1988, 0-385-24562-9, $12.95, 157pp, hc, co)     Collection of 11 stories and a poem. Edited with an introduction and notes by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Many of these stories have appeared only in 19th-century newspapers. ix · Fitz-James O’Brien, America’s Extraordinary Bohemian · Jessica Amanda Salmonson · in xxvi · Proem: The Ghosts · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm The Knickerbocker January 1859 1 · The Lost Room · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine September 1858, uncredited. 16 · The Child That Loved a Grave · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine April 1861, uncredited. 20 · The Diamond Lens · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Atlantic Monthly January 1858, uncredited. 41 · The Pot of Tulips [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine November 1855, uncredited. 56 · The Bohemian · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine July 1855, uncredited. 74 · Seeing the World · Fitz-James O’Brien (error, actually by Vladimir Odoevsky) · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine September 1857, uncredited. 83 · What Was It? A Mystery [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1859, uncredited. 95 · The Wondersmith · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Atlantic Monthly October 1859, uncredited. 124 · A Dead Secret · Fitz-James O’Brien (error, actually by George Augustus Sala) · ss Household Words #181, September 10 1853, uncredited. 143 · A Legend of Barlagh Cave · Fitz-James O’Brien · ex from “The Phantom Light”, The Home Companion January 31 1852 (+8) 146 · Jubal, the Ringer · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss The Knickerbocker September 1858

The Supernatural Tales of Fitz-James O’Brien, Vol. 2: Dream Stories and Fantasies by Fitz-James O’Brien (Doubleday, March 1988, 0-385-24649-8, $12.95, 174pp, hc, co)     Collection of 14 stories and a poem. Edited with an introduction and notes by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. ix · Nights of Ambrosia · Jessica Amanda Salmonson · in xv · Envoi: The Enchanted Titan · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1859, uncredited. 3 · A Voyage in My Bed · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss American Whig Review September 1852 12 · A Terrible Night · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine October 1856, uncredited. 18 · A Day Dream · Fitz-James O’Brien · vi Harper’s Weekly February 21 1857, uncredited. 21 · The Other Night · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss American Whig Review December 1852 25 · The Crystal Bell · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1856, uncredited. 33 · How I Overcame My Gravity · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine May 1864, uncredited. 39 · Three of a Trade; or, Red Little Kriss Kringle · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Saturday Press December 25 1858 47 · From Hand to Mouth · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv New York Picayune Newspaper March 27 1858 (+7) 86 · The Wonderful Adventures of Mr. Papplewick · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Lantern March 13 1852 (+5) 105 · The Comet and I · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s Weekly May 23 1857, uncredited. 112 · The Man Without a Shadow: A New Version · Fitz-James O’Brien · vi The Lantern September 4 1852 114 · An Arabian Nightmare · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Household Words #85, November 8 1851, uncredited. 121 · The King of Nodland and His Dwarf · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv American Whig Review December 1852 150 · The Dragon-Fang Possessed by the Conjuror Piou-Lu · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1856, uncredited.