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Fiction 50: An Introduction to the Short Story ed. James H. Pickering (Prentice Hall, 1993, 0-02-395555-4, tp, an)
Contents from publisher’s catalog.

· Preface · James H. Pickering · pr (r)

· I. Reading and Studying the Short Story

· Plot

· My Kinsman, Major Molineux · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv The Token 1832, 1831, as by The Author of “Sights from a Steeple”

· Character

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

· Setting

· Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914

· Point of View

· Dream Children · Gail Godwin · ss (r)

· Theme

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

· Symbol and Allegory

· The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948

· Style and Tone

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

· II. Stones

· Roses, Rhododendron · Alice Adams · ss The New Yorker January 27 1975

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

· Cortés and Montezuma · Donald Barthelme · ss Great Days by Donald Barthelme, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979

· Janus · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker May 27 1985

· The Garden of Forking Paths · Jorge Luis Borges · ss (r)
translated from the Spanish (“El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan”, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, 1941).

· Astronomer’s Wife · Kay Boyle · ss The White Horses of Vienna and Other Stories by Kay Boyle, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1936

· Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981

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

· The Darling · Anton Chekhov · ss 1925

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

· The Witness for the Prosecution · Agatha Christie · nv Flynn’s January 31 1925, as “Traitor’s Hands”

· The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Samuel L. 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).

· Heart of Darkness · Joseph Conrad · na Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine February 1899 (+2)

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

· A Scandal in Bohemia [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine July 1891

· King of the Bingo Game · Ralph Ellison · ss Tomorrow November 1944

· Mauser · Louise Erdrich · ss The New Yorker April 8 1991

· A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930

· The Yellow Wall-Paper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892

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

· The Overcoat · Nikolai Gogol · na (r)
translated from the Russian (“Shinel”, Sochineniia, 1842).

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

· Spunk · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life #30, June 1925

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

· Four Meetings · Henry James · ss Scribner’s Monthly November 1877

· The Dead · James Joyce · na The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914

· The Tip-Top Club · Garrison Keillor · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1981

· We Are Not in This Together · William Kittredge · ss (r)

· The Horse Dealer’s Daughter · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review April 1922

· Horse Camp · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss The New Yorker August 25 1986

· Wine · Doris Lessing · ss The Habit of Loving by Doris Lessing, MacGibbon & Kee, 1957

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

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

· Thanks for the Ride · Alice Munro · ss (r)

· Four Summers · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The Yale Review Spring 1967

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

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

· A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953

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

· The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846

· The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839

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

· Yellow Woman · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss The Man to Send Rain Clouds ed. Kenneth Mark Rosen, Viking Press, 1974

· The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na (r)

· Nineteen Fifty-Five · Alice Walker · ss Ms. March 1981, as “1955, or, You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down”

· Why I Live at the P.O. · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1941

· Wherever That Great Heart May Be · W. D. Wetherell · ss (r)

· The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss (r)

· Love Letters · Patricia Zelver · ss A Man of Middle Age & Twelve Stories by Patricia Zelver, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980

· III. Writing About the Short Story

· Reading Critically. Reading and Writing. Quotation and Documentation · [uncredited] · ms (r)

· IV. Short Story Handbook · [uncredited] · ms (r)

· V. Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg (r)

· VI. Chronological Table of Contents · [uncredited] · ms (r)

And Graves Give Up Their Dead ed. Frederick Pickersgill (Corgi, 1964, GS1497, 3/6d, 174pp, pb, an)

9 · Top-Flight Aquarium · William Link & Richard Levinson · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1962

18 · The Elder · Gerald Bullett · ss Helen’s Lovers, and Other Tales by Gerald Bullett, Heinemann, 1932

37 · Royal Jelly · Roald Dahl · nv Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl, Knopf, 1960

64 · Miss Gentilbelle · Charles Beaumont · ss Stories for the Dead of Night ed. Don Congdon, Dell, 1957

82 · Girl of My Dreams · Richard Matheson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1963

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

106 · Death Is a Dream · Robert Arthur · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1957

118 · The Female of the Species · Richard Davis · nv

145 · De Mortuis · John Collier · ss The New Yorker July 18 1942

153 · Footfalls · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Pictorial Review October 1920

