Short Fiction in Books Other than Collections by Oates:
"Accomplished Desires." The Fact of Fiction: Social Relevance in the Short Story. Ed. Cyril M. Gulassa. San Francisco: Canfield, 1972. 298-315. Reprinted From: Esquire May 1968: 102-132 and The Wheel of Love and Other Stories. New York: Vanguard, 1970. 102-132.
---. Prize Stories 1969: The O. Henry Awards. Ed. William Abrahams. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969. 43-61.
---. The Process of Fiction. Ed. Barbara McKenzie. New York: Harcourt, 1974. 500-518.
---. Women and Men, Men and Women. Ed. William Smart. New York: Harper, 1975. 196-226.
"American Abroad." The Best American Short Stories 1991. Reprinted From: North American Review; Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 123-144.
"The Assailant." Best of Prairie Schooner: Fiction and Poetry. Ed. Hilda Raz. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 2001. 45-50. Reprinted From: Prairie Schooner 39(Winter 1965-1966): 330-336.
"At the Paradise Motel, Sparks, Nevada." Murder for Love. Ed. Otto Penzler. New York: Delacorte, 1996. 261-278.
"August Evening." Flash Fiction: Very Short Stories. Ed. James Thomas, Denise Thomas, and Tom Hazuka. New York: Norton, 1992. 181-183.
"Bad Girls." The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction. Ed. R.V. Cassill and Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Norton, 1998. 412-427.
"Bellefleur." Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction. Ed. Leonard Wolf. New York: Oxford U P, 1997. 117-135.
"The Bingo Master." Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror. Ed. Kirby McCauley. New York: Viking, 1980. 106-128.
"Blood-Swollen Landscape. " Prize Stories 1976: The O. Henry Awards. Ed. William Abrahams. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976. 186-200. Reprinted From: Southern Review 11(Winter 1975): 212-225. Reprinted In: All the Good People I've Left Behind. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow, 1979. 63-77.
"Blue Skies." The Invisible Enemy. Eds. Miriam Dow and Jennifer Regan. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf, 1989. 78-94.
"Bodies." Strangeness: A Collection of Curious Tales. Ed. Thomas M. Disch and Charles Naylor. New York: Avon, 1978. 124-144. Reprinted From: Harper's Bazaar Feb. 1970: 122-125, and The Wheel of Love and Other Stories. New York: Vanguard, 1970. 256-281.
"The Boy." Sudden Fiction International: 60 Short Short Stories. Ed. Robert Shapard and James Thomas. New York: Norton, 1989. 117-118.
"Boy and Girl." First Sightings: Stories of American Youth. New York: Persea, 1993. Reprinted From: the Wheel of Love and Other Stories. New York: Vanguard, 1970. 282-289.
"Broke Heart Blues." Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers. Ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. New York: HarperPrism, 1998. 27-34.
"The Brothers." The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 1995. Reprinted From: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine; Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 232-251.
"The Buck." Crossing Boundaries: An International Anthology of Women's Experiences in Sport. Ed. Susan J. Bandy and Anne S. Darden. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 1999. 126-137.
"By the North Gate." Envisioning the New Adam: Empathetic Portraits of Men by American Women Writers. Ed. Patricia Ellen Martin Daly. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995. 53-68. Reprinted From: By the North Gate. New York: Vanguard, 1963. 236-253.
"By the River." Best American Short Stories. Ed. Martha Foley and David Burnett. Boston: Houghton, 1969. 195-212. Reprinted From: December Magazine 10, 1(1968): 72-80. Reprinted In: Marriages and Infidelities. New York: Vanguard, 1972. 127-147.
---. Superfiction, or the American Story Transformed: An Anthology. Ed. Joe David Bellamy. New York: Vintage, 1975. 91-112.
"Ceremonies." Fourteen for Now: A Collection of Contemporary Stories. Ed. John Simon. New York: Harper, 1969. 196-226. Reprinted From: By the North Gate. New York: Vanguard, 1963. 41-65.
"The Children." Prize Stories 1971: The O. Henry Awards. Ed. William Abrahams. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. 208-225. Reprinted From Transatlantic Review 32(Summer 1969): 48-63. Reprinted in Marriages and Infidelities. New York: Vanguard, 1972. 216-236.
