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Dragon’s Eye ed. Christopher Stasheff (Baen, July 1994, 0-671-87609-0, $5.99, 279pp, pb, oa, cover by Darrell K. Sweet)
Original anthology of 12 fantasy stories about dragons.

1 · Constant Never · S. M. Stirling · nv

23 · To Kill a Dragon · Teresa Patterson · nv

55 · The Stuff of Legends · Jody Lynn Nye · nv

85 · Through the Dragon’s Eyes · Bill Fawcett · na

133 · The Power Within · Mickey Zucker Reichert · ss

149 · Birdie · Mike Resnick & Nicholas A. DiChario · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 1994

171 · Fog of War · William R. Forstchen · nv

193 · In the Heavens and On the Earth · Christopher Stasheff · ss

209 · Call Him Meier · Roland J. Green · ss

229 · Saint Patrick’s Last Snake · Judith R. Conly · pm

231 · The Back Door · Diane Duane · nv

255 · The Art of Revolution · S. N. Lewitt · nv

The Enchanter Reborn ed. Christopher Stasheff & L. Sprague de Camp--- see under L. Sprague de Camp.

The Exotic Enchanter ed. Christopher Stasheff & L. Sprague de Camp--- see under L. Sprague de Camp.

Ghosts in Baker Street ed. Daniel Stashower, Martin H. Greenberg & Jon Lellenberg--- see under Martin H. Greenberg.

Murder in Baker Street ed. Daniel Stashower, Martin H. Greenberg & Jon L. Lellenberg--- see under Martin H. Greenberg.

Sherlock Holmes in America ed. Daniel Stashower, Martin H. Greenberg & Jon L. Lellenberg--- see under Martin H. Greenberg.

Futuristica: Volume 1 ed. Kathryn Stauber & Chester Hoster--- see under Chester Hoster.

Futuristica: Volume II ed. Katy Stauber & Chester W. Hoster--- see under Chester W. Hoster.

Boxing’s Best Short Stories ed. Paul D. Staudohar (Chicago Review Press, August 1999, 1556523645, $24.00, 336pp, hc, an)
Contents from Amazon.com.

· Introduction · Paul D. Staudohar · in (r)

· Rose Into Cauliflower · Mel Matison · ss Esquire January 1943

· The Last Blow · Octavus Roy Cohen · ss Collier’s October 2 1926

· The Croxley Master · A. Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine October 1899 (+2)

· The Higher Pragmatism · O. Henry · ss Munsey’s Magazine March 1909

· Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine · Thom Jones · ss The New Yorker November 17 1997

· Twenty-Five Bucks · James T. Farrell · ss Pagany July/September 1932

· Bred for Battle · Damon Runyon · ss Cosmopolitan May 1934

· Heart · Neil McMahon · ss (r)

· A Piece of Steak · Jack London · nv The Saturday Evening Post November 20 1909

· Thicker than Water · Paul Gallico · ss Collier’s July 8 1944

· Return to Kansas City · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker July 15 1939

· Death of a Prize Fighter · Robert Switzer · ss Esquire June 1949

· A Matter of Seconds [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss The Evening Standard August 3 1953

· The Début of Battling Billson [Ukridge] · P. G. Wodehouse · ss Cosmopolitan June 1923

· He Swung and He Missed · Nelson Algren · ss The American Mercury July 1942

· The Legend of Pig-Eye · Rick Bass · ss The Paris Review #115, Summer 1990

· Everything in the Fifth · Maxence Van der Meersch · ss Esquire May 1939

· One-Thirty-Three—Ringside · Charles E. Van Loan · nv The Popular Magazine December 1 1913

· A Boxer: Old · Harry Sylvester · ss Story #18, January 1934

· The Chickasha Bone Crusher · H. C. Witwer · ss Collier’s January 15 1921

· Champion · Ring Lardner · nv Metropolitan October 1916

· Stop the Fight! · Norman Katkov · ss The Saturday Evening Post March 1 1952

Fishing’s Best Short Stories ed. Paul D. Staudohar (Chicago Review Press, June 2000, 155652403X, $24.00, hc, an)
Contents from Amazon.com.

· Introduction · Paul D. Staudohar · in

· The Man in the Black Suit · Stephen King · nv The New Yorker October 31 1994

· Opening Day · Jack Gilchrist · ss Georgia Review Spring 1964, as by John Shafter

· Light Tackle [Crunch & Des] · Philip Wylie · ss The Saturday Evening Post June 1 1940

· The Big Brown Trout · Robert Travers · ss Argosy April 1966

· Squirrely’s Grouper · Bob Sacochis · ss (r)

· The Intruder · Robert Traver · ss The Saturday Evening Post August 20 1960

· Fishing’s Just Luck · Elmer Ransom · ss (r)

· The Dolphin Story · Joyce Renwick · ss Choice 1980

· The Fatal Success · Henry van Dyke · ss Fisherman’s Luck by Henry Van Dyke, C. Scribner's Sons, 1901

· Cowboys · Geoffrey Norman · ss (r)

