This is a list of short fiction works by the American author Joyce Carol Oates. This includes short stories, novellas, and plays, and is arranged chronologically by first publication.[1]
1950s
1956
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "A Long Way Home" | short story | Will o' the Wisp: An Anthology of Original Writings (1956) | Uncollected | Anthologized in First Words (1993) |
1957
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Lament Cantabile" | short story | Syracuse Review (January 1957) | Uncollected | |
| "A Dawn You'll Never See" | short story | Literary Cavalcade (March 1957) | Uncollected | |
| "Synchronal" | short story | Syracuse Review (April 1957) | Uncollected |
1958
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Rapport" | short story | Syracuse 10 (October 1958) | Uncollected |
1959
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "In the Old World" | short story | Syracuse 10 (March 1959) | Uncollected | Different story than in Mademoiselle |
| "In the Old World" | short story | Mademoiselle (August 1959) | By the North Gate (1963) | Different story than in Syracuse 10 |
1960s
1960
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Sweet Love Remembered" | short story | Epoch (Spring 1960) | By the North Gate (1963) | Reprinted in Syracuse 10 (March 1960) |
1961
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "A Legacy" | short story | Arizona Quarterly (Summer 1961) | By the North Gate (1963) |
1962
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Fine White Mist of Winter" | short story | The Literary Review (Spring 1962) | By the North Gate (1963) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1963: The O. Henry Awards (1963) and The Best American Short Stories 1963 (1963); included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) |
1963
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Boys at a Picnic" | short story | By the North Gate (1963) | By the North Gate (1963) | Anthologized in The Modern Tradition: An Anthology of Short Stories, Third Edition (1976) |
| "By the North Gate" | short story | By the North Gate (1963) | By the North Gate (1963) | Anthologized in Envisioning the New Adam: Empathic Portraits of Men by American Women Writers (1995) |
| "The Census Taker" | short story | By the North Gate (1963) | By the North Gate (1963) | |
| "Ceremonies" | short story | By the North Gate (1963) | By the North Gate (1963) | Anthologized in Fourteen for Now: A Collection of Contemporary Stories (1969) |
| "Edge of the World" | short story | By the North Gate (1963) | By the North Gate (1963) | Included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) |
| "An Encounter with the Blind" | short story | By the North Gate (1963) | By the North Gate (1963) | |
| "The Expense of the Spirit" | short story | By the North Gate (1963) | By the North Gate (1963) | |
| "Images" | short story | By the North Gate (1963) | By the North Gate (1963) | |
| "Pastoral Blood" | short story | By the North Gate (1963) | By the North Gate (1963) | Included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America (1974) |
| "Swamps" | short story | By the North Gate (1963) | By the North Gate (1963) | |
| "Stigmata" | short story | Colorado Quarterly (Spring 1963) | Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1964: The O. Henry Awards (1964) and Quest for Meaning: Modern Short Stories (1975) |
| "Upon the Sweeping Flood" | short story | Southwest Review (Spring 1963) | Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) | Anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1964 (1964) and five others; included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) and High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
1964
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Death of Mrs. Sheer" | short story | MSS (1964) | Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) | Included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "First Views of the Enemy" | short story | Prairie Schooner (Spring 1964) | Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1965: The O. Henry Awards (1965), The Best American Short Stories 1965 (1965) and two others; included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) |
| "The Survival of Childhood" | short story | Southwest Review (Spring 1964) | Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) | |
| "Why Did You Cry for Me?" | short story | Cosmopolitan (July 1964) | Uncollected | |
| "The Psychoanalytical Love Affair" | short story | Cosmopolitan (September 1964) | Uncollected |
1965
1966
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "A Garden of Earthly Delights" | short story | Shenandoah (Winter 1966) | Uncollected | Excerpt from A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967) |
| "Four Seasons" | short story | Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter 1966) | Uncollected | |
| "Dying" | short story | Transatlantic Review (Spring 1966) | Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) | Anthologized in The American Literary Anthology 1 (1968) |
| "The Man That Turned Into a Statue" | short story | Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) | Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) | |
| "The Silent Child" | short story | Epoch (Spring 1966) | Uncollected | |
| "The Dying Child" | short story | Antioch Review (Summer 1966) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | |
| "In the Region of Ice" | short story | The Atlantic (August 1966) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1967: The O. Henry Awards (1967) and seven others; included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) and three others |
| "Gifts" | short story | The Kenyon Review (Fall 1966) | The Seduction and Other Stories (1975) | |
| "Joy Let Us Praise Thee" | short story | Southwest Review (Fall 1966) | Uncollected | |
| "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" | short story | Epoch (Fall 1966) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | Reprinted in Argosy (March 1971); anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1967 (1967) and over 40 others; included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) and four others |
| "The Thief" | short story | North American Review (September 1966) | Uncollected |
1967
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Two Poets" | short story | Northwest Review (1967) | Uncollected | |
| "The Daughter" | short story | Epoch (Spring 1967) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | Original title "Childhood"; collected revised |
| "Four Summers" | short story | The Yale Review (Spring 1967) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | Included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993), High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) and one other |
| "The Girl with the Beautiful Face" | short story | University Review (Spring 1967) | Uncollected | |
| "In the Warehouse" | short story | Transatlantic Review (Summer 1967) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | Included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "The Sweet Enemy" | short story | The Southern Review (Summer 1967) | Uncollected | |
| "The Voyage to Rosewood" | short story | Shenandoah (Summer 1967) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | |
| "The Way Back in from Out There" | short story | Southwest Review (Summer 1967) | Uncollected | |
| "A Love Story" | short story | Cosmopolitan (July 1967) | Uncollected | |
| "Sunday Dinner" | short story | TriQuarterly (Fall 1967) | Uncollected | |
| "The Wheel of Love" | short story | Esquire (October 1967) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | Anthologized in Love Stories (1975) |
1968
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Heavy Sorrow of the Body" | short story | Northwest Review (1968) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | |
| "The Molesters" | short story | Quarterly Review of Literature (1968) | Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) | Excerpt from Expensive People (1968) |
| "A Lecture upon the Shadow" | short story | Southern Humanities Review (Winter 1968) | Uncollected | |
| "Prose and Poetry" | short story | Carleton Miscellany (Spring 1968) | Uncollected | |
| "Waiting" | short story | Epoch (Spring 1968) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | |
| "Adultery" | short story | Critic (April/May 1968) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Them (1969) |
| "Accomplished Desires" | short story | Esquire (May 1968) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1969: The O. Henry Awards (1969) and three others; included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) and two others |
| "Out of Place" | short story | Virginia Quarterly Review (Summer 1968) | The Seduction and Other Stories (1975) | |
| "Story of an Ordinary Girl" | short story | Texas Quarterly (Summer 1968) | Uncollected | |
| "The Woman Who Disappeared" | short story | University Review (Summer 1968) | Uncollected | |
| "Shame" | short story | The Atlantic (June 1968) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | |
| "All the Beautiful Women" | short story | The Saturday Evening Post (June 29, 1968) | Uncollected | |
| "Splendid Architecture" | short story | Antioch Review (Fall 1968) | The Seduction and Other Stories (1975) | |
| "By the River" | short story | December (December 1968) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | Anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1969 (1969) and 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015); included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) and Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "A Far Country" | short story | Critic (December 1968/January 1969) | Uncollected |
1969
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Matter & Energy" | short story | Partisan Review (1969) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | |
| "The Spiral" | short story | Shenandoah (Winter 1969) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | |
| "A Girl Worth Two Million" | short story | Cosmopolitan (February 1969) | Uncollected | |
| "An Interior Monologue" | short story | Esquire (February 1969) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | |
| "Boy and Girl" | short story | Prism International (Spring 1969) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | Anthologized in American Scenes: Contemporary Short Fiction (1978); included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America (1974) and one other |
| "How I Contemplated the World from the Detroit House of Correction and Began My Life Over Again" | short story | TriQuarterly (Spring 1969) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1970: The O. Henry Awards (1970), The Best American Short Stories 1970 (1970) and eight others; included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993), High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) and three others |
| "Unmailed, Unwritten Letters" | short story | The Hudson Review (Spring 1969) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1970: The O. Henry Awards (1970) and two others; included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) |
| "The Children" | short story | Transatlantic Review (Summer 1969) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1971: The O. Henry Awards (1971) |
| "Convalescing" | short story | Virginia Quarterly Review (Summer 1969) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | |
| "How We Fall in Love" | short story | New Orleans Review (Summer 1969) | Uncollected | |
| "Private Life" | short story | The Yale Review (Fall 1969) | Uncollected | Anthologized in Coming Together: Modern Stories by Black and White Americans (1972) |
| "Dreams" | short story | Prairie Schooner (Winter 1969–70) | Crossing the Border (1976) |
1970s
1970
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Dreaming Woman" | short story | Cupid and Psyche (1970) | The Seduction and Other Stories (1975) | Original title "Cupid and Psyche"; published as standalone limited edition book |
| "Ontological Proof of My Existence" | play | Partisan Review (1970) | Three Plays (1980) | Included in The Perfectionist and Other Plays (1995) |
| "Demons" | short story | Southern Review (Winter 1970) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | Included in Wild Saturday and Other Stories (1984) |
| "Bodies" | short story | Harper's Bazaar (February 1970) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | Anthologized in Strangeness: A Collection of Curious Tales (1977) |
| "What Is the Connection Between Men and Women?" | short story | Mademoiselle (February 1970) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | |
| "You" | short story | Cosmopolitan (February 1970) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | Included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America (1974) and one other |
| "I Was in Love" | short story | Shenandoah (Spring 1970) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | Anthologized in Valentine's Day: Women Against Men: Stories of Revenge (2000) |
| "What Herbert Breuer and I Did to Each Other" | short story | McCall's (April 1970) | Uncollected | |
| "Love and Death" | short story | The Atlantic (June 1970) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | Anthologized in Black and White: Stories of American Life (1971) and two others; included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) |
| "Through the Looking Glass" | short story | The Malahat Review (July 1970) | Crossing the Border (1976) | Anthologized in The Best Little Magazine Fiction 1971 (1971) |
| "Wednesday's Child" | short story | Esquire (August 1970) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | Original title "Wednesday" |
| "After Love a Formal Feeling Comes" | short story | Prism International (Fall 1970) | Love and Its Derangements (1970) | |
| "The Dark" | short story | Southwest Review (Fall 1970) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Wonderland (1971) |
| "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For" | short story | Virginia Quarterly Review (Fall 1970) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | |
| "Wild Saturday" | short story | Mademoiselle (September 1970) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | Included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America (1974) and one other |
| "Pilgrim's Progress" | short story | Playboy (October 1970) | The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies (1974) | Original title "Saul Bird Says: Relate! Communicate! Liberate!"; anthologized in Prize Stories 1972: The O. Henry Awards (1972) |
| "Puzzle" | short story | Redbook (November 1970) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | |
| "29 Inventions" | short story | The Antioch Review (Fall 1970/Winter 1971) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) |
1971
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Free" | short story | Quarterly Review of Literature (1971) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | |
| "An American Adventure" | short story | TriQuarterly (Winter 1971) | Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America (1974) | Included in The Seduction and Other Stories (1975) |
| "Notes on Contributors" | short story | TriQuarterly (Winter 1971) | The Seduction and Other Stories (1975) | |
| "Stray Children" | short story | Salmagundi (Winter 1971) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | Included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America (1974) and one other |
| "Normal Love" | short story | The Atlantic (January 1971) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | Anthologized in Intimate Relationships: Marriage, Family, and Lifestyles Through Literature (1975) |
| "To My Lover, Who Has Abandoned Me..." | short story | Cosmopolitan (January 1971) | Uncollected | |
| "Fat" | short story | Antaeus (Spring 1971) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Wonderland (1971) |
| "How Another Child Came to Be Born" | short story | Voyages (Spring 1971) | Uncollected | Anthologized in D.C. Magazines: A Literary Retrospective (1981) |
| "The Turn of the Screw" | short story | The Iowa Review (Spring 1971) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | Included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993); anthologized in Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology (1998) |
| "Our Lady of the Easy Death of Alferce" | short story | Prism International (Summer 1971) | The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975) | |
| "Plot" | short story | The Paris Review (Summer 1971) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | Anthologized in Scenes From American Life: Contemporary Short Fiction (1973) |
