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• The Advance of the American Short Story (second edition; New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1931), by Edward J. O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Book of Right and Wrong (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Matt Debenham (PDF at Ohio State)
• Indentation and Other Stories (New York and London: New York University Press, c1991), by Joe Schall (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (originally published 1986), ed. by Bruce Sterling (multiple formats with commentary at rudyrucker.com)
• Aces: A Collection of Short Stories (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925), ed. by New York Guild for the Jewish Blind, contrib. by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Octavus Roy Cohen, Edna Ferber, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zona Gale, Bruno Lessing, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Benjamin Sher, G. B. Stern, Thyra Samter Winslow, and Israel Zangwill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories, Second Series (Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, c1918), ed. by Charles Swain Thomas, contrib. by Mary Antin, Elizabeth Ashe, Kathleen Carman, Cornelia A. P. Comer, Mazo De la Roche, Annie Hamilton Donnell, James Edmund Dunning, Rebecca Hooper Eastman, William Addleman Ganoe, Lucy Huffaker, Joseph Husband, S. H. Kemper, Christina Krysto, Ellen Mackubin, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, Margaret Prescott Montague, Edward Morlae, Meredith Nicholson, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Laura Spencer Portor, Lucy Pratt, Elsie Singmaster, Charles Haskins Townsend, and Edith Wyatt
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Bellman Book of Fiction, 1906-1919 (only volume published; Minneapolis: Bellman Co., 1921), ed. by William C. Edgar (multiple formats at Google)
• The Best American Humorous Short Stories (with a short introduction; New York: Carlton House, ca. 1922), ed. by Alexander Jessup, contrib. by George Pope Morris, Edgar Allan Poe, Caroline M. Kirkland, Eliza Leslie, George William Curtis, Edward Everett Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Richard Malcolm Johnston, H. C. Bunner, Frank R. Stockton, Bret Harte, O. Henry, George Randolph Chester, Grace MacGowan Cooke, William James Lampton, and Wells Hastings
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Best American Humorous Short Stories (with an extensive introduction; ca. 1922), ed. by Alexander Jessup, contrib. by George Pope Morris, Edgar Allan Poe, Caroline M. Kirkland, Eliza Leslie, George William Curtis, Edward Everett Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Richard Malcolm Johnston, H. C. Bunner, Frank R. Stockton, Bret Harte, O. Henry, George Randolph Chester, Grace MacGowan Cooke, William James Lampton, and Wells Hastings (Gutenberg text)
• Different Girls (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1906), ed. by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden (Gutenberg text)
• The Grain Ship (New York: Pub. by McClure's Magazine and Metropolitan Magazine, 1914), by Morgan Robertson (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Grim Thirteen (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1917), ed. by Frederick Stuart Greene, contrib. by Edward J. O'Brien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life at High Tide, ed. by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden (Gutenberg text)
• The Miller's Holiday: Short Stories from The Northwestern Miller (Minneapolis: Miller Pub. Co., 1920), ed. by Randolph Edgar, contrib. by Edward Everett Hale, Charles Fletcher Lummis, James Lane Allen, Frank R. Stockton, Hamlin Garland, Octave Thanet, Howard Pyle, Robert Barr, and O. Henry, illust. by Richard Caton Woodville, Howard Pyle, and Frank X. Leyendecker
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• My Story That I Like Best (fifth edition; New York: International Magazine Co., 1925), ed. by Ray Long, contrib. by Edna Ferber, Irvin S. Cobb, Peter B. Kyne, James Oliver Curwood, Meredith Nicholson, and H. C. Witwer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Over the Border (New York: McClure's magazine and Metropolitan magazine, 1914), by Morgan Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shapes That Haunt the Dusk (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1907), ed. by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and page images
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Short Stories for English Courses, ed. by Rosa Mary Redding Mikels (Gutenberg text)
• Short Stories from "Life": The 81 Prize Stories in "Life's" Shortest Story Contest (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1916), ed. by Thomas L. Masson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short Story Classics (American) (5 volumes; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1905), ed. by William Patten
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume Two: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Holy Cross, and Other Tales (Cambridge, MA and Chicago: Stone and Kimball, c1893), by Eugene Field
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Holy Cross, and Other Tales (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896), by Eugene Field (page images at MOA)
• The Holy Cross, and Other Tales (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911), by Eugene Field, illust. by S. W. Van Schaik (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Stories Editors Buy and Why (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1921), ed. by Jean Wick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea (New York: The Century Co., c1899), by Morgan Robertson
  • multiple formats at Google
  • Gutenberg text and page images
• Daughters of Aesculapius: Stories Written by Alumnae and Students of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs and Co., 1897)
  • page images at Drexel
  • frame-dependent page images at Harvard

• The Luck of a Good for Nothing, by Mrs. A. B. Ward, and Other Stories (cover title is "Short Stories from Outing"; New York: Outing Pub. Co., c1895), contrib. by Alice Ward Bailey, Alfred A. Gardner, Francis Trevelyan, Fox Russell, Edgar Fawcett, Clara Sprague Ross, Wiliam Hinckley, Therese M. Randall, Charles C. Nott, and Franklyn W. Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Short Stories From Outing (New York and London: Outing Pub. Co., c1895) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Wave, ed. by Vincent Starrett (partial serial archives)

• Little America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Diane Simmons (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Standard Index of Short Stories (the published volume, covering 1900-1914, and unpublished typescript volumes, covering 1915-1933), by Francis James Hannigan
  • 1900-1914 volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1915-1933 A-Glaciers volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1915-1933 Glad-Ozaki volume: multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1915-1933 P-Z volume: multiple formats at archive.org

• Pacific Short Story Club Magazine (full serial archives)
• Short Story Quarterly, ed. by Henry Meade Bland (partial serial archives)

• The Best Short Stories of [the Year], and the Yearbook of the American Short Story, ed. by Edward J. O'Brien (partial serial archives)
• Munsey's (partial serial archives)
• O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories (partial serial archives)
• The Black Cat (partial serial archives)
• Snappy Stories (partial serial archives)
• The Raymond Carver Review (full serial archives)

• The Lady's Realm: Indexes to Fiction (Victorian Fiction Research Guides #5; 1981), by Margaret Versteeg, Sue Thomas, and Joan Huddleston (HTML at Victorian Fiction Research Guides)

• The Form of American Romance (originally published 1988; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Edgar A. Dryden (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Tactics of the Human: Experimental Technics in American Fiction (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Laura Shackelford (illustrated HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• America's Gothic Fiction: The Legacy of Magnalia Christi Americana (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Dorothy Zayatz Baker (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (HTML at UC Press)
• The American Novel (New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Carl Van Doren (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Some American Story Tellers (New York: H. Holt and Co., 1911), by Frederic Taber Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Steven Mailloux (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Individual and Community: Variations on a Theme in American Fiction (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1975), ed. by Kenneth Huntress Baldwin and David Kirby, contrib. by Edgar A. Dryden, J. V. Ridgely, Roy Harvey Pearce, Louis D. Rubin, Carlos Baker, Philip Momberger, James E. Miller, James Baird, and Edward Mendelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buried Caesars: Essays in Literary Appreciation (Chicago: Covici-McGee Co., 1923), by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)

• Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Daniel Punday (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Body of Writing: An Erotics of Contemporary American Fiction (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Flore Chevaillier
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
• Reading People, Reading Plots: Character, Progression, and the Interpretation of Narrative (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

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