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.
1950s
1956
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)
1957
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
1958
Title Type Originally published in Collected in Notes "Rapport" short story Syracuse 10 (October 1958) Uncollected
1959
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
1960s
1960
Title Type Originally published in Collected in Notes "Sweet Love Remembered" short story Epoch (Spring 1960) By the North Gate (1963) Reprinted in Syracuse 10 (March 1960)
1961
Title Type Originally published in Collected in Notes "A Legacy" short story Arizona Quarterly (Summer 1961) By the North Gate (1963)
1962
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) Anthologized in Prize Stories 1963: The O. Henry Awards (1963) and The Best American Short Stories 1963 (1963); included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993)
1963
Title Type Originally published in Collected in Notes "Boys at a Picnic" short story By the North Gate (1963) By the North Gate (1963) Anthologized in The Modern Tradition: An Anthology of Short Stories, Third Edition (1976) "By the North Gate" short story By the North Gate (1963) By the North Gate (1963) Anthologized in Envisioning the New Adam: Empathic Portraits of Men by American Women Writers (1995) "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) Anthologized in Fourteen for Now: A Collection of Contemporary Stories (1969) "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) Anthologized in Prize Stories 1964: The O. Henry Awards (1964) and Quest for Meaning: Modern Short Stories (1975) "Upon the Sweeping Flood" short story Southwest Review (Spring 1963) Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) Anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1964 (1964) and five others; included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) and High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories (2006)
1964
Title Type Originally published in Collected in Notes "The Death of Mrs. Sheer" short story MSS (1964) Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) Included in Extenuating Circumstances: Stories of Crime and Suspense (2022) "First Views of the Enemy" short story Prairie Schooner (Spring 1964) Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) Anthologized in Prize Stories 1965: The O. Henry Awards (1965), The Best American Short Stories 1965 (1965) and two others; 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
1965
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) Anthologized in A Treasury of Modern Mysteries (1973) and The Web She Weaves: An Anthology of Mystery and Suspense Stories by Women (1983) "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)
1966
Title Type Originally published in Collected in Notes "A Garden of Earthly Delights" short story Shenandoah (Winter 1966) Uncollected Excerpt from A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967) "Four Seasons" short story Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter 1966) Uncollected "Dying" short story Transatlantic Review (Spring 1966) Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) Anthologized in The American Literary Anthology 1 (1968) "The Man That Turned Into a Statue" short story Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) Upon the Sweeping Flood and Other Stories (1966) "The Silent Child" short story Epoch (Spring 1966) Uncollected "The Dying Child" short story Antioch Review (Summer 1966) The Goddess and Other Women (1974) "In the Region of Ice" short story The Atlantic (August 1966) The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) Anthologized in Prize Stories 1967: The O. Henry Awards (1967) and seven others; included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) and three others "Gifts" short story The Kenyon Review (Fall 1966) The Seduction and Other Stories (1975) "Joy Let Us Praise Thee" short story Southwest Review (Fall 1966) Uncollected "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" short story Epoch (Fall 1966) The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) Reprinted in Argosy (March 1971); anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1967 (1967) and over 40 others; included in Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories (1993) and four others "The Thief" short story North American Review (September 1966) Uncollected
1967
Title Type Originally published in Collected in Notes "Two Poets" short story Northwest Review (1967) Uncollected Reprinted in Northwest Review (1987) "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) Anthologized in The American Literary Anthology 2 (1969) and Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories (1978); 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 Anthologized in Under 30: Fiction, Poetry and Criticism of the New American Writers (1969) "The Wheel of Love" short story Esquire (October 1967) The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) Anthologized in Love Stories (1975)
1968
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) Excerpt from Expensive People (1968) "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 Excerpt from Them (1969) "Accomplished Desires" short story Esquire (May 1968) The Wheel of Love and Other Stories (1970) Anthologized in Prize Stories 1969: The O. Henry Awards (1969) and three others; 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) Anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 1969 (1969), Superfiction, or The American Story Transformed: An Anthology (1975) and 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015); 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
1969