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The Best Short Stories of 1940 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1940, hc, an)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. 1 · Anschluss · Kay Boyle · nv Harper’s Magazine April 1939 20 · The People v. Abe Lathan, Colored · Erskine Caldwell · ss Esquire August 1939 30 · Getting on in the World · Morley Callaghan · ss The American Mercury May 1939 37 · Roof Sitter · Frances Eisenberg · ss Story #77, May/June 1939 53 · The Fall of Machine Gun McGurk · James T. Farrell · ss The Canadian Forum July 1939 65 · Hand Upon the Waters [Yoknapatawpha County] · William Faulkner · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 4 1939 82 · Design in Plaster · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ss Esquire November 1939 89 · Frankie and Thomas and Bud Asbury · Caroline Gordon · nv The Southern Review Spring 1939 109 · Under the Ridge · Ernest Hemingway · ss Cosmopolitan October 1939 123 · Honey House · Mary King · nv The Southern Review Autumn 1939 145 · Death of an Outcast · Manuel Komroff · ss Esquire April 1939 155 · That Fine Place We Had Last Year · Roderick Lull · ss Story #79, September/October 1939 170 · Your General Does Not Sleep · Emilio Lussu · nv The Atlantic Monthly May 1939 194 · Something Jolly · Dorothy McCleary · ss Story #79, September/October 1939 214 · Kullan · Edita Morris · ss Story #77, May/June 1939 229 · The Beautiful Fire · I. V. Morris · ss Story #77, May/June 1939 244 · Family History · P. M. Pasinetti · nv The Southern Review Summer 1939 285 · The Way Death Comes · Prudencio de Pereda · ss Story #79, September/October 1939 296 · Herself · James Pooler · ss Story #76, March/April 1939 311 · The Downward Path to Wisdom · Katherine Anne Porter · nv Harper’s Bazaar #2731, December 1939 333 · The Presbyterian Choir Singers · William Saroyan · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1939 344 · Words Without Music · Michael Seide · ss American Prefaces December 1939 357 · Main Currents of American Thought · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker August 5 1939 368 · The Seven Men of Rouen · George Slocombe · ss Esquire December 1939 381 · Four Worms Turning · Morton Stern · ss Story #77, May/June 1939 387 · The Two Deaths of Kaspar Rausch · Hans Otto Storm · nv The Yale Review June 1939 422 · Rich Men · Jesse Stuart · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1939 433 · Beautifully and Bravely · Harry Sylvester · ss Collier’s February 25 1939 450 · Night and the Lost Armies · Benedict Thielen · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1939 459 · The Hitch-Hikers · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Autumn 1939 476 · Resurgam · Louis Zara · ss Creative Writing May 1939

The Best Short Stories of 1941 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1941, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · Shadow of a Girl · E. B. Ashton · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1940 · All Around the Town · Stephen Vincent Benet · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1940 · Handy · Erskine Caldwell · ss The New Republic September 23 1940 · Big Jules · Morley Callaghan · ss (r) · The Net · Robert M. Coates · ss The New Yorker January 27 1940 · Mamma Is a Lady · David Cornel De Jong · vi Harper’s Magazine November 1940 · To the Least… · Henry Exall · ss (r) · A Nun No More · John Fante · ss (r) · Gold Is Not Always · William Faulkner · ss (r) · Color Trouble · Harold Garfinkel · ss (r) · The Magic Wire · Felicia Gizycka · nv Story #85, September/October 1940 · Smile for the Man, Dear · Justin Herman · ss (r) · The Life of the Mind · Weldon Kees · ss (r) · The White Bull · Mary King · ss (r) · Some People Are Just Plumb Crazy · Arthur Kober · ss The New Yorker March 9 1940 · Scorn and Comfort · Christopher La Farge · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1940 · The System Was Doomed · Meyer Levin · ss Story #85, September/October 1940 · Don’t Get Me Wrong · Roderick Lull · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1940 · Sunday Morning on Twentieth Street · Albert Maltz · ss (r) · Ill-Winds from the Wide World · Peter Neagoe · ss Story #84, July/August 1940 · The Three Swimmers and the Educated Grocer · William Saroyan · ss Story #83, May/June 1940 · Triumph of Justice · Irwin Shaw · ss Esquire December 1940 · The Butcher · Wilma Shore · ss Story #86, November/December 1940 · Goin’ to Town · Wallace Stegner · ss (r) · Love · Jesse Stuart · vi Story #83, May/June 1940 · The Psychologist · Benedict Thielen · ss (r) · Houdini · Jerome Weidman · ss The New Yorker July 20 1940 · Strip-Tease · George Weller · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1940 · Almos’ a Man · Richard Wright · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2732, January 1940

