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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