Horror-7 ed. Frederick Pickersgill (Corgi, 1965, GS7271, 3/6d, 157pp, pb, an)

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

32 · Slime · Joseph Payne Brennan · nv Weird Tales March 1953

66 · A View from a Hill · M. R. James · ss The London Mercury May 1925

90 · The Inmate · Richard Davis · ss The Sixth Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal, Pan, 1965

105 · You Can’t Have Them All · Charles Beaumont · ss Playboy August 1956

131 · The Upright Man · V. S. Pritchett · ss You Make Your Own Life by V. S. Pritchett, Chatto & Windus, 1938

138 · Back There in the Grass · Gouverneur Morris · ss Collier’s December 16 1911

No Such Thing as a Vampire ed. Frederick Pickersgill (Corgi, 1964, SN7050, 2/6d, 126pp, pb, an)

9 · No Such Thing as a Vampire · Richard Matheson · ss Playboy October 1959

19 · The Horsehair Trunk · Davis Grubb · ss Collier’s May 25 1946

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

50 · Berenice · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Southern Literary Messenger March 1835

59 · The Music on the Hill · Saki · ss The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki, John Lane, 1911

65 · A Nice Cut off the Joint · Richard Davis · ss

74 · The Trains · Robert Aickman · nv We Are for the Dark by Elizabeth Jane Howard & Robert Aickman, Cape, 1951

116 · The Case of Lady Sannox · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Idler November 1893

The Best Horror Stories ed. Lynn Picknett--- see under Anon..

The Best Horror Stories (var. 1) ed. Lynn Picknett--- see under Anon..

The First Five Star Western Series Corral ed. Vicki Piekarski (Five Star US, May 2000, 0786218487, $21.95, 236pp, hc, an)

· The Mystery Dogs · Fred Grove · ss Antæus #25/26, Spring/Summer 1977

· For the Good of the Service · Tim Champlin · ss (r)

· So Wild, So Free · T. T. Flynn · ss (r)

· Night Ride · Peter Dawson · ss (r)

· Wild Challenge · Robert Easton · ss Argosy February 1952

· Day of the Dedication · Cliff Farrell · ss (r)

· “Give-a-Damn” Jones · Bill Pronzini · ss The First Five Star Western Series Corral ed. Vicki Piekarski, Five Star US, 2000

· The Last Ride of Gunplay Maxwell · Stephen Overholser · ss (r)

· Ruby’s Cape · Jane Candia Coleman · ss (r)

· His Personal Prisoner · Les Savage, Jr. · ss Argosy October 1948

· Horse Tradin’ · Rita Cleary · ss (r)

· A Question of Faith · Ray Hogan · ss (r)

· Eagles Over Crooked Creek · Max Brand · ss Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine January 29 1938

· Favorite Son · Cynthia Haseloff · ss (r)

The Morrow Anthology of Great Western Short Stories ed. Vicki Piekarski & Jon Tuska--- see under Jon Tuska.

No Place for a Lady: Western Stories by Women ed. Vicki Piekarski (Five Star US, 2001, hc, an)
Piekarski’s “Foreword” is an interesting survey of female writers including some, unfortunately, not represented with a story, such as Lee Hoffman, Elsa Barker, C.K. Shaw, P.A. Bechko, L.J. Washburn, Eli Colter, Honore Willsie Morrow, and B.M. Bower.

· Foreword · Vicki Piekarski · fw (r)

· The Woman at Eighteen-Mile · Mary Austin · ss Harper’s Weekly September 25 1909

· Sidesaddle · Rita Cleary · ss

· For Two Dollars · Jane Candia Coleman · ss

· The Widow’s Stallion · Phyllis de la Garza · ss Western Digest #30, November/December 1999

· Thursdays at Snuff’s · Gretel Ehrlich · ss (r)
from Drinking Dry Clouds, Capra, 1991.

· Wilderness Road · Janice Holt Giles · ss (r)
from Wellspring, Houghton Mifflin, 1975.

