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The Best American Short Stories 1958 ed. David Burnett & Martha Foley--- see under Martha Foley.

The Best American Short Stories 1959 ed. David Burnett & Martha Foley--- see under Martha Foley.

The Best American Short Stories 1960 ed. David Burnett & Martha Foley--- see under Martha Foley.

The Best American Short Stories 1961 ed. David Burnett & Martha Foley--- see under Martha Foley.

The Best American Short Stories 1962 ed. David Burnett & Martha Foley--- see under Martha Foley.

The Best American Short Stories 1963 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. David Burnett & Martha Foley--- see under Martha Foley.

The Best American Short Stories 1964 ed. David Burnett & Martha Foley--- see under Martha Foley.

The Best American Short Stories 1965 ed. David Burnett & Martha Foley--- see under Martha Foley.

The Best American Short Stories 1966 ed. David Burnett & Martha Foley--- see under Martha Foley.

The Best American Short Stories 1967 ed. David Burnett & Martha Foley--- see under Martha Foley.

The Best American Short Stories 1968 ed. David Burnett & Martha Foley--- see under Martha Foley.

The Best American Short Stories 1969 ed. David Burnett & Martha Foley--- see under Martha Foley.

The Best American Short Stories 1970 ed. David Burnett & Martha Foley--- see under Martha Foley.

The Best American Short Stories 1971 & the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. David Burnett & Martha Foley--- see under Martha Foley.

19 Tales of Terror ed. Hallie & Whit Burnett--- see under Whit Burnett.

Things with Claws ed. Hallie & Whit Burnett--- see under Whit Burnett.

The Tough Ones ed. Hallie & Whit Burnett--- see under Whit Burnett.

Mannequin: Tales of Wood Made Flesh ed. Justin A. Burnett (Silent Motorist Media, June 2019, 978-1-09-696946-4, $13.99, 260pp, tp, oa, cover by Don Noble)
Details taken from online listing.

· They Think They’re People · Christopher Slatsky · in

· Cyril · Ramsey Campbell · ss Tandem Horror 3 ed. Richard Davis, Tandem, 1969

· Balladyna · Michael Wehunt · ss

· Window Dressing · Christine Morgan · ss

· Crawlspace Oracle · Richard Gavin · ss

· The Incipient Eleanor · Kristine Ong Muslim · ss

· The Part That Dies · Nicholas Day · ss

· Into the Fugue · Austin James · ss

· Husks · William Tea · ss

· Bobble · Duane Pesice · ss

· The Sickness of the Town · S. L. Edwards · ss

· Kuklalar · Matthew M. Bartlett · ss The Stay-Awake Men & Other Unstable Entities by Matthew M. Bartlett, Dunhams Manor Press, 2017

· The Night Shift · S. E. Casey · ss

· She · Justin A. Burnett · ss

· Allegory of Shadows and Bones · Daulton Dickey · ss

· Dance of the Marionettes · C. P. Dunphey · ss

· To a Puppet, from a Dummy · Jon Padgett · ss

19 Tales of Terror ed. Whit & Hallie Burnett (Bantam, January 1957, A1550, 35¢, 229pp, pb, an, cover by Tom Hill)

vii · Foreword · Whit Burnett · fw

1 · Return of the Griffins · A. E. Shandeling · ss Story #128, Spring 1948; given as by A.E. Sandeling on the story itself.

15 · The White Quail · John Steinbeck · ss North American Review March 1935

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

38 · Paul’s Tale · Mary Norton · ss Story #114, July/August 1945

44 · Lord Mountdrago · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Cosmopolitan February 1939, as “Doctor and Patient”

65 · The Cat · Gloria N. Biggs · ss Story #117, January/February 1946

78 · The Young Man with the Carnation · Isak Dinesen · ss Winter’s Tales by Isak Dinesen, Putnam, 1942

95 · The Foot of the Giant · Robert W. Cochran · ss Story #72, July/August 1938

101 · I Am Edgar · Jerry Wexler · ss Story #2 ed. Whit & Hallie Burnett, A.A. Wyn, 1952

