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• xi • Introduction (The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories) • essay by Daniel Halpern
• 9 • The Bound Man • (1955) • short story by Ilse Aichinger (trans. of Der Gefesselte 1953)
• 28 • Hair Jewellery • non-genre • (1976) • short story by Margaret Atwood
• 71 •
  Cortés and Montezuma^?Cortes and Montezuma
  • short story by Donald Barthelme (variant of Cortez and Montezuma 1977)
• 100 • The Aleph • (1970) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El Aleph 1945)
• 124 • A Distant Episode • non-genre • (1947) • short story by Paul Bowles
• 152 • Seven Floors • short story by Dino Buzzati (trans. of Sette piani 1937)
• 184 • Children on Their Birthdays • non-genre • (1949) • short story by Truman Capote
• 201 • The Country Husband • (1954) • novelette by John Cheever
• 230 • Bestiary • (1967) • short story by
  Julio Cortázar^?Julio Cortazar
  (trans. of Bestiario 1951)
• 246 • The Cloak • (1957) • short story by Karen Blixen [as by Isak Dinesen]
• 294 • The Doll Queen • (1980) • short story by Carlos Fuentes (trans. of La muñeca reina 1964)
• 347 • Why I Transformed Myself Into a Nightingale • short story by Wolfgang Hildesheimer (trans. of Warum ich mich in eine Nachtigall verwandelt habe 1952)
• 351 • One Arm • short story by
  川端康成^?Yasunari Kawabata
  (trans. of
  片腕^?Kataude
  1964) [as by Yasunari Kawabata]
• 376 • Gogol's Wife • (1963) • short story by Tommaso Landolfi (trans. of La moglie di Gogol 1944)
• 433 • Eyes of a Blue Dog • (1978) • short story by
  Gabriel García Márquez^?Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  (trans. of Ojos de perro azul 1950)
• 488 • Spring in Fialta • (1947) • short story by Vladimir Nabokov (trans. of
  Весна в Фиальте^?Vesna v Fial'te
  1936)
• 533 • The Artificial Nigger • non-genre • (1955) • short story by Flannery O'Connor
• 580 • The Suitcase • (1971) • short story by Cynthia Ozick
• 650 • Talpa • (1967) • short story by Juan Rulfo (trans. of Talpa 1950)
• 658 • Henne Fire • (1968) • short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer (trans. of Hene fayer 1967)
• 806 • Biographical Notes (The Art of the Tale) • essay by uncredited