| "Scenes of Passion & Despair" | short story | Shenandoah (Summer 1971) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | |
| "The Enchanted Piano" | short story | Harper's Bazaar (June 1971) | The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975) | |
| "The Dead" | short story | McCall's (July 1971) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | Original title "The Death of Dreams"; anthologized in Prize Stories 1973: The O. Henry Awards (1973) and Prize Stories of the Seventies from the O. Henry Awards (1981); included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) and High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
| "And How Is Your Life" | short story | Cosmopolitan (August 1971) | Uncollected | |
| "Bloodstains" | short story | Harper's (August 1971) | Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) | Included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) |
| "Loss" | short story | Southwest Review (Fall 1971) | The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975) | |
| "Loving Losing Loving... a Man" | short story | The Southern Review (Fall 1971) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | |
| "The Son of God and His Sorrow" | short story | The Massachusetts Review (Fall 1971) | The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975) | |
| "How My Father Was Murdered" | short story | The Atlantic (September 1971) | Uncollected | |
| "The Obsession" | short story | Ladies' Home Journal (October 1971) | Uncollected | |
| "The Metamorphosis" | short story | New American Review (November 1971) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | Original title "Others' Dreams"; anthologized in Experience and Expression: Reading and Responding to Short Fiction (1976) |
| "Happy Onion" | short story | The Antioch Review (Winter 1971–72) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | Included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America (1974) |
| "6:27 p.m." | short story | Redbook (December 1971) | The Seduction and Other Stories (1975) | Anthologized in Solo: Women on Woman Alone (1977) |
| "The Secret Mirror" | short story | December (December 1971) | The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975) |
1972
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "DOUBLE TRAGEDY STRIKES TENNESSEE HILL FAMILY" | short story | Carolina Quarterly (Winter 1972) | The Seduction and Other Stories (1975) | |
| "Up From Slavery" | short story | Playboy (January 1972) | The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies (1974) | Original title "The Loves of Franklin Ambrose"; anthologized in Aspects of Love (1972) and 29 Short Stories: An Introductory Anthology (1975) |
| "Blindfold" | short story | The Southern Review (Spring 1972) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | |
| "Extraordinary Popular Delusions" | short story | Virginia Quarterly Review (Spring 1972) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | |
| "A Girl at the Edge of the Ocean" | short story | The Falcon (Spring 1972) | Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America (1974) | Included in The Goddess and Other Women (1974) and Wild Saturday and Other Stories (1984) |
| "The Lady With the Pet Dog" | short story | Partisan Review (Spring 1972) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | Anthologized in Bitches and Sad Ladies: An Anthology of Fiction By and About Women (1975) and two others; included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) and High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
| "Did You Ever Slip on Red Blood?" | short story | Harper's (April 1971) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | Anthologized in Urban Horrors (1990); included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) |
| "The Sacred Marriage" | short story | The Southern Review (Summer 1972) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | |
| "Stalking" | short story | North American Review (Summer 1972) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | Included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America (1974); anthologized in The Short Story: An Introduction (1976) |
| "Letters to Fernandes from a Young American Poet" | short story | Chelsea (June 1972) | The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975) | |
| "Problems of Adjustment in Survivors of Natural/Unnatural Disasters" | short story | Boston Review (June 1972) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | |
| "Nightmusic" | short story | Mundus Artium (July 1972) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | |
| "Silkie" | short story | The Malahat Review (July 1972) | Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America (1974) | Anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1973 (1973); included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) |
| "Back There" | short story | Epoch (Fall 1972) | Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America (1974) | |
| "Husband and Wife" | short story | Carolina Quarterly (Fall 1972) | The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975) | |
| "Narcotic" | short story | Mademoiselle (October 1972) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | Anthologized in Last Night's Stranger: One Night Stands & Other Staples of Modern Life (1982) |
| "Small Avalanches" | short story | Cosmopolitan (November 1972) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | Included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993), High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) and one other |
1973
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Assault" | short story | Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry (1973) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | |
| "The Madwoman" | short story | Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry (1973) | The Seduction and Other Stories (1975) | |
| "Passions and Meditations" | short story | Partisan Review (1973) | The Seduction and Other Stories (1975) | |
| "Three Women" | short story | The Stone Wall Book of Short Fictions (1973) | Uncollected | |
| "Where the Continent Ends" | short story | Northwest Review (1973) | Uncollected | |
| "Meredith Dawe" | short story | TriQuarterly (Winter 1973) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Do With Me What You Will (1973); reprinted in TriQuarterly (Spring/Summer 1985) |
| "... & Answers" | short story | Family Circle (January 1973) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | |
| "Concerning the Case of Bobby T." | short story | The Atlantic (February 1973) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | Included in High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
| "Democracy in America" | short story | Shenandoah (Spring 1973) | The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies (1974) | |
| "Five Pieces from Azulejos" | short story | Transatlantic Review (Spring 1973) | Uncollected | |
| "I Must Have You" | short story | Ohio Review (Spring 1973) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | |
| "The Wheel" | short story | Epoch (Spring 1973) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | |
| "Elena" | short story | Works in Progress (April 1973) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Do With Me What You Will (1973) |
| "Do With Me What You Will" | short story | Playboy (June 1973) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Do With Me What You Will (1973); reprinted in Antaeus (Summer 1973); anthologized in The Edgar Award Book (1996) and The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000) |
| "A Descriptive Catalogue" | short story | Carolina Quarterly (Fall 1973) | The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies (1974) | |
| "The Letter" | short story | The Literary Review (Fall 1973) | The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975) | |
| "Explorations" | short story | Remington Review (October 1973) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | |
| "The Maniac" | short story | Viva (October 1973) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) |
1974
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Girl" | short story | The Girl (1974) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | Originally published as standalone limited edition book |
| "Miracle Play" | play | Miracle Play (1974) | Three Plays (1980) | Originally published as standalone limited edition book |
| "The Impostors" | short story | Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry (1974) | The Seduction and Other Stories (1975) | |
| "Love, Careless Love" | short story | Northwest Review (1974) | The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (2019) | |
| "Plagiarized Material" | short story | Plagiarized Material by Fernandes (1974) | The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975) | Originally published as standalone limited edition book |
| "Years of Wonders" | short story | Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America (1974) | Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America (1974) | Included in The Seduction and Other Stories (1975) |
| "Angst" | short story | University of Windsor Review (Winter 1974) | The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies (1974) | |
| "The Birth of Tragedy" | short story | Exile (Spring 1974) | The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies (1974) | |
| "The Murderer" | short story | Greensboro Review (Spring 1974) | The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975) | |
| "Parricide" | short story | The Yale Review (Spring 1974) | The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975) | |
| "The Poisoned Kiss" | short story | Greensboro Review (Spring 1974) | The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975) | |
| "Rewards of Fame" | short story | The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies (1974) | The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies (1974) | |
| "The Golden Madonna" | short story | Playboy (March 1974) | Crossing the Border (1976) | |
| "The Goddess" | short story | Antaeus (Spring/Summer 1974) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | |
| "Magna Mater" | short story | Antaeus (Spring/Summer 1974) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | |
| "Customs" | short story | The Fiddlehead (Summer 1974) | Crossing the Border (1976) | |
| "The Seduction" | short story | The Southern Review (Summer 1974) | The Seduction and Other Stories (1975) | Original title "Help..." |
| "Two Young Men" | short story | Aspen Leaves (June 1974) | The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975) | |
| "Natural Boundaries" | short story | Family Circle (August 1974) | Crossing the Border (1976) | |
| "Honeybit" | short story | Confrontation (Fall 1974) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | |
| "The Lover" | short story | Exile (Fall 1974) | Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) | Included in Oates in Exile (1990) |
| "The Transformation of Vincent Scoville" | short story | Canadian Fiction Magazine (Fall 1974) | Crossing the Border (1976) | |
| "Wealthy Lady" | play | Epoch (Fall 1974) | Women Whose Lives Are Food, Men Whose Lives Are Money (1978) | Included in Twelve Plays (1991); revised |
| "A Premature Autobiography" | short story | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | |
| "Psychiatric Services" | short story | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | Anthologized in On The Job: Fiction About Work by Contemporary American Writers (1977) |
| "Ruth" | short story | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | Reprinted in Short Story International (August 1985) |
| "Unpublished Fragments" | short story | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | Reprinted in Fiction International (Fall 1983) |
| "The Snowstorm" | short story | Mademoiselle (September 1974) | Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) | |
| "On the Gulf" | short story | The South Carolina Review (November 1974) | The Seduction and Other Stories (1975) | |
| "Crossing the Border" | short story | The New York Times Magazine (December 1, 1974) | Crossing the Border (1976) |
1975
1976
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Triumph of the Spider Monkey" | novella | The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (1976) | The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (2019) | Originally published as standalone limited edition book |
| "An Incident in the Park" | short story | Crossing the Border (1976) | Crossing the Border (1976) | |
| "The Giant Woman" | short story | Kansas Quarterly (Winter 1976) | Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) | |
| "Walled City" | short story | Queen's Quarterly (Winter 1976) | All the Good People I've Left Behind (1979) | Reprinted in Queen's Quarterly (Spring 1993) |
| "The Wedding Party" | short story | Aspen Leaves (Winter 1976) | Uncollected | |
| "Mara" | short story | TriQuarterly (Spring 1976) | Uncollected | |
| "Hello Fine Day Isn't It?" | short story | The Malahat Review (April 1976) | Crossing the Border (1976) | |
| "River Rising" | short story | Chatelaine (May 1976) | Crossing the Border (1976) | |
| "Knowing" | short story | The Ontario Review (Spring/Summer 1976) | Uncollected | |
| "The Buried Self" | short story | Western Humanities Review (Summer 1976) | Uncollected | As Rae-Jolene Smith |
| "Paradise: A Post-Love Story" | short story | Shenandoah (Summer 1976) | Uncollected | |
| "The Blessing" | short story | The Blessing (June 1976) | Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) | Originally published as standalone limited edition book |
| "The Tryst" | short story | The Atlantic (August 1976) | All the Good People I've Left Behind (1979) | Reprinted in Cosmopolitan (August 1981); included in A Sentimental Education (1980) and High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
| "The Embrace" | short story | Exile (Summer/Fall 1976) | Uncollected | |
| "Immortal Longings" | short story | Exile (Summer/Fall 1976) | Uncollected | Included in Oates in Exile (1990) |
| "Disappearance" | short story | North American Review (Fall 1976) | Uncollected | As Rae-Jolene Smith |
| "Gay" | short story | Playboy (December 1976) | Uncollected | Anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1977 (1977) |
| "Honeymoon" | short story | Greensboro Review (Winter 1976–77) | Uncollected | |
| "Sunday Blues" | short story | Fiction (December 1976/April 1977) | Uncollected |
1977
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Daisy" | short story | Daisy (1977) | Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) | Originally published as standalone limited edition book; anthologized in Major American Short Stories: Revised Edition (1980) and Third Edition (1994); included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) |
| "Exile" | short story | Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) | Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) | |
| "The Murder" | short story | Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) | Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) | Anthologized in The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense (1981) |
| "A Theory of Knowledge" | short story | Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) | Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) | |
| "The Insomniac" | short story | Exile (Winter 1977) | Uncollected | Included in Oates in Exile (1990) |
| "Intoxication" | short story | Boston University Journal (February 1977) | All the Good People I've Left Behind (1979) | |
| "The Thaw" | short story | Viva (February 1977) | Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) | |
| "Further Confessions" | short story | Chicago Review (Spring 1977) | Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) | Anthologized in The Slaying of the Dragon: Modern Tales of the Playful Imagination (1984) |
| "Sentimental Journey" | short story | The South Carolina Review (April 1977) | All the Good People I've Left Behind (1979) | |
| "All the Good People I've Left Behind" | short story | Redbook (May 1977) | All the Good People I've Left Behind (1979) | |
| "Famine Country" | short story | The Yale Review (Summer 1977) | Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) | |
| "Fatal Woman" | short story | The Fiddlehead (Summer 1977) | Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) | Reprinted in Playgirl (June 1978); anthologized in The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense (1981) |
| "Gargoyle" | short story | StoryQuarterly (June 1977) | Uncollected | Anthologized in Taboos and Transgressions: Stories of Wrongdoings (2021) |