· Callie · Cynthia Haseloff · ss

· Saddle Pals · Patti Hudson · ss

· The Indian Witch · Marcia Muller · ss

· The Drought · Dorothy Scarborough · ss The Century Magazine May 1920

· Brother Shotgun · Jeanne Williams · ss Ranch Romances 2nd June 1957

· Shootin’-up Sheriff · Cherry Wilson · nv Western Story Magazine June 15 1929

Westward the Women: An Anthology of Western Stories by Women ed. Vicki Piekarski (University of New Mexico Press, June 1988, 0-826-31063-X, $13.95, 179pp, tp, an)
Contents from Amazon.com.

· On the Divide · Willa Cather · ss Overland Monthly January 1896

· The Wash-tub Mail · Gertrude Atherton · ss Before the Gringo Came by Gertrude Atherton, J. Selwin Tait & Sons, 1894

· The Last Antelope · Mary Austin · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1903

· When the Cook Fell Ill [Flying U Ranch] · B. M. Bower · ss The Popular Magazine March 1906, as by B. M. Sinclair

· The Vine · Mari Sandoz · ss Prairie Schooner January 1927, as by Marie Macumber

· Mister Death and the Redheaded Woman · Helen Eustis · ss The Saturday Evening Post February 11 1950, as “The Rider on the Pale Horse”

· Lost Sister · Dorothy M. Johnson · ss Collier’s March 30 1956

· Geranium House · Peggy Simson Curry · ss Frontiers West ed. S. Omar Barker, Doubleday, 1959

· The Promise of the Fruit · Ann Ahlswede · nv The Pick of the Roundup ed. Stephen Payne, Avon, 1963

· The Deep Valley · Lucia Moore · ss The Pick of the Roundup ed. Stephen Payne, Avon, 1963

· The Outsider · Juanita Brooks · ss Great Western Short Stories ed. J. Golden Taylor, American West, 1967

· Yellow Woman · Leslie Silko · ss The Man to Send Rain Clouds ed. Kenneth Mark Rosen, Viking Press, 1974

A Foot in the Grave by Jan Pienkowski & Joan Aiken--- see under Joan Aiken.

Amazing Stories of the Flying Spaghetti Monster ed. Cameron Pierce (Eraserhead Press, October 4, 2011, 978-1-936383-97-9, $11.95, 207pp, tp, oa, cover by Hauke Vagt)
Details taken from online listing.

11 · Eat All You Can Eat · Cameron Pierce · in

13 · How I Became a Famous Author · Mykle Hansen · ss

23 · Inside the Monster’s Studio · S. G. Browne · ss

34 · Babes in the Woods: (from an Appalachian Hansel & Gretel) · Kate Bernheimer · ss

39 · How We Got Rid of You (and How We Got Along After) · Cody Goodfellow · ss

44 · Another Thursday Night Buffet with the Succulent Gods · John Skipp · ss

49 · 23, 28 · Kirsten Alene · ss

65 · Say Thanks · Andersen Prunty · ss

70 · The Noodly Appendage That Feeds You · Kirk Jones · ss

76 · Praise the Lord and Pass the Parmesan · Steve Lowe · ss

89 · Vesica · J. David Osborne · ss

92 · Bloodskeleton, Scourge of the Christies · Marc Levinthal · ss

104 · Down and Out in Mythos City · Adam Bolivar · ss

112 · Coven of the Crawling Pizza Beast · Edmund Colell · ss

124 · Man and His Maker · Bradley Sands · ss

126 · The Black Sleeve of Destiny · Stephen Graham Jones · ss

140 · Hot Dogma · Kelli Owen · ss

153 · Extra Lives · Jess Gulbranson · ss

166 · The Holy Bowl · Jeffrey Thomas · ss

177 · unwittingly, the italians excel at religious iconography once again · Poncho Peligroso · vi

179 · Believe Without Evidence · Len Kuntz · ss

183 · Darwin’s Revenge · Bruce Taylor · ss

194 · All Children Go to Hell · Kevin L. Donihe · ss

199 · Grumpy Old Gods · David W. Barbee · ss

Elvis Rising: Stories on the King ed. Constance Pierce & Kay Sloan--- see under Kay Sloan.

The Best of Murray Leinster (var. 1) by Murray Leinster ed. John J. Pierce--- see under Murray Leinster.

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