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The Restless Dead ed. Deborah Noyes (Candlewick Press, August 2007, 978-0-7636-2906-9, $16.99, xi+253pp, hc, oa)
Young-adult original anthology of ten horror stories. Authors include Kelly Link, M.T. Anderson, and Holly Black.

ix · Introduction · Deborah Noyes · in

1 · The Wrong Grave · Kelly Link · nv

31 · The House and the Locket · Chris Wooding · ss

51 · Kissing Dead Boys · Annette Curtis Klause · ss

69 · The Heart of Another · Marcus Sedgwick · nv

91 · The Necromancers · Herbie Brennan · ss

109 · No Visible Power · Deborah Noyes · ss

129 · Bad Things · Libba Bray · nv

157 · The Gray Boy’s Work · M. T. Anderson · nv

195 · The Poison Eaters · Holly Black · nv

219 · Honey in the Wound · Nancy Etchemendy · nv

247 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

Sideshow ed. Deborah Noyes (Candlewick Press, July 2009, 978-0-7636-3752-1, $16.99, 225pp, hc, oa)
Young-adult original anthology of ten creepy fantastic stories, three in graphic form, about freaks, circus performers, etc. Authors include Vivian Vande Velde, Annette Curtis Clause, and Margo Lanagan.

· The Bearded Girl · Aimee Bender · ss

· Those Psychics on TV · Vivian Vande Velde · ss

· The Year of the Rat · Danica Novgorodoff · ss

· The Mummy’s Daughter · Annette Curtis Klause · ss

· When God Came to Kathleen’s Garden · David Almond · ss

· The Shadow Troupe · Shawn Cheng · ss

· Cat Calls · Cynthia Leitich Smith · ss

· The Bread Box · Cecil Castellucci · ss

· Living Curiosities · Margo Lanagan · nv

· Jargo! · Matt Phelan · cs

Images of Tomorrow by Charles Nuetzel (Powell, March 1969, PP135, 95¢, 224pp, pb, oc)

7 · Introduction · Forrest J Ackerman · in

10 · Images of Man · Charles Nuetzel · ss (r)

25 · The Judgment · Charles Nuetzel · vi (r)

28 · The World That WOMB Made · Charles Nuetzel · ss (r)

49 · Guided Tour · Charles Nuetzel · vi (r)

52 · Planet of the Love Feast · Charles Nuetzel · ss Adam August 1963, as by George Frederic

61 · The Good Doctor · Charles Nuetzel · vi (r)

64 · The Groovy Homo Sap · Charles Nuetzel · ss If This Goes On ed. Charles Nuetzel, BCA, 1965, as “The Homo Sap”

70 · Hunger Pangs · Charles Nuetzel · vi (r)

72 · The Nova Incident · Charles Nuetzel · ss

87 · Word to the Wise · Charles Nuetzel · vi (r)

90 · The Ersatz · Charles Nuetzel · n. (r); revised & condensed.

211 · A Very Cultured Taste · Charles Nuetzel · ss 1960, as by George Frederic

222 · Royal Lesson · Charles Nuetzel · vi (r)

If This Goes On ed. Charles Nuetzel (Book Company of America, 1965, 015, 75¢, 256pp, pb, an)
Story “Almost the End of the World” by Ray Bradbury is listed in the contents and on the cover but is not in the book.

9 · Introduction · Forrest J Ackerman · in

15 · Preface · Charles Nuetzel · pr

19 · The Test · Richard Matheson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1954

40 · The Earth Killers · A. E. van Vogt · nv Super Science Stories April 1949

75 · The Racer · Ib Melchior · ss Escapade October 1956

88 · “All the Troubles of the World” · Isaac Asimov · ss Super-Science Fiction April 1958

107 · Friends and Enemies · Fritz Leiber · ss Infinity Science Fiction April 1957

127 · No Land of Nod · Sherwood Springer · nv Thrilling Wonder Stories December 1952

149 · A Very Cultured Taste · George Frederic · ss 1960

158 · The Mute Question · Forrest J Ackerman · vi Other Worlds Science Stories September 1950

160 · The Homo Sap · Charles Nuetzel · ss

165 · Aquella · Donald A. Wollheim · ss Super Science Stories November 1942, as “The Planet Called Aquella” by Martin Pearson

172 · The Climbing Wave · Marion Zimmer Bradley · na The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1955

242 · Your Life in “1977” · Willy Ley · ar Man’s Magazine February 1953; given as by Willie Ley.

255 · Preposterous · Fredric Brown · vi Angels and Spaceships by Fredric Brown, E.P. Dutton, 1954

Inherit the Earth by Claude Nunes (Ace Double, June 1966, G-580, 50¢, 127pp, pb, n., cover by Ted Hanke)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with Dawnman Planet by Mack Reynolds.

Recoil by Claude & Rhoda Nunes (Ace Double, April 1971, 71082, 75¢, 136pp, pb, n., cover by Kelly Freas)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with Lallia by E.C. Tubb.