| "The Tattoo" | short story | Mademoiselle (July 1977) | Uncollected | Reprinted in Bananas (February 1980); anthologized in Prize Stories 1978: The O. Henry Awards (1978) |
| "Black Eucharist" | short story | Canto (Fall 1977) | Uncollected | |
| "Night-Side" | short story | Queen's Quarterly (Fall 1977) | Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) | Anthologized in Specter!: A Chrestomathy of "Spookery" (1982), The Dark Descent (1987) and one other |
| "Poetics 105" | short story | Descant (Fall 1977) | Uncollected | |
| "The Translation" | short story | TriQuarterly (Fall 1977) | Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) | Anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1978 (1978) and one other; included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) |
1978
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "North Wind" | short story | Banquet: Five Short Stories (1978) | Uncollected | |
| "Sentimental Education" | novella | Sentimental Education (1978) | A Sentimental Education (1980) | Originally published as standalone limited edition book |
| "The Step-Father" | short story | The Step-Father (1978) | Uncollected | Originally published as standalone limited edition book |
| "Eye-Witness" | short story | Michigan Quarterly Review (Winter 1978) | All the Good People I've Left Behind (1979) | |
| "High" | short story | The Southern Review (Winter 1978) | All the Good People I've Left Behind (1979) | |
| "The Voyeur" | short story | Southwest Review (Winter 1978) | Uncollected | |
| "The Mime" | short story | Penthouse (January 1978) | Uncollected | |
| "Johanna" | short story | Chatelaine (February 1978) | Uncollected | |
| "The Death of the Kenyon Review" | short story | The Yale Review (Spring 1978) | Uncollected | As Rae-Jolene Smith |
| "Expressway" | short story | California Quarterly (Spring/Summer 1978) | Uncollected | |
| "The Leap" | short story | Confrontation (Spring/Summer 1978) | All the Good People I've Left Behind (1979) | |
| "In the Autumn of the Year" | short story | Bennington Review (April 1978) | A Sentimental Education (1980) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1979: The O. Henry Awards (1979) |
| "Softball" | short story | Shenandoah (Summer 1978) | Uncollected | |
| "An Unsolved Crime" | short story | Colorado Quarterly (Summer 1978) | Double Trouble (2026) | |
| "Washington Square" | short story | The Antioch Review (Summer 1978) | Uncollected | Reprinted in The Antioch Review (Fall 2016/Winter 2017) |
| "First Death" | short story | Mademoiselle (June 1978) | Uncollected | |
| "Conquistador" | short story | Weekend (June 17, 1978) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Cybele (1979) |
| "Casualties" | short story | Chatelaine (July 1978) | Uncollected | |
| "Beautiful Girl" | short story | Canto (Fall 1978) | Uncollected | |
| "Deja Vu" | short story | The Missouri Review (Fall 1978) | Uncollected | |
| "Dies Irae" | short story | New Letters (Fall 1978) | Uncollected | |
| "November Morning" | short story | Columbia Magazine (Fall 1978) | Uncollected | |
| "Harriet Stillman" | short story | Saturday Night (November 1978) | Uncollected | |
| "Night Song" | short story | Greensboro Review (Winter 1978–79) | Uncollected |
1979
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Lamb of Abyssalia" | short story | The Lamb of Abyssalia (1979) | Last Days: Stories (1984) | Originally published as standalone limited edition book; anthologized in Night Walks: A Bedside Companion (1982) |
| "Queen of the Night" | short story | Queen of the Night (1979) | A Sentimental Education (1980) | Originally published as standalone limited edition book; reprinted in Bananas (April 1981); anthologized in The Arbor House Celebrity Book of Horror Stories (1982); included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "Sonata" | short story | Northwest Review (1979) | Uncollected | |
| "The Doll" | short story | Epoch (Winter 1979) | Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) | Anthologized in The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural (1981); included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "Murderess" | short story | Western Humanities Review (Winter 1979) | Double Trouble (2026) | |
| "Scherzo" | short story | Ohio Review (Winter 1979) | Uncollected | |
| "New Year's Eve" | short story | Chatelaine (January 1979) | Uncollected | |
| "The Precipice" | short story | Mississippi Review (Winter/Spring 1979) | A Sentimental Education (1980) | |
| "The Way We Live" | short story | The Agni Review (Spring 1979) | Uncollected | |
| "Lost" | short story | Exile (Spring/Summer 1979) | Uncollected | |
| "Reunion" | short story | New England Review (Summer 1979) | Uncollected | |
| "From Son of the Morning" | short story | Granta (Autumn 1979) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Son of the Morning (1978) |
| "The Reliquary" | short story | Queen's Quarterly (Fall 1979) | Uncollected | |
| "White Shadow" | short story | The Kenyon Review (Fall 1979) | Uncollected | |
| "Fateful Mismatches" | short story | The Ontario Review (Fall–Winter 1979–80) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Bellefleur (1980) |
| "The Lesson" | short story | Chatelaine (September 1979) | Uncollected |
1980s
1980
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Bingo Master" | short story | Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror (1980) | Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) | |
| "Dawn, Dusk" | short story | Shenandoah (1980) | Uncollected | |
| "A Middle-Class Education" | short story | A Middle-Class Education (1980) | A Sentimental Education (1980) | Originally published as standalone limited edition book |
| "Nightshade" | short story | StoryQuarterly (1980) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Bellefleur (1980) |
| "Ballerina" | short story | The Georgia Review (Winter 1980) | Uncollected | |
| "Birds of Night" | short story | Exile (Winter 1980) | Uncollected | Included in Oates in Exile (1990) |
| "The Changeling" | short story | The Missouri Review (Winter 1980) | Uncollected | |
| "Going-Away Party" | short story | Antaeus (Winter 1980) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Marya: A Life (1986); anthologized in Story: Fictions Past and Present (1985), Classic Short Fiction (1986) and one other |
| "The Haunted House" | short story | Kansas Quarterly (Winter 1980) | Uncollected | |
| "Sin" | short story | Fiction International (Winter 1980) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Marya: A Life (1986); anthologized in Moral Fiction: An Anthology (1980) |
| "The Spider, Love" | short story | TriQuarterly (Winter 1980) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Bellefleur (1980) |
| "The Birthday Celebration" | short story | Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter 1980) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Bellefleur (1980) |
| "Mutilated Woman" | short story | Michigan Quarterly Review (Spring 1980) | Uncollected | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1981: The O. Henry Awards (1981) |
| "Sisters" | short story | The South Carolina Review (Spring 1980) | Uncollected | |
| "Friday Evening" | short story | Penthouse (March 1980) | Uncollected | |
| "The Outing" | short story | Mademoiselle (March 1980) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Marya: A Life (1986) |
| "The Clavichord" | short story | Confrontation (Spring/Summer 1980) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Bellefleur (1980) |
| "The Ebony Casket" | short story | Exile (Summer 1980) | Uncollected | Included in Oates in Exile (1990) |
| "The Room of Contamination" | short story | Western Humanities Review (Summer 1980) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Bellefleur (1980) |
| "The Joyful Wedding" | short story | Cosmopolitan (August 1980) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Bellefleur (1980) |
| "Schwilk" | short story | California Quarterly (Summer/Fall 1980) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Marya: A Life (1986) |
| "Presque Isle" | short story | The Agni Review (Fall 1980) | Uncollected | Anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1981 (1981) |
| "The Doomed Girl" | short story | Bennington Review (September 1980) | Uncollected | |
| "The Antique Clock" | short story | The Malahat Review (October 1980) | Uncollected | |
| "Anatomical Studies" | short story | Chatelaine (November 1980) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Angel of Light (1981) |
1981
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Theft" | short story | Northwest Review (1981) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Marya: A Life (1986); anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1982 (1982) |
| "Marya and Sylvester" | short story | Western Humanities Review (Winter 1981) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Marya: A Life (1986) |
| "An Old-Fashioned Love Story" | short story | Exile (Winter 1981) | Uncollected | Included in Oates in Exile (1990) |
| "Poor Lizzie" | short story | Exile (Winter 1981) | Uncollected | Included in Oates in Exile (1990) |
| "The Lovers" | short story | Canto (February 1981) | Uncollected | |
| "The Man Whom Women Adored" | short story | North American Review (March 1981) | Last Days: Stories (1984) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1982: The O. Henry Awards (1982) |
| "The Rose Wall" | short story | The Twilight Zone Magazine (April 1981) | Uncollected | Anthologized in Great Stories from Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine (1982) |
| "Détente" | short story | The Southern Review (Summer 1981) | Last Days: Stories (1984) | Anthologized in The Pushcart Prize VII: Best of the Small Presses (1983) |
| "Minor Characters" | short story | The Massachusetts Review (Summer 1981) | Uncollected | |
| "My Warszawa, 1980" | short story | The Kenyon Review (Fall 1981) | Last Days: Stories (1984) | Original title "My Warszawa"; anthologized in Prize Stories 1983: The O. Henry Awards (1983); included in High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
| "The Storm" | short story | Cosmopolitan (September 1981) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Angel of Light (1981) |
| "The Sunken Woman" | short story | Playboy (December 1981) | Uncollected | Reprinted in Playboy (January 1989) |
1982
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Back Country" | short story | Shenandoah (1982–83) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Marya: A Life (1986) |
| "The Crystal Sea" | short story | Saturday Night (January 1982) | Uncollected | |
| "The Bat" | short story | Shenandoah (Summer 1982) | Uncollected | |
| "The Mirror" | short story | South Carolina Review (Spring 1982) | Uncollected | |
| "Our Wall" | short story | Partisan Review (Spring 1982) | Last Days: Stories (1984) | Included in High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
| "Ghost Town" | short story | The Literary Review (Summer 1982) | Uncollected | Reprinted in Journal of the Short Story in English (Spring 2025) |
| "A Bloodsmoor Romance" | short story | Ms. (June 1982) | Uncollected | Excerpt from A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982); anthologized in 50 Years of Ms. (2023) |
| "Growing Seasons and Killing Frosts" | short story | The Agni Review (Fall 1982) | Uncollected | |
| "Magic" | short story | The Antioch Review (Fall 1982) | Uncollected | |
| "The Pedlar" | short story | New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly (Autumn–Winter 1982) | Uncollected | Excerpt from A Bloodsmoor Romance (1982) |
| "Plover Hill" | short story | Prairie Schooner (Winter 1982–83) | Uncollected | |
| "Ich Bin Ein Berliner" | short story | Esquire (December 1982) | Last Days: Stories (1984) | Anthologized in Great Esquire Fiction: The Finest Stories from the First Fifty Years (1983) |
1983
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Hull and the Motions of Grace" | short story | Northwest Review (1983) | Uncollected | |
| "Nairobi" | short story | The Paris Review (Spring 1983) | Raven's Wing (1986) | Anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1984 (1984); included in High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
| "Rabies and Race: An Hypothesis" | short story | Partisan Review (Spring 1983) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Crosswicks Horror; not included in novel published as The Accursed (2013) |
| "The Victim" | short story | The Iowa Review (Spring 1983) | Uncollected | |
| "The Witness" | short story | Antaeus (Spring 1983) | Last Days: Stories (1984) | |
| "The Granite Springs Elegies" | short story | Carolina Quarterly (Summer 1983) | Uncollected | |
| "Last Days" | short story | Michigan Quarterly Review (Summer 1983) | Last Days: Stories (1984) | Included in High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
| "The Funeral" | short story | Tropic (June 19, 1983) | Uncollected | |
| "Funland" | short story | Funland (July 1983) | Last Days: Stories (1984) | Originally published as standalone limited edition book |
| "Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars." | short story | Queen's Quarterly (Autumn 1983) | Last Days: Stories (1984) | |
| "Old Budapest" | short story | The Kenyon Review (Fall 1983) | Last Days: Stories (1984) | |
| "Harrow Street in Linden" | short story | The Massachusetts Review (Winter 1983) | Raven's Wing (1986) | |
| "Improvisation" | short story | New Letters (Winter 1983) | Uncollected | |
| "December" | short story | Carolina Quarterly (Winter 1983) | Uncollected | Anthologized in Southern Lights: 75 Years of the Carolina Quarterly (2023) |
| "The Seasons" | short story | Ploughshares (Winter 1983–84) | Raven's Wing (1986) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1985: The O. Henry Awards (1985) |
1984
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Chloe" | short story | Fiction International (1984) | Uncollected | |
| "The Lost Suitor" | short story | Avenue (February 1984) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Mysteries of Winterthurn (1984) |
| "Silver Storm" | short story | The Agni Review (Spring 1984) | Uncollected | |
| "Manslaughter" | short story | The Malahat Review (June 1984) | Raven's Wing (1986) | Included in High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
| "Canal Road" | short story | The Southern Review (Summer 1984) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Marya: A Life (1986) |
| "Delia's Adventures" | short story | Denver Quarterly (Summer 1984) | Uncollected | |
| "For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry" | short story | Michigan Quarterly Review (Summer 1984) | Uncollected | |
| "Raven's Wing" | short story | Esquire (August 1984) | Raven's Wing (1986) | Anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1985 (1985); included in High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
| "The Nordic Soul" | short story | The Washington Post Magazine (August 5, 1984) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Crosswicks Horror, published as The Accursed (2013); revised (2010) |
| "Master Race" | short story | Partisan Review (Fall 1984) | Uncollected | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1986: The O. Henry Awards (1986) |
| "The Cure for Folly" | short story | TriQuarterly (Winter 1984) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Marya: A Life (1986) |
| "The Boy" | short story | Playgirl (December 1984) | The Assignation (1988) | Included in Twelve Plays (1991) |
| "Happy" | short story | Vanity Fair (December 1984) | Raven's Wing (1986) | Anthologized in Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories (1986); expanded as "Happy Christmas: A Short Story" (2023) |
1985
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Wild Nights" | short story | Wild Nights (1985) | Uncollected | Originally published as standalone limited edition book |
| "Sonata Quasi una Fantasia" | short story | Fiction (1985) | Uncollected | |
| "Ballad" | short story | Southwest Review (Spring 1985) | Uncollected | |
| "Pain" | short story | New Letters (Spring 1985) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Marya: A Life (1986) |
| "The Bequest" | short story | New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly (Spring 1985) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Marya: A Life (1986) |
| "Secret Observations on the Goat-Girl" | short story | Pequod (March 1985) | The Assignation (1988) | Anthologized in The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992) and Primary Sources on Monsters: Demonstrare, Volume 2 (2018) |