"Color Blind." The Best of the Best: 18 New Stories by America's Leading Authors. Ed. Elaine Koster and Joseph Pittman. New York: Signet, 1998. 257-276.
"The Crossing." Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears. Ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. New York: Morrow, 1995. 72-96. Reprinted From: The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque. New York: Dutton, 1998. 260-279.
"The Crying Baby." The Unfeigned Word: Fifteen Years of New England Review. Ed. T.R. Hummer and Devon Jersild. Hanover, NH: U P of New England/Middlebury College P, 1993. 80-87. Reprinted From: Heat and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1991.
"Daisy." Major American Short Stories. Ed. A. Walton Litz. New York: Oxford U P, 1994. 752-770. Reprinted From: Night-Side: Eighteen Tales. New York: Vanguard, 1977. 134-148.
"The Dead." Prize Stories 1973: The O. Henry Awards. Ed. William Abrahams. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1973. 1-34. Reprinted From: Marriages and Infidelities. New York: Vanguard, 1972. 453-488.
"Death Mother." Snapshots: 20th Century Mother-Daughter Fiction. Ed. Joyce Carol Oates and Janet Berliner. Boston: Godine, 2000. 204-227. Reprinted From: The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque. New York: Dutton, 1998. 8-34.
"Detente." Pushcart Prize VII: Best of the Small Presses, 1982-1983. Vol. 7. Ed. Bill Henderson. Wainscott: Pushcart, 1982. 270-294. Reprinted From: Southern Review 17(Summer 1981); 584-604; Last Days. New York: Dutton, 1984. 113-136.
"Do with Me What You Will." The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century. Ed. Tony Hillerman. Boston: Houghton, 2000. 556-567.
"The Doll." The Arbor House Treasure of Horror and the Supernatural. Ed. Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Maltzberg. New York: Arbor House, 1981. 514-535. Reprinted From: Epoch 28(Winter 1979): 202-218; Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque. New York: Dutton, 1994. 26-48.
---. Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1999. 347-369.
"The Dream Catcher." Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex. New York: St. Martin's, 1996. 244-262.
"Dying." American Literary Anthology 1. Ed. John Hawkes, et al. New York: Noonday, 1968. 67-85. Reprinted From: Transatlantic Review 20(Spring 1966): 64-84; Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories. New York: Vanguard, 1966. 186-208.
"Family." Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers. New York: Norton, 1998. 695-704. Reprinted From: Heat and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1991.
"Fatal Woman." The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense. Eds. Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg, and Martin H. Greenberg. New York: Arbor House, 1982. 434-438. Reprinted From: Fiddlehead 114(Summer 1977): 25-28; Night-Side: Eighteen Tales. New York: Vanguard, 1977. 256-261.
"The Fine White Mist of Winter." The Best American Short Stories, 1963. Eds. Martha Foley and David Burnett. Boston, MA: Houghton, 1963. 220-234. Reprinted From: Literary Review 5(Spring 1962): 349-363; By the North Gate. New York: Vanguard, 1963. 198-216.
---. Prize Stories 1963: The O. Henry Awards. Ed. Richard Poirier. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963. 216-229.
"First Love." A Few Thousand Words about Love. Ed. Mickey Pearlman. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 79-98. Excerpted From: First Love: A Gothic Tale. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco, 1996.
"First Views of the Enemy." American Models: A Collection of Modern Stories. Eds. James E. Miller, Robert Hayden, and Robert O'Neal. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 1973. 99-108. Reprinted From: Prairie Schooner 28(Spring 1964): 50-6; Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories. New York: Vanguard, 1966. 89-102.
---. The Best American Short Stories 1965. Eds. Martha Foley and David Burnett. Boston: Houghton, 1965. 259-270.
---. Best of Prairie Schooner: Fiction and Poetry. Ed. Hilda Raz. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 2001. 51-60.
---. Other People's Lives: 34 Short Stories. Ed. Leonard R. N. Ashley. Boston: Houghton, 1970. 409-418.
---. Prize Stories 1965: The O. Henry Awards. Eds. Richard Poirier and William Abrahams. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. 165-175.
"Four Summers." The American Literary Anthology 2. Eds. George Plimpton and Peter Ardery. New York: Random, 1969. 342-361. Reprinted From: Yale Review 56(Spring 1967): 406-425; The Wheel of Love and Other Stories. New York: Vanguard, 1970. 209-231.
---. Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories. Ed. James H. Pickering. New York: Macmillan, 1978. 728-738.
"From American Appetites." Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories. Ed. Fred R. Shapiro and Jane Garry. New York: Oxford U P, 1998.
"From Expensive People." Brilliant Careers: The Virago Book of Twentieth-Century Fiction. Ed. Kasia Boddy, Ali Smith, and Sarah Wood. London: Virago, 2000. 346-349.
"Further Confessions." The Slaying of the Dragon: Modern Tales of the Playful Imagination. Ed. Frank Rottensteiner. New York: Harcourt, 1984. 209-234. Reprinted From: Chicago Review 28(Spring 1977): 61-77; Night-Side: Eighteen Tales. New York: Vanguard, 1977. 309-330.
"Gay." The Best American Short Stories 1977. Ed. Martha Foley. Boston: Houghton, 1977. 235-255. Reprinted From: Playboy Dec. 1976: 104, 106, 120.
"Geese." Other Sides of Silence: New Fiction from Ploughshares. Ed. DeWitt Henry. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1992. 283-294.
"Ghost Girls." The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American Stories since 1970. New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1999. 488-500.
"The Girl with the Blackened Eye." Prize Stories 2001: The O. Henry Awards. Ed. Larry Dark. New York: Anchor, 2001. 134-144.
"A Girl Worth Two Million." Cosmopolitan's Winds of Love: Romantic and Erotic Tales. New York: Cosmopolitan, 1975. 68-82. Reprinted From: Cosmopolitan Feb. 1969: 120-127.
"Going-Away Party." Story: Fiction Past Present. Eds. Boyd Litzinger and Joyce Carol Oates. Lexington, MA: Heath, 1984. Reprinted From: Antaeus 36(Winter 1980): 113-130.
"The Goose Girl." Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards 1992. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1992. Reprinted From: Fiction; Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 68-88.
"The Hair." Love Stories for the Rest of Us. Ed. Genie D. Chipps and Bill Henderson. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart, 1995. 31-45. Reprinted From: Heat and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1991.
"The Hallucination." Pushcart Prize I: Best of the Small Presses 1976-1977. Ed. Bill Henderson. Yonkers, NY: Pushcart Book, 1976. 404-416. Reprinted From: Chicago Review 26(Spring 1975): 19-30; All the Good People I've Left Behind. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow, 1979. 89-101.
"The Hand-Puppet." David Copperfield's Tales of the Impossible. Ed. David Copperfield and Janet Berliner. New York: HarperPrism, 1995. 127-142. Reprinted From: The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque. New York: Dutton, 1998. 35-48.
"Haunted." Wild Women. Ed. Melissa Mia Hall. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1997. 49-68. Reprinted From: Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque. New York: Dutton, 1994. 3-25.
"Heat." The Oxford Book of American Short Stories. New York: Oxford U P, 1992. Reprinted From: Heat and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1991.
"How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again." Anti-Story: An Anthology of Experimental Fiction. Ed. Philip Stevick. New York: Free, 1971. 23-39. Reprinted From: Triquarterly 15(Spring 1969): 5-21; The Wheel of Love and Other Stories. New York: Vanguard, 1970. 170-189.
---. The Best American Stories 1970. Eds. Martha Foley and David Burnett. Boston: Houghton, 1970. 207-222.
---. The Best of Triquarterly. Ed. Jonathan Brent. New York: Washington Square, 1982. 12-27.
---. The Challenge of Conflict. Eds. Paul C. Holmes and Anita J. Lehman. New York: Harper, 1976. 159-171.
---. Cutting Edges: Young American Fiction for the '70s. Ed. Jack Hicks. New York: Holt, 1973. 275-291.
---. The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century. Ed. Jerome Charyn. New York: Dutton, 1993. 15-30.
---. Prize Stories 1970: The O. Henry Awards. Ed. William Abrahams. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970. 275-291.
---. The Process of Fiction. Ed. Barbara MacKenzie. New York: Harcourt, 1974. 475-489.
---. What Is the Short Story? Eds. Eugene Current-Garcia and Walton R. Patrick. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 1974. 476-488.