Recoil by Rhoda & Claude Nunes--- see under Claude Nunes.

Fantastic Schools: Volume 3 ed. Christopher G. Nuttall & L. Jagi Lamplighter--- see under L. Jagi Lamplighter.

Conan the Avenger by Bjorn Nyberg, Robert E. Howard & L. Sprague de Camp--- see under Robert E. Howard.

Conan the Swordsman by Bjorn Nyberg, L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter--- see under L. Sprague de Camp.

The Adventure of the Teddy Bear’s Ribbon and Other Tales by E. R. Nye (Halvon, 2000, 168pp, pb, co) [Sherlock Holmes]

· The Adventure of the Giant Rat of Sumatra [Sherlock Holmes] · E. R. Nye · ss (r)

· The Adventure of the Teddy Bear’s Ribbon [Sherlock Holmes] · E. R. Nye · ss (r)

· The Benevolent Society [Sherlock Holmes] · E. R. Nye · ss (r)

· The Financial Consultant [Sherlock Holmes] · E. R. Nye · ss (r)

· The Invisible Man [Sherlock Holmes] · E. R. Nye · ss (r)

· The Missing Torque [Sherlock Holmes] · E. R. Nye · ss (r)

· The Mystery of the Bell That Did Not Ring [Sherlock Holmes] · E. R. Nye · ss (r)

· The Mystery of the Rotating Cucumber [Sherlock Holmes] · E. R. Nye · ss (r)

· The Mystery of the White Stick [Sherlock Holmes] · E. R. Nye · ss (r)

· The Society of Doves [Sherlock Holmes] · E. R. Nye · ss (r)

· The Strange Case of Mrs. Collins [Sherlock Holmes] · E. R. Nye · ss (r)

Myth-Told Tales by Jody Lynn Nye & Robert Asprin--- see under Robert Asprin.

Myth-Told Tales (var. 1) by Jody Lynn Nye & Robert Asprin--- see under Robert Asprin.

Don’t Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear ed. Jody Lynn Nye (Baen, July 1996, 0-671-87732-1, $5.99, 306pp, pb, oa, cover by David Mattingly)
Original anthology of 19 stories about mothers in space, including a new Maureen Birnbaum story by George Alec Effinger. Other authors include Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Moon, and Esther M. Friesner.

1 · From Your Mouth to God’s Ear · Ellen Guon · nv

24 · I Told You So · Michael Scott · ss

42 · You Never Call · Robert Asprin · ss

48 · A Mother’s Lament · Judith R. Conly · pm

49 · Your Face Will Freeze Like That · Morgan Llywelyn · ss

63 · What’s the Magic Word? · Jody Lynn Nye · nv

86 · Don’t Go Out in Holy Underwear · Elizabeth Ann Scarborough · nv

111 · Would You? · William R. Forstchen · ss

120 · Just Wait Until You Have Children of Your Own · Esther M. Friesner · ss

139 · You’ll Catch Your Death of Colds · Bill Fawcett · ss

152 · The Golden Years · Anne McCaffrey · ss

163 · Maureen Birnbaum Pokes an Eye Out [Maureen Birnbaum] · George Alec Effinger · ss

182 · Clean Up Your Room! · Laura Anne Gilman · ss

201 · Return with Your Spacesuit, or On It · Eleanore & Christopher Stasheff · ss

221 · Don’t Go Near the Water · Terri Beckett & Chris Power · ss

237 · Mother Knows Best · Josepha Sherman · ss

248 · Accidents Don’t Just Happen—They’re Caused · Elizabeth Moon · nv

270 · The Starving Children on Mars · Mike Resnick & Louise Rowder · ss

284 · Don’t Put That in Your Mouth, You Don’t Know Where It’s Been · Diane Duane · nv

Ambush at Yuma’s Chimney by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, June 1965, M-120, 45¢, 129pp, pb, n., cover by Jerome Podwil)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with Ride the Wild Land by John Callahan.

Bancroft’s Banco by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, August 1963, F-224, 40¢, 81pp, pb, n., cover by Gerald McConnell)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with The Seven Six-Gunners.

Bancroft’s Banco by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, 1970, 75968, 75¢, pb, n.)
Reprint (Ace 1963) western novel. Bound in the tête-bêche style with The Seven Six-Gunners by Nelson Nye.

Death Valley Slim by Nelson C. Nye (Ace Double, February 1963, F-184, 40¢, 130pp, pb, n., cover by Gerald McConnell)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with The Kid from Lincoln County by Nelson C. Nye.

Death Valley Slim by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, 1970, 14193, 60¢, pb, n.)
Reprint (Ace 1963) western novel. Bound in the tête-bêche style with The Kid from Lincoln County by Nelson Nye.

Gun Feud at Tiedown by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, March 1965, M-112, 45¢, 125pp, pb, n., cover by Gerald McConnell)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with Rogue’s Rendezvous.

