The World’s Shortest Stories ed. Richard Gibson Hubler (Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1961, LC:61-8604, xvi+268pp, hc, an)
- ix · Editor’s Note · Richard G. Hubler · pr
- 3 · Tale Told in Destiny Bay · Donn Byrne · vi (r)
- 4 · Vanka · Anton Chekov · ss The Short Stories of Anton Chekov by Anton Chekov, Modern Library, 1932
translated from the Russian.
- 8 · The Lost Soul · Jesus Christ · vi (r)
- 9 · The Great Weep · Saki · vi (r)
- 12 · The Doer of Good · Oscar Wilde · pp The Fortnightly Review July 1894
- 14 · An Imperfect Conflagration · Ambrose Bierce · vi The Wasp March 27 1886
- 18 · Ali the Persian · [uncredited] · vi from 1001 Nights (r)
- 22 · The Artful Wrestler · Sadi of Shiraz · vi (r)
- 24 · The Braying Contest · Miguel de Cervantes · vi (r)
- 28 · Poet and Mistress · Laurence Housman · vi (r)
- 30 · A Practical Joke · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903
translated from the French (“La farce (Mémoires d’un farceur)”, Gil Blas, December 18, 1883 as by Maufrigneuse).
- 32 · John Hancock Otis · Edgar Lee Masters · pm Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, Macmillan & Co., 1915
- 33 · The Drunk Pony · Jerome K. Jerome · vi (r)
- 37 · Eclipse in Egypt · Dionysius · vi (r)
- 38 · Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon · Lord Dunsany · ss The Sketch March 8 1911
- 41 · The Will of Charles Lounsbury · Williston Fish · vi Harper’s Weekly September 3 1898
- 44 · Abu Hasan · [uncredited] · vi from 1001 Nights (r)
- 46 · William Smith · Jerome K. Jerome · vi (r)
- 49 · The Dream of King Karna-Vootra · Lord Dunsany · vi The Smart Set April 1915
- 51 · The Slave’s Request · Sadi of Shiraz · vi (r)
- 52 · Exodus · [uncredited] · vi from Lysimachus (r)
- 54 · The Buttermachine · Ludwig Bemelmans · vi My War with the United States by Ludwig Bemelmans, Viking, 1937
- 57 · Charon · Lord Dunsany · pp Saturday Review (UK) August 20 1910
- 59 · Elsa Wertman · Edgar Lee Masters · pm Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters, Macmillan & Co., 1915
- 60 · Captain Morgan and the Beautiful Lady · Jan Esquemeling · vi (r)
- 64 · The Simpleton and the Sharper · [uncredited] · vi from 1001 Nights (r)
- 66 · The Stampeding of Lady Bastable [Clovis Sangrail] · Saki · vi The Daily Mail November 5 1910, as “A Modern Boy”
- 70 · The Officer and the Thug · Ambrose Bierce · vi Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce, Putnam's, 1899
- 71 · The Opening of the Chamber · Robert W. Chambers · vi (r)
- 75 · The Suspicion · Paul Gauguin; translated by O. F. Theis · ex from Noa Noa, Nicholas L. Brown, 1919
translated from the French.
- 77 · Silence · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Baltimore Book, a Christmas and New Year’s Present ed. W. H. Carpenter & T. S. Arthur, Bayly & Burns, 1838, as “Siope—A Fable”
- 81 · What They Talked About · Kenneth Grahame · vi (r)
- 85 · After Theatre · Anton Chekov · vi The Short Stories of Anton Chekov by Anton Chekov, Modern Library, 1932
translated from the Russian.
- 88 · The Man and the Dish of Gold · [uncredited] · vi from 1001 Nights (r)
- 91 · The Journey of Doctor Obnubile · Anatole France · vi (r)
- 96 · The Story of Muhammad Din · Rudyard Kipling · vi The Civil and Military Gazette September 8 1886
- 99 · Highway Exploit · Alain René Le Sage · vi (r)
- 102 · Porphyria’s Lover · Robert Browning · pm Monthly Repository January 1836, as “Porphyria”
- 104 · Taking Up Piccadilly · Lord Dunsany · vi Saturday Review (UK) August 30 1913
- 105 · The People of Tao-Chou · Po Chu-i; translated by Arthur Waley · pm Translations from the Chinese ed. & tr. Arthur Waley, Alfred A. Knopf, 1941
translated from the Chinese.
