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]
| 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) |
| 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 |
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Rapport" | short story | Syracuse 10 (October 1958) | Uncollected |
| 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 |
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Sweet Love Remembered" | short story | Epoch (Spring 1960) | By the North Gate (1963) |
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "A Legacy" | short story | Arizona Quarterly (Summer 1961) | By the North Gate (1963) |
| 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) | Included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) |
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Boys at a Picnic" | short story | By the North Gate (1963) | By the North Gate (1963) | |
| "By the North Gate" | short story | By the North Gate (1963) | By the North Gate (1963) | |
| "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) | |
| "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) | |
| "Upon the Sweeping Flood" | short story | Southwest Review (Spring 1963) | Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) | Included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) and High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "First Views of the Enemy" | short story | Prairie Schooner (Spring 1964) | Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) | 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 |
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Stone House" | short story | Quarterly Review of Literature (1965) | The Seduction and Other Stories (1975) | |
| "Norman and the Killer" | short story | Southwest Review (Spring 1965) | Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) | |
| "Archways" | short story | Cosmopolitan (March 1965) | Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) | |
| "At the Seminary" | short story | The Kenyon Review (Summer 1965) | Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) | Included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) and High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
| "What Death with Love Should Have to Do" | short story | The Literary Review (Summer 1965) | Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) | Included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) |
| "Assailant" | short story | Prairie Schooner (Winter 1965–66) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) |
| 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) |
| 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) | |
| "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 | |
| "Accomplished Desires" | short story | Esquire (May 1968) | The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) | 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) | 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 |
| 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) | 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) | 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) | 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) | |
| "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 | |
| "Dreams" | short story | Prairie Schooner (Winter 1969–70) | Crossing the Border (1976) |
| 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) | |
| "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) | |
| "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) | 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) | |
| "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 | |
| "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!" |
| "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) |
| 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) | The Seduction and Other Stories (1975) | Included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America (1974) |
| "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) | |
| "To My Lover, Who Has Abandoned Me..." | short story | Cosmopolitan (January 1971) | Uncollected | |
| "Fat" | short story | Antaeus (Spring 1971) | Uncollected | |
| "How Another Child Came to Be Born" | short story | Voyages (Spring 1971) | Uncollected | |
| "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) |
| "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) | |
| "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"; 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" |
| "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) | |
| "The Secret Mirror" | short story | December (December 1971) | The Poisoned Kiss and Other Stories from the Portuguese (1975) |
| 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" |
| "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) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | Included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Stories of Young America (1974) and one other |
| "The Lady With the Pet Dog" | short story | Partisan Review (Spring 1972) | Marriages and Infidelities (1972) | 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) | 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) |
| "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) | 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) | |
| "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 |
| 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 | |
| "... & 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) | |
| "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 | |
| "Do With Me What You Will" | short story | Playboy (June 1973) | Uncollected | Anthologized in 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) |
| 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 |
| "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) | Uncollected | Included in 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) | 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) | |
| "Ruth" | short story | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | |
| "Unpublished Fragments" | short story | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | The Goddess and Other Women (1974) | |
| "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) |
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "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) | |
| "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) | 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 |
| 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; 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) | |
| "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) | |
| "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) | |
| "Gargoyle" | short story | StoryQuarterly (June 1977) | Uncollected | Anthologized in Taboos and Transgressions: Stories of Wrongdoings (2021) |
| "The Tattoo" | short story | Mademoiselle (July 1977) | Uncollected | 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) | |
| "Poetics 105" | short story | Descant (Fall 1977) | Uncollected | |
| "The Translation" | short story | TriQuarterly (Fall 1977) | Night-Side: Eighteen Tales (1977) | Included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) |
| 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) | |
| "Softball" | short story | Shenandoah (Summer 1978) | Uncollected | |
| "An Unsolved Crime" | short story | Colorado Quarterly (Summer 1978) | Uncollected | |
| "Washington Square" | short story | The Antioch Review (Summer 1978) | Uncollected | |
| "First Death" | short story | Mademoiselle (June 1978) | Uncollected | |
| "Conquistador" | short story | Weekend (June 17, 1978) | Uncollected | |
| "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 |
| 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 |
| "Queen of the Night" | short story | Queen of the Night (1979) | A Sentimental Education (1980) | Originally published as standalone limited edition book; 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) | Included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) |
| "Murderess" | short story | Western Humanities Review (Winter 1979) | Uncollected | |
| "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 | |
| "The Reliquary" | short story | Queen's Quarterly (Fall 1979) | Uncollected | |
| "White Shadow" | short story | The Kenyon Review (Fall 1979) | Uncollected | |
| "The Lesson" | short story | Chatelaine (September 1979) | Uncollected |
| Title | Type | Originally published in | Collected in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "The Bingo Master" | short story | Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural (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 | |
| "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 | Anthologized in Story: Fictions Past and Present (1985) |
| "The Haunted House" | short story | Kansas Quarterly (Winter 1980) | Uncollected | |
| "Sin" | short story | Fiction International (Winter 1980) | Uncollected | Anthologized in Moral Fiction: An Anthology (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 | |
| "The Clavichord" | short story | Confrontation (Spring/Summer 1980) | Uncollected | |
| "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 | |
| "The Joyful Wedding" | short story | Cosmopolitan (August 1980) | Uncollected | |
| "Schwilk" | short story | California Quarterly (Summer/Fall 1980) | Uncollected | |
| "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 |
| 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) | |
| "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) | |
| "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"; included in High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006) |
| "The Storm" | short story | Cosmopolitan (September 1981) | Uncollected | |
| "The Sunken Woman" | short story | Playboy (December 1981) | Uncollected |