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Murder Past, Murder Present ed. R. Barri Flowers & Jan Grape (Twilight Times Books, September 2009, 1-60619-206-X, $19.95, 288pp, tp, oa)
The first American Crime Writers League mystery anthology.

i · Introduction · Jan Burke · in

13 · Murder Past, Murder Present · R. Barri Flowers · ss

35 · For the Love of the Grape · Kris Neri · ss

47 · A Jury of His Peers · Jay Brandon · ss

63 · Dead on the 4th of July · Meg Chittenden · ss

75 · American Notes · Edward Marston · ss

87 · Calamity · Shirley Kennett · ss

103 · Coffee & Conversation · John Lutz · ss

115 · Karma · Candace Robb · ss

125 · Pure Pulp · Bill Crider · ss

141 · Onate’s Foot · Betty Winkelman · ss

153 · A Hint of Mint · Taffy Cannon · ss

163 · Loose Ends · Ed Gorman · ss

171 · He Hated Cats · Pari Noskin Taichert · ss

185 · Mr. Wonderful · Melinda Wells · ss

201 · The Final Nail [Val O’Farrell] · Robert J. Randisi · ss

213 · Zena Bennett & the Angel of Death · Claire McNab · ss

223 · The Exquisite Burden of Bones · Noreen Ayres · ss

233 · Talk to Me · Twist Phelan · ss

245 · Monstrosity · Julie Wray Herman · ss

257 · Murder on Ice · Robert Scott · ss

265 · The Amish Country Market Murder · Valerie Malmont · ss

275 · The Crimes of Miss Abigail Armstrong · Jan Grape · ss

The Brody Bunch by John M. Floyd (Crippen & Landru, December 2025, ph, ss)
Original short story published as a gift for friends of Crippen & Landru.

Quarterback Sneak by John M. Floyd (Crippen & Landru, November 17, 2025, 12pp, ph, ss) [Ray Douglas]
Chapbook included with the hardback edition of River Road and Other Mystery Stories.

The Gift of Murder ed. John M. Floyd (Wolfmont Press, October 2009, 160364010X, $15.00, 268pp, tp, oa)
An anthology of winter holiday crime stories to benefit Toys for Tots.

· The Seven Dollar Clue · J. F. Benedetto · ss

· Red Christmas · Stefanie Lazer · ss

· The Christmas Caper · Stephen D. Rogers · ss

· ’Twas the Night · Anita Page · ss

· Jingle Bell, S.I. · Randy Rawls · ss

· Caught on Christmas Eve · Earl Staggs · ss

· The Gift of the Margi · Peg Herring · ss

· An Unexpected Gift · Deborah Elliot-Upton · ss

· The Werewolf’s Christmas · Bill Crider · ss

· Yule Be Sorry · Carolyn J. Rose · ss

· Death Will Trim Your Tree [Bruce Kohler] · Elizabeth Zelvin · ss

· The Worst Noel · Barb Goffman · ss

· No Place to Spend Christmas · Austin S. Camacho · ss

· Grace on the Case · Sandra Seamans · ss

· One Good Turn · Steve Shrott · ss

· The Kindle Did It · Gail Farrelly · ss

· An Inconvenient Killing · Herschel Cozine · ss

· The Gift of Christmas Past · Kris Neri · ss

· The Spirit of Spadena Street · Marian Allen · ss

Decision at Sundown by Vernon Fluharty--- see under Michael Carder.

Black Cranes ed. Geneve Flynn & Lee Murray (Omnium Gatherum, September 26, 2020, 978-1-949054-27-9, $13.99, 231pp, tp, oa, cover by Greg Chapman)
Details taken from online listing.

9 · Foreword · Alma Katsu · fw

15 · The Genetic Alchemist’s Daughter · Elaine Cuyegkeng · ss

35 · Kapre: A Love Story · Rin Chupeco · ss Philippine Genre Stories May 2011

46 · A Pet Is for Life · Geneve Flynn · ss Behind the Mask ed. Steve Dillon, Things in the Well Publications, 2018

61 · Phoenix Claws · Lee Murray · ss

78 · Of Hunger and Fury · Grace Chan · ss

90 · Skin Dowdy · Angela Yuriko Smith · ss

95 · Truth Is Order and Order Is Truth · Nadia Bulkin · nv Sword & Mythos ed. Silvia Moreno-Garcia & Paula R. Stiles, Innsmouth Free Press, 2014

110 · Rites of Passage · Gabriela Lee · ss

127 · The Ninth Tale · Rena Mason · ss

142 · Vanilla Rice · Angela Yuriko Smith · ss Where the Stars Rise ed. Lucas K. Law & Derwin Mak, Laksa Media, 2017

148 · Fury · Christina Sng · nv

178 · The Mark · Grace Chan · ss Verge 2019: Uncanny ed. Stephen Downes, Calvin Fung & Amaryllis Gacioppo, Monash University Publishing, 2019

188 · Frangipani Wishes · Lee Murray · ss

202 · Little Worm · Geneve Flynn · ss

Tortured Willows ed. Geneve Flynn, Lee Murray, Angela Yuriko Smith & Christina Sng (Yuriko Publishing, October 7, 2021, 978-1-73720-833-4, $19.99, 146pp, tp, oa, cover by Kyra Starr)
Collection of 60 poems by four Southeast Asian women
Details taken from online listing.