Gun Feud at Tiedown by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, 1973, 30701, 75¢, pb, n.)
Reprint (Ace 1965) western novel. Bound in the tête-bêche style with Rogue’s Rendezvous by Nelson Nye.

Gunman Gunman by Nelson C. Nye (Sage Books, December 1949, LC:50-31782, $2.50, 236pp, hc, n.)

Hideout Mountain by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, August 1962, F-150, 40¢, 91pp, pb, n.)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with Rafe.

Hideout Mountain by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, 1969, 70350, 60¢, pb, n.)
Reprint (Ace 1962) western novel. Bound in the tête-bêche style with Rafe by Nelson Nye.

The Kid from Lincoln County by Nelson C. Nye (Ace Double, February 1963, F-184, 40¢, 92pp, pb, n., cover by Robert Peak)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with Death Valley Slim by Nelson C. Nye.

The Kid from Lincoln County by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, 1970, 14193, 60¢, pb, n.)
Reprint (Ace 1963) western novel. Bound in the tête-bêche style with Death Valley Slim by Nelson Nye.

The Marshal of Pioche by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, January 1966, M-136, 45¢, 118pp, pb, n.)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with Panhandle Pistolero by Ray Hogan.

The No-Gun Fighter by Nelson C. Nye (Ace Double, October 1956, D-180, 35¢, 183pp, pb, n.)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with One Step Ahead of the Posse by Walt Coburn.

Once in the Saddle by Nelson C. Nye--- see under Clem Colt.

The One-Shot Kid by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, October 1954, D-78, 35¢, pb, n.)
Reprint (Arcadia House 1946 as Once in the Saddle by Clem Colt) western novel. Bound in the tête-bêche style with Lobo Legacy by Tom West.

Plunder Valley by Nelson C. Nye (Ace Double, December 1952, D-6, 35¢, 174pp, pb, n.)
Reprint (Sage Books 1949 as Gunman Gunman) western novel. This is a “specially edited” edition. Bound in the tête-bêche style with The Branded Lawman by William E. Vance.

Rafe by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, August 1962, F-150, 40¢, 131pp, pb, n., cover by Gerald McConnell)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with Hideout Mountain.

Rafe by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, 1969, 70350, 60¢, pb, n., cover by Gerald McConnell)
Reprint (Ace 1962) western novel. Bound in the tête-bêche style with Hideout Mountain by Nelson Nye.

Rogue’s Rendezvous by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, March 1965, M-112, 45¢, 94pp, pb, n.)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with Gun Feud at Tiedown.

Rogue’s Rendezvous by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, 1973, 30701, 75¢, pb, n., cover by Gerald McConnell)
Reprint (Ace 1965) western novel. Bound in the tête-bêche style with Gun Feud at Tiedown by Nelson Nye.

Rustler’s Roost by Nelson C. Nye--- see under Clem Colt.

The Seven Six-Gunners by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, August 1963, F-224, 40¢, 140pp, pb, n.)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with Bancroft’s Banco.

The Seven Six-Gunners by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, 1970, 75968, 75¢, pb, n.)
Reprint (Ace 1963) western novel. Bound in the tête-bêche style with Bancroft’s Banco by Nelson Nye.

Sudden Country by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, August 1964, F-298, 40¢, 111pp, pb, n.)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with Treasure Trail from Tucson.

Texas Tornado by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, March 1955, D-98, 35¢, 158pp, pb, n., cover by Norman Saunders)
Reprint (Phoenix Press US 1943 as Rustler’s Roost by Clem Colt) western novel. Bound in the tête-bêche style with The Lobo Horseman by Samuel Anthony Peeples.

Tornado on Horseback by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, December 1955, D-134, 35¢, 163pp, pb, n.)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with The Outsiders by Gene Olson.

Treasure Trail from Tucson by Nelson Nye (Ace Double, August 1964, F-298, 40¢, 143pp, pb, n., cover by Gerald McConnell)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with Sudden Country.

The Killer Breed ed. Nelson C. Nye (Tower, 1967, pb, an)
“Five of the most exciting novelettes ever written by members of the Western Writers of America.”

· Rusty Guns · Clifton Adams · nv Adventure February 1948

· White Man’s Gold · Clay Fisher · ss (r)
based on material from the novel Red Blizzard, Simon & Schuster, 1951.

· Rancho of Fear · Wayne D. Overholser · nv .44 Western Magazine November 1952

· Rough Shod · Luke Short · ss The Blue Book Magazine April 1939

· Doctors of Death · Thomas Thompson · nv Star Western December 1948

They Won Their Spurs ed. Nelson Nye (Avon, 1962, pb, an)
old WWA #10 / new WWA #11, Spurs #1. (In 1965, Legends and Tales of the Old West, the 1962 anthology of retold tall tales, was added to the WWA list at position #10 and changed the previous numbering.)

