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The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque by Joyce Carol Oates (Dutton, November 1998, 0-525-94445-1, $23.95, xii+321pp, hc, co, cover by Jim Dine)

3 · The Sky-Blue Ball · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1997

8 · Death Mother · Joyce Carol Oates · nv The Kenyon Review 1995

35 · The Hand-Puppet · Joyce Carol Oates · ss David Copperfield’s Tales of the Impossible ed. David Copperfield, Janet Berliner & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperPrism, 1995

49 · Schroeder’s Stepfather · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1992

70 · The Sepulchre · Joyce Carol Oates · ss DoubleTake 1994

86 · The Hands · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch 1995

91 · ############## · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Fear Itself ed. Jeff Gelb, Warner, 1995

107 · Labor Day · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Western Humanities Review 1995

113 · The Collector of Hearts · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Seventeen May 1998

122 · Demon · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Demon and Other Tales by Joyce Carol Oates, Necronomicon Press, 1996

126 · Elvis Is Dead: Why Are You Alive? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The King Is Dead ed. Paul M. Sammon, Delta, 1994

139 · Posthumous · Joyce Carol Oates · vi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1994

145 · The Omen · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Pequod 1993

150 · The Sons of Angus MacElster · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Conjunctions #30, Spring 1998

155 · The Affliction · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Bomb 1995

166 · Scars · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Artes 1997

182 · An Urban Paradox · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Witness v8 #2, 1994

189 · Unprintable · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Mother 1996

204 · Intensive · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The Gettysburg Review 1996

211 · Valentine · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Michigan Quarterly Review Winter 1997

228 · Death Astride Bicycle · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Western Humanities Review 1995

232 · The Dream-Catcher · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Off Limits ed. Ellen Datlow, St. Martin's, 1996

249 · Fever Blisters · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Little Deaths ed. Ellen Datlow, Millennium, 1994

260 · The Crossing · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Morrow AvoNova, 1995

280 · Shadows of the Evening · Joyce Carol Oates · nv; supposedly first published in Century Magazine for Summer 1998, but doesn’t seem to be there.

313 · The Temple · Joyce Carol Oates · vi Demon and Other Tales by Joyce Carol Oates, Necronomicon Press, 1996

319 · The Journey · Joyce Carol Oates · vi Soho Journal Autumn 1994

The Ruins of Contracoeur and Other Presences by Joyce Carol Oates (Swan River Press, 2021, 978-1-78380-040-7, €40.00, xiv+209pp, hc, co, cover by Meggan Kehrli)
Horror collection. Limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by the author, Lisa Tuttle & Meggan Kehrli.
Details taken from publisher website.

· Introduction · Lisa Tuttle · in

· Mr. Stickum · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Playboy Summer 2019

· The Cold · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 2019

· Monstersister · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Conjunctions #74, Spring 2020

· Commencement · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction ed. Al Sarrantonio, Roc, 2001

· The Redwoods · Joyce Carol Oates · ss American Short Fiction Winter 2020

· The Ruins of Contracoeur · Joyce Carol Oates · na 999 ed. Al Sarrantonio, Avon, 1999

· Sources · [uncredited] · ms

The Best American Mystery Stories 2005 ed. Joyce Carol Oates (Houghton Mifflin, October 2005, 0-618-51744-8, $27.50, 324pp, hc, an)
Anthology of 20 stories.

ix · Foreword · Otto Penzler · fw

xiii · Introduction · Joyce Carol Oates · in

1 · The Identity Club · Richard Burgin · ss TriQuarterly #118, Winter 2004

19 · Disaster Stamps of Pluto · Louise Erdrich · ss The New Yorker December 13 2004

33 · Delmonico · Daniel Handler · ss McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage, 2004

49 · Jack Duggan’s Law · George V. Higgins · nv The Easiest Thing in the World by George V. Higgins, 2004

80 · Old Boys, Old Girls · Edward P. Jones · nv The New Yorker May 3 2004

103 · The Shooting of John Roy Worth · Stuart M. Kaminsky · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 2004

113 · Until Gwen · Dennis Lehane · nv Men from Boys ed. John Harvey, Heinemann, 2003

129 · The Shoeshine Man’s Regrets [Tess Monaghan] · Laura Lippman · ss Murder… and All That Jazz ed. Robert J. Randisi, Signet, 2004

141 · When All This Was Bay Ridge · Tim McLoughlin · ss Brooklyn Noir ed. Tim McLoughlin, Akashic Books, 2004

152 · Case Closed · Lou Manfredo · nv Brooklyn Noir ed. Tim McLoughlin, Akashic Books, 2004

173 · Sault Ste. Marie · David Means · ss Harper’s Magazine August 2004

184 · Public Trouble · Kent Nelson · ss The Antioch Review Fall 2004

194 · Officers Weep · Daniel Orozco · ss Harper’s Magazine June 2004

203 · The Last Man I Killer · David Rachel · ss Eureka Literary Magazine Spring 2004

