The World’s Best Short Short Stories ed. Roger B. Goodman (Bantam Pathfinder, May 1967, FP172, 50¢, 136pp, pb, an)
- 1 · Preface · Roger B. Goodman · pr (r)
- 3 · A Wedding Without Musicians · Sholom Aleichem · ss (r)
- 9 · Señor Payroll · William E. Barrett · ss Southwest Review Autumn 1943
- 14 · How Light Belief Bringeth Damage · Bidpai · ss (r)
- 16 · A Psychological Shipwreck · Ambrose Bierce · ss The Argonaut May 24 1879, as “My Shipwreck”
- 21 · I See You Never · Ray Bradbury · vi The New Yorker November 8 1947
- 25 · Luck · Samuel Clemens · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine August 1891, as by Mark Twain
- 31 · A Game of Billiards · Alphonse Daudet · ss (r)
translated from the French.
- 36 · The Test · Angelica Gibbs · ss The New Yorker June 15 1940
- 40 · The Disabled Soldier · Oliver Goldsmith · ss The Citizen of the World by Oliver Goldsmith, J. Newberry, 1762
- 46 · Virtuoso · Herbert Goldstone · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1953
- 54 · The Hollow of the Three Hills · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Salem Gazette November 12 1830, uncredited.
- 60 · The Boy Who Drew Cats · Lafcadio Hearn · ss Hasegawa, 1898
- 64 · The Exact Science of Matrimony [Jeff Peters] · O. Henry · ss The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry, McClure, 1908
- 71 · The Wife · Washington Irving · ss The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #1, June 23 1819, as by Geoffrey Crayon
- 80 · If Not Still Higher · Isaac Loeb Perez · ss (r)
- 85 · The Wild Duck’s Nest · Michael McLaverty · ss Adelphi July 1936
- 90 · How the Devil Lost His Poncho · Ricardo Palma · ss (r)
- 94 · The Standard of Living · Dorothy Parker · ss The New Yorker September 20 1941
- 101 · The Oval Portrait · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine April 1842, as “Life in Death”
- 105 · Three Letters… and a Footnote · Horacio Quiroga · ss (r)
- 110 · An Attempt at Reform · August Strindberg · ss (r)
- 114 · The Three Hermits · Leo Tolstoy · ss (r)
- 122 · The Phoenix · Sylvia Townsend Warner · ss The Cat’s Cradle Book by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Viking, 1940
- 127 · The Hour of Letdown · E. B. White · ss The New Yorker December 22 1951
- 133 · How Grandpa Came Into the Money · Elsa Zantner · ss 75 Short Masterpieces ed. Roger Goodman, Bantam Books, 1961
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