· The Storm Rope · Leslie Ernenwein · ss 2-Gun Western February 1955

· Boss of the Bottoms · Frank C. Robertson · ss (r)

· A Deal with a Lady · S. Omar Barker · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 29 1958

· Miracle at Circle Seven · Will C. Brown · ss Western Short Stories September 1954

· The Wasted Years · L. P. Holmes · nv Thrilling Western September 1952

· A Wise Old Cowman Told Me · Stephen Payne · ss (r)

· When the Children Cry for Meat · Noel Loomis · ss (r)

· Night Run · Bill Gulick · ss (r)

· Man on the Wagon Tongue · Elmer Kelton · ss

· Outlaw’s Boots · Thomas Thompson · ss The Saturday Evening Post February 27 1954

Western Roundup ed. Nelson Nye (Macmillan, 1961, hc, an)
Anthology by members of the Western Writers of America. (WWA #9)

vii · Introduction · Paul I. Wellman · in

1 · Only Good Ones · Elmore Leonard · ss

15 · That 7X Bull · Elmer Kelton · ss Texas Rangers July 1954

27 · Shiftless Slow · Leslie Ernenwein · ss Ranch Romances 2nd May 1952

38 · The Streets of Laredo · Will Henry · ss

53 · Portrait of a Gunfighter · Hal G. Evarts · ss (r)

68 · The Tomato Can Kid · William O. Turner · ss (r)

82 · Smart · Wayne D. Overholser · ss Argosy November 1959, as “The Law-Abiding Outlaw”

92 · A Pinch of Dust · S. E. Whitman · ss (r)

108 · The Marshal of Indian Rock · Fred Grove · ss Max Brand’s Western Magazine September 1953, as “Town of No Return”

124 · Way of the Law in Calico · John Prescott · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 5 1956, as “The Landlady’s Daughter”

138 · Some Learn Hard · James Woodruff Smith · ss (r)

151 · High-Carded · Lewis B. Patten · ss Western Short Stories November 1950, as “Fast-Draw Feud”

160 · Double Barreled Jackpot · Gordon C. Baldwin · ss (r)

173 · Timber Tough · Noel M. Loomis · ss Argosy October 1949

188 · Due Process · Steve Frazee · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1960, as “All Legal and Proper”

207 · Jackass Judgment · Kenneth Fowler · ss Esquire July 1952

212 · Hired Gun · William R. Cox · ss Argosy January 1951

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

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 Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol Oates (The Mysterious Press, November 2011, 978-0-8021-2602-3, $24.00, 365pp, hc, co)
Associational collection of seven stories of psychological horror.

1 · The Corn Maiden · Joyce Carol Oates · na Transgressions ed. Ed McBain, Forge, 2005; subtitled “A Love Story”.

139 · Beersheba · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September/October 2010

165 · Nobody Knows My Name · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Twists of the Tale ed. Ellen Datlow, Dell, 1996

185 · Fossil-Figures · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The Ontario Review 2010

207 · Death-Cup · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1997

249 · Helping Hands · Joyce Carol Oates · na (r)

315 · A Hole in the Head · Joyce Carol Oates · na (r)

Demon and Other Tales by Joyce Carol Oates (Necronomicon Press, January 1996, 0-940884-82-8, $4.95, 36pp, ph, co, cover by Jason Eckhardt)
Collection of seven stories of the macabre, two original, with illustrations by Jason Eckhardt.

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

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

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

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

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

29 · The Temple · Joyce Carol Oates · vi

33 · Demon · Joyce Carol Oates · ss

Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque by Joyce Carol Oates (Penguin/Dutton, February 1994, 0-525-93655-6, $21.95, 307pp, hc, co, cover: The Sleep of Reason Breeds Monsters by Francisco Goya from 1799)
Collection of 16 stories of horror and the “grotesque,” one apparently original. With an afterword by the author.

3 · Haunted · Joyce Carol Oates · nv The Architecture of Fear ed. Kathryn Cramer & Peter D. Pautz, Arbor House, 1987

26 · The Doll · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Epoch 1980

49 · The Bingo Master · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Dark Forces ed. Kirby McCauley, Viking, 1980

72 · The White Cat · Joyce Carol Oates · nv A Matter of Crime, Vol. 2 ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, Harvest, 1987

99 · The Model · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1992

147 · Extenuating Circumstances · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Sisters in Crime 5 ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley, 1992

154 · Don’t You Trust Me? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Glamour August 1992

158 · The Guilty Party · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Glamour July 1991

172 · The Premonition · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Playboy December 1992

188 · Phase Change · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Omni Visions One ed. Ellen Datlow, Omni, 1993

211 · Poor Bibi · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Tikkun May/June 1992, as “Poor Thing”

219 · Thanksgiving · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Omni November 1993

232 · Blind · Joyce Carol Oates · ss

247 · The Radio Astronomer · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Antæus #70, Spring 1993

254 · Accursed Inhabitants of the House of Bly · Joyce Carol Oates · nv The Antioch Review Winter 1993

284 · Martyrdom · Joyce Carol Oates · nv MetaHorror ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992

303 · An Afterword by the Author · Joyce Carol Oates · aw

Mysteries of Winterthurn by Joyce Carol Oates (Dutton, February 1984, 0-525-24208-2, $16.95, 482pp, hc, oc) [Xavier Kilgarvan]
Three linked Gothic/fantasy/mystery tales.