| "Golden Gloves" | short story | The Washington Post Magazine (August 4, 1985) | Raven's Wing (1986) | Reprinted in Crosscurrents (June 1991); included in High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
| "In Parenthesis" | short story | Chelsea (October 1985) | Uncollected | |
| "Baby" | short story | The Ontario Review (Fall–Winter 1985–86) | Raven's Wing (1986) | |
| "The Heir" | short story | The Massachusetts Review (Winter 1985) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars..." | short story | Exile (Winter 1985) | Uncollected | Included in Oates in Exile (1990) |
| "The Jesuit" | short story | The Missouri Review (Winter 1985–86) | Raven's Wing (1986) | |
| "The Mother" | short story | Shenandoah (1985–86) | Raven's Wing (1986) | Included in Where Is Here? (1992) |
1986
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "April" | short story | Raven's Wing (1986) | Raven's Wing (1986) | |
| "Little Blood-Button" | short story | New Directions 50 (1986) | Raven's Wing (1986) | Included in Twelve Plays (1991); revised |
| "Nuclear Holocaust" | short story | New Directions 50 (1986) | Raven's Wing (1986) | Included in Twelve Plays (1991) |
| "Maximum Security" | short story | New Directions 50 (1986) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "Turquoise" | short story | New Directions 50 (1986) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "Little Moses/The Society for the Reclamation and Restoration of 'E. Auguste Napoléon Bonaparte'" | short story | The New Black Mask (1986) | Uncollected | Excerpt from My Heart Laid Bare (1998) |
| "The Orphan" | short story | The Agni Review (1986) | Uncollected | |
| "Photographer's Model" | short story | Confrontation (1986) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "Soldier" | short story | Confrontation (1986) | Uncollected | |
| "Señorita" | short story | Northwest Review (1986) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "Angel Eyes" | short story | The South Carolina Review (Spring 1986) | Uncollected | |
| "Double Solitaire" | short story | Michigan Quarterly Review (Spring 1986) | Raven's Wing (1986) | |
| "Little Wife" | short story | The Kenyon Review (Spring 1986) | Raven's Wing (1986) | |
| "Surf City" | short story | Partisan Review (Summer 1986) | Raven's Wing (1986) | |
| "Testimony" | short story | The Southern Review (Summer 1986) | Raven's Wing (1986) | |
| "The Photographer" | short story | The Washington Post Magazine (August 17, 1986) | Uncollected | |
| "Fever" | short story | The South Carolina Review (Fall 1986) | Uncollected | |
| "The Betrayal" | short story | New Letters (Winter/Spring 1986) | Uncollected | |
| "Ace" | short story | New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly (Winter 1986) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "Ancient Airs, Voices" | short story | The Antioch Review (Winter 1986) | Raven's Wing (1986) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1987: The O. Henry Awards (1987); reprinted in The Antioch Review (Winter 1992) |
| "Anecdote" | short story | Exile (Winter 1986) | The Assignation (1988) | Included in Oates in Exile (1990) |
| "The Call" | short story | Exile (Winter 1986) | Uncollected | Included in Oates in Exile (1990) and Twelve Plays (1991) |
| "My Madman" | short story | Exile (Winter 1986) | Where Is Here? (1992) | Included in Oates in Exile (1990) |
| "One Flesh" | short story | Exile (Winter 1986) | The Assignation (1988) | Included in Oates in Exile (1990) and Twelve Plays (1991) |
| "Romance" | short story | The Threepenny Review (Winter 1986) | The Assignation (1988) |
1987
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Blue-Bearded Lover" | short story | Blue-Bearded Lover (1987) | The Assignation (1988) | Originally published as standalone limited edition book; included as "Bluebeard's Last Wife" in Twelve Plays (1991) |
| "County Detention" | short story | Crosscurrents (1987) | Uncollected | |
| "Twins" | short story | The Ohio Review (1987) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | |
| "Haunted" | short story | The Architecture of Fear (1987) | Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) | Anthologized in The Year's Best Fantasy: First Annual Collection (1988); included in Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003) and Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "The White Cat" | short story | A Matter of Crime: New Stories from the Masters of Mystery & Suspense (1987) | Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) | Anthologized in The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) and Tails of Wonder and Imagination: Cat Stories (2010) |
| "From The Life of..." | short story | Shenandoah (1987) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "Slow" | short story | The Southern California Anthology (1987) | The Assignation (1988) | Included as "Slow Motion" in Twelve Plays (1991); anthologized in New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (2018) |
| "Tick" | short story | The Southern California Anthology (1987) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "A Sentimental Encounter" | short story | Epoch (1987–88) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "Questions" | short story | Playboy (January 1987) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | |
| "Shopping" | short story | Ms. (March 1987) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | Anthologized in Short Fiction: Classic and Contemporary, Fourth Edition (1999) and Fifth Edition (2002) |
| "Sharpshooting" | short story | The Boston Globe Magazine (March 22, 1987) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "Mule" | short story | Boston Review (April 1987) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "The Knife" | short story | Redbook (May 1987) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | Original title "The Double-Edged Knife" |
| "Death, Etc." | short story | Mississippi Review (Spring/Summer 1987) | Uncollected | |
| "Black" | short story | Witness (Summer 1987) | Uncollected | Included in Twelve Plays (1991) |
| "Pinch" | short story | The American Voice (Summer 1987) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "The Others" | short story | The Twilight Zone Magazine (August 1987) | The Assignation (1988) | Anthologized in Triumph of the Night: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by 20th Century Masters (1989) and The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories (1992) |
| "Capital Punishment" | short story | The Southern Review (Autumn 1987) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | |
| "House Hunting" | short story | The Kenyon Review (Fall 1987) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1989: The O. Henry Awards (1989) |
| "The Abduction" | short story | Seventeen (November 1987) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "First Marriage" | short story | Words International (November 1987) | Uncollected | |
| "Desire" | short story | Exile (Winter 1987) | The Assignation (1988) | Included in Oates in Exile (1990) |
| "Train" | short story | Exile (Winter 1987) | The Assignation (1988) | Included in Oates in Exile (1990) |
| "Sundays in Summer" | short story | Michigan Quarterly Review (Winter 1987) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | |
| "Yarrow" | short story | TriQuarterly (Winter 1987) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1988: The O. Henry Awards (1988); reprinted in TriQuarterly (Spring/Summer 1990); included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
1988
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Bad Habits" | short story | The Assignation (1988) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "A Touch of the Flu" | short story | Fiction Network (1988) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "White Trash" | short story | Lord John Ten: A Celebration (1988) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | |
| "The Assignation" | short story | Antaeus (Spring 1988) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "The Boyfriend" | short story | The Massachusetts Review (Spring 1988) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | |
| "Eleutheria" | short story | Fiction International (Spring 1988) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "Secret" | short story | Fiction International (Spring 1988) | The Assignation (1988) | Included in Twelve Plays (1991) |
| "Itch" | short story | Fiction International (Spring 1988) | Uncollected | |
| "Stroke" | short story | The Malahat Review (Spring 1988) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "Face" | short story | The Malahat Review (Spring 1988) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "August Evening" | short story | The Malahat Review (Spring 1988) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "Geese" | short story | Ploughshares (Spring 1988) | Uncollected | |
| "The Bystander" | short story | Queen's Quarterly (Summer 1988) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "Getting to Know All About You" | short story | The Southern Review (Summer 1988) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | |
| "Death Valley" | short story | Esquire (July 1988) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | Included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "Party" | short story | Boston Review (August 1988) | The Assignation (1988) | Anthologized in The Pushcart Prize XIV: Best of the Small Presses (1990) |
| "The Track" | short story | GQ (September 1988) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | |
| "The Stadium" | short story | Omni (October 1988) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "Beauty Salon" | short story | The Gettysburg Review (Autumn 1988) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "Picnic" | short story | High Plains Literary Review (Fall 1988) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "The Quarrel" | short story | Exile (Fall 1988) | The Assignation (1988) | Included in Oates in Exile (1990) |
| "Two Doors" | short story | Exile (Fall 1988) | The Assignation (1988) | Original title "The Doors"; included in Oates in Exile (1990) |
| "Visitation Rights" | short story | TriQuarterly (Fall 1988) | The Assignation (1988) | |
| "Foster Home" | short story | Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter 1988) | Uncollected | |
| "Naked" | short story | Witness (Winter 1988) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) |
1989
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Blue Skies" | short story | The Invisible Enemy: Alcoholism and the Modern Short Story (1989) | Uncollected | |
| "The Wig" | short story | New Directions 53 (1989) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "Biopsy" | short story | New Directions 53 (1989) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "Bad News" | short story | New Directions 53 (1989) | Uncollected | |
| "Hostage" | short story | Louder Than Words (1989) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | |
| "Craps" | short story | Boulevard (1989) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | Anthologized in Blowout in Little Man Flats and Other Spine-Tingling Stories of Murder in the West (1998) and one other; included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "Leila Lee" | short story | Northwest Review (1989) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | |
| "Tell Me Everything You Know" | short story | Crosscurrents (1989) | Uncollected | |
| "Home" | short story | Ladies' Home Journal (January 1989) | Uncollected | |
| "Kindness" | short story | Ladies' Home Journal (May 1989) | Uncollected | |
| "Shot" | short story | The Ohio Review (Spring 1989) | Where Is Here? (1992) | Reprinted in Seventeen (June 1990), Literary Cavalcade (April 1998) and The Ohio Review (2001); included in Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003) |
| "Heat" | short story | The Paris Review (Spring 1989) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1990: The O. Henry Awards (1990) and three others; included in High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
| "Cave of Ten Thousand Sacrifices" | short story | Mānoa (Spring–Fall 1989) | Uncollected | |
| "The Date" | short story | Savvy Woman (July 1989) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "The Damnation of A-- K--" | short story | Fantasy & Science Fiction (August 1989) | Uncollected | |
| "Embrace" | short story | Western Humanities Review (Autumn 1989) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "The Handclasp" | short story | The Kenyon Review (Fall 1989) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | |
| "The Crying Baby" | short story | New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly (Winter 1989) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | Reprinted in New England Review (Winter 1993) |
| "Abandoned" | short story | Western Humanities Review (Winter 1989) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "Cuckold" | short story | Western Humanities Review (Winter 1989) | Where Is Here? (1992) | Included in Twelve Plays (1991) |
| "Emergency" | short story | The Antioch Review (Winter 1989) | Uncollected | |
| "Family" | short story | Omni (December 1989) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | Anthologized in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection (1990) and two others; included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "The Swimmers" | short story | Playboy (December 1989) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1991: The O. Henry Awards (1991); included in High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
1990s
1990
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "First Pro Fight" | short story | Words On the Page, the World In Your Hands: Book Three (1990) | Uncollected | Excerpt from On Boxing (1987) |
| "Pregnant" | short story | Skin of the Soul: New Horror Stories by Women (1990) | Uncollected | |
| "Man Who Wasn't There" | short story | Boulevard (1990) | Uncollected | |
| "Morning" | short story | Arete (January/February 1990) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | |
| "American, Abroad" | short story | North American Review (March 1990) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | Anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1991 (1991) |
| "Passion" | short story | GQ (March 1990) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | |
| "How Do You Like Your Meat?" | short story | Michigan Quarterly Review (Spring 1990) | Uncollected | Included in Twelve Plays (1991); reprinted in Michigan Quarterly Review (Winter 2021) |
| "The Maker of Parables" | short story | The Kenyon Review (Spring 1990) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "Friday Night" | short story | Antaeus (Spring/Autumn 1990) | Uncollected | Included in Twelve Plays (1991) |
| "The Hair" | short story | Partisan Review (Summer 1990) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | Anthologized in The Pushcart Prize XVI: Best of the Small Presses (1991); included in High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
| "Why Don't You Come Live With Me It's Time" | short story | Tikkun (July/August 1990) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1992: The O. Henry Awards (1992) and one other; included in Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003) and Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "Angry" | short story | New York Woman (August 1990) | Where Is Here? (1992) | Original title "Anger" |
| "Ladies and Gentlemen:" | short story | Harper's Magazine (December 1990) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | Anthologized in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection (1991); included in Twelve Plays (1991) and Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
1991
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Act of Solitude" | short story | AGNI (1991) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | |
| "Imperial Presidency" | short story | Boulevard (1991) | Where Is Here? (1992) | Included in Twelve Plays (1991) |
| "Goose Girl" | short story | Fiction (1991) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1993: The O. Henry Awards (1993) |
| "Letter, Lover" | short story | Fiction (1991) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "Insomnia" | short story | Onthebus (1991) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "Area Man Found Crucified" | short story | The Southern California Anthology (1991) | Where Is Here? (1992) | Reprinted in The Southern California Anthology (1993, 1998) |