- 107 · The First Fable · Giovanni Francesco Straparola · vi (r)
- 110 · Master Teng-Tu · Sung Yu; translated by Arthur Waley · vi Translations from the Chinese ed. & tr. Arthur Waley, Alfred A. Knopf, 1941
translated from the Chinese.
- 112 · October and June · O. Henry · vi Ainslee’s Magazine June 1903, as by S. H. Peters
- 115 · A Second Trip to the Moon · Rudolph Raspe · vi (r)
- 119 · Schweik Is Ejected from the Lunatic Asylum · Jaroslav Hašek · vi (r)
- 122 · Momotaro · [uncredited] · vi (r)
- 124 · Stories I Have Tried to Write · M. R. James · ar The Touchstone November 30 1929
- 127 · The Fortunate Islands · Ernest Dowson · pp Decorations: in Verse and Prose by Ernest Dowson, L. Smithers, 1899
- 128 · What Happens on Saturn · Oliver Wendell Holmes · vi (r)
- 132 · The Career of Captain Murderer · Charles Dickens · vi (r)
- 135 · On Galla · Martial · vi (r)
- 136 · Papago Wedding · Mary Austin · vi The American Mercury September 1925
- 139 · The Three Prophets · Voltaire · vi (r)
- 141 · The City Coat of Arms · Franz Kafka; translated by Willa Muir & Edwin Muir · vi The Great Wall of China by Franz Kafka, tr. Willa & Edwin Muir, Martin Secker, 1933
translated from the German (“Das Stadtwappen”, Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer, Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1931).
- 143 · The Model · Jacob Wasserman; translated by Ludwig Lewisohn · ex from The World’s Illusion, Harcourt Brace, 1920
translated from the German.
- 146 · The Fifth Fable · Giovanni Francesco Straparola · vi (r)
- 148 · The Judge’s “Spirited Woman” · Mark Twain · vi (r)
- 150 · Hearts and Hands · O. Henry · vi Everybody’s Magazine December 1902, as by Sydney Porter
- 153 · Nyarlathotep [Fungi from Yuggoth] · H. P. Lovecraft · pm Weird Tales January 1931
- 157 · The Buggane and the Tailor · Dora Broome · vi Fairy Tales from the Isle of Man by Dora Broome, Puffin, 1951
- 159 · The Story of the Emergence · Hasteen Klah · vi Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art, 1942
- 161 · The Lady of Ephesus · Petronius · vi (r)
- 164 · The Dog and the Horse · Voltaire · ex from Zadig; or, The Book of Fate, Romances, Tales and Smaller Pieces of M. De Voltaire by Voltaire, Dodsley, 1794
translated from the French (“Zadig ou la Destinée”, 1747).
- 167 · The Countess Kathleen O’Shea · [uncredited] · vi (r); collected by W. B. Yeats.
- 171 · Of the Millennium · Isak Dinesen · ex from Out of Africa, as by Karen Blixen, Random House, 1938, as by Karen Blixen
- 172 · Fundevogel · The Brothers Grimm · vi (r)
- 175 · The Thing at Ghent · Honoré de Balzac · vi (r)
- 177 · First Interview with Artemus Ward · Mark Twain · vi Mark Twain’s Sketches, New and Old by Mark Twain, American Pub. Co., 1875
- 181 · The Parrot · Isak Dinesen · ex from Out of Africa, as by Karen Blixen, Random House, 1938, as by Karen Blixen
- 182 · The Stag and the Monkey · Zanga Coulibaly · vi (r)
- 183 · My Neighbor · Franz Kafka · vi (r)
- 185 · The Naked Boy · Meister Eckhart; translated by Raymond Bernard Blakney · vi from Meister Eckhart, Harper & Row, 1941
translated from the German.