· Forward · K. P. Skulski · fw

2 · Willows · Lee Murray · pm

4 · Cheongsam · Lee Murray · pm

6 · Fox Girl · Lee Murray · pm

8 · Filamentous Evolution · Lee Murray · pm

10 · The Girl with the Bellows · Lee Murray · pm

12 · Exquisite · Lee Murray · pm

14 · Beyond Shouting Hill · Lee Murray · pm

16 · Defining Character · Lee Murray · pm

18 · Gold Mountain · Lee Murray · pm

20 · Interview with a Goddess · Lee Murray · pm

24 · At the Bar · Lee Murray · pm

26 · The Economy of the Chinese Woman · Lee Murray · pm

28 · Tiyanak · Lee Murray · pm

30 · Orchid Moon · Lee Murray · pm

32 · Fury · Lee Murray · pm

36 · When the Girls Began to Fall · Geneve Flynn · pm

38 · Abridge · Geneve Flynn · pm

42 · Her Gradual Hero · Geneve Flynn · pm

44 · Guest of Honour · Geneve Flynn · pm

46 · Mouth, and Feet, and Hands, and Eyes · Geneve Flynn · pm

48 · Bride Price · Geneve Flynn · pm

50 · Inheritance · Geneve Flynn · pm

52 · What the Mirror Showed Me · Geneve Flynn · pm

54 · Penanggalan’s Lamant · Geneve Flynn · pm

56 · Stay Down · Geneve Flynn · pm

58 · Rondel for A · Geneve Flynn · pm

60 · A Thing of Beauty: An Ekphrastic Acrostic · Geneve Flynn · pm

62 · Rent-A-Wife · Geneve Flynn · pm

64 · Unpicked Stitching · Geneve Flynn · pm

66 · What You Cannot See · Geneve Flynn · pm

72 · Phoenix · Christina Sng · pm

76 · Conversations with the Dead 1928 · Christina Sng · pm

78 · I Left Too Late · Christina Sng · pm

80 · Willow · Christina Sng · pm

82 · An Interlude with the Boarding House Owner · Christina Sng · pm

84 · Midnight Wake · Christina Sng · pm

86 · Headhunters · Christina Sng · pm

88 · The Last Bus · Christina Sng · pm

90 · Flat · Christina Sng · pm

92 · The Offering · Christina Sng · pm Scifaikuest May 2021

96 · The Visit · Christina Sng · pm

100 · Pontianak · Christina Sng · pm

102 · Conversations with the Dead 2028 · Christina Sng · pm

106 · Requiem · Christina Sng · pm

108 · A Speck of Dust in the Sea · Christina Sng · pm

114 · Four Willows Bound · Angela Yuriko Smith · pm

116 · Onarigami · Angela Yuriko Smith · pm

118 · Her Hajichi · Angela Yuriko Smith · pm

120 · Kajimuna · Angela Yuriko Smith · pm

122 · Kami-Daari · Angela Yuriko Smith · pm

124 · My Kami-Sama · Angela Yuriko Smith · pm

126 · The Nukekubi · Angela Yuriko Smith · pm Savage Planets October 2021

128 · Kayoda House · Angela Yuriko Smith · pm

130 · Inside Chibichiri Gama · Angela Yuriko Smith · pm

132 · Outside Chibichiri Gama · Angela Yuriko Smith · pm

134 · Inujini · Angela Yuriko Smith · pm

136 · (R)evolution · Angela Yuriko Smith · pm

138 · Okinawa San · Angela Yuriko Smith · pm

140 · Dreaming of Shisa · Angela Yuriko Smith · pm

142 · Grandmother Shuffled · Angela Yuriko Smith · pm

The Deadly Boodle by J. M. Flynn (Ace Double, September 1958, D-313, 35¢, 109pp, pb, n.)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with Design for Dying by Samuel Krasney.

Deep Six by J. M. Flynn (Ace Double, December 1961, F-125, 40¢, 107pp, pb, n.)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with The Widow Maker by Frank Diamond.

Drink with the Dead by J. M. Flynn (Ace Double, August 1959, D-379, 35¢, 136pp, pb, n.)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with Mistress of Horror House by William Woody.

The Girl from Las Vegas by J. M. Flynn (Ace Double, September 1961, F-111, 40¢, 111pp, pb, n.)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with To Have and to Kill by Robert Martin.

The Hot Chariot by J. M. Flynn (Ace Double, July 1960, D-447, 35¢, 144pp, pb, n., cover by Robert Maguire)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with Kiss the Babe Goodbye by Bob McKnight.

One for the Death House by J. M. Flynn (Ace Double, May 1961, D-511, 35¢, 141pp, pb, n.)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with Drop Dead, Please by Bob McKnight.

Ring Around a Rogue by J. M. Flynn (Ace Double, September 1960, D-459, 35¢, 134pp, pb, n.)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with The Hot Diary by Howard J. Olmsted.

The Screaming Cargo by J. M. Flynn (Ace Double, February 1962, F-130, 40¢, 105pp, pb, n.)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with The Bullet-Proof Martyr by James A. Howard.

Terror Tournament by J. M. Flynn (Mystery House, 1959, $2.75, 220pp, hc, n.)

Terror Tournament by J. M. Flynn (Ace Double, December 1959, D-409, 35¢, 140pp, pb, n.)
Reprint (Mystery House 1959) mystery novel. Abridged. Bound in the tête-bêche style with Cargo for the Styx by Louis Trimble.

The Nanotech Chronicles by Michael Flynn (Baen, September 1991, 0-671-72080-5, $4.95, 339pp, pb, co, cover by Gary Ruddell)
Collection of six interconnected stories that appeared previously, mainly in Analog.

1 · Prelude · Michael F. Flynn · pr

5 · Soul of the City [Nanotech Chronicles] · Michael F. Flynn · ss Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact February 1989

21 · The Washer at the Ford [Nanotech Chronicles] · Michael F. Flynn · n. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact June 1989 (+1)

171 · Remember’d Kisses [Nanotech Chronicles] · Michael F. Flynn · nv Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact December 1988

215 · The Laughing Clone [Nanotech Chronicles] · Michael F. Flynn · na Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact October 1988, as “The Adventure of the Laughing Clone”

295 · The Blood Upon the Rose [Nanotech Chronicles] · Michael F. Flynn · ss Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact February 1991

331 · Werehouse [Nanotech Chronicles] · Michael F. Flynn · nv New Destinies, Vol. IX ed. Jim Baen, Baen, 1990

Abbey of the Damned by T. T. Flynn (Popular Publications, November 28, 2025, 978-1-61827-858-6, $24.95, 256pp, tp, co, cover from Detective Fiction Weekly April 4 1936) [Trixie Meehan & Mike Harris]
A hardcover edition ($39.95) was announced but not seen. Volume three in “The Complete Cases of Mike and Trixie”. Volume 172 in “The Argosy Library”.
Details taken from publisher website.

· Barred Doors [Trixie Meehan & Mike Harris] · T. T. Flynn · na Detective Fiction Weekly May 18 1935

· Nitro! Nitro! [Trixie Meehan & Mike Harris] · T. T. Flynn · na Detective Fiction Weekly April 4 1936

· The Letters and the Law [Trixie Meehan & Mike Harris] · T. T. Flynn · na Detective Fiction Weekly June 27 1936

The Complete Cases of Mr. Maddox, Volume 1 by T. T. Flynn (Altus Press, April 8, 2014, 978-1-61827-139-6, $29.95, 364pp, tp, co) [Joe Maddox]
Details taken from Table of Contents.

i · T.T. Flynn: Dime Detective’s Mainstay · Ed Hulse · in

1 · Dead Man’s Debt [Joe Maddox] · T. T. Flynn · nv Dime Detective Magazine February 1938

57 · Mr. Maddox and the Gray Ghost [Joe Maddox] · T. T. Flynn · nv Dime Detective Magazine July 1938

105 · Death Rides the Favorite [Joe Maddox] · T. T. Flynn · na Dime Detective Magazine October 1938

163 · The Devil’s Derby [Joe Maddox] · T. T. Flynn · na Dime Detective Magazine April 1939

229 · Saratoga Slay-Ride [Joe Maddox] · T. T. Flynn · na Dime Detective Magazine September 1939

293 · Blood on the Book [Joe Maddox] · T. T. Flynn · na Dime Detective Magazine January 1940

The Complete Cases of Mr. Maddox, Volume 2 by T. T. Flynn (Altus Press, November 19, 2015, 978-1-61827-204-1, $19.95, 274pp, tp, co) [Joe Maddox]
Details taken from Table of Contents.

1 · Kentucky Kickback [Joe Maddox] · T. T. Flynn · na Dime Detective Magazine May 1940

67 · The Bookie and the Blonde [Joe Maddox] · T. T. Flynn · na Dime Detective Magazine July 1940

131 · Blood on the Blue-Grass [Joe Maddox] · T. T. Flynn · na Dime Detective Magazine November 1940

197 · Trot Out Your Murder! [Joe Maddox] · T. T. Flynn · na Dime Detective Magazine April 1941

The Complete Cases of Mr. Maddox, Volume 3 by T. T. Flynn (Popular Publications, November 30, 2024, 978-1-61827-816-6, $34.95, 380pp, tp, co, cover by Rafael De Soto) [Joe Maddox]
Details taken from publisher website.