"In the Insomniac Night." Black Swan, White Raven. Ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. New York: Avon, 1997. 80-101.
"In the Old World." First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers. Ed. Kathy Kiernan and Michael M. Moore. Boston: Little, 1994. 280-296. Reprinted From: By the North Gate. New York: Vanguard, 1963.
"Is Laughter Contagious?" Best American Short Stories 1992. Reprinted From: Harper's Sep. 1991: 72; Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 219-231.
"Lethal." Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers. New York: Norton, 1998. 71. Reprinted From: Where Is Here? Hopewell, NJ: Ecco, 1992. 1.
"Letter Lover." Desire Burn: Women's Stories from the Dark Side of Passion. Ed. Janet Berliner, Uwe Luserke, and Martin H. Greenberg. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1995. 61-65.
"Life after High School." Obsession. Ed. Sarah Lefanu and Stephen Hayward. New York: Serpent's Tail, 1995. 12-30. Reprinted In: Small Avalanches and Other Stories. New York: Harper/Tempest, 2003.
"The Lost Child." The Male Body: Features, Destinies, Exposures. Ed. Laurence Goldstein. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 1994. 61-66. Reprinted From: Michigan Quarterly Review; Will You Always Love Me?: And Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 252-257.
"A Manhattan Romance." The Time Out Book of New York Short Stories. Ed. Nicholas Royle. New York: Penguin, 1997. 69-79. Reprinted In: Faithless: Tales of Transgression. New York: Ecco, 2001. 209-220.
"Mark of Satan." The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories. Ed. Daniel Halpern. New York: Viking, 1999. 466-476. Reprinted From: Antaeus; Will You Always Love Me?: And Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 312-326.
---. Prize Stories: The O.Henry Awards, 1996. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1996.
"Morning." The Literary Lover: Great Contemporary Stories of Passion and Romance. Ed. Larry Dark. New York: Viking, 1993. 127-150. Reprinted From: Heat and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1991.
"The Mother." Bearing Life: Women's Writings on Childlessness. Ed. Brooke Ratner. New York: Feminist P of CUNY, 2000. 134-135. Reprinted From: Raven's Wing. New York: Dutton, 1986.
"Murder-Two." Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them. New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 1999. 19-40.
---. Murder for Revenge. Ed. Otto Penzler. New York: Delacorte, 1998. 225-252.
"Nairobi." The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties. Ed. Ravenel Shannon. Boston: Houghton, 1980. Reprinted From: Raven's Wing. New York: Dutton, 1986.
"Night-Side." The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women. Ed. A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones. Harmondsworth, UK: Viking, 1995. 306-331.
"'Old Budapest'--From Last Days." The Good Parts: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction. New York: Berkley, 2000. 168-171.
"The Others." Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown. Ed. Marvin Kaye. New York: St. Martin's, 1994. 3-7.
"Plot." Scenes from American Life: Contemporary Short Fiction. New York: Random, 1973.
"Questions." The Best of Playboy Fiction. Vol. 4.
"The Region of Ice." Familiar Faces: Best Contemporary American Short Stories. Ed. Pat McNees. New York: Fawcett, 1979.
"The Ruins of Contracoeur." 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense. Ed. Al Sarrantonio. New York: Avon, 1999. 24-69.
"Saul Bird Says Relate! Communicate! Liberate!" Playboy Stories: The Best of Forty Years of Short Fiction. Ed. Alice K. Turner. New York: Dutton, 1994. 237-258.
"Scenes of Passion and Despair." The Oxford Book of Modern Women's Stories. Ed. Patricia Craig. New York: Oxford U P, 1994. 328-337.
"Secret Observations on the Goat-Girl." The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales. Ed. Chris Baldick. New York: Oxford U P, 1992. 498-501.
"The Sky-Blue Ball." Creme de la Crime. Ed. Jane Hutchings. New York: Carroll and Graf, 2000. 262-265.
"The Sons of Angus MacElster." Ovid Metamorphosed. Ed. Philip Terry. London: Chatto and Windus, 2000. 72-77.
"The Stalker." Unusual Suspects: An Anthology of Crime Stories from Black Lizard. Ed. James Grady. New York: Vintage, 1996. 74-93.