- 186 · Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and the Tar-Baby · Joel Chandler Harris · vi (r)
- 188 · King Rhampsinitus · Herodotus; translated by Henry Rawlinsin · ex from Greek Historians, Random House, 1942
- 192 · The Hero · Rabindranath Tagore · vi The Crescent Moon by Rabindranath Tagore, Macmillan, 1913
- 194 · Bel and the Dragon · [uncredited] · vi from The Apocrypha (r)
- 196 · A Woman’s Wiles · Giovanni Boccaccio · vi from The Decameron, 1886
translated from the Italian (Decamerone, 1353).
- 199 · Something in It · Robert Louis Stevenson · vi Longman’s Magazine September 1895
- 202 · The Vow · Antipater · vi (r)
- 203 · Thinking About [Hyman Kaplan] · Leonard Q. Ross · ex from “Mr. K*A*P*L*A*N Cuts a Gordian Knot”, The New Yorker February 6 1937; given as by Hyman Kaplan.
- 205 · Am I Insane? · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903
translated from the French (“Fou?”, Gil Blas, August 23, 1882 as by Maufrigneuse).
- 208 · Staley Fleming’s Hallucination · Ambrose Bierce · vi Cosmopolitan Magazine March 1906
- 211 · Death and Odysseus · Lord Dunsany · vi Saturday Review (UK) May 21 1910
- 212 · The Easter Egg · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette April 15 1911
- 216 · Conversation Piece · Confucius · vi from The Wisdom of Confucius, Modern Library, 1943
- 218 · The Husband and the Parrot · [uncredited] · vi from 1001 Nights (r)
- 220 · The Last Bargain · Rabindranath Tagore · vi The Crescent Moon by Rabindranath Tagore, Macmillan, 1913
- 221 · The Prisoner of Zembla · O. Henry · ss The Rolling Stone 1894
- 223 · A Lucky Burglar · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903
translated from the French (“Le Voleur”, Gil Blas, June 21, 1882 as by Maufrigneuse).
- 227 · The Guest · Lord Dunsany · vi Saturday Review (UK) May 21 1910
- 229 · The Drop of Honey · [uncredited] · vi from 1001 Nights (r)
- 230 · Epigram · Jonathan Swift · pm (r)
- 231 · Legend of Hamilton Tighe · Thomas Ingoldsby · pm Bentley’s Miscellany March 1837, as by Richard Barham
- 235 · The Daemon Lover · [uncredited] · pm from The Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 1765
- 237 · The Bowmen · Arthur Machen · vi The (London) Evening News September 29 1914
- 241 · The Lion-Maker · [uncredited] · vi (r)
translated from the Sanskrit (The Panchatantra, ca. 200 B.C.).
- 243 · The Fortunate High-Born Count · James Sprenger & Henry Kramer · vi (r)
- 245 · Of Terror · [uncredited] · vi from The Gesta Romanorum (r)
translated from the Latin.
- 247 · Of Concord · [uncredited] · vi from The Gesta Romanorum (r)
translated from the Latin.
- 249 · Slow, the Weaver · [uncredited] · vi (r)
translated from the Sanskrit (The Panchatantra, ca. 200 B.C.).
- 251 · The Unfortunate Coppersmith · Petronius · vi (r)
- 252 · Remembrance · Buson · pm (r)
- 253 · The Priest, the Shopkeeper, and the Knave · Desiderius Erasmus · vi (r)
- 254 · In Rosenborg Park · Herman Bang; translated by Jacob Wittmer Hartmann · vi The American-Scandinavian Review March 1914
- 255 · Lamia · Philostratus; translated by Robert Burton · vi (r)
- 256 · November · Gustave Flaubert · vi (r)
- 259 · Little Red Riding Hood · Charles Perrault · vi (r)
translated from the French (“Le Petit Chaperon rouge”, Histoires ou Contes du temps passé, Paris, 1697).
- 261 · A Note on Names · [uncredited] · ms
- 264 · Index of Authors (with sources) · [uncredited] · ix
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