· Introduction · Bob Byrne · in

· Post-Mortem at Pimlico [Joe Maddox] · T. T. Flynn · na Dime Detective Magazine August 1941

· The Devil in the Horse Van [Joe Maddox] · T. T. Flynn · na Dime Detective Magazine December 1941

· Happy Murder to You! [Joe Maddox] · T. T. Flynn · nv Dime Detective Magazine April 1942

· Tijuana Kill-Trap [Joe Maddox] · T. T. Flynn · nv Dime Detective Magazine August 1942

The Complete Cases of the Prince of Thieves by T. T. Flynn (Popular Publications, November 25, 2023, 978-1-61827-746-6, $29.95, 330pp, tp, co) [Jerry Prince (Prince of Thieves)]
Details taken from publisher website.

· The House of Vanishing Men [Jerry Prince (Prince of Thieves)] · T. T. Flynn · na Dime Detective Magazine May 1 1933

· Red Dollars [Jerry Prince (Prince of Thieves)] · T. T. Flynn · nv Dime Detective Magazine December 1 1933

· The Golden Cipher [Jerry Prince (Prince of Thieves)] · T. T. Flynn · nv Dime Detective Magazine September 15 1934

· House of Dread [Jerry Prince (Prince of Thieves)] · T. T. Flynn · nv Dime Detective Magazine February 15 1935

The Complete Cases of Val Easton by T. T. Flynn (Steeger Books, November 27, 2020, 978-1-61827-560-8, $29.95, 444pp, tp, co) [Val Easton]
Details taken from Table of Contents.

1 · The Black Doctor [Val Easton] · T. T. Flynn · nv Dime Detective Magazine December 1932

92 · Torture Tavern [Val Easton] · T. T. Flynn · nv Dime Detective Magazine July 15 1933

189 · The Jade Joss [Val Easton] · T. T. Flynn · nv Dime Detective Magazine November 15 1933

279 · The Evil Brand [Val Easton] · T. T. Flynn · nv Dime Detective Magazine November 15 1934

369 · The Dragons of Chang Ch’ien [Val Easton] · T. T. Flynn · nv Dime Detective Magazine April 15 1935

Murder’s Masquerade by T. T. Flynn (Popular Publications, November 29, 2021, 978-1-61827-608-7, $29.95, 280pp, tp, co) [Trixie Meehan & Mike Harris]
Volume 108 in “The Argosy Library”. Volume one in “The Complete Cases of Mike & Trixie”.
Details taken from publisher website.

· The Deadly Orchid [Trixie Meehan & Mike Harris] · T. T. Flynn · ss Detective Fiction Weekly April 15 1933

· Death Takes Passage · T. T. Flynn · nv Detective Fiction Weekly July 22 1933

· Falling Death [Trixie Meehan & Mike Harris] · T. T. Flynn · nv Detective Fiction Weekly October 28 1933

· Murder’s Masquerade [Trixie Meehan & Mike Harris] · T. T. Flynn · nv Detective Fiction Weekly March 31 1934

The Yin Shee Dragon by T. T. Flynn (Popular Publications, November 26, 2023, 978-1-61827-759-6, $24.95, 266pp, tp, co) [Trixie Meehan & Mike Harris]
Volume 143 in “The Argosy Library”. Volume two in “The Complete Cases of Mike & Trixie”.
Details taken from publisher website.

· The Yin Shee Dragon [Trixie Meehan & Mike Harris] · T. T. Flynn · na Detective Fiction Weekly September 29 1934

· Murder Harbor [Trixie Meehan & Mike Harris] · T. T. Flynn · nv Detective Fiction Weekly December 1 1934

· The City Hall Murders [Trixie Meehan & Mike Harris] · T. T. Flynn · na Detective Fiction Weekly March 23 1935

The Best American Short Stories 1942 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1942, hc, an)
Details supplied by Denny Lien.

1 · Biceps · Nelson Algren · ss The Southern Review Spring 1941

19 · The Valet of the Splendide · Ludwig Bemelmans · ss The New Yorker October 25 1941

28 · 5135 Kensington: August, 1903 · Sally Benson · ss The New Yorker August 23 1941

41 · Nothing Ever Breaks Except the Heart · Kay Boyle · ss The New Yorker October 4 1941

50 · For Each of Us · Jack Y. Bryan · ss American Prefaces Spring 1941

67 · The Portable Phonograph · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review Spring 1941

75 · That Frozen Hour · David Cornel De Jong · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2755, September 1 1941

93 · Prairies · Boyce Eakin · ss The New Mexico Quarterly Review August 1941

105 · Tell Him I Waited · Morton Fineman · ss Story #93, November/December 1941

116 · A Loaf of Bread · Robert Gibbons · ss The New Republic December 8 1941

129 · Those Are As Brothers · Nancy Hale · ss Mademoiselle May 1941

141 · That Greek Dog · MacKinlay Kantor · ss The Saturday Evening Post August 9 1941

156 · Sam Small’s Better Half [Sam Small] · Eric Knight · ss Maclean’s June 1 1940

174 · Death of a Country Doctor · Mary Medearis · nv Story #87, January/February 1941

201 · Caput Mortuum · Edita Morris · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2752, June 1941

210 · My Friend Flicka [Ken McLaughlin & Flicka] · Mary O’Hara · nv Story #87, January/February 1941

231 · The Green Village · Margaret Rhodes Peattie · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 31 1941

245 · The Hummingbird That Lived Through Winter · William Saroyan · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2752, June 1941

250 · Sacrificce of Isaac · Michael Seide · ss American Prefaces Summer 1941

259 · The Real Viennese Schmaltz · Budd Wilson Schulberg · ss Esquire September 1941

269 · Search Through the Streets of the City · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker August 2 1941

279 · In the Twilight · Wallace Stegner · ss Mademoiselle November 1941

291 · How Edith McGillcuddy Met R.L. Stevenson · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1941

303 · The Storm · Jesse Stuart · ss The Household Magazine 1941

313 · The Fancy Woman · Peter Taylor · nv The Southern Review Summer 1941

343 · My Pigeon Pair · Dorothy Thomas · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1941

355 · You Could Look It Up · James Thurber · ss The Saturday Evening Post April 5 1941

372 · The Bees · Joan Vatsek · ss Story #88, March/April 1941

385 · At Sallygap · Mary Lavin · nv The Atlantic Monthly October 1941

401 · Hunger · Marjorie Worthington · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2755, September 1 1941

The Best American Short Stories 1943 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1943, 428pp, hc, an)
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1 · This Healthy Life · Vicki Baum · ss Story #97, September/October 1942

10 · Boundary Line · Warren Beck · ss Rocky Mountain Review Winter 1942

23 · Frenchman’s Ship · Kay Boyle · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 21 1942

41 · The Pleasures of Solitude · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker January 24 1942

47 · The Dream of Angelo Zara · Guido D’Agostino · ss Story #97, September/October 1942

56 · Samuel Blane · Murray Dyer · ss Harper’s Magazine September 1942

70 · The Bear · William Faulkner · na The Saturday Evening Post May 9 1942

87 · Beginning of Wisdom · Rachel Field · ss The American Magazine March 1942

105 · A Partnership with Death · Vardis Fisher · ss Rocky Mountain Review Spring 1942 - Summer 1942

115 · What Do You See, Dear Enid? · Grace Flandrau · ss The New Yorker September 26 1942

122 · Time’s End · Robert Gibbons · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1942

135 · Threnody for Stelios · Peter Gray · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Winter 1942