Collected Stories by Fitz-James O’Brien ed. Edward J. O’Brien--- see under Fitz-James O’Brien.

50 Best American Short Stories 1915-1939 ed. Edward J. O’Brien (Houghton Mifflin, 1939, x+928pp, hc, an)     Details supplied by Douglas A. Anderson. 1 · The Yellow Cat · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine March 1915 23 · The Lost Phoebe · Theodore Dreiser · ss The Century Magazine April 1916 42 · The Menorah · Benjamin Rosenblatt · ss The Bellman #512, May 6 1916 49 · Onnie · Thomas Beer · nv The Century Magazine May 1917 73 · Boys Will Be Boys [Judge William Pitman Priest (Old Judge Priest)] · Irvin S. Cobb · nv The Saturday Evening Post October 20 1917 115 · The Meeker Ritual · Joseph Hergesheimer · nv The Century Magazine June 1919 (+1) 142 · Turkey Red · Frances Gilchrist Wood · ss Pictorial Review November 1919 158 · Fanutza · Konrad Bercovici · ss The Dial May 1921 175 · My Old Man · Ernest Hemingway · ss Three Stories and Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway, McAlman's Contract Publishing Co., 1923 191 · Four Generations · Ruth Suckow · ss The American Mercury January 1924 206 · The Return · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Century Magazine May 1925 226 · An Army with Banners · Katharine Fullerton Gerould · nv Harper’s Magazine August 1925 255 · Haircut · Ring W. Lardner · ss Liberty March 28 1925 269 · The Half Pint Flask · DuBose Heyward · ss The Bookman May 1927 288 · North Is Black · Oliver La Farge · ss The Dial January 1927 302 · Good Morning, Major · J. P. Marquand · nv The Saturday Evening Post December 11 1926 333 · A Telephone Call · Dorothy Parker · ss The Bookman January 1928 340 · Double Birthday · Willa Cather · nv The Forum February 1929 370 · Death of Red Peril · Walter D. Edmonds · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1928 383 · The Faithful Wife · Morley Callaghan · ss The New Yorker December 28 1929 389 · The Little Wife · William March · ss The Midland January/February 1930 403 · Rest Cure · Kay Boyle · ss Story #1, April/May 1931 413 · That Evening Sun · William Faulkner · nv The American Mercury March 1931 434 · Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1931 459 · One with Shakespeare · Martha Foley · ss Story #1, April/May 1931 468 · A Pretty Cute Little Stunt · George Milburn · ss The American Mercury February 1931 478 · Sherrel · Whit Burnett · ss Story #2, June/July 1931 487 · Napoleon’s Hat Under Glass · Manuel Komroff · ss Story #6, March/April 1932 491 · Shepherd of the Lord · Peter Neagoe · nv Story #4, November/December 1931 512 · Fame Takes the J Car · George Albee · ss Story #10, December 1932 526 · Helen, I Love You! · James T. Farrell · ss The American Mercury July 1932 535 · Ike and Us Moons · Naomi Shumway · ss Story #9, October 1932 553 · Horse Thief · Erskine Caldwell · ss Vanity Fair (US) November 1933 561 · Winter · Dorothy M’Cleary · nv Story #17, December 1933 588 · Death and Transfiguration · Alan Marshall · ss Story #15, October 1933 606 · Outside Yuma · Benjamin Appel · ss New Stories (UK) April/May 1934 614 · The Overcoat · Sally Benson · ss The American Mercury November 1934 620 · Resurrection of a Life · William Saroyan · ss Story #28, November 1934 633 · This Town and Salamanca · Allan Seager · ss Story #25, August 1934 645 · Man on a Road · Albert Maltz · ss New Masses January 8 1935 655 · A Life in the Day of a Writer · Tess Slesinger · ss Story #40, November 1935 669 · American Nocturne · Robert Whitehand · ss American Prefaces December 1935 678 · Only the Dead Know Brooklyn · Thomas Wolfe · ss The New Yorker June 15 1935 685 · Marching Orders · I. V. Morris · nv New Stories (UK) April/May 1936 716 · Hair · Jesse Stuart · ss The American Mercury July 1936 734 · The Iron City · Lovell Thompson · nv Story #44, March 1936 766 · Christ in Concrete · Pietro di Donato · ss Esquire March 1937 783 · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937 796 · Corporal Hardy · Richard Ely Danielson · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1938 810 · Bright and Morning Star · Richard Wright · nv New Masses May 10 1938 851 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg (r) 869 · Study Guides · Wilbur L. Schramm · ms (r)