| "The Buck" | short story | Story (1991) | Heat and Other Stories (1991) | Included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "Where Is Here?" | short story | American Short Fiction (Spring 1991) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "The Escape" | short story | TriQuarterly (Spring/Summer 1991) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "The Face of Injury" | short story | Syracuse University Magazine (March 1991) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Rise of Life on Earth (1991) |
| "Forgive Me!" | short story | Michigan Quarterly Review (Summer 1991) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "The Guilty Party" | short story | Glamour (July 1991) | Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) | |
| "Is Laughter Contagious?" | short story | Harper's Magazine (September 1991) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | Anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1992 (1992) |
| "Black Water" | short story | Lear's (September 1991) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Black Water (1992) |
| "Actress" | short story | Michigan Quarterly Review (Fall 1991) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "Lethal" | short story | Ontario Review (Fall/Winter 1991–92) | Where Is Here? (1992) | Included in Twelve Plays (1991); anthologized in Telling Stories: An Anthology for Writers (1998) |
| "Life After High School" | short story | The Atlantic (November 1991) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | Included in Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003) and High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
1992
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Hammerklavier" | short story | Fiction (1992) | Uncollected | |
| "Work-in-Progress" | short story | God: An Anthology of Fiction (1992) | Uncollected | |
| "The False Mirror" | short story | Where Is Here? (1992) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "Love, Forever" | short story | Where Is Here? (1992) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "Murder" | short story | Where Is Here? (1992) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "Old Dog" | short story | Where Is Here? (1992) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "Extenuating Circumstances" | short story | Sisters in Crime 5 (1992) | Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) | Anthologized in The Big Book of Female Detectives (2018); included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "Martyrdom" | short story | MetaHorror (1992) | Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) | Anthologized in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection (1993) |
| "Running" | short story | Self (March 1992) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "Schroeder's Stepfather" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (April 1992) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | |
| "The Artist" | short story | Omni (May 1992) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "Poor Bibi" | short story | Tikkun (May/June 1992) | Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) | Original title "Poor Thing"; reprinted in Tikkun (Summer 2016); included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "You Can't Catch Me" | short story | Mānoa (Spring 1992) | Uncollected | As Rosamond Smith; excerpt from You Can't Catch Me (1995) |
| "Don't You Trust Me?" | short story | Glamour (August 1992) | Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) | Anthologized as graphic novel in Sexy Chix: Anthology of Women Cartoonists (2006) and Drawing Lines: An Anthology of Women Cartoonists (2020) |
| "Widow" | short story | The Southern Review (Summer 1992) | Uncollected | |
| "The Model" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (October 1992) | Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) | Anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories 1993 (1993); included in Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003) and Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "Bare Legs" | short story | The Yale Review (October 1992) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "Sweet!" | short story | Antaeus (Autumn 1992) | Where Is Here? (1992) | |
| "Depot" | short story | American Short Fiction (Fall 1992) | Uncollected | |
| "Gulf War" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 1992) | Uncollected | |
| "The Premonition" | short story | Playboy (December 1992) | Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) | |
| "The Ice Pick" | short story | Raritan (Winter 1992) | Where Is Here? (1992) |
1993
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Bad Touch" | short story | AGNI (1993) | Uncollected | |
| "Phase Change" | short story | Omni Visions One (1993) | Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) | |
| "Politics" | short story | Cosmopolitan (May 1993) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | |
| "The Radio Astronomer" | short story | Antaeus (Spring 1993) | Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) | |
| "The Girl Who Was to Die" | short story | The Gettysburg Review (Spring 1993) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | Included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "The Missing Person" | short story | Glimmer Train (Summer 1993) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | |
| "The Passion of Rydcie Mather" | short story | American Short Fiction (Summer 1993) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | |
| "Thanksgiving" | short story | Omni (November 1993) | Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) | |
| "The Lost Child" | short story | Michigan Quarterly Review (Fall 1993) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | |
| "Mistaken Identity" | short story | New England Review (Fall 1993) | Uncollected | |
| "You Petted Me, and I Followed You Home" | short story | TriQuarterly (Fall 1993) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1995: The O. Henry Awards (1995) |
| "Accursed Inhabitants of the House of Bly" | short story | The Antioch Review (Winter 1993) | Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) | |
| "The Night Nurse" | short story | Ploughshares (Winter 1993–94) | Uncollected |
1994
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Elvis Is Dead: Why Are You Alive?" | short story | The King Is Dead: Tales of Elvis Postmortem (1994) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | |
| "Fever Blisters" | short story | Little Deaths: 24 Tales of Horror and Sex (1994) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | |
| "Will You Always Love Me?" | short story | Will You Always Love Me? (1994) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | Originally published as standalone limited edition book; anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories 1997 (1997); included in High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
| "An Urban Paradox" | short story | Witness (1994) | Demon and Other Tales (1996) | Included in The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998); anthologized in Unforgettable Ghost Stories by Women Writers (2008) |
| "The Journey" | short story | SoHo Journal (1994–95) | Demon and Other Tales (1996) | Included in The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) |
| "June Birthing" | short story | Cosmopolitan (February 1994) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | |
| "A Theory of (Unmarked) Municipal Vehicles" | short story | Trafika (Spring 1994) | Uncollected | |
| "The Undesirable Table" | short story | Raritan (Spring 1994) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | Anthologized in The Pushcart Prize XX: Best of the Small Presses (1995); included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "Posthumous" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (June 1994) | Demon and Other Tales (1996) | Included in The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998); anthologized in 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories (1998) |
| "Blind" | short story | Worlds of Fantasy & Horror (Summer 1994) | Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque (1994) | |
| "What I Lived For" | short story | Playboy (September 1994) | Uncollected | Excerpt from What I Lived For (1994) |
| "Zombie" | short story | The New Yorker (October 24, 1994) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Zombie (1995) |
| "The Brothers" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (November 1994) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | Anthologized in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection (1995) |
| "The Mark of Satan" | short story | Antaeus (Autumn 1994) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | Anthologized in Prize Stories 1996: The O. Henry Awards (1996) and The Art of the Story (1999); included in High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
| "Christmas Night 1962" | short story | TriQuarterly (Fall 1994) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | |
| "Fever" | short story | Columbia (Winter 1994) | Uncollected | |
| "The Stalker" | short story | Exile (Winter 1994) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | Anthologized in Unusual Suspects: An Anthology of Crime Stories from Black Lizard (1996) |
1995
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "████" | short story | Fear Itself (1995) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | Anthologized in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection (1996) and Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror (2010) |
| "The Crossing" | short story | Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (1995) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | |
| "The Hand-Puppet" | short story | David Copperfield's Tales of the Impossible (1995) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | Included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "Gulf War" | play | The Perfectionist and Other Plays (1995) | The Perfectionist and Other Plays (1995) | |
| "Here She Is!" | play | The Perfectionist and Other Plays (1995) | The Perfectionist and Other Plays (1995) | |
| "Negative" | play | The Perfectionist and Other Plays (1995) | The Perfectionist and Other Plays (1995) | |
| "The Perfectionist" | play | The Perfectionist and Other Plays (1995) | The Perfectionist and Other Plays (1995) | |
| "Bad Girls" | short story | Boulevard (Spring 1995) | Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003) | Anthologized in The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction: Second Edition (1998) |
| "The Hands" | short story | Epoch (1995) | Demon and Other Tales (1996) | Included in The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) |
| "Accursed" | short story | The Threepenny Review (Spring 1995) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Crosswicks Horror, published as The Accursed (2013) |
| "Death Astride Bicycle" | short story | Western Humanities Review (Spring 1995) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | |
| "Labor Day" | short story | Western Humanities Review (Spring 1995) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | |
| "The Omen" | short story | Blood & Aphorisms (Spring 1995) | Demon and Other Tales (1996) | Included in The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) |
| "The Temple" | short story | Blood & Aphorisms (Spring 1995) | Demon and Other Tales (1996) | Anthologized in American Gothic Tales (1996); included in The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) |
| "Good to Know You" | short story | Western Humanities Review (Summer 1995) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | |
| "Death Mother" | short story | The Kenyon Review (Summer–Fall 1995) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | Anthologized in Snapshots: 20th Century Mother–Daughter Fiction (2000) and The Best of The Kenyon Review (2003) |
| "Intensive" | short story | The Gettysburg Review (Autumn 1995) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | |
| "The Affliction" | short story | Bomb (Fall 1995) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | |
| "The Adoption" | play | Conjunctions (Fall 1995) | New Plays (1998) | |
| "Ghost Girls" | short story | American Short Fiction (Fall 1995) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Man Crazy (1997); anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1996 (1996) and The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1999) |
| "The Revenge of the Foot, 1970" | short story | Salmagundi (Fall 1995) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | Included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "The Vision" | short story | Michigan Quarterly Review (Winter 1995) | Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories (1996) | |
| "The Easy Lay" | short story | Ploughshares (Winter 1995–96) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Man Crazy (1997) |
| "Marsena Sportsman's Club" | short story | TriQuarterly (Winter 1995/96) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Man Crazy (1997) |
1996
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Boy Looking Into Infinity" | short story | AGNI (1996) | Uncollected | |
| "The Ceremony" | short story | The Southern California Anthology (1996) | Uncollected | |
| "The Floating Hospital" | short story | The Southern California Anthology (1996) | Uncollected | |
| "Leave Me Alone God Damn You" | short story | Lethal Kisses: 19 Stories of Sex, Horror & Revenge (1996) | Uncollected | |
| "At the Paradise Motel, Sparks, Nevada" | short story | Murder for Love (1996) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon (1999) |
| "Nobody Knows My Name" | short story | Twists of the Tale: An Anthology of Cat Horror (1996) | The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (2011) | |
| "The Dream-Catcher" | short story | Off Limits: Tales of Alien Sex (1996) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | |
| "Unprintable" | short story | Mother: Famous Writers Celebrate Motherhood with a Treasury of Short Stories, Essays, and Poems (1996) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | |
| "Demon" | short story | Demon and Other Tales (1996) | Demon and Other Tales (1996) | Included in The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) and High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread (2014) |
| "Acapulco Gold" | short story | The Gettysburg Review (Spring 1996) | Uncollected | |
| "The Sepulchre" | short story | DoubleTake (Spring 1996) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | |
| "We Were Worried About You" | short story | Boulevard (Spring 1996) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | |
| "Gorgeous" | short story | The Southern Review (Summer 1996) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Man Crazy (1997) |
| "Physical" | short story | Playboy (August 1996) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | |
| "Tell Me of Your Life" | short story | Celestial Timepiece: A Joyce Carol Oates Home Page (November 18, 1996) | Uncollected | Published online; prologue to Man Crazy (1997) |
| "See You in Your Dreams" | short story | The Southern Review (Winter 1996) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Man Crazy (1997) |
1997
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "A Manhattan Romance" | short story | The Time Out Book of New York Short Stories (1997) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | Reprinted in American Short Fiction (Winter 1997); anthologized in Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics (2008) |
| "A Woman Is Born to Bleed" | short story | Sex, Drugs, Rock'n'Roll: Stories to End the Century (1997) | Uncollected | |
| "In the Insomniac Night" | short story | Black Swan, White Raven (1997) | Uncollected | |
| "Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon!" | short story | Hot Blood: Crimes of Passion (1997) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Starr Bright Will Be with You Soon (1999) |
| "Man Crazy" | short story | Blind Spot (1997) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Man Crazy (1997) |
| "Scars" | short story | Artes International (1997) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | |
| "The Sky Blue Ball" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (January 1997) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | Original title "The Sky-Blue Ball"; anthologized in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection (1998); included in Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003) |
| "From The Negro-Lover" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 1997) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Negro-Lover, published as I'll Take You There (2002) |
| "The Penitent" | short story | Fiction (1997) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Negro-Lover, published as I'll Take You There (2002) |