· A Wedding Gift · John Taintor Foote · ss The Saturday Evening Post January 13 1923

· The Big Buffalo Bass · Weldon Stone · ss (r)

· The Wer-Trout · E. Annie Proulx · ss Esquire June 1982

· Old Croc · Jason Lucas · ss (r)

· The Parmachene Belle · Edwin L. Peterson · ss Esquire August 1940

· Skelton’s Party · Thomas McGuane · ss (r)

· The River God · Roland Pertwee · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 7 1928

· Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 22 1937

· Fly-Fishing · P. J. O’Rourke · ss (r)

· The Fisherman and His Wife · Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss (r)

· John Monahan · Paul Hyde Bonner · ss (r)

· Spare the Rod · Philip Wylie · nv The Saturday Evening Post September 28 1940

· The Girl at Thorp’s · Warren Gibson · ss Esquire November 1934

· A Fishing Excursion · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903
translated from the French (“Deux amis”, Gil Blas, February 5, 1883 as by Maufrigneuse).

· Murder · Sparse Grey Hackle · ss (r)

Golf’s Best Short Stories ed. Paul D. Staudohar (Chicago Review Press, September 1997, 1-556-52321-1, $24.00, 400pp, hc, an)
Contents from Amazon.com.

· Introduction · Paul D. Staudohar · in (r)

· The Clicking of Cuthbert [The Oldest Member] · P. G. Wodehouse · ss The Strand Magazine October 1921, as “The Unexpected Clicking of Cuthbert”

· The Phantom Card · John Kendrick Bangs · ss (r)

· The Pro · John Updike · ss The New Yorker September 17 1966

· Mr. Frisbie · Ring Lardner · ss Cosmopolitan June 1928

· The Ooley-Cow · Charles E. Van Loan · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 17 1917

· Pay As You Play · Everett Rhodes Castle · ss The American Magazine January 1932

· Lee and Me at the Open · Kevin Cook · ss Playboy June 1982

· Who Wants to Marry Money? · Glynn Harvey · ss Collier’s April 15 1955

· The Sweet Shot [Philip Trent] · E. C. Bentley · ss The Strand Magazine March 1937

· The Golfomaniac · Stephen Leacock · ss The Iron Man and the Tin Woman by Stephen Leacock, Dodd, 1929

· The Wooden Putter · Bernard Darwin · ss The London Magazine August 1923

· Archibald’s Benefit · P. G. Wodehouse · ss Pearson’s Magazine July 1909, as “Reginald’s Record Knock”

· My Livelihood · Charles Dickinson · ss Esquire May 1982

· The Hong-Kong Medal · W. G. Van T. Sutphen · ss The Golficide and Other Tales of the Fair Green by Van Tassel Sutphen, Harper, 1898

· The Year of Getting to Know Us · Ethan Canin · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1987

· Farrell’s Caddie · John Updike · ss The New Yorker February 25 1991

· A Mediaeval Hole in One · Stephen Leacock · ss (r)

· Golf Is a Nice Friendly Game · Paul Gallico · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 30 1942

· Sundered Hearts [The Oldest Member] · P. G. Wodehouse · ss The Strand Magazine December 1920

· The Adventure of the Treacherous Traps · Merrell Noden · ss (r)

· The Lady’s Proposition · Earlyne S. Browne · ss The Saturday Evening Post August 6 1955

· The Rivercliff Golf Killing · Don Marquis · ss Liberty July 2 1927

· Decision on the Fairway · William E. Pettit · ss (r)

· The Haunted Major · Robert Marshall · ss (r)

Murder Short & Sweet ed. Paul D. Staudohar (Chicago Review Press, November 2008, 978-1556527975, $19.95, 384pp, hc, an)

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

· Lamb to the Slaughter · Roald Dahl · ss Harper’s Magazine September 1953

· Philomel Cottage · Agatha Christie · nv The Grand Magazine November 1924

· The Adventure of the Speckled Band [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine February 1892

· The Hands of Mr. Ottermole [Limehouse] · Thomas Burke · nv The Story-teller February 1929

· The Perfect Crime · Ben Ray Redman · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1928

· The Avenging Chance [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1929

· The Dark Snow · Brendan DuBois · ss Playboy November 1996

· The Specialty of the House · Stanley Ellin · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #54, May 1948

· Suspicion · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss Mystery League October 1933

· The Adventure of the Needle’s Eye [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #93, August 1951

· Bech Noir · John Updike · nv The New Yorker June 8 1998

· Never Shake a Family Tree · Donald E. Westlake · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1961

· Dark Journey · Francis Iles · ss News Chronicle April 30 1934 (+4)

· The Fall of a Coin · Ruth Rendell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1975

· The Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss Time and Tide November 12 1932 (+1)

· The Eleventh Juror · Vincent Starrett · nv Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories August 1927

· The Inquisitive Butcher of Nice · James Holding · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1963

· The Silver Mask · Hugh Walpole · ss Harper’s Bazaar March 1932

· Keller on the Spot [John Keller] · Lawrence Block · ss Playboy November 1997

· The Invisible Witness · Anthony Gilbert · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1974

· Under Suspicion · Clark Howard · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 2000

· The Turn of the Tide · C. S. Forester · ss The Story-teller May 1936

· H as in Homicide [Mitch Taylor; Bill Decker] · Lawrence Treat · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1964

· The Adventure of the Abbey Grange [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine September 1904

The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories ed. Ilan Stavans (Oxford University Press US, December 1998, 0-195-11019-6, $30.00, 576pp, hc, an)
Contents from Amazon.com.

