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Dead Planets, Unhallowed Stars by Tim Curran (Dark Tree Press, December 2003, no ISBN, $6.00, 77pp, ph, co, cover by Sean Madden)
Chapbook collection of six stories, two original.

4 · Devil of the Sands · Tim Curran · ss

19 · The Black Ocean · Tim Curran · ss Burning Sky #5, 2000

27 · Ghost Ship · Tim Curran · ss Burning Sky #7, 2000

36 · Chill Factor · Tim Curran · ss Burning Sky #8, 2001

47 · Dead Planet · Tim Curran · ss Burning Sky #6, 2000

57 · Migration · Tim Curran · ss

The Slithering & Others by Tim Curran (Rainfall Books, April 2007, #032, £7.00, 40pp, ph, co, cover: The Slithering by Steve Lines)
The first collection by Tim Curran, author of Hive and Dead Sea.

· The Slithering · Tim Curran · ss Lovecraft’s Weird Mysteries v1 #10, 2005

· Eaters of Worms · Tim Curran · ss

· The Eyes of Howard Curlix · Tim Curran · ss Horrors Beyond: Tales of Terrifying Realities ed. William Jones, Elder Signs Press, 2005

American Short Stories (6th edition) ed. Eugene Current-Garcia & Bert Hitchcock (Addison-Wesley, August 1996, 0-673-46901-8, $44.00, tp, an)
Each section concludes with Suggestions for Discussion and Writing. Contents from Amazon.com.

· Section I: Romanticism and Realism: The First Century, 1789-1890

· The Story of the Captain’s Wife, and an Aged Woman · Ruri Colla · ss (r)

· Peter Rugg, the Missing Man · William Austin · nv New England Galaxy September 10 1824, as “Some Account of Peter Rugg, the Missing Man, Late of Boston, New England in a Letter to Mr. Herman Krauff” by Jonathan Dunwell

· The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #6, March 15 1820, as by Geoffrey Crayon

· The Horse-Swap · Augustus Baldwin Longstreet · ss (r)

· Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”

· The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle August 19 1843

· The Big Bear of Arkansas · Thomas Bangs Thorpe · ss The Spirit of the Times March 27 1841

· Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited.

· The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Samuel Langhorne Clemens · ss The Californian December 16 1865, as “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain
revised from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (The New York Saturday Press, November 18, 1865).

· The Outcasts of Poker Flat [John Oakhurst] · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly January 1869

· “Europe” · Henry James · ss Scribner’s Magazine June 1899

· A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886

· The Passing of Grandison · Charles W. Chesnutt · ss The Wife of His Youth by Charles W. Chesnutt, Houghton, Mifflin, 1899

· Section II: Maturation and Seasoning, 1890-1920

· An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890

· The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969

· A New England Nun · Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · ss A New England Nun and Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Harper & Brothers, 1891

· The Caballero’s Way [The Cisco Kid] · William Sydney Porter · ss Everybody’s Magazine July 1907, as by O. Henry

· The Other Two · Edith Wharton · nv Collier’s Weekly February 13 1904

· The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv McClure’s Magazine February 1898

· Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s Magazine May 1905

· To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902

· Death in the Woods · Sherwood Anderson · ss The American Mercury September 1926

· A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917
based on material from the play “Trifles”.

· Section III: Renewal and Expansion, 1920-1940

· Silent Snow, Secret Snow · Conrad Aiken · nv The Virginia Quarterly Review October 1932

· The Grave · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review April 1935

· The Gilded Six-Bits · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Story #14, August 1933

· A Memorial to the Slain · William March · ss (r)

· The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker March 18 1939

· Blood-Burning Moon · Jean Toomer · ss Prairie March/April 1923

· Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1931

· Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939

· In Another Country · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine April 1927

· The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937

· Thank You, Ma’m · Langston Hughes · ss The Langston Hughes Reader by Langston Hughes, G. Braziller, 1958

· Section IV: Established Modes and New Explorations, 1940-1975

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

· Petrified Man · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Spring 1939

· A Man in the House · Cyrus Colter · ss (r)

· The Swimmer · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker July 18 1964

· The Jewbird · Bernard Malamud · ss The Reporter April 11 1963

· Samuel · Grace Paley · ss Something Else ed. Leo B. Kneer, Scott, Foresman and Co., 1970

· Children on Their Birthdays · Truman Capote · ss Selected Writings of Truman Capote by Truman Capote, Random House, 1963

· Good Country People · Flannery O’Connor · ss Harper’s Bazaar June 1955

· The School · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker June 17 1974

· A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961

· The Sky Is Gray · Ernest J. Gaines · ss Negro Digest August 1963

· Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966

· A Girl’s Story · Toni Cade Bambara · ss The Seabirds are Still Alive by Toni Cade Bambara, Random House, 1977

