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Short Stories from The New Yorker (Simon & Schuster, 1940, 440pp, hc, an) 3 · The Girls in Their Summer Dresses · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker February 4 1939 9 · Over the River and Through the Wood · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker December 15 1934 16 · The Secret Life of Walter Mitty · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker March 18 1939 22 · The Net · Robert M. Coates · ss The New Yorker January 27 1940 32 · Home Atmosphere · Sally Benson · ss The New Yorker March 12 1938 38 · A Toast to Captain Jerk · Russell Maloney · ss The New Yorker September 30 1939 42 · Kroy Wen · Kay Boyle · ss The New Yorker July 25 1931 48 · Nice Girl · Sherwood Anderson · ss The New Yorker July 25 1936 56 · H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, Samaritan [Hyman Kaplan] · Leonard Q. Ross · ss The New Yorker October 29 1938 63 · Prelude to Reunion · Oliver La Farge · ss The New Yorker April 15 1939 68 · A Small Day · Erskine Caldwell · ss The New Yorker August 22 1936 76 · Midsummer · Nancy Hale · ss The New Yorker September 8 1934 86 · The Door · E. B. White · ss The New Yorker March 25 1939 91 · Tourist Home · Benedict Thielen · ss The New Yorker February 11 1939 99 · Arrangement in Black and White · Dorothy Parker · ss The New Yorker October 8 1927 104 · The Courtship of Milton Barker · Wolcott Gibbs · ss The New Yorker April 9 1938 116 · Homecoming · William Maxwell · ss The New Yorker January 1 1938 123 · Only the Dead Know Brooklyn · Thomas Wolfe · ss The New Yorker June 15 1935 129 · The Works · Nathan Asch · ss The New Yorker July 27 1940 136 · Do You Like It Here? · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker February 18 1939 141 · Conversation Piece · Louise Bogan · ss The New Yorker August 12 1933 145 · The Fury · Robert M. Coates · ss The New Yorker August 15 1936 153 · Venetian Perspective · Janet Flanner · ss The New Yorker August 25 1934 159 · Ping-Pong · St. Clair McKelway · ss The New Yorker September 12 1936 167 · The Three Veterans · Leane Zugsmith · ss The New Yorker March 16 1935 171 · Wet Saturday · John Collier · ss The New Yorker July 16 1938 179 · Soldiers of the Republic · Dorothy Parker · ss The New Yorker February 5 1938 184 · Houseparty · Walter Bernstein · vi The New Yorker February 11 1939 187 · All the Years of Her Life · Morley Callaghan · ss The New Yorker June 8 1935 193 · The Explorers · Jerome Weidman · ss The New Yorker May 21 1938 203 · The Old Lady · Thyra Samter Winslow · ss The New Yorker July 23 1927 207 · A Matter of Pride · Christopher LaFarge · ss The New Yorker April 20 1940 214 · Love in the Snow · Joel Sayre · ss The New Yorker January 9 1932 220 · Profession: Housewife · Sally Benson · ss The New Yorker July 2 1938 227 · The Great Manta · Edwin Corle · ss The New Yorker May 5 1934 234 · My Sister Frances · Emily Hahn · ss The New Yorker March 20 1937 241 · Accident Near Charlottesburg · William Krauss · ss The New Yorker May 16 1936 247 · In Honor of Their Daughter · John Mosher · ss The New Yorker 252 · The Test · Angelica Gibbs · ss The New Yorker June 15 1940 256 · Goodbye, Shirley Temple · Joseph Mitchell · ss The New Yorker September 16 1939 260 · Honors and Awards · James Reid Parker · ss The New Yorker June 12 1937 266 · Pastoral at Mr. Piper’s · Mollie Panter-Downes · ss The New Yorker 270 · Man and Woman · Erskine Caldwell · ss The New Yorker July 10 1937 275 · Main Currents of American Thought · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker August 5 1939 285 · The Knife · Brendan Gill · ss The New Yorker March 16 1940 291 · The Pelican’s Shadow · Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings · ss The New Yorker January 6 1940 298 · Incident on a Street Corner · Albert Maltz · ss The New Yorker November 27 1937 303 · Such a Pretty Day · Dawn Powell · ss The New Yorker June 24 1939 313 · Portrait of Ladies · Mark Schorer · ss The New Yorker 318 · Parochial School · Paul Horgan · ss The New Yorker April 1 1933 323 · I Am Waiting · Christopher Isherwood · ss The New Yorker October 21 1939 332 · A Letter from the Bronx · Arthur Kober · ss The New Yorker 337 · Little Woman · Sally Benson · ss The New Yorker January 8 1938 344 · The Apostate · George Milburn · ss The New Yorker June 4 1932 350 · Sailor Off the Bremen · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker February 25 1939 359 · Barmecide’s Feast · Marc Connelly · ss The New Yorker December 24 1927 365 · Fish Story · Donald Moffat · ss The New Yorker April 1 1933, as “Poisson d’Avril” 371 · I’ve Got an Anchor on My Chest · R. H. Newman · ss The New Yorker November 12 1938 377 · The Happiest Days · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker November 4 1939 383 · Black Boy · Kay Boyle · ss The New Yorker May 14 1932 389 · The Nice Judge Trowbridge · Richard Lockridge · ss The New Yorker January 29 1938 392 · Love in Brooklyn · Daniel Fuchs · ss The New Yorker 402 · The Great-Grandmother · Nancy Hale · ss The New Yorker December 7 1935 408 · Chutzbah · Jerome Weidman · ss The New Yorker February 29 1936 415 · Mr. Palmer’s Party · Tess Slesinger · ss The New Yorker 420 · A Different World · Robert M. Coates · ss The New Yorker November 25 1939 426 · Are We Leaving Tomorrow? · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker March 19 1938 431 · The Getaway · Dorothy Thomas · ss The New Yorker May 20 1939