1 · The Virgin in the Rose-Bower; or, The Tragedy of Glen Mawr Manor [Xavier Kilgarvan] · Joyce Carol Oates · n.

153 · Devil’s Half Acre; or, The Mystery of the “Cruel Suitor” [Xavier Kilgarvan] · Joyce Carol Oates · n.

351 · The Bloodstained Bridal Gown; or, Xavier Kilgarvan’s Last Case [Xavier Kilgarvan] · Joyce Carol Oates · n.

Night-Side by Joyce Carol Oates (Vanguard Press, 1977, 0-8149-0793-8, $10.00, 370pp, hc, co)

1 · Night-Side · Joyce Carol Oates · nv

30 · The Widows · Joyce Carol Oates · nv (r)

65 · Lover · Joyce Carol Oates · ss

86 · The Snowstorm · Joyce Carol Oates · ss (r)

110 · The Translation · Joyce Carol Oates · ss TriQuarterly #40, Fall 1977

134 · The Dungeon · Joyce Carol Oates · ss (r)

149 · Famine Country · Joyce Carol Oates · ss (r)

168 · Bloodstains · Joyce Carol Oates · pm Red Clay Reader #7, 1970

186 · Exile · Joyce Carol Oates · ss (r)

202 · The Giant Woman · Joyce Carol Oates · ss (r)

221 · Daisy · Joyce Carol Oates · ss (r)

244 · The Murder · Joyce Carol Oates · ss

256 · Fatal Woman · Joyce Carol Oates · ss

262 · The Sacrifice · Joyce Carol Oates · nv (r)

289 · The Thaw · Joyce Carol Oates · ss (r)

309 · Further Confessions · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Chicago Review 1977

331 · The Blessing · Joyce Carol Oates · ss (r)

348 · A Theory of Knowledge · Joyce Carol Oates · ss (r)

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)
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

Small Avalanches and Other Stories by Joyce Carol Oates (HarperTempest, March 2003, 0-06-001217-X, $16.99, 390pp, hc, co, cover by Adam Gaynor)
Young-adult collection of 12 stories, two original, and at least four with SF or fantasy elements.

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

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

40 · Small Avalanches · Joyce Carol Oates · nv The Secret Self 1: Short Stories by Women ed. Hermione Lee, Everyman US, 1993

65 · Haunted · Joyce Carol Oates · nv The Architecture of Fear ed. Kathryn Cramer & Peter D. Pautz, Arbor House, 1987

105 · Bad Girls · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction (Second Edition) ed. R. V. Cassill & Joyce Carol Oates, Norton, 1997

141 · How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again · Joyce Carol Oates · nv TriQuarterly #15, Spring 1969

171 · Shot · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Seventeen June 1990

191 · Why Don’t You Come Live with Me It’s Time · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Tikkun July/August 1990

215 · Life After High School · Joyce Carol Oates · nv The Atlantic Monthly November 1991

247 · Capricorn · Joyce Carol Oates · nv

287 · The Visit · Joyce Carol Oates · nv

311 · The Model · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1992

Wild Nights! by Joyce Carol Oates (HarperCollins/Ecco Press, April 2008, 978-0-06-143479-2, $24.95, 238pp, tp, co)
Collection of five stories about the last days of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway.

1 · Poe Posthumous; or, The Light-House · Joyce Carol Oates · nv McSweeney’s Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage, 2004, as “The Fabled Light-House at Viña del Mar”; slightly different from original version.

37 · EDickinsonRepliLuxe · Joyce Carol Oates · nv The Virginia Quarterly Review Fall 2006

75 · Grandpa Clemens & Angelfish, 1906 · Joyce Carol Oates · na McSweeney’s 2006

137 · The Master at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1914-1916 · Joyce Carol Oates · na Conjunctions #48, Spring 2007

189 · Papa at Ketchum, 1961 · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Salmagundi Summer 2007

American Gothic Tales ed. Joyce Carol Oates (Penguin/Plume, December 1996, 0-452-27489-3, $14.95, 547pp, tp, an, cover by Albert Pinkham Ryder)
Anthology of 46 literary stories of horror and suspense, arranged chronologically. Authors include Washington Irving, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Rice, Harlan Ellison, and Stephen King.