144 · Who Lived and Died Believing · Nancy Hale · nv Harper’s Bazaar September 1942

166 · The Peach Stone · Paul Horgan · nv The Yale Review Summer 1942

187 · The Enchanted · Laurette MacDuffie Knight · nv Story #94, March/April 1942

218 · The Little Black Boys · Clara Laidlaw · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1942

232 · Love Is for Lovers · Mary Lavin · nv Harper’s Bazaar January 1942

256 · Young Man in an Astrakhan Cap · Edita Morris · ss Harper’s Bazaar December 1942

271 · Knife-Like, Flower-Like, Like Nothing at All in the World · William Saroyan · ss Harper’s Bazaar July 1942

279 · An Argument in 1934 · Delmore Schwartz · ss The Kenyon Review Winter 1942

292 · Preach on the Dusty Roads · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker August 22 1942

301 · My Public · Margaret Shedd · ss Harper’s Bazaar September 1942

310 · Chip Off the Old Block · Wallace Stegner · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Autumn 1942

327 · Death and My Uncle Felix · Alison Stuart · ss Mademoiselle October 1942

337 · Dawn of Remembered Spring · Jesse Stuart · ss Harper’s Bazaar June 1942

345 · The Women · Richard Sullivan · ss Accent Autumn 1942

360 · The Catbird Seat · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker November 14 1942

370 · Homecoming · Jessie Treichler · nv The Antioch Review Summer 1942

391 · Philadelphia Express · Jerome Weidman · ss The New Yorker October 10 1942

400 · Asphodel · Eudora Welty · ss The Yale Review Autumn 1942

The Best American Short Stories 1944 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1944, hc, an)
Details supplied by Denny Lien.

1 · The White Boat · Sidney Alexander · ss Accent Summer 1943

17 · Señor Payroll · William E. Barrett · ss Southwest Review Autumn 1943

21 · Notes of a Dangling Man · Saul Bellow · ss Partisan Review September/October 1943

41 · The Knot Hole · Dorothy Canfield · nv The Yale Review Spring 1943

62 · Like a Field Mouse Over the Heart · Elizabeth Eastman · ss Harper’s Bazaar August 1943

81 · The Good Days and the Bad · Helen Eustis · ss Story #104, November/December 1943

101 · The Fishermen of Patzcuaro · William Fifield · ss Story #99, January/February 1943

117 · Strike up a Stirring Music · Berry Fleming · ss The Yale Review Summer 1943

125 · More Like a Coffin · Hazel Hawthorne · vi The New Yorker June 26 1943

128 · A Local Skirmish · Noel Houston · ss The New Yorker September 11 1943

135 · Come Dance with Me in Ireland · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker May 15 1943

141 · The Rented Room · Josephine W. Johnson · nv Harper’s Bazaar June 1943

164 · The Mohammedans · H. J. Kaplan · nv Partisan Review May/June 1943

190 · The S.S. Libertad · Eyre de Lanux · ss Tomorrow August 1943

197 · The Female of the Fruit Fly · William March · ss Mademoiselle May 1943

205 · The Ballad of the Sad Café · Carson McCullers · na Harper’s Bazaar August 1943

265 · Shoe the Horse and Shoe the Mare · Astrid Meighan · ss The New Yorker January 2 1943

273 · Exiles from the Creuse · Mary Mian · ss The New Yorker December 25 1943

280 · Heart of Marzipan · Edita Morris · ss Mademoiselle October 1943

285 · “That in Aleppo Once…” · Vladimir Nabokov · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1943

295 · Neither Here nor There · Ruth Portugal · ss Harper’s Bazaar September 1943

309 · Lions, Harts, Leaping Does · J. F. Powers · nv Accent Autumn 1943

332 · All Souls’ · Gladys Schmitt · ss Collier’s November 6 1943

345 · The Veterans Reflect · Irwin Shaw · ss Accent Winter 1943

358 · A Return · George Stiles · ss The Kenyon Review Winter 1943

378 · My Russian Cap · Leon Z. Surmelian · ss The New Mexico Quarterly Review Summer 1943

385 · Of This Time, of That Place · Lionel Trilling · nv Partisan Review January/February 1943

423 · An Afternoon · Elizabeth Warner · ss The New Yorker July 31 1943

430 · The Illumination · Jessamyn West · ss Harper’s Bazaar October 1943

443 · God’s Agents Have Beards · Emmanuel Winters · ss Harper’s Bazaar August 1943

The Best American Short Stories 1945 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1945, hc, an)
Details supplied by Denny Lien.

1 · How the Devil Came Down Division Street · Nelson Algren · ss Harper’s Bazaar May 1944

8 · The First Fish · Warren Beck · ss Story #106, March/April 1944

19 · Crime Passionnel · Louis Bromfield · ss The New Yorker March 25 1944

30 · My Brother Osong’s Career in Politics · Carlos Bulosan · ss The New Yorker July 22 1944

38 · Harvest · Mary Deasy · ss The American Mercury November 1944

49 · Burial in the Desert · Edward Fenton · ss Harper’s Bazaar October 1944

64 · The Light of Morning · Morton Fineman · ss Mademoiselle January 1944

71 · Understand What I Mean? · Bill Gerry · ss The Yale Review Autumn 1944

82 · The Test · Brendan Gill · ss Good Housekeeping June 1944

90 · Be Heavy · Richard Hagopian · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1944

99 · It Never Happened · Emily Hahn · ss The New Yorker June 24 1944

109 · The Czech Dog · W. G. Hardy · ss Tomorrow December 1944

115 · Fever Flower · Josephine Johnson · ss Harper’s Bazaar March 1944

123 · Poor Everybody · Robert McLaughlin · ss The New Yorker August 26 1944

133 · Don’t Scrub Off These Names · John McNulty · ss The New Yorker September 16 1944

143 · The Animals’ Fair · Warren Miller · ss Harper’s Bazaar February 1944

154 · Papa, Mama and Economics · George Panetta · ss Mademoiselle January 1944

164 · On the Way to Somewhere Else · Joseph Stanley Pennell · ss Harper’s Bazaar 1944

170 · Call a Solemn Assembly · Ruth Portugal · ss Harper’s Bazaar August 1944

180 · The Owl That Kept Winking · Theodore Pratt · ss Esquire June 1944

188 · The Hand That Fed Me · Isaac Rosenfeld · ss Partisan Review Winter 1944

205 · A War Marriage · Donna Rowell · ss Story #109, September/October 1944

222 · The Mourners · Gladys Schmitt · ss Harper’s Bazaar 1944

238 · Gunners’ Passage · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker July 22 1944

257 · The Wedding: Beacon Hill · Jean Stafford · ss Harper’s Bazaar August 1944

272 · Alabama Sketches · Ruby Pickens Tartt · ss Southwest Review 1944

283 · Rain in the Heart · Peter Taylor · ss The Sewanee Review Winter 1945

303 · Cass Mastern’s Wedding Ring · Robert Penn Warren · nv Partisan Review Fall 1944

344 · First Day Finish · Jessamyn West · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1944

356 · This Is a Love Story · Leane Zugsmith · ss The New Yorker January 22 1944

362 · A Ship to Tarshish · William Zukerman · ss Prairie Schooner Summer 1944

The Best American Short Stories 1946 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1946, hc, an)
Details supplied by Denny Lien.

