Short Stories

  • "Afternoon."  In American Writing.  Eds. Otto Storm et al. Prairie City, Illinois: J.A. Decker, 1940.

  • "Backwacking: A Plea to the Senator."  Massachusetts Review 18 (Autumn 1977): 411-416.

  • "The Birthmark."  New Masses 36 (2 July 1940): 16-17.

  • "Cadillac Flambé."  American Review 16 (February 1973): 249-269.

  • "A Coupla Scalped Indians."  New World Writing 9 (1956): 225-236.

  • "Did You Ever Dream Lucky?"  New World Writing 9 (1956): 134-145.

  • "February."  Saturday   (1 January 1955): 25.

  • "Flying Home."  In Cross Section. Ed. Edwin Seaver. New York: Fischer, 1944. Reprinted in Dark Symphony: Negro Literature in America. Eds. James A. Emanuel and Theodore L. Gross. New York: Free Press, 1968.

  • "And Hickman Arrives."  Noble Savage   1 (1960): 5-49.

  • "In a Strange Country."  Tomorrow 3 (July 1944): 41-44.

  • "Invisible Man."  Horizon 23 (October 1947): 104-107. Later published as the "battle royal" chapter of Invisible Man.

  • "Invisible Man: Prologue to a Novel."  Partisan Review 19 (January-February 1952): 31-40.

  • "It Always Breaks Out."  Partisan Review 30 (Spring 1963): 13-28.

  • "Juneteenth." Quarterly Review of Literature 14 (1965): 262-276.

  • "King of the Bingo Game."  Tomorrow 4 (November 1944): 29-33. Reprinted in Dark Symphony.

  • "Mister Toussan."  New Masses 23 (4 November 1941): 19-20. Reprinted in Black American Literature; Fiction. Ed. Darwin T. Turner. Columbus: C. E. Merrill Pub. Co., [1969].

  • "Night-Talk."  Quarterly Review of Literature 16 (1969): 317-329.

  • "Out of the Hospital and Under the Bar."  In Soon, One Morning: New Writing by American Negroes, 1940-1962. Ed. Herbert Hill. New York: Knopf, 1963.

  • "The Roof, the Steeple and the People."  Quarterly Review of Literature 10 (1960): 115-28.

  • "Slick Gonna Learn."  Direction 2 (September 1939): 10-11, 14, 16.

  • "A Song of Innocence."  Iowa Review 1 (Spring 1970): 30-40.

  • "That I had Wings."  Common Ground 3 (July 1944): 30-37.



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