1 · Introduction · Joyce Carol Oates · in

10 · from Wieland; or, The Transformation · Charles Brockden Brown · ex 1798

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

45 · The Man of Adamant · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Token and Atlantic Souvenir 1837, 1836, as by The Author of “The Gentle Boy”; subtitled “An Apologue”.

52 · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”

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

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

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

103 · The Romance of Certain Old Clothes · Henry James · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1868, uncredited.

121 · The Damned Thing · Ambrose Bierce · ss Tales from New York Town Topics December 7 1893

129 · Afterward · Edith Wharton · nv The Century Magazine January 1910

157 · The Striding Place · Gertrude Atherton · ss The Speaker June 20 1896, as “The Twins”

163 · Death in the Woods · Sherwood Anderson · ss The American Mercury September 1926

175 · The Outsider [Dream Cycle] · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales April 1926

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

191 · The Lonesome Place · August Derleth · ss Famous Fantastic Mysteries February 1948

199 · The Door · E. B. White · ss The New Yorker March 25 1939

204 · The Lovely House · Shirley Jackson · nv New World Writing #2, Mentor, 1952

226 · Allal · Paul Bowles · ss Too Far from Home by Paul Bowles, The Ecco Press, 1993

236 · The Reencounter · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982

242 · In the Icebound Hothouse · William Goyen · ss Had I a Hundred Mouths by William Goyen, Clarkson N. Potter, 1985

253 · The Enormous Radio · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker May 17 1947

264 · The Veldt · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 23 1950, as “The World the Children Made”

278 · The Dachau Shoe · W. S. Merwin · vi The Miner’s Pale Children by W. S. Merwin, Atheneum, 1970

280 · The Approved · W. S. Merwin · vi The Miner’s Pale Children by W. S. Merwin, Atheneum, 1970

282 · Spiders I Have Known · W. S. Merwin · pp guabi #2, 1970

284 · Postcards from the Maginot Line · W. S. Merwin · vi The Miner’s Pale Children by W. S. Merwin, Atheneum, 1970

286 · Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams · Sylvia Plath · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1968

301 · In Bed One Night · Robert Coover · vi Playboy January 1980

304 · Schrödinger’s Cat · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Universe 5 ed. Terry Carr, Random House, 1974

312 · The Waterworks · E. L. Doctorow · vi Lives of the Poets by E. L. Doctorow, Random House, 1984

315 · Shattered Like a Glass Goblin · Harlan Ellison · ss Orbit 4 ed. Damon Knight, Putnam, 1968

325 · Human Moments in World War III · Don DeLillo · ss Esquire July 1983

339 · The Anatomy of Desire · John L’Heureux · ss Desires by John L’Heureux, Holt, 1981

344 · Little Things · Raymond Carver · vi 1986

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

349 · Freniere · Anne Rice · ex from Interview with the Vampire, Knopf, 1976

358 · A Short Guide to the City · Peter Straub · ss Houses Without Doors by Peter Straub, Grafton, 1990

369 · In the Penny Arcade · Steven Millhauser · ss The Hudson Review Summer 1984

378 · The Reach · Stephen King · ss Yankee November 1981, as “Do the Dead Sing?”

398 · Exchange Value · Charles Johnson · ss Choice 1981

406 · Snow · John Crowley · nv Omni November 1985

420 · The Last Feast of Harlequin [Cthulhu] · Thomas Ligotti · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction April 1990

455 · Time and Again · Breece D’J Pancake · ss 1977

460 · Replacements · Lisa Tuttle · nv MetaHorror ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992

475 · Spirit Seizures · Melissa Pritchard · ss Spirit Seizures by Melissa Pritchard, University of Georgia, 1987

486 · Cat in Glass · Nancy Etchemendy · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July 1989

500 · The Girl Who Loved Animals · Bruce McAllister · nv Omni May 1988

518 · Ursus Triad, Later · Kathe Koja & Barry N. Malzberg · ss Off Limits ed. Ellen Datlow, St. Martin's, 1996

525 · The Nuclear Family: His Talk, Her Teeth · Katherine Dunn · ex from Geek Love, Knopf, 1989

533 · Subsoil · Nicholson Baker · ss The New Yorker June 27/July 4 1994

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

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

A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers ed. Joyce Carol Oates (Akashic Books, August 22, 2023, 978-1-63614-137-4, $29.95, 272pp, hc, oa, cover by Laurel Hausler)
Details taken from online listing.