217 · One Mississippi · Joseph Raiche · ss The Baltimore Review Winter/Spring 2004

225 · Cruisers · John Sayles · ss Zoetrope: All-Story Fall 2004

241 · Reconstruction · Sam Shaw · ss Story Quarterly #40, 2004

259 · The Love of a Strong Man · Oz Spies · ss The Ontario Review Fall/Winter 2004

274 · Loyalty · Scott Turow · nv Playboy January 2004

297 · Barracuda · Scott Wolven · ss Plots with Guns November/December 2004

313 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

323 · Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2004 · [uncredited] · bi

The Best American Short Stories 1979 ed. Joyce Carol Oates & Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin, 1979, tp, an)

xi · Introduction · Joyce Carol Oates · in (r)

1 · A Silver Dish · Saul Bellow · nv The New Yorker September 25 1978

28 · An Exile in the East · Flannery O’Connor · ss The South Carolina Review Fall 1978

39 · Home and Native Land · Seán Virgo · ss Malahat Review 1978

44 · A Short Walk Into Afternoon · Kaatje Hurlbut · ss Southwest Review 1978

56 · Shadrach · William Styron · nv Esquire November 21 1978

79 · The Wedding Week · Rosellen Brown · ss Boston University Journal 1978

84 · A Party in Miami Beach · Isaac Bashevis Singer; translated by Joseph Singer · ss Playboy June 1978

97 · The Quail · Rolf Yngve · ss Quarterly West 1978

102 · Some Manhattan in New England · Peter LaSalle · ss Georgia Review 1978

115 · Plaisir d’Amour · Lynne Sharon Schwartz · ss The Ontario Review 1978

131 · Falling Off the Scaffold · Lyn Coffin · ss Michigan Quarterly Review Winter 1978

150 · Spelling · Alice Munro · ss Weekend Magazine 1978

157 · Seasons · Ruth McLaughlin · ss The California Quarterly 1978

167 · Living Alone · Robley Wilson, Jr. · ss Fiction International 1978

172 · The Middle Place · Mary Hedin · ss Southwest Review 1978

184 · The Quarterback Speaks to His God · Herbert Wilner · nv Esquire October 24 1978

206 · Trip in a Summer Dress · Annette Sanford · ss Prairie Schooner 1978

214 · The Eye · Paul Bowles · ss The Missouri Review 1978

222 · Paper Covers Rock · Jean Thompson · ss Mademoiselle 1978

234 · The Missing Person · Maxine Kumin · ss TriQuarterly 1978

243 · Finisterre · Louis D. Rubin, Jr. · nv The Southern Review 1978

270 · A Lingering Death · Silvia Tennenbaum · ss Massachusetts Review 1978

284 · Home Is the Hero · Bernard Malamud · nv The Atlantic Monthly 1978

312 · The New Music · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker June 19 1978

324 · Something That Happened · Jayne Anne Phillips · ss Gallimaufry 1978

New Jersey Noir ed. Joyce Carol Oates (Akashic Books, November 2011, 978-1-61775-026-7, $15.95, 280pp, tp, oa) [Akashic Noir]
Associational original anthology of 14 stories and five poems of noir crime. Authors include Bradford Morrow, Jeffrey Ford, S.J. Rozan, Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini. A hardcover edition (-034-2, $24.95) was announced.

13 · How Blackly Lovely: Noir in New Jersey · Joyce Carol Oates · in

25 · Part I, Inner-City New Jersey

27 · Live for Today · S. A. Solomon · ss; set in University Heights (Newark).

40 · Soul Anatomy · Lou Manfredo · ss; set in Whitman Park (Camden).

61 · New Day Newark · S. J. Rozan · ss; set in Central Ward (Newark).

76 · Newark Black: 1940-1954 · C. K. Williams · pm; set in Vailsburg (Newark).

79 · Part II, Romance & Nostalgia

81 · Lola · Jonathan Santlofer · ss; set in Hoboken.

92 · The Enigma of Grover’s Mill · Bradford Morrow · nv; set in Grover’s Mill.

125 · Broken Glass · Gerald Stern · pm; set on Mickle Street (Camden).

126 · Wunderlich · Sheila Kohler · ss; set in Montclair.

139 · Atlantis · Richard Burgin · nv; set in Atlantic City.

161 · August: Feeding Frenzy · Alicia Ostriker · pm; set in Jersey Shore.

163 · Part III, Commerce & Retribution

165 · A Bag for Nicholas · Hirsh Sawhney · ss; set in Jersey City.

180 · Glass Eels · Jeffrey Ford · ss; set in Dividing Creek.

191 · Meadowlands Spike · Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini · ss; set in Rutherford.

197 · Kettle Run · Robert Arellano · ss; set in Cherry Hill.

217 · Noir, NJ · Paul Muldoon · pm; set in Paramus.

219 · Part IV, Garden State Underground

221 · Too Near Real · Jonathan Safran Foer · ss; set in Princeton.