1 · Jerry · Charles Angoff · ss Prairie Schooner Spring 1945

13 · Out of Line · Warren Beck · ss The Yale Review Autumn 1945

26 · The Lovers · John Berryman · ss The Kenyon Review Winter 1945

40 · The Big Black and White Game · Ray Bradbury · ss The American Mercury August 1945

56 · Bury Your Own Dead · Bessie Breuer · ss Harper’s Bazaar February 1945

74 · The Valley of the Shadow · T. K. Brown, III · ss Esquire July 1945

87 · The Ivory Tower · W. R. Burnett · nv Good Housekeeping March 1945

110 · The Wind and the Snow of Winter · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review Winter 1945

128 · Flesh and Blood · Laurence Critchell · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1945

147 · A Sense of Danger · Mary Deasy · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1945

165 · In a Military Manner · Samuel Elkin · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1945

184 · The Norm · Elaine Gottlieb · ss The Kenyon Review Spring 1945

203 · The Mysteries of Eleusis · Elizabeth Hardwick · ss Partisan Review Spring 1945

214 · Story Without End · Josephine W. Johnson · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Spring 1945

224 · Old Bill Bent to Drink · Ben Hur Lampman · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1945

243 · The Caller · Meyer Liben · ss Accent Spring 1945

255 · Run, Run, Run, Run · A. J. Liebling · nv The New Yorker September 29 1945

277 · The Owl and the Bens · W. O. Mitchell · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1945

292 · Time and Ebb · Vladimir Nabokov · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1945

302 · Like a Winding Sheet · Ann Petry · ss The Crisis November 1945

316 · For a Beautiful Relationship · Wentzle Ruml, III · nv The Kenyon Review Spring 1945

337 · The King’s Daughter · Gladys Schmitt · ss Story #116, November/December 1945

355 · The Bridge · Irwin Stark · nv The Antioch Review Summer 1945

400 · The Woman Who Was Loved · James Stern · ss Harper’s Bazaar January 1945

419 · Mrs. Razor · James Still · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1945

425 · The Scout Master · Peter Taylor · nv Partisan Review Summer 1945

464 · The Other Margaret · Lionel Trilling · nv Partisan Review Fall 1945

497 · Love Affair · Henrietta Weigel · nv The Kenyon Review Winter 1945

525 · The Singing Lesson · Jessamyn West · ss Harper’s Magazine January 1945

540 · Death in a Cathedral · Glennyth Woods · ss Twice a Year 1945

The Best American Short Stories 1947 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1947, hc, an)
Details supplied by Denny Lien.

1 · Return by Faith · Francis L. Broderick · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1946

17 · Sex Education · Dorothy Canfield · ss The Yale Review Winter 1946

31 · The Headless Hawk · Truman Capote · nv Harper’s Bazaar November 1946

56 · Day of Gold and Darkness · Robert Fontaine · ss The Yale Review Spring 1946

62 · The Man in the Mirror · Adelaide Gerstley · ss Story #122, November/December 1946

76 · The Cocoon · John B. L. Goodwin · ss Story #121, September/October 1946

95 · Bird Song · John Mayo Goss · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1946

114 · The Horse Like September · Paul Griffith · ss Tomorrow October 1946

125 · Turista · Albert J. Guérard · ss Story #117, January/February 1946

141 · The Golden Stallion · Elizabeth Hardwick · nv The Sewanee Review Winter 1946

171 · Up the Road a Piece · Ruth McCoy Harris · ss The Antioch Review Winter 1946

189 · Night Watch · Thomas Heggen · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1946

208 · Under the Ginko Trees · Edward Harris Heth · ss Town & Country February 1946

221 · Michael Finney and the Little Men · John Richard Humphreys · ss Cosmopolitan August 1946

238 · Down in the Reeds by the River · Victoria Lincoln · ss The New Yorker September 28 1946

251 · Little Baseball World · Robert Lowry · ss Mademoiselle September 1946

269 · Father Delacroix · May Davies Martenet · ss Quarterly Review of Literature v3 #2, 1946

282 · The Darkness · Jane Mayhall · ss Quarterly Review of Literature v3 #1, 1946

293 · Prince of Darkness · J. F. Powers · nv Accent Winter 1946

336 · The Greatest Idea in the World · Samson Raphaelson · ss Good Housekeeping November 1946

350 · What We Don’t Know Hurts Us · Mark Schorer · ss Harper’s Bazaar August 1946

366 · Game Chickens · Allan Seager · ss Foreground Spring 1946 - Summer 1946

382 · Act of Faith · Irwin Shaw · nv The New Yorker February 2 1946

401 · The Red Dress · Sylvia Shirley · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1946

416 · The Interior Castle · Jean Stafford · ss Partisan Review November/December 1946

433 · Shock Treatment · Irwin Stark · ss Commentary August 1946

440 · The Women on the Wall · Wallace Stegner · nv Harper’s Magazine April 1946

461 · The Siege · Niccolò Tucci · ss Harper’s Magazine February 1946

476 · Bread and Games · John D. Weaver · ss Harper’s Magazine November 1946

490 · The Hidden Room · Lawrence Williams · ss Cosmopolitan November 1946

The Best American Short Stories 1948 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1948, 370pp, hc, an)

vii · Foreword · Martha Foley · fw

1 · Part of the Act · Sidney Alexander · ss Story #123, January/February 1947

20 · A Distant Episode · Paul Bowles · ss Partisan Review January/February 1947

32 · I See You Never · Ray Bradbury · vi The New Yorker November 8 1947

36 · The Apprentice · Dorothy Canfield · ss Ladies’ Home Journal April 1947, as “The Once and for All”

46 · The Enormous Radio · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker May 17 1947

57 · That’s My Johnny-Boy · George R. Clay · ss Tomorrow July 1947

73 · Visitor from Philadelphia · John Bell Clayton · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1947

78 · A Letter to Mr. Priest · Margaret Cousins · ss Good Housekeeping November 1947

93 · The Hollow Heart · M. F. K. Fisher · ss ’47—The Magazine of the Year November 1947

99 · “Fly, Fly, Little Dove” · Philip Garrigan · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1947

106 · Miami-New York · Martha Gellhorn · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1947

124 · Sparrow’s Last Jump · Elliott Grennard · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1947

139 · The Human Fly · Ralph Gustafson · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1947

148 · Why Were You Sent Out Here? · John Hersey · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1947

157 · The Dawn Swings In · Lance Jeffers · ss Mainstream 1947

172 · Morning, a Week Before the Crime · Victoria Lincoln · ss Cosmopolitan May 1947

189 · The Terror in the Streets · Robert Lowry · ss Mademoiselle June 1947

200 · The Burden · John A. Lynch · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1947

213 · The Search · Vincent McHugh · ss ’47—The Magazine of the Year July 1947

222 · The Professor and the Puli · Robert Morse · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1947

236 · The Stupendous Fortune · Ruth Portugal · ss Good Housekeeping January 1947

249 · That’s the Man! · Mary Brinker Post · ss Today’s Woman February 1947

266 · Carmencita · Waverley Root · ss ’47—The Magazine of the Year December 1947

274 · The Tragedy in Jancie Brierman’s Life · Dolph Sharp · ss Story #124, March/April 1947

294 · Beyond the Glass Mountain · Wallace Stegner · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1947