113 · The Calling Cards · Ivan Bunin · ss Story #128, Spring 1948

118 · The Night of the Gran Baile Mascara · Whit Burnett · ss Transition Fall 1929

127 · The Screen · May Sarton · ss Harper’s Bazaar 1953

133 · Totentanz · Angus Wilson · ss Horizon: A Review of Literature and Art May 1949

149 · The Salamander · W. B. Seabrook · ss The English Review November 1922

154 · The Murder of Jefferson Street · Dorothy Canfield Fisher · nv 1937

184 · John Duffy’s Brother · Flann O’Brien · ss Story #91, July/August 1941

189 · Forever Florida · Felicia Gizycka · ss Story #3 ed. Whit & Hallie Burnett, A.A. Wyn, 1953

203 · The Blond Dog · Louis Clyde Stoumen · ss Story #1 ed. Whit & Hallie Burnett, David McKay, 1951

219 · The Childish Thing · John Metcalfe · ss Story #2 ed. Whit & Hallie Burnett, A.A. Wyn, 1952

The Story Pocket Book ed. Whit Burnett (Pocket, September 1945, 276, 325pp, pb, an)
Reissue (Pocket 1944) anthology. Fifth printing.

· Foreword · Whit Burnett · fw

1 · Sam Small’s Better Half [Sam Small] · Eric Knight · ss Maclean’s June 1 1940

19 · The Three Swimmers and the Educated Grocer · William Saroyan · ss Story #83, May/June 1940

29 · Goodbye, New York · Cornell Woolrich · nv Story #63, October 1937

60 · The Tuckle Beard · Ellis Parker Butler · ss Story #34, May 1935

74 · The Captive · Luigi Pirandello · ss Story #30, January 1935

94 · The Windfall · Erskine Caldwell · nv Story #93, January/February 1942

112 · That’s What Happened to Me · Michael Fessier · ss Story #40, November 1935

120 · Southgate Belle · Sylvia Thompson · ss Story #91, July/August 1941

133 · Sacre du Printemps · Ludwig Bemelmans · ss Story #59, June 1937

141 · Death of a Country Doctor · Mary Medearis · nv Story #87, January/February 1941

168 · Delta Autumn · William Faulkner · ss Story #95, May/June 1942

185 · Sherrel · Whit Burnett · ss Story #2, June/July 1931

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

208 · You Meet Some Funny People in the Army · Richard Gehman · ss Story #105, January/February 1944

214 · Napoleon’s Hat Under Glass · Manuel Komroff · ss Story #6, March/April 1932

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

233 · The Little Trout · Hallie Southgate Burnett · ss Story #103, September/October 1943

244 · Pecos Bill and the Willful Coyote · William C. White · ss Story #96, July/August 1942

262 · My Grandfather’s Eyes · Stoyan Christowe · ss Story #93, November/December 1941

271 · Rigmarole · Morley Callaghan · ss Story #35, June 1935

278 · Solo on the Cornet · Dean Fales · ss Story #32, March 1935

296 · Rest Cure · Kay Boyle · ss Story #1, April/May 1931

306 · Frog Trouncin’ Contest · Jesse Stuart · ss Story #105, January/February 1944

317 · Fair Lady · Peggy von der Goltz · ss Story #97, September/October 1942

Things with Claws ed. Whit & Hallie Burnett (Ballantine, February 1961, 466K, 35¢, 159pp, pb, an, cover by Richard Powers)
Ten stories of animal terror.

vi · The Claws Exposed · Whit & Hallie Burnett · in

7 · The Birds · Daphne du Maurier · nv Good Housekeeping October 1952

42 · The Cats · T. K. Brown, III · ss Story #106, March/April 1944

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

68 · Baby Buntings · Radcliffe Squires · ss Story #2 ed. Whit & Hallie Burnett, A.A. Wyn, 1952

84 · The Red Rats of Plum Fork · Jesse Stuart · ss Story #3 ed. Whit & Hallie Burnett, A.A. Wyn, 1953

97 · Butch · Oreste F. Pucciani · ss (r)

116 · The Salamander · William B. Seabrook · ss The English Review November 1922

121 · Return of the Griffins · A. E. Shandeling · ss Story #128, Spring 1948; given as by A.E. Sandeling on the story itself.