| "Lover" | short story | Granta (Summer 1997) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | Anthologized in Master's Choice: Volume II (2000) |
| "Ugly" | short story | The Paris Review (Summer 1997) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | Original title "Ugly Girl"; collected revised |
| "Fugitive" | short story | The Yale Review (July 1997) | I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) | |
| "Death Cup" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (August 1997) | The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (2011) | Anthlogized in The Year's 25 Finest Crime & Mystery Stories: 7th Annual Edition (1998) |
| "Lost Kittens" | short story | TriQuarterly (Fall 1997) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Man Crazy (1997) |
| "The Wake" | short story | Ploughshares (Fall 1997) | Uncollected | |
| "Deathwatch" | short story | Story (Winter 1997) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | Original title "Death Watch" |
| "Faithless" | short story | The Kenyon Review (Winter 1997) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | Anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories 1998 (1998) and The Pushcart Prize XXIII: Best of the Small Presses (1999) |
| "Valentine" | short story | Michigan Quarterly Review (Winter 1997) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | Anthologized in Buffalo Noir (2015); included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
1998
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Color Blind" | short story | The Best of the Best: 18 New Stories by America's Leading Authors (1998) | Uncollected | |
| "First Love" | short story | A Few Thousand Words About Love (1998) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Negro-Lover, published as I'll Take You There (2002) |
| "(A Diptych)" | short story | Hover (1998) | Uncollected | |
| "(The Salvation of the Grass): A Parable" | short story | Hover (1998) | Uncollected | |
| "Broke Heart Blues" | short story | Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers (1998) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Broke Heart Blues (1999) |
| "Murder-Two" | short story | Murder for Revenge (1998) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | Anthologized in Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them (1999) |
| "What Then, My Life?" | short story | Fiction (1998) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | |
| "The Collector of Hearts" | short story | Seventeen (May 1998) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | Included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "From The Negro-Lover: The Way Out" | short story | TriQuarterly (Spring 1998) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Negro-Lover, published as I'll Take You There (2002) |
| "The Scarf" | short story | Ploughshares (Spring 1998) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | |
| "The Sons of Angus MacElster" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 1998) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | Included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "The Princess Who Died in Old Muirkirk" | short story | Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art (Spring/Summer 1998) | Uncollected | Excerpt from My Heart Laid Bare (1998) |
| "Shadows of the Evening" | short story | Century (Summer 1998) | The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque (1998) | Anthologized in Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror (2015) |
| "Feral" | short story | Fantasy & Science Fiction (September 1998) | The Museum of Dr. Moses (2007) | |
| "Fast Forward" | short story | The Yale Review (October 1998) | Uncollected | |
| "Secret, Silent" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 1998) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | Anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories 1999 (1999) |
| "The Last Man of Letters" | short story | Playboy (December 1998) | High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread (2014) | |
| "The Kiss" | short story | Inquirer Magazine (December 20, 1998) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Blonde (2000) |
1999
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Ruins of Contracoeur" | short story | 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense (1999) | The Ruins of Contracoeur and Other Presences (2021) | |
| "Tusk" | short story | Irreconcilable Differences (1999) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | |
| "The Vampire" | short story | Murder and Obsession (1999) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | |
| "Au Sable" | short story | Harper's Magazine (February 1999) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | |
| "The Box Artist" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 1999) | Uncollected | Anthologized in A Convergence of Birds (2001) |
| "Summer Sweat" | short story | Playboy (August 1999) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | |
| "The Barter" | short story | Story (Autumn 1999) | Sourland: Stories (2010) | |
| "Hummingbird" | short story | Michigan Quarterly Review (Fall 1999) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Blonde (2000) |
| "In *COPLAND*" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 1999) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | |
| "The Dark Prince" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (November 1999) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Blonde (2000) |
| "The Sharpshooter" | short story | Conjunctions (Winter 1999) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Blonde (2000); anthologized in The Pushcart Prize XXV: Best of the Small Presses (2001) |
| "The Blond Actress Rehearses Chekhov" | play | The Massachusetts Review (Winter 1999/2000) | Uncollected |
2000s
2000
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "You, Little Match-girl" | short story | Black Heart, Ivory Bones (2000) | Uncollected | |
| "The Beat Reporter" | short story | Fiction (2000) | Uncollected | |
| "The Girl with the Blackened Eye" | short story | Witness (2000) | I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) | Anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories 2001 (2001) and Prize Stories 2001: The O. Henry Awards (2001) |
| "Words" | short story | The Yale Review (April 2000) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Blonde (2000) |
| "The Little Sacrifice" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2000) | Uncollected | Anthologized as "A Dark Fable" in Shadow: Touching the Darkness Within (2002) and under its original title in 666: The Number of the Beast (2007) |
| "Prevailing Faith in 'Free Will'" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2000) | Uncollected | |
| "The Revelation" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2000) | Uncollected | |
| "There Will Come That Evening" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2000) | Uncollected | |
| "The Playwright and the Blond Actress" | play | Ploughshares (Spring 2000) | Uncollected | |
| "In Shock" | short story | Fantasy & Science Fiction (June 2000) | Uncollected | |
| "The Vigil" | short story | Harper's Magazine (July 2000) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | |
| "Happiness" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (August 2000) | I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) | Anthologized in The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: Second Annual Collection (2001) |
| "Gunlove" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 2000) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | |
| "Strand Used Books 1956" | short story | Exile (Fall 2000) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Blonde (2000); anthologized in Retro Retro: Fictional Flashbacks (2000); slightly revised as "Three Girls" (2002) |
| "Wolf's Head Lake" | short story | Salmagundi (Fall 2000) | I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) | |
| "Pin-up 1945" | short story | TriQuarterly (Winter, Spring/Summer 2000) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Blonde (2000) |
2001
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Man Who Fought Roland LaStarza" | short story | Murder on the Ropes: Original Boxing Mysteries (2001) | The Museum of Dr. Moses (2007) | |
| "The Museum of Dr. Moses" | short story | The Museum of Horrors (2001) | The Museum of Dr. Moses (2007) | |
| "Commencement" | short story | Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction (2001) | The Ruins of Contracoeur and Other Presences (2021) | Anthologized in Lovecraft Unbound (2009) |
| "The High School Sweetheart: A Mystery" | short story | Playboy (January 2001) | Faithless: Tales of Transgression (2001) | Original title "The High School Sweetheart" |
| "21 Epiphanies on the Great Egg" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2001) | Uncollected | |
| "In Hiding" | short story | Michigan Quarterly Review (Spring 2001) | I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) | |
| "Curly Red" | short story | Harper's Magazine (April 2001) | I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) | Excerpt from My Life as a Rat (2019) |
| "Testimony" | short story | The Spook (August 2001) | Uncollected | |
| "The Fossil-Seeker" | short story | Conjunctions (Fall 2001) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Falls (2004) |
| "The Instructor" | short story | Salmagundi (Fall 2001) | I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) | Anthologized in Pushcart Prize XXVII: Best of the Small Presses (2003) |
| "Miss Golden Dreams 1949" | play | Prairie Schooner (Fall 2001) | Uncollected | Revised as short story (2021) |
| "The Suicide Note: Nine Ecstacies of the Soul" | play | Boulevard (Fall 2001) | Uncollected | |
| "Tell Me You Forgive Me?" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (September/October 2001) | The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2005) | |
| "Angel of Mercy" | short story | The Spook (October 2001) | The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2005) | |
| "Hunger" | short story | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (November 2001) | The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2005) | |
| "Me & Wolfie, 1979" | short story | AGNI (Winter–Spring 2001) | I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) | |
| "The Mutants" | short story | The Observer (December 23, 2001) | I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) | Reprinted in Fiction (2002) |
2002
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Centerfold" | short story | All the Available Light: A Marilyn Monroe Reader (2002) | Uncollected | |
| "I'm Not Your Son, I Am No One You Know" | short story | Witness (2002) | I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) | |
| "Aiding & Abetting" | short story | Playboy (January 2002) | I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) | |
| "The Beneficiary" | short story | Blind Spot (Spring 2002) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Beneficiary, published as The Tattooed Girl (2003) |
| "Upholstery" | short story | The New Yorker (March 18, 2002) | I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) | |
| "Broke Heart Blues" | short story | Literary Cavalcade (May 2002) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Broke Heart Blues (1999) |
| "The Skull: A Love Story" | short story | Harper's Magazine (May 2002) | I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) | Original title "The Skull"; anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories 2003 (2003) |
| "Stonecrop" | short story | Raritan (Summer 2002) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Falls (2004) |
| "Angel of Wrath" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (June 2002) | The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2005) | |
| "The Fruit Cellar" | short story | New Statesman (July 15, 2002) | Uncollected | Reprinted in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (March/April 2004) |
| "Jorie (& Jamie): A Deposition" | short story | New Statesman (September 9, 2002) | I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) | Original title "Jorie (& Jamie)"; reprinted in The Yale Review (July 2003) |
| "Cumberland Breakdown" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 2002) | I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) | |
| "Three Girls" | short story | The Georgia Review (Fall 2002) | I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) | Slightly revised version of "Strand Used Books 1956" (2000); anthologized in The Best American Magazine Writing 2003 (2003) and two others |
| "Madison at Guignol" | short story | The Kenyon Review (Winter 2002) | The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2005) | |
| "Soft Core" | short story | Granta (Winter 2002) | High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) | |
| "The Deaths: An Elegy" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (December 2002) | I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) | Original title "The Deaths" |
| "The Twins: A Mystery" | short story | Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (December 2002) | The Museum of Dr. Moses (2007) |
2003
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Lorelei" | short story | The Dark: New Ghost Stories (2003) | High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread (2014) | Original title "Subway"; collected revised; anthologized in Unloaded: Crime Writers Writing Without Guns (2016) |
| "The Gravedigger's Daughter" | short story | Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America (2003) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007); different excerpt than in Conjunctions and Witness |
| "Capricorn" | short story | Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003) | Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003) | |
| "The Visit" | short story | Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003) | Small Avalanches and Other Stories (2003) | |
| "The Gathering Squall" | short story | Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (2003) | High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) | |
| "The Fish Factory" | short story | Storie (2003) | High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) | Reprinted in Salmagundi (Fall 2004–Winter 2005) |
| "Mistrial" | short story | Storie (2003) | Dear Husband (2009) | |
| "Fire" | short story | TriQuarterly (Spring 2003) | I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) | |
| "Dr. Magic" | play | Conjunctions (Spring 2003) | Uncollected | |
| "Doll: A Romance of the Mississippi" | short story | The Gettysburg Review (Spring 2003) | The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2005) | Anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories 2004 (2004) |
| "Marilyn Monroe? Meet Norma Jeane's Past" | short story | GQ (March 2003) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Blonde (2000) |
| "The Haunting" | short story | Fantasy & Science Fiction (April 2003) | The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2005) | Anthologized in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 15 (2004) |
| "The Gravedigger's Daughter" | short story | Witness (Summer/Fall 2003) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007); different excerpt than in Dream Me Home Safely and Conjunctions |
| "From The Gravedigger's Daughter" | short story | Conjunctions (Fall 2003) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007); different excerpt than in Dream Me Home Safely and Witness |
| "Mrs. Halifax and Rickie Swann: A Ballad" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 2003) | I Am No One You Know: Stories (2004) | |
| "The Hunter" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (November 2003) | The Museum of Dr. Moses (2007) |
2004
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "— : Six Hypotheses" | short story | Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy (2004) | Uncollected | |
| "Poe Posthumous; or, The Light-House" | short story | McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories (2004) | Wild Nights! (2008) | Original title "The Fabled Light-House of Viña del Mar" |
| "Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear" | short story | Boulevard (Spring 2004) | High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) | |
| "Fat Man My Love" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2004) | High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) | |
| "In Hot May" | short story | The Georgia Review (Spring 2004) | High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) | |