305 · The Plan · Sidney Sulkin · ss The Kenyon Review Summer 1947

321 · The Whole World Knows · Eudora Welty · ss Harper’s Bazaar March 1947

341 · The Second Tree from the Corner · E. B. White · ss The New Yorker May 31 1947

347 · Biographical Notices · [uncredited] · bg

353 · The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1947 · [uncredited] · bi

The Best American Short Stories 1949 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1949, hc, an)
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1 · Mighty, Mighty Pretty · George Albee · nv Story #129, Summer 1948

19 · The Vacation · Livingston Biddle, Jr. · ss Cosmopolitan June 1948

39 · The Farmer’s Children · Elizabeth Bishop · ss Harper’s Bazaar February 1948

48 · Under the Sky · Paul Bowles · ss Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art #89, June 1947

55 · My Father and the Circus · Frank Brookhouser · ss The University of Kansas City Review Autumn 1948

60 · Exodus · Borden Deal · ss Tomorrow May 1948

72 · Small Miracle · Adele Dolokhov · ss Today’s Woman November 1948

81 · The White Hound · Ward Dorrance · ss The Hudson Review Summer 1948

94 · Li Chang’s Million · Henry Gregor Felsen · ss Woman’s Day November 1948

100 · Departure of Hubbard · Robert Gibbons · ss Tomorrow May 1948

106 · In the Flow of Time · Beatrice Griffith · ss Common Ground Autumn 1948

117 · Evenings at Home · Elizabeth Hardwick · ss Partisan Review April 1948

127 · Castle of Snow · Joseph Heller · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1948

135 · A Sound in the Night · Ruth Herschberger · ss Harper’s Bazaar April 1948

149 · Jerry · Laura Hunter · ss Mademoiselle August 1948

157 · Of the River and Uncle Pidcock · Jim Kjelgaard · ss Adventure November 1948

166 · Footnote to American History · Roderick Lull · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Spring 1948

179 · The Vault · T. D. Mabry · ss The Kenyon Review Winter 1948

193 · Vacia · Agnes Macdonald · ss Accent Autumn 1948

205 · The Men · Jane Mayhall · ss Perspective Summer 1948

212 · The Heifer · Patrick Morgan · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1948

219 · All Prisoners Here · Irving Pfeffer · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1948

238 · Episode of a House Remembered · John Rogers · ss Wake Spring 1948

248 · A Girl I Knew · J. D. Salinger · ss Good Housekeeping February 1948

261 · Justice Has No Number [Bastia] · Alfredo Segre · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #53, April 1948

285 · An Island for My Friends · Madelon Shapiro · ss Bard Review May 1948

295 · Children Are Bored on Sunday · Jean Stafford · ss The New Yorker February 21 1948

305 · Road to the Isles · Jessamyn West · ss The New Yorker February 21 1948

The Best American Short Stories 1950 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1950, hc, an)
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1 · Where Did Yesterday Go? · Charles Angoff · ss The University of Kansas City Review Summer 1949

5 · Shadow of Evil · James Aswell · nv Today’s Woman #121, November 1949

33 · Wild Flower · Sanora Babb · ss The Kansas Magazine 1949

42 · Edge of Doom · Warren Beck · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Spring 1949

59 · A Sermon by Doctor Pep · Saul Bellow · ss Partisan Review May 1949

67 · Death Under the Hawthornes · Peggy Bennett · ss Harper’s Bazaar October 1949

80 · Pastor Dowe at Tacaté · Paul Bowles · nv Mademoiselle February 1949

102 · Jishin · Robert Christopher · ss The Yale Review Autumn 1949

109 · The NRACP · George P. Elliott · nv The Hudson Review Autumn 1949

143 · The Fear of Innocence · Leslie A. Fiedler · na Partisan Review August 1949

191 · The Pigeon · Ralph Gustafson · ss Northern Review October 1949 - November 1949

201 · The Mouse · Marianne Hauser · ss The Tiger’s Eye June 8 1949

215 · The Author · Josephine W. Johnson · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 1949

234 · The Artist · Ralph Kaplan · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1949

250 · “Hail Brother and Farewell” · Sylvan Karchmer · ss Epoch Winter 1949

259 · Comes a Day · Speed Lamkin · ss Mademoiselle September 1949

274 · The Glass Wall · Victoria Lincoln · nv Good Housekeeping February 1949

301 · The World Outside · Howard Maier · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1949

308 · The Cape · Esther McCoy · ss Harper’s Bazaar October 1949

317 · My Brother’s Second Funeral · Edward Newhouse · ss The New Yorker October 8 1949

328 · Take Her Up Tenderly · Hoke Norris · ss Prairie Schooner Winter 1949

337 · Bright and Morning · Glidden Parker · ss The Kenyon Review Winter 1949

349 · The Old Acrobat and the Ruined City · Clay Putman · ss Tomorrow December 1949

364 · Not with Our Fathers · Abraham Rothberg · ss The University of Kansas City Review Winter 1949

378 · The Promise · Ramona Stewart · ss The American Mercury June 1949

390 · A Master Time · James Still · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1949

399 · The Hired Man · Joan Strong · ss American Letters February 1949

407 · A Wife of Nashville · Peter Taylor · nv The New Yorker December 3 1949

The Best American Short Stories 1951 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1951, hc, an)
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1 · Flight Through the Dark · Roger Angell · ss The New Yorker December 9 1950

10 · Inland, Western Sea · Nathan Asch · ss The New Yorker April 29 1950

24 · A Fugitive from the Mind · Peggy Bennett · ss Mademoiselle November 1950

37 · The End of the Depression · Mary Bolté · ss Harper’s Bazaar September 1950

45 · In Greenwich, There Are Many Gravelled Walks · Hortense Calisher · ss The New Yorker August 12 1950

60 · Sense of Direction · Leonard Casper · ss Southwest Review Summer 1950

73 · Larchmoor Is Not the World · R. V. Cassill · ss Furioso Winter 1950

89 · The Season of Divorce · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker March 4 1950

100 · The Hunters · Harris Downey · ss Epoch Summer 1950

115 · The Temperate Zone · Elizabeth Enright · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Autumn 1950

121 · The Kingdom of Gordon · J. Carol Goodman · ss Mademoiselle August 1950

128 · The Value of the Dollar · Ethel Edison Gordon · ss Charm October 1950

139 · Her Breath Upon the Windowpane · William Goyen · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1950

144 · The Summer People · Shirley Jackson · ss Charm September 1950

157 · The Mother’s Story · Josephine W. Johnson · ss Good Housekeeping February 1950

168 · Fru Holm · Ilona Karmel · ss Mademoiselle August 1950

187 · Old Century’s River · Oliver La Farge · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1950

201 · Old Turkey Neck · George Lanning · ss Tomorrow May 1950

210 · Portrait · Ethel G. Lewis · ss Epoch Winter 1950

218 · The Glass House · Dorothy Livesay · ss Northern Review June 1950 - July 1950

228 · The Wishbone · Robie Macauley · nv The Sewanee Review Summer 1950

253 · The Prison · Bernard Malamud · ss Commentary September 1950

259 · The Butcherbirds · Esther Patt · ss The American Mercury November 1950

268 · Death of a Favorite · J. F. Powers · ss The New Yorker July 1 1950

286 · The Tabby Cat · Paul Rader · ss Quarto Spring 1950

295 · The Nemesis · Jean Stafford · ss The New Yorker December 16 1950

312 · The Last of the Grizzly Bears · Ray B. West, Jr. · nv Epoch Fall 1950

338 · The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin · Tennessee Williams · ss Flair February 1950