· Introduction · Joyce Carol Oates · in

· Frank Jones · Aimee Bender · ss

· Dancing · Tananarive Due · ss

· Scarlet Ribbons · Megan Abbott · ss

· Malena · Joanna Margaret · ss

· Dancing with Mirrors · Lisa Lim · ss

· Metempsychosis, or The Journey of the Soul · Margaret Atwood · ss

· Concealed Carry · Lisa Tuttle · ss

· Gross Anatomy · Aimee LaBrie · ss

· Breathing Exercise · Raven Leilani · ss

· Muzzle · Cassandra Khaw · ss

· Her Heart May Fail Her · Yumi Dineen Shiroma · ss

· The Chair of Tranquility (from the Diary of Mrs. Thomas Peele, Trenton, New Jersey, 1853) · Joyce Carol Oates · ss

· The Seventh Bride, or Female Curiosity · Elizabeth Hand · ss

· Nemesis · Valerie Martin · ss

· Sydney · Sheila Kohler · ss

· About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

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 #14, 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 Summer 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; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · 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

Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers ed. Joyce Carol Oates (W.W. Norton, January 1998, 0-393-97176-7, $37.65, 750pp, tp, an, cover by Grant Wood)
Associational anthology of 111 stories, narrative poems, and non-fiction pieces aimed at teaching writers. There are sections on the supernatural (Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft) and on retelling myth and fairy tales (Angela Carter), but the bulk is non-genre, despite pieces from other familiar authors including Harlan Ellison, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and Oates herself.

· Introduction: Why We Write, Why We Read · Joyce Carol Oates · in

· I. Miniature Narratives

· The Student · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)

· The Sirens · Franz Kafka · ss (r)

· The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories November/December 1933

· The Wind Blows · Katherine Mansfield · ss (r)

· Father’s Last Escape · Bruno Schulz · ss Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz, 1937

· I Used to Live Here Once · Jean Rhys · vi Sleep It Off, Lady by Jean Rhys, Andre Deutsch, 1976

· The House of the Crime · Alberto Moravia · ss (r)

· The Supper · Tadeusz Borowski · ss (r)

· Cities & the Dead · Italo Calvino · ss (r)

· Continuous Cities · Italo Calvino · ss (r)

· Is There Nowhere Else Where We Can Meet? · Nadine Gordimer · ss (r)

· The Turtle Overnight · James Wright · ss (r)

· Regret for a Spider Web · James Wright · ss (r)

· Harriet Feigenbaum Is a Sculptor · Phyllis Koestenbaum · ss (r)

· Distance from Loved Ones · James Tate · ss (r)

· Cockroaches in Autumn · Lydia Davis · ss (r)

· Coffee · Daniel Halpern · ss (r)

· Advice to Young Writers · Ron Padgett · ss (r)

· The Last Days of a Famous Mime · Peter Carey · ss (r)

· No One’s a Mystery · Elizabeth Tallent · ss (r)
story syndicated to newspapers and published by Cincinnati Enquirer and Newsday.

· Death of the Right Fielder · Stuart Dybek · ss (r)

· 14 May 1905 and 15 May 1905 · Alan Lightman · ss (r)

· La Cortada · Ruth Behar · ss (r)

· II. Dramatic Monologues

· Lethal · Joyce Carol Oates · vi Where Is Here? by Joyce Carol Oates, Ecco Press, 1992

· Twirler · Jane Martin · ss (r)

· Testimonies · August Wilson · ss (r)

· Still Life · Emily Mann · ss (r)

· III. Early Stories

· The Judgment · Franz Kafka · ss 1913

· Indian Camp [Nick Adams] · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transatlantic Review April 1924, as “One Night Last Summer”

· The Burning Baby · Dylan Thomas · ss Contemporary Poetry and Prose May 1936

· Wunderkind · Carson McCullers · ss Story #53, December 1936, as by Carson Smith

· Goodbye, My Brother · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker August 25 1951

· Friends from Philadelphia · John Updike · ss The New Yorker October 30 1954

· Amahl and the Night Visitors: A Guide to the Tenor of Love · Lorrie Moore · ss (r)

· The Naked Lady · Madison Smartt Bell · ss The Crescent Review #1, 1983

· The Sutton Pie Safe · Pinckney Benedict · ss The Henfield Prize Stories ed. John Birmingham, Laura Gilpin & Joseph F. McCrindle, Warner, 1992

· A Portrait of a Father · Jonathan Ames · ss (r)

· IV. The Art and the Craft of Revision

· The Sisters · James Joyce · ss Irish Homestead August 13 1904

· The Sisters (1914) · James Joyce · ss (r)

· V. Re-Visions: Reappropriations

· Genesis 19 · [uncredited] · ex from The Hebrew Bible (r)

· The Cave · Alicia Ostriker · ss (r)

· The Story of Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira · Ovid · ss (r)

· Hercules, Deianira, Nessus · C. K. Williams · ss (r)

· The Story of Daedalus and Icarus · Ovid · ss (r)

· Fever · Harlan Ellison · vi Mind Fields by Jacek Yerka & Harlan Ellison, Morpheus International, 1994

· Little Red-Cap · Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss German Popular Stories by trans. by Edgar Taylor, 1823, as by The Brothers Grimm
translated from the German (“Rothkäppchen”, 1812).

· The Werewolf · Angela Carter · vi The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, Gollancz, 1979
revised from South-West Arts Review, #2, Oct ’77.