· Section V: Contemporary Flowering, 1975-

· What He Was Like · William Maxwell · ss The New Yorker December 7 1992

· Mazes · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Epoch ed. Roger Elwood & Robert Silverberg, Putnam, 1975

· Boxes · Raymond Carver · ss The New Yorker February 24 1986

· The Wrath-bearing Tree · Lynne Sharon Schwartz · ss (r)

· Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980

· Strong Horse Tea · Alice Walker · ss In Love and Trouble by Alice Walker, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973

· Hunters in the Snow · Tobias Wolff · ss TriQuarterly #48, Spring 1980

· Fairy Tale · Robert Olen Butler · ss A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler, Henry Holt, 1992

· The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986

· Gryphon · Charles Baxter · ss Epoch 1985

· Cheers · Jayne Anne Phillips · ss Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips, Delacorte Press, 1979

· Fleur · Louise Erdrich · ss Esquire August 1986

· ’Mericans · Sandra Cisneros · ss Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros, Random House, 1991

· In the American Society · Gish Jen · ss The Southern Review Summer 1986

· Index · [uncredited] · ix (r)

American Short Stories (7th edition) ed. Eugene Current-Garcia & Bert Hitchcock (Longman US, December 2001, 0-321-08056-4, $48.00, 704pp, tp, an)
Each section concludes with Suggestions for Discussion and Writing. Contents from Amazon.com.

· Section One (1820-1890): Romanticism and Realism

· The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #6, March 15 1820, as by Geoffrey Crayon

· Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”

· The Birthmark · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Pioneer March 1843

· The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle August 19 1843

· The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844

· Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited.

· The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Samuel Langhorne Clemens · ss The Californian December 16 1865, as by Mark Twain
revised from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (The New York Saturday Press, November 18, 1865).

· The Outcasts of Poker Flat [John Oakhurst] · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly January 1869

· “Europe” · Henry James · ss Scribner’s Magazine June 1899

· A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886

· The Passing of Grandison · Charles W. Chesnutt · ss The Wife of His Youth by Charles W. Chesnutt, Houghton, Mifflin, 1899

· Section Two (1890-1920): Maturation and Seasoning

· An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890

· The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969

· At the ’Cadian Ball · Kate Chopin · ss Two Tales October 22 1892

· The Revolt of “Mother” · Mary Wilkins Freeman · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine September 1890, as by Mary E. Wilkins

· The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892

· The Caballero’s Way [The Cisco Kid] · William Sydney Porter · ss Everybody’s Magazine July 1907, as by O. Henry

· The Other Two · Edith Wharton · nv Collier’s Weekly February 13 1904

· The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Collier’s Weekly November 26 1898

· Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s Magazine May 1905

· To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902

· Paper Pills · Sherwood Anderson · ss (r)

· A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917
based on material from the play “Trifles”.

· Section Three (1920-1940): Modernist Voices

· The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories November/December 1933

· The Grave · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review April 1935

· The Gilded Six-Bits · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Story #14, August 1933

· The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker March 18 1939

· Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1931

· Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939

· Hills Like White Elephants · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transition August 1927

· The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937

· Thank You, Ma’m · Langston Hughes · ss The Langston Hughes Reader by Langston Hughes, G. Braziller, 1958

· Big Boy Leaves Home · Richard Wright · ss (r)

· Section Four (1940-1980): Tradition and Innovation

· The Hitch-Hikers · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Autumn 1939

· The Swimmer · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker July 18 1964

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

· Samuel · Grace Paley · ss Something Else ed. Leo B. Kneer, Scott, Foresman and Co., 1970

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

· Revelation · Flannery O’Connor · nv The Sewanee Review Spring 1964

· The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3 ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday, 1973

· The School · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker June 17 1974

· Cartoon · Robert Coover · ss (r)

· A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961

· Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966

· A Girl’s Story · Toni Cade Bambara · ss The Seabirds are Still Alive by Toni Cade Bambara, Random House, 1977

· Section Five (1980-present): Contemporary Diversity

· Boxes · Raymond Carver · ss The New Yorker February 24 1986

· Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980

· Nineteen Fifty-Five · Alice Walker · ss Ms. March 1981

· Hunters in the Snow · Tobias Wolff · ss TriQuarterly #48, Spring 1980

· The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986

· Gryphon · Charles Baxter · ss Epoch 1985

· The Reach · Stephen King · ss Yankee November 1981, as “Do the Dead Sing?”