"Strand Used Books 1956." Retro Retro: Fictional Flashbacks. Ed. Amy Prior. London: Serpent's Tail, 2000. 59-70.
"The Temple." American Gothic Tales. Ed. Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Plume, 1996. 346-348.
"The Turn of the Screw." Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology. Ed. Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron, and Andrew Levy. New York: Norton, 1998. 396-408.
"Tusk." Irreconcilable Differences. Ed. Lia Matera. New York: HarperCollins, 1999. 1-24.
"The Undesirable Table." The Pushcart Prize: 1995-1996: The Best of the Small Presses. Reprinted From: Raritan; Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 213-218.
"Unprintable." Mother: Famous Writers Celebrate Motherhood with a Treasury of Short Stories, Essays, and Poems. Ed. Claudia O'Keefe. New York: Pocket, 1996. 305-320.
"An Unsolved Mystery." Between Friends. Ed. Mickey Pearlman. Boston: Houghton, 1994. 125-128.
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" American Short Stories since 1945. Ed. John G. Parks. New York: Oxford U P, 2002. 369-380.
---. The American Short Story: A Collection of the Best Known and Most Memorable Short Stories by the Great American Authors. Ed. Thomas K. Parkes. New York: Galahad, 1994.
---. The Best American Short Stories of the Century. Ed. John Updike. Boston: Houghton, 1999. 450-465.
---. The Blair Reader. Ed. Laurie G. Kirzner and Stephen R. Mandell. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice, 1996. 541-558.
---. Changing Lives through Literature. Ed. Robert P. Waxler and Jean R. Trounstine. Notre Dame, IN: U of Notre Dame P, 1999. 27-44.
---. The New Millennium Reader. Ed. Stuart Hirschberg and Terry Hirschberg. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice, 2000. 787-800.
---. The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories. Ed. Tobias Wolff. New York: Vinatge Contemporaries, 1994. 347-365.
---. We Are the Stories We Tell: The Best Short Stories by American Women since 1945. Ed. Wendy Martin. New York: Pantheon, 1990.
---. "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" Ed. Elaine Showalter. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U P, 1994. 23-48.
"The White Cat." The Sophisticated Cat. Ed. Joyce Carol Oates and Daniel Halpern. New York: Dutton, 1992. 207-227.
"A Woman Is Born to Bleed." Sex, Drugs, Rock'n'Roll: Stories to End the Century. Ed. Sarah LeFanu. New York: Serpent's Tail, 1997. 171-175.
"Work-in-Progress." God: An Anthology of Fiction. Ed. Stephen Hayward and Sarah Lefanu. London: Serpent's Tail, 1992. 187-197.
"World History." American Fiction. Ed. Alan Davis, Michael C. White, and Joyce Carol Oates. Minneapolis, MN: New Rivers, 1997.
"You Petted Me, and I Followed You Home." Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards 1995. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1995. Reprinted From: TriQuarterly; Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories. New York: Dutton, 1996. 21-34.
Unidentified Contributions to:
The Architecture of Fear. Ed. Peter D. Pautz. Arbor House, 1987.
Bad Behavior: Stories Selected by the International Association of Crime Writers.
Best American Mystery Stories, 1997. Ed. Robert B. Parker. Boston: Houghton, 1997.
Best American Short Stories, 1996. Ed. John Edgar Wideman. Boston: Houghton, 1996.
First Sightings: Contemporary Stories of American Youth. Ed. John Loughery. Persea, 1993.
For Nelson Mandela. Ed. Jacques Derrida and Mustapha Tlili. Seaver, 1987.
The Human Experience. 1989. [Contemporary literature from the United States and the Soviet Union.]
Monthly Terrors. Ed. Frank H. Parnell.
The Stone Wall Book of Short Fictions. Ed Robert Coover and Kent Dixon. Iowa City, IA: Stone Wall P, 1973.
TQ 20: Twenty Years of the Best Contemporary Writing and Graphics from Tri-Quarterly Magazine. Ed. Reginald Gibbons and Susan Hahn. Pushcart, 1985.
The Web She Weaves.
Who Do You Think You Are?: Stories of Friends and Enemies. Ed. Hazel Rochman and Darlene Z. McCampell. New York: Little, 1993.
Winter's Tales. Ed. Robin Baird-Smith, ed. 1987.