The Best American Short Stories 1952 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1952, hc, an)
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1 · That Lovely Green Boat · Bill Berge · ss Furioso Fall 1951

18 · The Other River · Robert O. Bowen · ss The Western Review Summer 1951

31 · The Lost · Kay Boyle · ss Tomorrow March 1951

49 · The Other Foot · Ray Bradbury · ss New-Story #1, March 1951

61 · A Wreath for Miss Totten · Hortense Calisher · ss Mademoiselle July 1951

71 · The Unborn Ghosts · Nancy Cardozo · ss The New Yorker June 30 1951

86 · The Climate of the Family · Nancy G. Chaikin · ss Mademoiselle January 1951

97 · Wood Smoke · Ann Chidester · ss Harper’s Bazaar June 1951

108 · The Motion of Forgetfulness Is Slow · Charles Edward Eaton · ss Epoch Summer 1951

118 · The Children of Ruth · George P. Elliott · nv The Hudson Review Winter 1951

148 · The First Face · Elizabeth Enright · vi The New Yorker December 15 1951

151 · The Conversion of Willie Heaps · Hugh Garner · ss Northern Review February 1951 - March 1951

160 · Weekend at Grimsby · Martha Gellhorn · nv The Atlantic Monthly May 1951

181 · Always Good for a Belly Laugh · Emilie Glen · ss Prairie Schooner Summer 1951

190 · Brahmin Beachhead · Nancy Hale · ss Town & Country June 1951

204 · What’s in a Corner · Philip Horton · ss The New Mexico Quarterly Spring 1951

212 · The Searchers · Susan Kuehn · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1951

225 · The Call · Bethel Laurence · ss Today’s Woman March 1951

237 · Cyclists’ Raid · Frank Rooney · nv Harper’s Magazine January 1951

254 · Palo · William Saroyan · ss Tomorrow March 1951

264 · I’m Really Fine · Stuart Schulberg · ss New-Story #7, October 1951

271 · The Healthiest Girl in Town · Jean Stafford · ss The New Yorker April 7 1951

289 · The Traveler · Wallace Stegner · ss Harper’s Magazine February 1951

298 · A Ride on the Short Dog · James Still · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1951

305 · The Letters · Harvey Swados · nv The Hudson Review Spring 1951

331 · Nobody Say a Word · Mark Van Doren · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1951

336 · Evensong · Daniel Waldron · ss New-Story #7, October 1951

347 · Loud Sing Cuckoo · Christine Weston · ss Mademoiselle November 1951

361 · Yoneko’s Earthquake · Hisaye Yamamoto · ss Furioso Winter 1951

The Best American Short Stories 1953 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1953, xvi + 425pp, hc, an)
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1 · A Mother’s Tale · James Agee · nv Harper’s Bazaar July 1952

19 · A Mountain Summer · James Ballard · nv The Hopkins Review Summer 1952

41 · The Town Mouse · Stephen Becker · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1952

53 · At Mrs. Farrelly’s · Joseph Carroll · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1952

62 · The Life of the Sleeping Beauty · R. V. Cassill · nv Accent Winter 1952

81 · The Need · Robert M. Coates · ss The New Yorker August 30 1952

90 · Morning Sun · Mary Deasy · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 1952

101 · Crispin’s Way · Harris Downey · ss Epoch Fall 1952

112 · Struttin’ with Some Barbecue · Osborn Duke · ss New World Writing #2, Mentor, 1952

127 · Faq’ · George P. Elliott · ss The Hudson Review Spring 1952

137 · A Death in the Family · Wingate Froscher · ss Epoch Summer 1952

145 · Athens, Greece, 1942 · Vahan Krikorian Gregory · ss Armenian Review Autumn 1952

154 · A Spot in History · James B. Hall · ss Epoch Spring 1952

165 · The Buffalo Wallow · Charles Tenney Jackson · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1952, as by Jack Tennison

176 · Fly Away Home · Roberts Jackson · ss Accent Spring 1952

189 · Dog Days · Madison P. Jones, Jr. · nv Perspective Spring 1952

207 · Beachhead in Bohemia · Willard Marsh · ss Southwest Review Summer 1952

214 · The Hill People · Elizabeth Marshall · ss Mademoiselle August 1952

227 · The Whipping · Felix Noland · ss McCall’s January 1952

239 · The Picnic · Constance Pendergast · nv Perspective Winter 1952

257 · Change of Plan · Ken Purdy · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1952

263 · Our Vegetable Love · Clay Putnam · ss Furioso Summer 1952

279 · Workout on the River · Roger Shattuck · ss Harper’s Magazine November 1952

294 · Oreste · Henry Shultz · nv The New Mexico Quarterly Summer 1952

321 · The Fugue of the Fig Tree · Stanley Sultan · ss The Kenyon Review Summer 1952

332 · Still, Still So · Mark Van Doren · ss Park East November 1952

344 · A Week of Roses · Donald Wesely · ss The Hopkins Review Fall 1952

353 · The Forest of the Night · Christine Weston · ss The New Yorker November 22 1952

363 · Three Players of a Summer Game · Tennessee Williams · nv The New Yorker November 1 1952

384 · The Conqueror · Simon Wincelberg · ss Harper’s Bazaar April 1952

399 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

409 · The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1952 · [uncredited] · bi

The Best American Short Stories 1954 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1954, hc, an)
Details taken from online listing.

· A Great Reckoning in a Little Room · Geoffrey Bush · ss (r)

· A Beautiful Night for Orion · Richard Clay · ss (r)

· The Sense That in the Scene Delights · Benjamin DeMott · ss Partisan Review January/February 1953

· A Stop on the Way to Texas · Ward Dorrance · ss (r)

· The Firebird · LeGarde S. Doughty · ss (r)

· Apple Seed and Apple Thorn · Elizabeth Enright · ss (r)

· My Brother Down There · Steve Frazee · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #113, April 1953

· A Change of Air · Ivan Gold · nv New World Writing #4, Mentor, 1953

· Farewell, Sweet Love · Priscilla Heath · ss (r)

· The House on the Esplanade · Anne Hébert · ss (r)

· Char on Raven’s Bench · Frank Holwerda · ss (r)

· Gertrude and Sidney · Randall Jarrell · ss The Sewanee Review Autumn 1953

· No Way Down · Almet Jenks · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 14 1953

· The Latter End · George Loveridge · ss (r)

· The Game · Frances Gray Patton · ss The New Yorker May 9 1953

· The Red Mountain · Robert Payne · ss Harper’s Magazine February 1953

· The Mango Tree · Rosanne Smith Robinson · ss (r)

· In the French Style · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker January 17 1953

· The Shorn Lamb · Jean Stafford · ss The New Yorker January 24 1953

· The Pale Green Fishes · Kressmann Taylor · ss (r)

· The Third Guest · B. Traven · nv Fantastic March/April 1953
translation from the German of “Macario”, published in Zurich in 1950.