| "Stripping" | short story | Postscripts (Spring 2004) | The Museum of Dr. Moses (2007) | Anthologized in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection (2005) |
| "Panic" | short story | Michigan Quarterly Review (Summer 2004) | Dear Husband (2009) | Anthologized in Detroit Noir (2007) |
| "The Banshee" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (June 2004) | The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2005) | |
| "The Cousins" | short story | Harper's Magazine (July 2004) | High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) | Excerpt from The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007); anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2005 (2005) |
| "Spider Boy" | short story | The New Yorker (September 20, 2004) | High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) | |
| "Between Us There's a Secret" | short story | Narrative Magazine (Fall 2004) | Uncollected | Published online; excerpt from The Falls (2004) |
| "Little Maggie: A Mystery" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 2004) | Uncollected | Anthologized in The Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad (2005) |
2005
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Corn Maiden" | novella | Transgressions: Ten Brand-New Novellas (2005) | The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (2011) | Original title "The Corn Maiden: A Love Story" |
| "Give Me Your Heart" | short story | Dangerous Women (2005) | Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2010) | |
| "*BD* 11 1 87" | short story | The Atlantic Fiction Issue (2005) | High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) | |
| "The Stolen Heart" | short story | Harvard Review (2005) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Stolen Heart (2005) |
| "From The Gravedigger's Daughter" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2005) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Gravedigger's Daughter (2007) |
| "The Lost Brother" | short story | Zoetrope: All-Story (Spring 2005) | High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) | |
| "Surprise Surpirse!" | short story | The Kenyon Review (Summer 2005) | Uncollected | |
| "Bitch" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 2005) | Sourland: Stories (2010) | |
| "Whistle" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 2005) | Uncollected | |
| "Smother" | short story | Virginia Quarterly Review (Fall 2005) | Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2010) | |
| "So Help Me God" | short story | Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter 2005) | The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2005) | Anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 (2006) |
| "High Lonesome" | short story | Zoetrope: All-Story (Winter 2005) | High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) | |
| "Bad Habits" | short story | Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (Winter 2005/2006) | The Museum of Dr. Moses (2007) | |
| "Honor Code" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (December 2005) | Sourland: Stories (2010) | Anthologized in Wolf Woman Bay: And 9 More of the Finest Crime and Mystery Novellas of the Year (2007) |
2006
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Meadowlands" | short story | Murder at the Racetrack (2006) | Uncollected | Anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 (2007) |
| "Suicide Watch" | short story | Playboy (May 2006) | The Museum of Dr. Moses (2007) | |
| "Babysitter" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (June 2006) | Sourland: Stories (2010) | Excerpt from Babysitter (2022); anthologized in Horror: The Best of the Year, 2007 Edition (2007) |
| "Valentine, July Heat Wave" | short story | Harper's Bazaar UK (July 2006) | The Museum of Dr. Moses (2007) | Reprinted in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (March/April 2007); anthologized in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twenty-First Annual Collection (2008) |
| "Bounty Hunter" | short story | The Guardian (July 15, 2006) | Sourland: Stories (2010) | |
| "Death Certificate" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 2006) | Sourland: Stories (2010) | |
| "Nowhere" | short story | Conjunctions (Fall 2006) | Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2010) | Anthologized in Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses (2008) |
| "Grandpa Clemens & Angelfish, 1906" | short story | Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (Fall 2006) | Wild Nights! (2008) | |
| "EDickinsonRepliLuxe" | short story | Virginia Quarterly Review Supplement: Writers on Writers (Fall 2006) | Wild Nights! (2008) | |
| "A Princeton Idyll" | short story | The Yale Review (October 2006) | Dear Husband (2009) | |
| "Landfill" | short story | The New Yorker (October 9, 2006) | Dear Husband (2009) | Anthologized in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twentieth Annual Collection (2007) and The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) |
2007
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Face" | short story | Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (2007) | Uncollected | |
| "The Blind Man's Sighted Daughters" | short story | Fiction (2007) | Dear Husband (2009) | Anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories 2008 (2008) |
| "Strip Poker" | short story | Dead Man's Hand: Crime Fiction at the Poker Table (2007) | Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2010) | |
| "Apoca ca lyp se: A Dip tych" | short story | Dark Horizons (Spring 2007) | Uncollected | Anthologized in The Apocalypse Reader (2007) |
| "Donor Organs" | short story | Michigan Quarterly Review (Spring 2007) | Sourland: Stories (2010) | |
| "Hi! Howya Doin!" | short story | Ploughshares (Spring 2007) | The Museum of Dr. Moses (2007) | Original title "Hi Howya Doin" |
| "The Master at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1914–1916" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2007) | Wild Nights! (2008) | |
| "Papa at Ketchum, 1961" | short story | Salmagundi (Summer/Fall 2007) | Wild Nights! (2008) | Anthologized in Afflict the Comfortable (2015) |
| "Special" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 2007) | Dear Husband (2009) | |
| "Magda Maria" | short story | Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (Fall/Winter 2007) | Dear Husband (2009) | |
| "Tetanus" | short story | TriQuarterly (Winter 2007) | Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2010) |
2008
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The First Husband" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (January 2008) | Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2010) | |
| "The Beating" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2008) | Sourland: Stories (2010) | |
| "Dear Joyce Carol" | short story | Boulevard (Spring 2008) | Dear Husband (2009) | |
| "Bleeed" | short story | Shenandoah (Spring–Summer 2008) | Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2010) | |
| "Suicide by Fitness Center" | short story | Harper's Magazine (June 2008) | Dear Husband (2009) | |
| "Split/Brain" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (September/October 2008) | Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2010) | |
| "Dear Husband" | short story | Conjunctions (Fall 2008) | Dear Husband (2009) | Anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories 2009 (2009) |
| "Vigilante" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 2008) | Dear Husband (2009) | |
| "The Glazers" | short story | American Short Fiction (Winter/Spring 2008) | Dear Husband (2009) |
2009
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Tiger Kitty" | short story | Half-Minute Horrors (2009) | Uncollected | |
| "Pumpkin-Head" | short story | The New Yorker (January 12, 2009) | Sourland: Stories (2010) | |
| "The Heart Sutra" | short story | American Short Fiction (Spring 2009) | Dear Husband (2009) | Reprinted online in The International Literary Quarterly (May 2009) |
| "Uranus" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2009) | Sourland: Stories (2010) | |
| "Cutty Sark" | short story | Salmagundi (Spring/Summer 2009) | Dear Husband (2009) | |
| "Sourland" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 2009) | Sourland: Stories (2010) | |
| "The Spill" | short story | The Kenyon Review (Winter 2009) | Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2010) | |
| "Bonobo Momma" | short story | Michigan Quarterly Review (Winter 2009) | Sourland: Stories (2010) | Anthologized in Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses (2010) |
2010s
2010
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Vena Cava" | short story | Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2010) | Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense (2010) | Anthologized in Portents (2011) |
| "Lost Daddy" | short story | Sourland: Stories (2010) | Sourland: Stories (2010) | |
| "The Story of the Stabbing" | short story | The Dark End of the Street: New Stories of Sex and Crime by Today's Top Authors (2010) | Sourland: Stories (2010) | |
| "Spotted Hyenas: A Romance" | short story | The Atlantic Fiction for Kindle (2010) | Black Dahlia & White Rose (2012) | Originally published online as Amazon Kindle exclusive; anthologized in Choose Wisely: 35 Women Up To No Good (2015) |
| "Fossil-Figures" | short story | Stories: All-New Tales (2010) | The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (2011) | |
| "The Nordic Soul" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2010) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Crosswicks Horror, published as The Accursed (2013); revised version of excerpt (1984) |
| "Distance" | short story | Ploughshares (Spring 2010) | Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) | |
| "Amputee" | short story | Shenandoah (Spring–Fall 2010) | Sourland: Stories (2010) | |
| "I.D." | short story | The New Yorker (March 29, 2010) | Black Dahlia & White Rose (2012) | Anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2011 (2011) |
| "Beersheba" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (September/October 2010) | The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (2011) | |
| "A Hole in the Head" | short story | The Kenyon Review (Fall 2010) | The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (2011) | Anthologized in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 (2011) |
| "Mudgirl in the Land of Moriah" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 2010) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Mudwoman (2012) |
| "Roma!" | short story | Conjunctions (Fall 2010) | Black Dahlia & White Rose (2012) | |
| "Probate" | short story | Salmagundi (Fall 2010/Winter 2011) | Sourland: Stories (2010) |
2011
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Widow's First Year" | short story | Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer (2011) | Uncollected | |
| "Black Dahlia & White Rose" | short story | L.A. Noire: The Collected Stories (2011) | Black Dahlia & White Rose (2012) | |
| "Run Kiss Daddy" | short story | New Jersey Noir (2011) | Black Dahlia & White Rose (2012) | Anthologized in USA Noir: The Best of the Akashic Noir Series (2013) |
| "Mudwoman Bride" | short story | The Coffin Factory (2011) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Mudwoman (2012) |
| "Mudgirl Saved by the King of the Crows. April 1965." | short story | Boulevard (Spring 2011) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Mudwoman (2012); anthologized in Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses (2013) |
| "A Brutal Murder in a Public Place" | short story | Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern (Spring 2011) | Black Dahlia & White Rose | Anthologized in Unconventional Fantasy: A Celebration of Forty Years of the World Fantasy Convention, Volume 4 (2014) |
| "Deceit" | short story | Conjunctions (Fall 2011) | Black Dahlia & White Rose | Anthologized in Protectors 2: Heroes (2015) |
| "Helping Hands" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 2011) | The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (2011) | |
| "San Quentin" | short story | Playboy (October 2011) | Black Dahlia & White Rose (2012) | |
| "The Good Samaritan" | short story | Harper's Magazine (December 2011) | Black Dahlia & White Rose (2012) |
2012
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "[Carthage]" | short story | Fighting Words (2012) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Carthage (2014) |
| "Patricide" | novella | Patricide (2012) | Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) | Originally published as standalone ebook |
| "The Rescuer" | novella | The Rescuer (2012) | High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread (2014) | Originally published as standalone ebook |
| "Snake Frenzy" | short story | The Coffin Factory (2012) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Accursed (2013) |
| "The Flatbed" | novella | Conjunctions (Spring 2012) | Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong (2013) | |
| "So Near, Anytime Always" | novella | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (March/April 2012) | Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong (2013) | Anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories 2013 (2013) |
| "Hey Dad" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (August 2012) | Black Dahlia & White Rose (2012) | |
| "Anniversary" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 2012) | Black Dahlia & White Rose (2012) | |
| "A Book of Martyrs" | short story | Virginia Quarterly Review (Fall 2012) | Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) |
2013
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "A Game of Draughts" | short story | Exotic Gothic 5, Volume I (2013) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Accursed (2013) |
| "High" | short story | The Marijuana Chronicles (2013) | High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread (2014) | |
| "The Execution" | novella | Fiction (2013) | Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong (2013) | |
| "'Stephanos is Dead'" | short story | The Yale Review (January 2013) | Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) | |
| "Evil Eye" | novella | Boulevard (Spring 2013) | Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong (2013) | |
| "Betrayal" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2013) | Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) | |
| "Sex with Camel" | short story | The American Reader (May/June 2013) | Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) | |
| "The Jesters" | short story | Virginia Quarterly Review (Summer 2013) | Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) | Anthologized in The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows (2015) |
| "Forked River Roadside Shrine, South Jersey" | short story | Vice (June 10, 2013) | Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) | |
| "Mastiff" | short story | The New Yorker (July 1, 2013) | Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) | Anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2014 (2014) and Simpsonistas: Tales from the Simpson Literary Project Vol. 3 (2021) |
| "The Disappearing" | short story | American Short Fiction (Fall 2013) | Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) | |
| "Toad-Baby" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 2013) | High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread (2014) | |
| "Lovely, Dark, Deep" | short story | Harper's Magazine (November 2013) | Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) |
2014
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Angel of Wrath" | short story | Tweed's Magazine (2014) | Uncollected | Excerpt from The Sacrifice (2015) |
| "High Crime Area" | short story | Boulevard (Spring 2014) | High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread (2014) | |
| "The Home at Craigmillnar" | short story | The Kenyon Review (Spring 2014) | High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread (2014) | Anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories 2015 (2015) |
| "The Hunter" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 2014) | Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) | |
| "Things Passed on the Way to Oblivion" | short story | Salmagundi (Fall 2014) | Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) | |
| "The Memorial Field at Hazard, Minnesota" | short story | The Yale Review (October 2014) | Beautiful Days: Stories (2018) | |
| "Descending and Ascending" | short story | Narrative Magazine (Winter 2014) | Uncollected | Published online; excerpt from Carthage (2014) |