136 · Congo · Stuart Cloete · ss Story #100, March/April 1943

145 · The Cat Man · Byron Liggett · ss Story Spring 1960

This Is My Best ed. Whit Burnett (Dial Press, 1942, 1180pp, hc, an)
Each piece includes a preface by the author as to why the piece was chosen.

xi · Foreword · Whit Burnett · fw

· I. THE MAN’S STORY

3 · The Hand · Theodore Dreiser · nv Munsey’s Magazine May 1919

22 · The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber · Ernest Hemingway · nv Cosmopolitan September 1936

53 · The Leader of the People [Billy Buck] · John Steinbeck · ss The Argosy (UK) August 1936

69 · The Days of the Giants · Henry L. Mencken · ar (r)

77 · My Remarkable Uncle · Stephen Leacock · hu (r)

85 · Strange Moonlight · Conrad Aiken · ss The Dial March 1925

98 · Two Fishermen · Morley Callaghan · ss Esquire February 1934, as “Who Is My Neighbor?”

108 · The Joy of Single Blessedness · George Ade · ar (r)

· II. THE AMERICAN DREAM

123 · America Was Promises · Archibald MacLeish · pm (r)

133 · Neighbour Rosicky · Willa Cather · nv Woman’s Home Companion April 1930 (+1)

164 · Dinner with the Babbitts · Sinclair Lewis · ex from Babbitt (r); chapter XV.

176 · The American Dream · James Truslow Adams · ar (r)

191 · America’s Mythology · Mark Van Doren · pm (r)

195 · Mark Twain: The Artist as American · Bernard De Voto · ar (r) [Ref. Mark Twain]

206 · The Standard of Living · Dorothy Parker · ss The New Yorker September 20 1941

212 · The Customer Is Always Wrong · Wolcott Gibbs · ar (r)

· III. A GOODLY HERITAGE

231 · The Devil and Daniel Webster · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 24 1936

247 · Hawthorne in Salem · Van Wyck Brooks · ar (r)

271 · The Lord’s Day in the Nineties · Mary Ellen Chase · ar (r)

277 · Sixteen Poems · Robert Frost · pm (r)

293 · Central Park · Robert Nathan · ex (r)

305 · Maine Is a Perpetual Poem · Robert P. Tristram Coffin · pm (r)

310 · The Night on the Cobble · Dorothy Canfield Fisher · ex (r)

324 · The Old Stone House · Edmund Wilson · ar Scribner’s Magazine December 1933

333 · Country Full of Swedes · Erskine Caldwell · ss The Yale Review Winter 1933

349 · Home in the Nineties · Henry Seidel Canby · ar (r)

359 · Last Days of a Bostonian · John P. Marquand · ex (r)

372 · The Deep Past · Ellen Glasgow · ex (r)

393 · Hyacinth Drift · Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · ar (r)

407 · Another April · Jesse Stuart · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1942

415 · Lutie · Conrad Richter · ex from The Sea of Grass, Knopf, 1936

420 · Mary White · William Allen White · bg

· IV. THE JUNGLE

429 · The Slaughter of the Pigs · Upton Sinclair · ex (r)

440 · Studs · James T. Farrell · ss This Quarter July/September 1930

448 · How “Bigger” Was Born · Richard Wright · ar (r)

459 · The Adding Machine · Elmer Rice · pl Doubleday, 1923

479 · Quo Vadimus? · E. B. White · ar The New Yorker May 24 1930

483 · Girl on the Road · Louis Adamic · nv from My America, Harper, 1937

511 · Poems of American Negro Life · Langston Hughes · pm (r)

514 · Mio and Miriamne · Maxwell Anderson · pl (r)

522 · That Evening Sun Go Down · William Faulkner · nv The American Mercury March 1931

539 · Flowering Judas · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Hound and Horn April/June 1930

553 · Escape to the Proletariat · John Dos Passos · ex (r)

566 · The Jukes Family · Frank Sullivan · ss The New Yorker October 5 1940

573 · Bridewater’s Half Dollar · Booth Tarkington · nv The Saturday Evening Post June 15 1935