· Little Snow-White · Jakob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss (r)

· Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs · Anne Sexton · ss (r)

· VI. Narrative in Other Modes

· Memoir, Diary, Personal Document

· Passages from the American Notebooks · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ex Smith, Elder, 1868

· From the Journal (May 1853-October 1857) · Henry David Thoreau · ex (r)

· From the Diary (February-March 1930) · Virginia Woolf · ex (r)

· Moments of Being · Virginia Woolf · ex Harvest/HBJ, 1985

· American Hunger · Richard Wright · ar (r)

· How It Feels to Be Colored Me · Zora Neale Hurston · ar (r)

· Borges and I · Jorge Luis Borges · ar (r)

· Those Who Must Jump · M. F. K. Fisher · ar (r)

· Passing Through Tangiers · Jack Kerouac · ar (r)

· No Name Woman · Maxine Hong Kingston · ar (r)

· Updike and I · John Updike · ar (r)

· The Dream · Mikal Gilmore · ar (r)

· Poems That Tell Stories

· Odysseus Blinds the Cyclops · Homer · pm (r)

· The Story of Actaeon · Ovid · pm (r)

· Home Burial · Robert Frost · pm North of Boston by Robert Frost, David Nutt, 1914

· Cherrylog Road · James Dickey · pm (r)

· The Car · Raymond Carver · pm (r)

· 400-Meter Freestyle · Maxine Kumin · pm (r)

· Emergencies · Annie Dillard · pm (r)

· Cattle-Killing Winter, 1889-90 · Jana Harris · pm (r)

· Avalanche · Jana Harris · pm (r)

· Violence · Tom Wayman · pm (r)

· Sure Shot · Erica Funkhouser · pm (r)

· Testimony · Jon Davis · pm (r)

· After the Fact: To Ted Bundy · Robert Phillips · pm (r)

· Target Practice · Gary Soto · pm (r)

· The Levee · Gary Soto · pm (r)

· The Trees That Change Our Lives · Gary Soto · pm (r)

· The Wrestler’s Heart · Gary Soto · pm (r)

· When Jesus Walked · Carlos Cumpian · pm (r)

· Aisle of Dogs · Chase Twichell · pm (r)

· The Cleaving · Li-Young Lee · pm (r)

· The Flood · Joy Harjo · pm Grand Street #36, 1990

· VII. Genre: Horror

· The Rats in the Walls · H. P. Lovecraft · nv Weird Tales March 1924

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

· VIII. Classics and Contemporaries

· “Tickets, Please!” · D. H. Lawrence · ss The Strand Magazine April 1919

· Sun and Moon · Katherine Mansfield · ss (r)

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

· A Temple of the Holy Ghost · Flannery O’Connor · ss A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor, Harcourt, 1955

· Anxiety · Grace Paley · ss (r)

· The Balloon · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker April 16 1966

· The Writer in the Family · E. L. Doctorow · ss Esquire August 1984

· Why Don’t You Dance? · Raymond Carver · ss (r)

· The Man from Mars · Margaret Atwood · ss The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1977

· Jasmine · Bharati Mukherjee · ss (r)

· Sister · Tobias Wolff · ss Ploughshares Winter 1983

· Communist · Richard Ford · ss Antæus #55, Autumn 1985

· Any Sport · William Heyen · ss The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1986

· Mourning · Robert Taylor, Jr. · ss The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1981

· My Man Bovanne · Toni Cade Bambara · ss Black World October 1971, as “Mama Hazel Takes to Her Bed”

· Cutter · C. E. Poverman · ss Skin by C. E. Poverman, Ontario Review, 1992

· I Dated Jane Austen · T. Coraghessan Boyle · ss Georgia Review Summer 1979

· Dating Your Mom · Ian Frazier · ss The New Yorker July 3 1978

· Aren’t You Happy for Me? · Richard Bausch · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1993

· My Mother · Jamaica Kincaid · ss At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983

· Fruit of the Month · Abby Frucht · ss The Ontario Review Spring/Summer 1984

· Damballah · John Edgar Wideman · ss Damballah by John Edgar Wideman, Avon, 1981

· X and O · Jewel Mogan · ss (r)

· The Moths · Helena María Viramontes · ss The Moths and Other Stories by Helena María Viramontes, Arte Publico Press, 1985

· Young Lions · Edward P. Jones · ss (r)

· Gravity · David Leavitt · ss A Place I’ve Never Been by David Leavitt, Viking, 1990

· Just Don’t Touch Anything · Russell Banks · ss GQ May 1993

· In the American Society · Gish Jen · ss The Southern Review Summer 1986

· The Pugilist at Rest · Thom Jones · ss The New Yorker December 2 1991

· Family · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Omni December 1989

· The Practice of Writing—The Writing Workshop · Joyce Carol Oates · aw

· Notes on Authors · [uncredited] · bg

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