• Publication: The Houghton Mifflin Anthology of Short FictionPublication Record # 402935
• Editor: Patricia Hampl
• Date: 1989-03-00
• ISBN: 0-395-49695-0 [978-0-395-49695-4]
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Price:
  $32.95^?$: US dollar
• Pages: xlviii+1287
• Format:
  tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • Literary textbook with a variety of contents, only stories with a speculative content or are important to the speculative fiction field are listed. Total table of contents is given in OCLC/WorldCat.
  • No price listed, price from a bookstore label pasted on the back cover.
  • Each story is preceded by a biographical paragraph about each author published within.
  • Also has a chronological table of contents.
  • The Wild Swans is translated by Eric Haugaard, The Garden of Forking Paths is translated by Helen Temple & Ruthven Todd, The South is translated by Anthony Kerrigan, The Doll Queen is translated by Margaret S. Peden, In the Penal Colony is translated by Willa Muir & Edwin Muir and The Salamander is translated by David Hl Rosenthal.
  • Anthology has a rather vague acknowledgement page; most dates are from this site.
• External IDs:
  • Goodreads: 1294171
  • LCCN: 88-82116
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 19279407

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• xxxi • Celestial Process: The Private Life of the Short Story • essay by Patricia Hampl
• xliii • An Introduction to this Collection (The Houghton Mifflin Anthology of Short Fiction) • essay by Patricia Hampl
• 13 • The Wild Swans • (1974) • short story by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of De Vilde Svaner 1838)
• 87 • The Garden of Forking Paths • (1962) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan 1941)
• 95 • The South • (1962) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El Sur 1953)
• 100 • The Demon Lover • (1941) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
• 137 • I Sing the Body Electric! • (1969) • novelette by Ray Bradbury
• 195 • The Bloody Chamber • (1979) • novelette by Angela Carter
• 414 • The Story of the Siren • (1920) • short story by E. M. Forster
• 420 • The Doll Queen • (1980) • short story by Carlos Fuentes (trans. of La muñeca reina 1964)
• 505 • The Withered Arm • (1888) • novelette by Thomas Hardy
• 525 • The Artist of the Beautiful • (1844) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 541 • Rappaccini's Daughter • [Rappaccini • 1] • (1844) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 561 • The Schreuderspitze • (1977) • novelette by Mark Helprin
• 617 • The Turn of the Screw • [The Turn of the Screw] • (1898) • novel by Henry James
• 712 • In the Penal Colony • (1948) • novelette by Franz Kafka (trans. of In der Strafkolonie 1919)
• 729 • The Gardener • (1925) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 771 • The Rocking-Horse Winner • (1926) • short story by D. H. Lawrence
• 782 • The Lady of Moge • [Orsinia] • (1976) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin [as by Ursula Le Guin]
• 1117 • The Murders in the Rue Morgue • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1841) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 1150 • The Salamander • (1984) • short story by Mercè Rodoreda (trans. of La salamandra 1967)
• 1249 • Circe • (1955) • short story by Eudora Welty