| "Equatorial" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (December 2014) | The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror (2016) |
2015
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Doll-Master" | short story | The Doll Collection (2015) | The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror (2016) | |
| "Mystery, Inc." | short story | Mystery, Inc. (2015) | The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror (2016) | Originally published as standalone ebook; anthologized in Bibliomysteries : Stories of Crime in the World of Books and Bookstores, Volume Two (2018) |
| "Soldier" | short story | The Idaho Review (2015) | The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror (2016) | |
| "Big Burnt" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2015) | Beautiful Days: Stories (2018) | |
| "The Bereaved" | short story | The Yale Review (July 2015) | Beautiful Days: Stories (2018) | |
| "Gun Accident" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (July 2015) | The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror (2016) | Original title "Gun Accident: An Investigation"; anthologized in Year's Best Crime and Mystery Stories 2016 (2016) |
| "The Nice Girl" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 2015) | Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2024) | |
| "Walking Wounded" | short story | Conjunctions (Fall 2015) | Night-Gaunts (2018) | |
| "Flueve Bleu" | short story | The Kenyon Review (September/October 2015) | Beautiful Days: Stories (2018) |
2016
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Heartbreak" | short story | Taking Aim: Power and Pain, Teens and Guns (2016) | DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2017) | |
| "The Drowned Girl" | short story | Boulevard (Spring 2016) | DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2017) | |
| "Friend of My Heart" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2016) | Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2024) | |
| "Big Momma" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (March/April 2016) | The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror (2016) | |
| "The Situations" | short story | Vice (May 2016) | DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2017) | Anthologized in Dark Screams: Volume Six (2017) |
| "The Woman in the Window" | short story | One Story (June 9, 2016) | Night-Gaunts (2018) | Anthologized in In Sunlight or in Shadow (2016) and The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 (2017) |
| "Owl Eyes" | short story | The Yale Review (July 2016) | Beautiful Days: Stories (2018) | |
| "Donald Barthelme Saved from Oblivion" | short story | American Short Fiction (Fall 2016) | Beautiful Days: Stories (2018) | |
| "DIS MEM BER" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 2016) | DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2017) | |
| "Undocumented Alien" | short story | Conjunctions (Fall 2016) | Beautiful Days: Stories (2018) | Original title "Undocumented Alien: Very Rough First Draft Report PROJECT JRD"; anthologized in Pushcart Prize XLII: Best of the Small Presses (2018) |
| "1941: Lockport, NY" | short story | Lapham's Quarterly (Fall 2016) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Wonderland (1971) |
| "The Crawl Space" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (September/October 2016) | DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2017) | |
| "The Quiet Car" | short story | Harper's Magazine (October 2016) | Beautiful Days: Stories (2018) | |
| "The Man Without a Shadow" | short story | Narrative Magazine (Winter 2016) | Uncollected | Published online; excerpt from The Man Without a Shadow (2016) |
2017
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Les Beaux Jours" | short story | Alive in Shape and Color: 16 Paintings by Great Artists and the Stories They Inspired (2017) | Beautiful Days: Stories (2018) | |
| "Great Blue Heron" | short story | Black Feathers: Dark Avian Tales (2017) | DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2017) | |
| "The Translator" | short story | Crossing Borders: Stories and Essays About Translation (2017) | Uncollected | |
| "The Happy Place" | short story | Speaking of Work: A Story of Love, Suspense and Paperclips (2017) | The (Other) You (2021) | Anthologized in Concord Free Press Presents: A Decade of Reading and Giving (2019) and Simpsonistas: Tales from New Literary Project Vol. 4 (2022) |
| "Leander" | short story | Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) | Uncollected | |
| "Welcome to Friendly Skies!" | short story | The Idaho Review (2017) | DIS MEM BER and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2017) | |
| "Fractal" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2017) | Beautiful Days: Stories (2018) | |
| "The Experimental Subject" | short story | Conjunctions Online (June 13–20, 2017) | Night-Gaunts (2018) | Originally published online |
| "The Abortion Provider: 1987" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 2017) | Uncollected | Excerpt from A Book of American Martyrs (2017) |
| "Phantomwise: 1972" | novella | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (September/October 2017) | Cardiff, by the Sea (2020) | |
| "The Long-Legged Girl" | short story | The Kenyon Review (September/October 2017) | Night-Gaunts (2018) | |
| "Night-Gaunts" | short story | The Yale Review (October 2017) | Night-Gaunts (2018) | |
| "The Sign of the Beast" | short story | The Sign of the Beast (November 28, 2017) | Night-Gaunts (2018) | Originally published as Kindle single |
| "Mud Time" | short story | Narrative Magazine (Winter 2017) | Uncollected | Published online; excerpt from A Book of American Martyrs (2017) |
| "Intimacy" | short story | Vice (December 2017) | Night, Neon (2021) |
2018
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Miao Dao" | novella | Dark Corners (2018) | Cardiff, by the Sea (2020) | Originally published online as Amazon Kindle exclusive |
| "Surviving Child" | novella | Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories (2018) | Cardiff, by the Sea (2020) | |
| "'Good News!'" | short story | It Occurs to Me That I Am America (2018) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Hazards of Time Travel (2018) |
| "Hazards of Time Travel" | short story | Simpsonistas: Tales from the Simpson Family Literary Project Vol. 1 (2018) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Hazards of Time Travel (2018) |
| "The Archivist" | short story | Boulevard (Spring 2018) | Uncollected | Excerpt from My Life as a Rat (2019); anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 (2019) |
| "Cherie and the Stranger-Kitty" | short story | Kazoo (Spring 2018) | Uncollected | |
| "Night, Neon" | short story | American Short Fiction (Summer 2018) | Night, Neon (2021) | |
| "The Crack" | short story | Salmagundi (Summer 2018) | The (Other) You (2021) | |
| "Where Are You?" | short story | The New Yorker: Flash Fiction (July 5, 2018) | The (Other) You (2021) | Originally published online |
| "The Bloody Head" | short story | The Idaho Review (Summer/Fall 2018) | The (Other) You (2021) | |
| "Waiting for Kizer" | short story | Conjunctions (Fall 2018) | The (Other) You (2021) | |
| "Wanting" | short story | Narrative Magazine (Winter 2018) | Night, Neon (2021) | Originally published online; anthologized in Uncertainties: Volume III (2018) |
2019
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Flagellant" | short story | At Home in the Dark (2019) | Night, Neon (2021) | |
| "Assassin" | short story | Cutting Edge: New Stories of Mystery and Crime by Women Writers (2019) | The (Other) You (2021) | |
| "Blue Guide" | short story | Boulevard (Spring 2019) | The (Other) You (2021) | |
| "Nightgrief" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2019) | The (Other) You (2021) | |
| "Damned Little Dog" | short story | Exile (Spring 2019) | Uncollected | |
| "The Sorrowful Virgin" | short story | F(r)iction (Spring 2019) | Uncollected | Excerpt from My Life as a Rat (2019) |
| "The Rescue" | short story | Narrative Magazine (Spring 2019) | Uncollected | Published online; excerpt from My Life as a Rat (2019) |
| "The Women Friends" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (March/April 2019) | The (Other) You (2021) | |
| "The Unexpected" | short story | Harper's Magazine (May 2019) | The (Other) You (2021) | |
| "Mr. Stickum" | short story | Playboy (Summer 2019) | The Ruins of Contracoeur and Other Presences (2021) | Included in Zero-Sum: Stories (2023) |
| "The Cold" | short story | Virginia Quarterly Review (Summer 2019) | The Ruins of Contracoeur and Other Presences (2021) | Included in Zero-Sum: Stories (2023) |
| "Final Interview" | short story | The Strand Magazine (July–November 2019) | The (Other) You (2021) | |
| "A Theory Pre-Post-Mortem" | short story | Conjunctions (Fall 2019) | Zero-Sum: Stories (2023) | |
| "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" | short story | The New Yorker (October 14, 2019) | The (Other) You (2021) | |
| "The (Other) You" | short story | Lincoln Center Theater Review (Winter 2019) | The (Other) You (2021) | Original title "You" |
2020s
2020
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "From A Book of American Martyrs" | short story | Choice Words: Writers On Abortion (2020) | Uncollected | Excerpt from A Book of American Martyrs (2017) |
| "Vaping: A User's Manual" | short story | Nicotine Chronicles (2020) | Night, Neon (2021) | |
| "Parole Hearing, California Institution for Women, Chino, CA" | short story | Boulevard (Spring 2020) | Night, Neon (2021) | Anthologized in The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021 (2021) and Pushcart Prize XLVI: Best of the Small Presses (2022) |
| "Monstersister" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2020) | The Ruins of Contracoeur and Other Presences (2021) | Included in Zero-Sum: Stories (2023) |
| "Cardiff, by the Sea" | novella | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (March/April 2020) | Cardiff, by the Sea (2020) | |
| "M A R T H E: A Referendum" | short story | Elle (April 2020) | Zero-Sum: Stories (2023) | Original title "MARTHE"; anthologized in Simpsonistas: Tales from New Literary Project Vol. 5 (2023) |
| "Still Life" | short story | Harper's Magazine (June 2020) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. (2020) |
| "Hospice/Honeymoon" | short story | The New Yorker (July 30, 2020) | The (Other) You (2021) | |
| "The Appointment" | short story | Weird Fiction Review (Fall 2020) | Uncollected | Revised as "***" (2023) |
| "The Redwoods" | short story | American Short Fiction (Winter 2020) | The Ruins of Contracoeur and Other Presences (2021) | Included in The Frenzy (2026) |
2021
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Miss Golden Dreams 1949" | short story | Collectibles (2021) | Night, Neon (2021) | Revised version of play (2001) |
| "Take Me, I Am Free" | short story | When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson (2021) | Zero-Sum: Stories (2023) | |
| "Rio Piedra" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2021) | Uncollected | |
| "'Curious'" | short story | Salmagundi (Spring–Summer 2021) | Night, Neon (2021) | |
| "Detour" | short story | Harper's Magazine (March 2021) | Night, Neon (2021) | Anthologized in The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022 (2022) |
| "Subaqueous" | short story | The Yale Review (Summer 2021) | The (Other) You (2021) | |
| "Bone Marrow Donor" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (July/August 2021) | Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2024) | |
| "The Suicide" | short story | Boulevard (Fall 2021) | Zero-Sum: Stories (2023) | |
| "Zero-Sum" | short story | Conjunctions (Fall 2021) | Zero-Sum: Stories (2023) | |
| "Babysitter" | short story | INQUE (November 2021) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Babysitter (2022) |
2022
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "'The Father of Modern Gynecology': J. Marion Syms, M.D. (1813-1883)" | short story | Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (2022) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Butcher: A Novel (2024) |
| "The Baby Monitor" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2022) | Zero-Sum: Stories (2023) | |
| "33 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (March/April 2022) | Uncollected | Excerpt from 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister (2023); anthologized in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023 (2023) |
| "Sparrow" | short story | American Short Fiction (Winter 2022–23) | Zero-Sum: Stories (2023) |
2023
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Chair of Tranquility (from the Diary of Mrs. Thomas Peele, Trenton, New Jersey, 1853)" | short story | A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (2023) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Butcher: A Novel (2024) |
| "Lovesick" | short story | Fiction (2023) | Zero-Sum: Stories (2023) | |
| "Mick & Minn" | short story | Boulevard (Spring 2023) | Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2024) | Anthologized in Pushcart Prize XLIX: Best of the Small Presses (2025) |
| "Flint Kill Creek" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2023) | Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2024) | |
| "The Phlebotomist" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (March/April 2023) | Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2024) | |
| "The Bicycle Accident" | short story | The New Yorker (April 27, 2023) | The Frenzy (2026) | |
| "Small Veins" | short story | Fictionable (Summer 2023) | The Frenzy (2026) | Originally published online |
| "This Is Not a Drill" | short story | INQUE (July 2023) | Zero-Sum: Stories (2023) | |
| "The Return" | short story | Harper's Magazine (August 2023) | The Frenzy (2026) | |
| "The Siren: 1999" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (September/October 2023) | Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2024) | |
| "The Fear" | short story | Michigan Quarterly Review (Winter 2023) | The Frenzy (2026) | Original title "Cousins" |
| "***" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (November/December 2023) | Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2024) | Revised version of "The Appointment" (2020) |
| "Happy Christmas: A Short Story" | short story | Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal (December 12, 2023) | Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2024) | Originally published online; expanded version of "Happy" (1984) |
2024
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Apprentice" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2024) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Butcher: A Novel (2024) |
| "Weekday" | short story | Salmagundi (Spring–Summer 2024) | Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2024) | |
| "Late Love" | short story | The New Yorker (April 22–29, 2024) | Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2024) | |
| "The Massacre at Mount Pitcairn" | short story | Conjunctions (Fall 2024) | Uncollected | |
| "The Heiress. The Hireling" | short story | Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (September/October 2024) | Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense (2024) | |
| "Butcher: Father of Modern Gyno-Psychiatry" | short story | Boulevard (Winter 2024) | Uncollected | Excerpt from Butcher: A Novel (2024) |
2025
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Portal" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2025) | Uncollected | |
| "Refuge" | short story | Zyzzyva (Spring 2025) | The Frenzy (2026) | |
| "The Frenzy" | short story | The New Yorker (March 24, 2025) | The Frenzy (2026) | |
| "An Excerpt from My New Novel 'Fox': The Raptor's Eye" | short story | Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal (May 15, 2025) | Uncollected | Published online; excerpt from Fox (2025) |
| "In Fox, Joyce Carol Oates Takes on a Classic Whodunit with a 'Charming Con Man' – Read an Excerpt! (Exclusive)" | short story | People (June 17, 2025) | Uncollected | Published online; excerpt from Fox (2025) |
| "Fox: Another Excerpt from My New Novel" | short story | Joyce Carol Oates: A Writer's Journal (June 26, 2025) | Uncollected | Published online; excerpt from Fox (2025) |
2026
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Strangle" | short story | Conjunctions (Spring 2026) | Uncollected | |
| "Night Fishing at Antibes" | short story | Telluride Magazine (Summer/Fall 2026) | The Frenzy (2026) |
References
- ↑ "The Glass Ark: A Joyce Carol Oates Bibliography". Celestial Timepiece. 2017-03-23. Retrieved 2025-03-31.