Short Story 2 (Charles Scribner’s Sons, August 1959, 331pp, hc, oa)     Details supplied by Alan Perfect. ix · Publisher’s Note · [uncredited] · ms · The Clown: Stories by Arno Karlen 3 · The Clown · Arno Karlen · ss New Campus Writing 2 ed. Nolan Miller, Bantam, 1957, as “The Wall” 13 · Serantha and the Boys · Arno Karlen · nv 39 · After · Arno Karlen · ss The Antioch Review Summer 1959 46 · Princess Netva, Anto Yakov, and the Dancing Bear · Arno Karlen · ss · The River Summer: Stories by Sally Weber 75 · The River Summer · Sally Weber · ss 89 · You Never Know with Mama · Sally Weber · ss 101 · Blind Date · Sally Weber · ss 111 · The Alabaster City · Sally Weber · ss 124 · A Necessary End · Sally Weber · ss · Exit 3: Stories by Michael Rumaker 141 · Exit 3 · Michael Rumaker · ss Evergreen Review 164 · The Pipe · Michael Rumaker · nv The Black Mountain Review 192 · The Truck · Michael Rumaker · ss The Black Mountain Review 207 · The Desert · Michael Rumaker · ss Evergreen Review · The Wayward Cravat: Stories by Gertrude Friedberg 249 · The Wayward Cravat · Gertrude Friedberg · ss New World Writing #13, Mentor, 1958 270 · Where Moth and Rust · Gertrude Friedberg · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1957 278 · A Nested Toy · Gertrude Friedberg · ss 302 · The Vanishing Wallet · Gertrude Friedberg · ss Esquire September 1958; revised. 311 · “Whose Speed? Whose Direction?” · Gertrude Friedberg · ss