· Preface · Ilan Stavans · pr (r)

· Language and Tradition · Ilan Stavans · in (r)

· The Rabbi’s Son · Rabbi Nakhman of Bratzlav · ss (r)

· The Calf · Sholem Jacob Abramovitsh · ss (r)

· If Not Higher… · Isaac Leib Peretz · ss (r)

· A Yom Kippur Scandal · Sholom Aleichem · ss (r)

· The Mother · Italo Svevo · ss (r)

· Tug of Love · Israel Zangwill · ss 10 Story Book November 1901

· The Kiss · Lamed Shapiro · ss (r)

· America and I · Anzia Yezierska · ar Scribner’s Magazine February 1922

· Holy Land · Ludwig Lewisohn · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1925

· Before the Law · Franz Kafka · vi (r)

· At Night · David Bergelson · ss (r)

· Fool and the Forest Demon · Der Nister; translated by Joachim Neugroschel · ss Yenne Velt Volume I ed. Joachim Neugroschel, Stonehill, 1976
translated from the Yiddish (Gedakht, 1922).

· Camacho’s Wedding Feast · Alberto Gerchunoff · ss (r)

· A Whole Loaf · Shmuel Yosef Agnon · ss (r)

· The Street of Crocodiles · Bruno Schulz; translated by Celina Wieniewska · ss The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz, Walker & Company, 1963

· The Story of My Dovecot · Isaac Babel · ss (r)

· The Spinoza of Market Street · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss Esquire October 1961

· The Sacrifice of the Prisoner · Elias Canetti · ss (r)

· Prophet in Our Midst: A Story for Passover · A. M. Klein · ss (r)

· In Dreams Begin Responsibilities · Delmore Schwartz · ss Partisan Review December 1937

· Angel Levine · Bernard Malamud · ss Commentary December 1955

· Looking for Mr. Green · Saul Bellow · nv Commentary March 1951

· House at the Sea · Natalia Ginzburg · ss (r)

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

· The Mirror Maker · Primo Levi · ss Mirror Maker by Primo Levi, Schocken, 1989

· The Key Game · Ida Fink · ss (r)

· Midrash on Happiness · Grace Paley · vi TriQuarterly #65, Winter 1986

· Letter from His Father · Nadine Gordimer · ss The London Review of Books October 20 1983

· Family Ties · Clarice Lispector · ss (r)

· The Shawl · Cynthia Ozick · ss The New Yorker May 26 1980

· The True Waiting · Elie Wiesel · ss (r)

· The Zulu and the Zeide · Dan Jacobson · ss (r)

· Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers · Stanley Elkin · nv Perspective Winter 1961

· Playing Ball on Hampstead Heath · Mordecai Richler · ss The Running Man July/August 1968

· Bertha · Aharon Appelfeld · ss (r)

· The Conversion of the Jews · Philip Roth · ss The Paris Review #18, Spring 1958

· Dogs and Books · Danilo Kis · ss (r)

· The Yatir Evening Express · A. B. Yehoshua · ss (r)

· In the Name of His Name · Angelina Muñiz-Huberman · ss (r)

· The Ballad of the False Messiah · Moacyr Scliar · ss (r)

· Nomad and Viper · Amos Oz · ss Where the Jackals Howl and Other Stories by Amos Oz, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981
translated from the Hebrew (“Navadim ve-Tzefa”, Be-Artzot ha-Tan, 1965).

· The Conversion · Isaac Goldemberg · ss (r)

· Useful Ceremonies · Francine Prose · ss (r)

· Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven · Steve Stern · ss Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven by Steve Stern, Viking, 1986

· The Legacy of Raizel Kaidish: A Story · Rebecca Goldstein · ss New Traditions Spring 1985

· Postscript to a Dead Language · Melvin Jules Bukiet · ss (r)

· Bottles · Alcina Lubitch Domecq; translated by Ilan Stavans · vi Albany Review Winter 1989

· Elvis, Axl, and Me · Janice Eidus · ss Mondo Elvis ed. Lucinda Ebersole & Richard Peabody, St. Martin's Press, 1994

· Cherries in the Icebox · David Grossman · ss (r)

· Three Nightmares · Ilan Stavans · ss (r)

· Endless Visibility · Jonathan Rosen · ss (r)

· The Art Biz · Allegra Goodman · ss Commentary September 1996

· Chronology · [uncredited] · ms (r)

· Contents by Theme · [uncredited] · ms (r)

Dreamers and Desperadoes: Contemporary Short Fiction of the American West ed. Katheryn Stavrakis & Craig Lesley--- see under Craig Lesley.

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