Introductions, Forewords, Prefaces, and Afterwords:
"Afterword." Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque. New York: Dutton, 1994.
"Afterword." The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, by Alistair MacLeod. McClelland and Stewart, 1995.
"Afterword." Mysteries of Winterthurn. New York: Berkley, 1985.
"Afterword." Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Selected Early Stories. Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review P/ New YorK: Braziller, 1994.
"Afterword: Wonderland Revisited." Wonderland. Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review P, 1992. 507-511.
"Afterword." Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1994.
"Appendix." Cutting Edges: Young American Fiction for the '70s. Ed. Jack Hicks. New York: Holt, 1973. 542-543.
"Foreword." Saving Graces: Images of Women in European Cemeteries. New York: Norton, 1995.
"Foreword." Snapshots: 20th Century Mother-Daughter Fiction. Ed. Joyce Carol Oates and Janet Berliner. Boston: Godine, 2000. vii-viii.
"Introduction." Above the Line: Conversations about the Movies, by Lawrence Grobel. Los Angeles: DaCapo, 2000.
"Introduction." American Fiction No. 9. Ed. by Alan Davis, Joyce Carol Oates, and Michael White. Minneapolis, MN: New Rivers, 1997.
"Introduction." American Gothic Tales. New York: Dutton/Plume, 1996.
"Introduction." The Best American Essays 1991. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1991.
"Introduction." The Best American Essays of the Century. Boston: Houghton, 2000.
"Introduction." The Best American Short Stories 1979. Boston: Houghton, 1979.
"Introduction." The Best of the Kenyon Review. Ed. David Lynn. Sourcebooks Landmark, 2003.
"Introduction." The Essential Dickinson. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco, 1996.
"Introduction." Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1996.
"Introduction." Had I a Hundred Mouths: New and Selected Stories, 1947-1983. Persea, 1986.
"Introduction." The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson. New York: Vintage, 1991.
"Introduction." The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway. London: Folio Society, 1999.
"Introduction." Tales of H.P. Lovecraft. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco, 1997.
"Introduction." Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers. New York: Norton, 1998.
"Introduction." Too Far from Home: The Selected Writings of Paul Bowles. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Ecco, 1993.
"Introduction." Walden, by Henry David Thoreau. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1989.
"Introduction." Women in Love, by D. H. Lawrence. New York: Modern Library, 2002.
"Introduction." Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Eighth Series. Ed. George Plimpton. New York: Viking, 1988.
"Introduction." Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte. New York: Oxford U P, 1999.
"Preface." Best New American Voices, 2003. San Diego: Harcourt, 2002.