Short Story 3 (Charles Scribner’s Sons, August 1960, 330pp, hc, oa)     Details supplied by Alan Perfect. ix · Publisher’s Note · [uncredited] · ms · Sicilian Vespers: Short Stories by Burton Raffel 3 · Sicilian Vespers · Burton Raffel · ss New World Writing #17 ed. Stewart Richardson & Corlies M. Smith, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960 24 · The Russian Voice · Burton Raffel · nv 50 · Fatherhood · Burton Raffel · ss · The Drifter: Short Stories by Matthew Carney 105 · The Ivory Circle · Matthew Carney · ss 118 · One Man · Matthew Carney · ss 134 · The Drifter · Matthew Carney · ss Points #6, 1960, as “Unquiet Drifting” 146 · Whole Hog Drifter · Matthew Carney · ss 155 · Drifter’s Progress · Matthew Carney · ss 168 · Drifter’s Magic · Matthew Carney · ss · The Perfectionist: Short Stories by Joseph Slotkin 183 · The Perfectionist · Joseph Slotkin · nv Discovery No. 6 ed. Vance Bourjaily, Pocket Books, 1955; revised. 225 · You Get So Hungry · Joseph Slotkin · ss Arizona Quarterly Winter 1958 244 · Traumerei · Joseph Slotkin · ss Quixote 253 · Your Best Interests at Heart · Joseph Slotkin · ss Quixote · The Musicians: Short Stories by Robert Creeley 290 · The Boat · Robert Creeley · ss The Kenyon Review v15 #4, Autumn 1953 297 · The Gold Diggers · Robert Creeley · ss 304 · The Unsuccessful Husband · Robert Creeley · ss The Kenyon Review v13 #1, Winter 1951 312 · 3 Fate Tales · Robert Creeley · ss New Directions in Prose and Poetry 13 ed. James Laughlin, IV, New Directions, 1951 319 · Jardou · Robert Creeley · ss The New Mexico Quarterly Autumn 1952 323 · The Seance · Robert Creeley · ss New Directions in Prose and Poetry 13 ed. James Laughlin, IV, New Directions, 1951 326 · The Musicians · Robert Creeley · ss The New Mexico Quarterly Spring 1955

Shudders ed. Charles Birkin, uncredited (Philip Allan, 1932, 2/6d, 254pp, hc, an)     also in Creeps Omnibus. 7 · Or Persons Unknown · H. R. Wakefield · ss Hutchinson’s Adventure & Mystery Story Magazine January 1928 35 · Toys · Tod Robbins · nv Munsey’s Magazine January 1921 77 · Accusing Shadows · Elliott O’Donnell · ss 95 · Professor Pownall’s Oversight · H. R. Wakefield · ss The Royal Magazine March 1928, as “The Unseen Player” 119 · The Harlem Horror · Charles Lloyd · ss 137 · The Trunk · Philip Murray · ss 143 · The Third Coach · H. R. Wakefield · nv They Return At Evening by H. Russell Wakefield, Phillip Allan, 1928 169 · The Crimson Blind · Mrs. Everett · nv The Death-Mask and Other Ghosts by H. D. Everett, Philip Allan, 1920 195 · The Haunted Spinney · Elliott O’Donnell · ss The Idler November 1904 213 · The Patch · Philip Murray · ss 219 · That Dieth Not · H. R. Wakefield · nv They Return At Evening by H. Russell Wakefield, Phillip Allan, 1928

SideQuest Adventures No. 1 (47North, August 27, 2013, 978-1-4778-4823-4, $14.95, tp, an)     Shared-world anthology/omnibus of three standalone adventures in the alternate history universe of the Foreworld Saga (including The Mongoliad series), all originally published separately by 47North: The Lion in Chains by Angus Trim & Mark Teppo (2012), The Shield-Maiden by Michael “Tinker” Pearce & Linda Pearce (2012), and The Beast of Calatrava by Mark Teppo (2013). Details taken from online listing. · The Beast of Calatrava [The Foreworld Saga] · Mark Teppo · na 47North, January 29 2013 · The Shield Maiden [The Foreworld Saga] · Linda & Michael ’Tinker’ Pearce · na 47North, November 27 2012 · The Lion in Chains [The Foreworld Saga] · Mark Teppo & Angus Trim · na 47North, October 30 2012

Silent Night (Jove, November 1998, 0-515-12385-4, $6.99, 340pp, pb, oa)     Romance/suspence Christmas anthology of four novellas, including a new futuristic detective novella by J.D. Robb featuring detective “Eve Dallas”, and a tale of one of Santa’s less handy elves by Claire Cross. This indicates second printing. 1 · A Berry Merry Christmas · Claire Cross · na 93 · The Unexpected Gift · Dee Holmes · na 161 · Christmas Promises · Susan Plunkett · na 247 · Midnight in Death [Eve Dallas] · J. D. Robb · na