An Arabian Night-mare and Others (1848-1854) by Fitz-James O’Brien (Swan River Press, March 17, 2025, 978-1-78380-051-3, €120.00 for 3 volumes, xlvi+241pp, hc, co, cover by Brian Coldrick) [edited by Brian J. Showers & Jim Rockhill]     Volume 1 of the Collected Speculative Works of Fitz-James O’Brien, only available as part of a three-volume set with The Diamond Lens and Others and What Was It? and Others, limited to 300 copies, the first 100 of which are embossed and hand-numbered. Details supplied by Mike Ashley. vii · Dreaming of Fantasy: The Life and Early Speculative Writings of Fitz-James O’Brien · John P. Irish · in xliii · A Note on the Text · John P. Irish · ms 3 · Forest Thoughts · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm The Cork Magazine December 1848 6 · Philosophy in Disguise · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss The Family Friend November 1849 10 · The Story of a Child · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss The Family Friend March 15 1851 19 · The Sunbeam, the Dew-drop, and the Rose · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss The Parlour Magazine May 17 1851 22 · The Lonely Oak · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm The Parlour Magazine July 12 1851 25 · Dawn · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm The Parlour Magazine August 2 1851 26 · An Arabian Night-mare · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Household Words #85, November 8 1851, uncredited. 36 · A Legend of Barlagh Cave · Fitz-James O’Brien · ex from “The Phantom Light”, The Home Companion January 31 1852 (+8) 41 · The Wonderful Adventures of Mr. Papplewick · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Lantern March 13 1852 (+5) 69 · The Gory Gnome · Fitz-James O’Brien · pl The Lantern February 28 1852 74 · The Demon Tie · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm The Lantern April 3 1852 82 · Aladdin at the Crystal Palace · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss The Leisure Hour April 22 1852 87 · The Shirt Fiend · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm The Leisure Hour April 24 1852 89 · The Spectral Shirt · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm The Lantern June 5 1852 93 · The Old Boy · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss American Whig Review August 1852 108 · Madness · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm American Whig Review August 1852 110 · The Man Without a Shadow: A New Version · Fitz-James O’Brien · vi The Lantern September 4 1852 113 · A Voyage in My Bed · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss American Whig Review September 1852 126 · Pallida · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm American Whig Review September 1852 128 · The Song of the Immortal Gods · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm American Whig Review September 1852 131 · The Old Knight’s Wassail · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm American Whig Review September 1852 132 · One Event · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv American Whig Review October 1852 170 · The Other Night · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss American Whig Review December 1852 176 · The King of Nodland and His Dwarf · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv American Whig Review December 1852 217 · Sir Brasil’s Falcon · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm United States Magazine and Democratic Review September 1853 230 · A Peep Behind the Scenes · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Dublin University Magazine January 1854, uncredited. 235 · Sources · [uncredited] · bi 241 · About the Author · [uncredited] · bg