· The Man in Gray · Christine Weston · ss (r)

· The Indomitable Blue · Ira Wolfert · ss Esquire December 1953

· The Rock · Vurell Yentzen · ss (r)

The Best American Short Stories 1955 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1955, xii + 404pp, hc, an)

1 · A Matter of Price · Robert O. Bowen · ss Prairie Schooner Summer 1954

13 · The Excursionists · Nancy Cardozo · ss Mademoiselle November 1954

25 · Bachelor of Arts · Nancy G. Chaikin · ss The University of Kansas City Review Spring 1954

39 · The Country Husband · John Cheever · nv The New Yorker November 20 1954

64 · The Fisherman from Chihuahua · Evan S. Connell, Jr. · ss The Paris Review #7, Fall 1954/Winter 1955

74 · The Decline and Fall of Augie Sheehan · Joe Coogan · ss Ladies’ Home Journal October 1954

84 · The Day of the Equinox · Daniel Curley · ss The New Mexico Quarterly Summer 1954

96 · Little Joe · William Eastlake · ss Accent Autumn 1954

107 · Brother Quintillian and Dick the Chemist · George P. Elliott · ss The Western Review Autumn 1954

123 · The Hundredth Centennial · Mac Hyman · nv The Paris Review #7, Fall 1954/Winter 1955

147 · The Resting Place · Oliver La Farge · ss The New Yorker October 16 1954

159 · The Magic Barrel · Bernard Malamud · ss Partisan Review November/December 1954

176 · Dead Center · Judith Merril · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1954

202 · Portrait of My Son as a Young Man · Elizabeth H. Middleton · ss The University of Kansas City Review Autumn 1954

209 · The Professor and the Poet · Marvin Mudrick · ss Shenandoah Summer 1954

219 · Yore · Howard Nemerov · ss The Hudson Review Winter 1954

230 · A Circle in the Fire · Flannery O’Connor · nv The Kenyon Review Spring 1954

249 · Tip on a Dead Jockey · Irwin Shaw · nv The New Yorker March 6 1954

282 · Maiden in a Tower · Wallace Stegner · ss Harper’s Magazine January 1954

295 · Bird Man · David Stuart · ss Botteghe Oscure #13, 1954

304 · Herman’s Day · Harvey Swados · nv New World Writing #5, Mentor, 1954

331 · I Got a Friend · Mark Van Doren · ss The University of Kansas City Review Spring 1954

338 · The Scale Room · George Vukelich · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1954

349 · Going to Naples · Eudora Welty · nv Harper’s Bazaar July 1954

386 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

391 · The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1954 · [uncredited] · bi

The Best American Short Stories 1956 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1956, hc, an)
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· The Snow Owl · Morris Brown · ss (r)

· We’re All Guests · George R. Clay · ss (r)

· In a Foreign City · Robert M. Coates · ss The New Yorker May 14 1955

· The Undertow · Wesley Ford David · ss (r)

· The Devil on a Hot Afternoon · Ward Dorrance · ss (r)

· The Hobo · Harris Downey · ss (r)

· The Quiet Chimneys · William Eastlake · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1955

· Is He Dead? · George P. Elliott · nv (r)

· Free the Canaries from Their Cages! · Arthur Granit · ss Commentary September 1955

· How Levon Dai Was Surrendered to the Edemuses · Marjorie Anaïs Housepian · ss (r)

· One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts · Shirley Jackson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1955

· The Mexican Girl · Jack Kerouac · ss The Paris Review #11, Winter 1955

· Creole Love Song · Nathaniel LaMar · ss (r)

· The First Flower · Augusta Wallace Lyons · ss New Campus Writing ed. Nolan Miller, Bantam, 1955

· Twenty Below, At the End of a Lane · Ruth Branning Molloy · ss (r)

· The Artificial Nigger · Flannery O’Connor · ss A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor, Harcourt, 1955

· The Contest for Aaron Gold · Philip Roth · ss Epoch Fall 1955

· The Machine · John Shepley · ss (r)

· Four Annas · Christine Weston · ss (r)

· Reginald Pomfret Skelton · Samuel Yellen · ss (r)

The Best American Short Stories 1957 ed. Martha Foley (Houghton Mifflin, 1957, hc, an)
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· Beasts of the Wild · Nelson Algren · ss (r)

· Around the Dear Ruin · Gina Berriault · ss (r)

· The Proud and Virtuous · Doris Betts · ss (r)

· Man’s Courage · Wyatt Blassingame · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1956

· To the Wilderness I Wander · Frank Butler · nv The Hudson Review Spring 1956

· The Dark Roots of the Rose · Walter Clemons · ss (r)

· Arcturus · Evan S. Connell, Jr. · ss (r)

· The Song · Harris Downey · ss (r)

· The Unhappy Hunting Grounds · William Eastlake · ss (r)

· A Summer’s Long Dream · Nancy Hale · ss (r)

· The Blue Serge Suit · John Langdon · ss The Paris Review #12, Spring 1956

· Lula Borrow · Thomas Mabry · ss (r)

· A Heart of Furious Fancies · Winona McClintic · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1956

· Greenleaf · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Kenyon Review Summer 1956

· I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe”

· The Farlow Express · Anthony Robinson · ss (r)

· The Impossible He · Rosanne Smith Robinson · ss (r)

· Run, Run Away, Brother · John Campbell Smith · ss (r)

· Saturday Is a Poor Man’s Port · Henrietta Weigel · ss (r)

· Escape to the City · Gordon Woodward · ss (r)

· In an Early Winter · Roger Angell · ss The New Yorker January 22 1955

The Best American Short Stories 1958 ed. Martha Foley & David Burnett (Houghton Mifflin, 1958, xiv+362pp, hc, an)
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ix · Foreword · Martha Foley & David Burnett · fw

1 · The Waiting · James Agee · nv The New Yorker October 5 1957

21 · Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review Summer 1957

54 · The Frozen Fields · Paul Bowles · ss Harper’s Bazaar 1957

73 · The Day It Rained Forever · Ray Bradbury · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1957

84 · “The Picture Wouldn’t Fit in the Stove” · George Bradshaw · ss Vogue 1957

96 · As I Was Going Up the Stair · Alfred Chester · nv The Sewanee Review 1957

119 · Hunter’s Home · Shirley Ann Grau · ss Mademoiselle 1957

134 · Ben · Pati Hill · ss The Paris Review 1957

150 · Legend of Two Swimmers · Robie Macauley · nv The Kenyon Review Spring 1957

168 · Somewhere Out of Nowhere · Jean McCord · nv Quixote 1957

179 · A Delayed Hearing · Howard Nemerov · ss The Kenyon Review 1957

192 · A View of the Woods · Flannery O’Connor · nv Partisan Review Fall 1957

213 · La Bataille des Fleurs · Anthony Ostroff · ss The Kenyon Review 1957

225 · The Banquet of Crow · Dorothy Parker · ss The New Yorker December 14 1957

236 · Mr. Pruitt · Ralph Robin · nv Prairie Schooner 1957

259 · A Reasonable Facsimile · Jean Stafford · nv The New Yorker August 3 1957

281 · Joe, the Vanishing American · Harvey Swados · ss The Hudson Review Summer 1957

299 · Not Another Word · Richard Thurman · nv The New Yorker May 25 1957

317 · Home from Camp · Bob Van Scoyk · vi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1957

321 · House of Many Rooms · Robin White · ss Harper’s Magazine December 1957

337 · Big, Black, Good Man · Richard Wright · ss Esquire November 1957

349 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

353 · The Yearbook of the American Short Story, January 1 to December 31, 1957 · [uncredited] · bi

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