Silent Striders & Black Furies (White Wolf, May 2001, 1-56504-883-0, $6.50, tp, om) [World of Darkness: Tribe]     Omnibus of two novelizations in the “Tribe” series, based on the “Werewolf: The Apocalypse” role-playing games. Copyrighted by White Wolf. 1 · Silent Striders [World of Darkness: Tribe] · Carl Bowen · n. 155 · Black Furies [World of Darkness: Tribe] · Gherbod Fleming · n.

Silent Thunder/Universe (Tor, July 1991, 0-812-50265-5, $3.99, 220pp, pb, an, cover by Joe DeVito)     Anthology of “Silent Thunder”, an original short novel by Dean Ing, a thriller concerning a Nazi secret weapon endangering the world, and the classic sf novella “Universe” by Robert A. Heinlein. 5 · Silent Thunder · Dean Ing · n. 163 · Universe [Hugh Hoyland] · Robert A. Heinlein · na Astounding Science-Fiction May 1941

Silhouette Shadows (Silhouette, October 1992, 0-373-48246-9, $4.99, 380pp, pb, oa)     Original anthology of three gothic/witchcraft/romantic suspense novels. 9 · The Monster in the Closet · Anne Stuart · n. 133 · Seawitch · Helen R. Myers · n. 263 · Wilde Imaginings · Heather Graham Pozzessere · n.

Silver Fangs & Glass Walkers (White Wolf, August 2002, 1-58846-813-5, $6.50, 283pp, pb, om, cover by Steve Prescott) [World of Darkness: Tribe]     Omnibus of two “Tribe” novelizations based on the role-playing games: Silver Fangs by Carl Bowen and Glass Walkers by Tim Dedopulos. Copyrighted by White Wolf. 1 · Silver Fangs [World of Darkness: Tribe] · Carl Bowen · na 145 · Glass Walkers [World of Darkness: Tribe] · Tim Dedopulos · na

Simple Story Book (Dean & Son, 1967, hc, oa, cover: [2 children riding on fawn’s back])     In the “Little Ones’ Reader” series. Details supplied by Lia McGunigle from Table of Contents. 6 · The Orange Umbrella · A. I. Mungeam · ss 12 · The Puffed-Up Pixie · Christine E. Bradley · ss Ideal Book for Tinies 195? 18 · Denny Duckling’s Adventure · Flora Smith · ss 24 · The Story of Belinda Blue Eyes · Dorothy M. Sheppard · ss Monster Book for Tinies 1949 32 · Fishermen Four · Eunice Close · pm Monster Book for Children 1956 33 · Uncle Bill’s Family Fitting · Christine E. Bradley · ss 40 · Willie White Pig · Jocelyn Sholto · ss 46 · The Pink Umbrella · Madeleine Collier · pm 47 · The Fall of Humpty Dumpty · Dorothy M. Sheppard · ss Monster Book for Tinies 195? 52 · Winter Home for Three · Nancy D. Stevens · ss Monster Book for Tinies 1957 59 · Binkie Bunny Chooses a Lettuce · Julia M. Cookson · ss 63 · The Lovely Holiday · Aileen E. Passmore · ss Monster Book for Tinies 1957 68 · Peggy Pillar Box · Phyllis Bryant · ss 74 · Timothy’s Toffee · Christine E. Bradley · ss Tales for Tinies, Dean & Son, 1962 83 · Danny Dee · Jean Robertson · ss Monster Book for Tinies 1951 89 · Mr. Tickle Makes Tea · Alys Sephton · ss Monster Book for Tinies 1949 95 · How Freddy Fox Got His New Coat · Rosemary Lee · ss Monster Book for Tinies 1947 101 · Uncle John · Christine E. Bradley · pm Monster Book for Children 1959 102 · The Snowdrop · Eunice Close · pm Tales for Tinies, Dean & Son, 1962 103 · Tuffet and the Ticket · Jean Robertson · ss Monster Book for Tinies 195?