Collected Stories by Fitz-James O’Brien (Albert & Charles Boni, 1925, $2.00, 240pp, hc, co) [edited by Edward J. O’Brien] · Introduction · Edward J. O’Brien · in · The Diamond Lens · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Atlantic Monthly January 1858, uncredited. · The Wondersmith · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Atlantic Monthly October 1859, uncredited. · The Lost Room · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine September 1858, uncredited. · The Pot of Tulips [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine November 1855, uncredited. · The Golden Ingot · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss The Knickerbocker October 1858 · My Wife’s Tempter · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s Weekly December 12 1857 · What Was It? [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1859, uncredited. · The Dragon-Fang Possessed by the Conjuror Piou-Lu · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1856, uncredited.

The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O’Brien (Ward & Downey, 1887, hc, co) · The Diamond Lens · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Atlantic Monthly January 1858, uncredited. · The Wondersmith · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Atlantic Monthly October 1859, uncredited. · Tommatoo · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine August 1862, uncredited. · Mother of Pearl · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine February 1860, uncredited. · The Bohemian · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine July 1855, uncredited. · The Lost Room · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine September 1858, uncredited. · The Pot of Tulips [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine November 1855, uncredited. · The Golden Ingot · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss The Knickerbocker October 1858 · My Wife’s Tempter · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s Weekly December 12 1857 · What Was It? [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1859, uncredited. · Duke Humphrey’s Dinner · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine August 1855, uncredited. · Milly Dove · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine September 1855, uncredited. · The Dragon-Fang Possessed by the Conjuror Piou-Lu · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1856, uncredited.

The Diamond Lens and Others (1855-1858) by Fitz-James O’Brien (Swan River Press, March 17, 2025, 978-1-78380-052-0, €120.00 for 3 volumes, xlv+237pp, hc, co, cover by Brian Coldrick) [edited by Brian J. Showers & Jim Rockhill]     Volume 2 of the Collected Speculative Works of Fitz-James O’Brien, only available as part of a three-volume set with An Arabian Night-mare and Others and What Was It? and Others, limited to 300 copies, the first 100 of which are embossed and hand-numbered. Details supplied by Mike Ashley. vii · Bohemian Horrors: The Life and Middle Speculative Writings of Fitz-James O’Brien · John P. Irish · in 3 · The Bohemian · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine July 1855, uncredited. 30 · Duke Humphrey’s Dinner · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine August 1855, uncredited. 47 · The Heath · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm New York Evening Post October 19 1855 49 · The Pot of Tulips [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine November 1855, uncredited. 71 · The Dragon-Fang Possessed by the Conjuror Piou-Lu · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1856, uncredited. 96 · The Hasheesh Eater · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Putnam’s Monthly September 1856 113 · A Terrible Night · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine October 1856, uncredited. 122 · What Befell · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm The Home Journal October 18 1856 124 · By the Alders · Fitz-James O’Brien · pm The Home Journal October 25 1856 125 · The Mezzo-Matti · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Putnam’s Monthly November 1856 140 · The Crystal Bell · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1856, uncredited. 151 · A Day Dream · Fitz-James O’Brien · vi Harper’s Weekly February 21 1857, uncredited. 155 · Uncle and Nephew · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1857, uncredited. 181 · Broadway Bedeviled · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Putnam’s Monthly March 1857 190 · The Comet and I · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s Weekly May 23 1857 200 · The Diamond Lens · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Atlantic Monthly January 1858, uncredited. 231 · Sources · [uncredited] · bi 235 · About the Author · [uncredited] · bg 237 · About the Editor · [uncredited] · bg