• Publication: The Oxford Book of Short StoriesPublication Record # 637739
• Editor: V. S. Pritchett
• Date: 1981-00-00
• Publisher: Book Club Associates
• Pages: xiv+547
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • Book club edition, no ISBN : Oxford University Press on title page, "Book Club Associates by arrangement with Oxford University Press" on the copyright page
  • The only contents listed below are either genre stories or stories by authors notable in the genre. There are 29 others.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • The Two Drovers • (1827) • novelette by Sir Walter Scott
• 27 • The Birthmark • (1854) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (variant of The Birth-Mark 1843)
• 43 • The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 78 • The Coup de Grâce • non-genre • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 99 • Thrawn Janet • (1881) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 147 • The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot • non-genre • (1890) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• 174 • Sredni Vashtar • (1910) • short story by Saki [as by H. H. Munro]
• 202 • An Ideal Craftsman • non-genre • (1905) • short story by Walter de la Mare
• 247 • The Field of Mustard • non-genre • (1926) • short story by A. E. Coppard
• 275 • The Rocking-Horse Winner • (1926) • short story by D. H. Lawrence
• 346 • The Demon Lover • (1941) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
• 417 • Various Temptations • non-genre • (1947) • short story by William Sansom