235 · Excavation · Edmund White & Michael Carroll · ss; set in Asbury Park.

255 · Long Branch Underground · Robert Pinsky · pm; set in Long Branch.

257 · Run Kiss Daddy · Joyce Carol Oates · ss; set in the Kittatinny Mountains.

276 · About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction (Second Edition) ed. Joyce Carol Oates & R. V. Cassill--- see under R. V. Cassill.

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories ed. Joyce Carol Oates (Oxford University Press US, September 1994, 0-195-09262-7, $18.95, tp, an)
Reprint (Oxford University Press 1992) anthology. Contents from Amazon.com.

· Rip Van Winkle · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #1, June 23 1819, as by Geoffrey Crayon

· The Wives of the Dead · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Token 1832, 1831, as by F…

· The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids · Herman Melville · gp Harper’s New Monthly Magazine April 1855, uncredited.

_ · The Paradise of Bachelors · Herman Melville · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine April 1855, uncredited.

_ · The Tartarus of Maids · Herman Melville · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine April 1855, uncredited.

· The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843

· The Ghost in the Mill · Harriet Beecher Stowe · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1870, uncredited.

· Cannibalism in the Cars · Mark Twain · ss The Broadway November 1868

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

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

· The Middle Years · Henry James · ss Scribner’s Magazine May 1893

· In a Far Country · Jack London · ss Overland Monthly June 1899

· The Little Regiment · Stephen Crane · nv Chapman’s Magazine June 1896

· A Journey · Edith Wharton · ss Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton, Scribner, 1899

· A Death in the Desert · Willa Cather · ss Scribner’s Magazine January 1903

· A Clean, Well-Lighted Place · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1933

· An Alcoholic Case · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ss Esquire February 1937

· The Girl with a Pimply Face · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories June 1934

· He · Katherine Anne Porter · ss New Masses October 1927

· Red-Headed Baby · Langston Hughes · ss The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes, Alfred A Knopf, 1934

· A Late Encounter with the Enemy · Flannery O’Connor · ss Harper’s Bazaar September 1953

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

· There Will Come Soft Rains [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss Collier’s May 6 1950

· Where Is the Voice Coming From? · Eudora Welty · ss The New Yorker July 6 1963

· The Lecture · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss Playboy December 1967

· My Son the Murderer · Bernard Malamud · ss Esquire November 1968

· Something to Remember Me By · Saul Bellow · ss Esquire July 1990

· The Death of Justina · John Cheever · ss Esquire November 1960

· Texts · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss American Short Fiction 1990

· The Persistence of Desire · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 11 1959

· Are These Actual Miles? · Raymond Carver · ss Esquire May 1972, as “What Is It?”

· Heat · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The Paris Review #110, Spring 1989

Prison Noir ed. Joyce Carol Oates (Akashic Books, September 2, 2014, 978-1-61775-239-1, $15.95, 259pp, tp, oa) [Akashic Noir]

13 · Seeds for Next Year · Joyce Carol Oates · in

23 · Part I: Ghosts in the Machine

25 · Shuffle · Christopher M. Stephen · ss; set in the Federal Correctional Institution, Oxford, Wisconsin.

44 · I Saw an Angel · Sin Soracco · ss; set in the California Institution for Women, Corona, California.

56 · Bardos · Scott Gutches · ss; set in the Fremont Correctional Facility, Cañon City, Colorado.

69 · Trap · Eric Boyd · ss; set in the Allegheny County Jail, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

80 · A Message in the Breath of Allah · Ali F. Sareini · ss; set in the Coldwater Correctional Facility, Coldwater, Michigan.

99 · Part II: Caged Birds Sing

101 · Tune-Up · Stephen Geez · ss; set in the Ryan Correctional Facility, Detroit, Michigan.

116 · Foxhole · B. M. Dolarman · ss; set in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma.

133 · There Will Be Seeds for Next Year · Zeke Caligiuri · ss; set in the Minnesota Correctional Facility, Stillwater, Bayport, Minnesota.

155 · Immigrant Song · Marco Verdoni · ss; set in the Marquette Branch Prison, Marquette, Michigan.

170 · Rat’s Ass · Kenneth R. Brydon · ss; set in the San Quentin State Prison, San Quentin, California.

185 · Part III: I Saw the Whole Thing, It Was Horrible

187 · Milk and Tea · Linda Michelle Marquardt · ss; set in the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility, Ypsilanti, Michigan.

201 · Angel Eyes · Andre White · ss; set in the Ionia Correctional Facility, Ionia, Michigan.

221 · How eBay Nearly Killed Gary Bridgway · Timothy Pauley · ss; set in the Monroe Correctional Complex, Monroe, Washington.

229 · 3 Block from Hell · Bryan K. Palmer · ss; set in the Jackson State Prison, Jackson, Michigan.

243 · The Investigation · William Van Poyck · ss; set in the Florida State Prison, Raiford, Florida.

256 · About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

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