· V. THE DUST WHICH IS GOD

597 · Fifteen Sonnets · Edna St. Vincent Millay · pm (r)

606 · The Dust Which Is God · William Rose Benét · pm (r)

615 · Three Poems · Louis Untermeyer · pm (r)

618 · A Song for Eros · Christopher Morley · pm (r)

622 · Dedications in Acrostics · James Branch Cabell · pm (r)

631 · Tamar Dancing · Robinson Jeffers · pm (r)

641 · Some Flower Studies · William Carlos Williams · pm (r)

645 · What Are Years? · Marianne Moore · pm (r)

647 · Song from “Mediterranean” · Muriel Rukeyser · pm (r)

648 · The Islands · H. D. (by Hilda Doolittle) · pm (r)

652 · Domination in Black · Wallace Stevens · pm (r)

· VI. THE MASTERS

657 · Horace · Agnes Repplier · ar (r)

671 · Tomorrow Is My Birthday · Edgar Lee Masters · pm (r)

683 · Swift and Vanessa · Carl Van Doren · ar (r)

697 · Beethoven · Hendrik Willem Van Loon · ar (r)

709 · The Second Part of “Don Quixote” · Joseph Wood Krutch · ar (r)

· VII. THE DRAMA

727 · Aesthetic Jurisprudence · George Jean Nathan · rv The Smart Set July 1921

738 · The Great God Brown · Eugene O’Neill · pl The Best Plays of 1925-1926 ed. Burns Mantle, Dodd, Mead and Co., 1926

743 · The Election of Lincoln · Robert E. Sherwood · pl (r)

757 · Mei Lan-Fang · Stark Young · ar (r)

762 · The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden · Thornton Wilder · pl (r)

777 · A Preface · William Saroyan · pr

786 · Rocket to the Moon · Clifford Odets · pl (r)

812 · Speach from a Play · e. e. cummings · pl (r)

· VIII. KITCHEN BOUQUET

821 · “Speaking of Operations—” · Irvin S. Cobb · ar The Saturday Evening Post November 6 1915

846 · The Body Beautiful · Cornelia Otis Skinner · ar The American Mercury May 1941

854 · The Treasurer’s Report · Robert Benchley · hu (r)

860 · Two and One Are a Problem · Ogden Nash · pm The Saturday Evening Post June 29 1940

867 · Kitchen Bouquet · S. J. Perelman · ar The New Yorker November 4 1939

872 · The Night the Ghost Got In · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker August 12 1933

878 · Sacre du Printemps · Ludwig Bemelmans · ss Story #59, June 1937

· IX. THEY WEREN’T GOING TO DIE

889 · M. Platon · Irwin Edman · ar (r)

897 · The Street of Our Lady · Pierre Van Paassen · ar (r)

913 · The Rains Came · Louis Bromfield · ex 1937

931 · The Old Demon · Pearl Buck · ss Cosmopolitan February 1939

943 · The Outbreak of International Gangsterism · John Gunther · ar (r)

962 · The Thirteen Bus · Vincent Sheean · ar (r)

989 · The Little War · Lillian Hellman · ar (r)

997 · No Room at the Inn · Edna Ferber · ss Collier’s December 16 1939

1005 · They Weren’t Going to Die · Kay Boyle · ss The New Yorker October 12 1940

1012 · Hitler at Compiègne · William L. Shirer · ar (r)

· X. THE REALM OF BEING

1021 · In Defence of History · Allan Nevins · ar (r)

1044 · The People’s Death-Fight · Paul de Kruif · ar (r)

1070 · The Economy of Abundance · Stuart Chase · ar (r)

1083 · The Hours · Donald Culross Peattie · ar (r)

1093 · From an Old House · Joseph Hergesheimer · ar (r)

1099 · Democracy and America · John Dewey · ar (r)

1116 · …The People, Yes · Carl Sandburg · pm (r)

1119 · Biographies and Bibliographies of Authors · [uncredited] · bg

1171 · Acknowledgements · [uncredited] · ms

1177 · Index by Authors · [uncredited] · ix

1179 · Index by Titles · [uncredited] · ix

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