· The Race of the Patient Motorcyclists · Lydia Davis · ss (r)

· De Rerum Natura · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss 1976

· Cheers · Jayne Anne Phillips · ss Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips, Delacorte Press, 1979

· Pet Fly · Walter Mosley · nv The New Yorker December 13 1999

· Fleur · Louise Erdrich · ss Esquire August 1986

· The Cariboo Café · Helena María Viramontes · ss The Moths and Other Stories by Helena María Viramontes, Arte Publico Press, 1985

· Ciudad Juárez · Elizabeth Tallent · ss Mississippi Review v18 #1, 1989

· Birthmates · Gish Jen · ss Ploughshares Winter 1994/1995

· This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona · Sherman Alexie · ss Esquire June 1993

· This Blessed House · Jhumpa Lahiri · ss (r)

The Battle of the Monsters and Other Stories ed. L. W. Currey & David G. Hartwell--- see under David G. Hartwell.

God Is Dead by Ron Currie, Jr. (Penguin/Viking, July 2007, 978-0-670-03867-1, $21.95, 182pp, hc, co, cover by Anders Nilsen)
Collection/fix-up novel of nine linked stories, four previously published in different form. God takes human form, gets killed, and strange things start to happen.

1 · God Is Dead · Ron Currie, Jr. · ss The Sun #360, December 2005

23 · The Bridge · Ron Currie, Jr. · ss

37 · Indian Summer · Ron Currie, Jr. · ss

55 · False Idols · Ron Currie, Jr. · nv The Cincinnati Review

81 · Grace · Ron Currie, Jr. · ss Night Train

87 · Interview with the Last Remaining Member of the Feral Dog Pack Which Fed on God’s Corpse—June 2006 · Ron Currie, Jr. · nv Alaska Quarterly Review Spring/Summer 2006

113 · The Helmet of Salvation and the Sword of the Spirit · Ron Currie, Jr. · nv

139 · My Brother the Murderer · Ron Currie, Jr. · ss

157 · Retreat · Ron Currie, Jr. · nv

181 · Acknowledgments · [uncredited] · ms

Western Romances ed. Peggy Simson Curry (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1969, pb, an)

· Flower of the Mescalero · Eric Allen · vi Ranch Romances 1st May 1954

· Too Young, Too Far Away · Eric Allen · ss Ranch Romances 1st September 1953

· Run Out of Town · Todhunter Ballard · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 30 1950

· Prisoners of the Snow · S. Omar Barker · ss The Progressive Farmer February 1962

· The Wonderful Race at Rimrock · D. D. Beauchamp · ss Collier’s August 3 1946

· The Bride Wore Spurs · Peggy Simson Curry · ss The American Magazine October 1953

· Woman Trader · Hal G. Evarts · ss The American Magazine February 1951

· Wilderness Gamble · Kenneth Fowler · ss Star Weekly June 14 1947

· Catalogue Woman · Barlow Meyers · ss Maclean’s May 1 1946

· The Cache and the Convict · T. V. Olsen · ss Ranch Romances 1st September 1956

· Winchester Wedding · Wayne D. Overholser · nv Ranch Romances 2nd June 1953

God: Stories ed. C. Michael Curtis (Houghton Mifflin, December 1998, 0-395-92971-7, $14.00, 400pp, tp, an)
Contents from Amazon.com.

· Introduction · C. Michael Curtis · in

· Exodus · James Baldwin · ss (r)

· Design · Richard Bausch · ss (r)

· A New Life · Mary Ward Brown · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1991

· A Father’s Story · Andre Dubus · nv Black Warrior Review Spring 1983

· Satan: Hijacker of a Planet · Louise Erdrich · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1997

· Redemption · John Gardner · ss The Atlantic Monthly 1977

· The Knife · Brendan Gill · ss The New Yorker March 16 1940

· God’s Typhoon · John Hersey · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1988

· The Question of Rain · William Hoffman · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1978

· Grace · James Joyce · nv The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914

· Idiots First · Bernard Malamud · ss Commentary December 1961

· The Retreat · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1982

· Pictures of the Ice · Alice Munro · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1990

· Parker’s Back · Flannery O’Connor · nv Esquire April 1965

· Rosa · Cynthia Ozick · nv The New Yorker March 21 1983

· The Pure in Heart · Peggy Payne · ss The Crescent Review 1986

· The Rabbi in the Attic · Eileen Pollack · ss (r)

· Roof Work · Joe Ashby Porter · ss (r)

· Zeal · J. F. Powers · ss (r)

· Defender of the Faith · Philip Roth · nv The New Yorker March 14 1959

· A Christian Education · Elizabeth Spencer · ss (r)

· Autumn Sunshine · William Trevor · nv The New Yorker March 10 1980

· Made in Heaven · John Updike · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1985

· A Still Moment · Eudora Welty · ss The Wide Net by Eudora Welty, Harcourt, 1943

· The Missing Person · Tobias Wolff · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1983

· Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

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