Short Story Collections

-2008 Wild Nights! : Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway

-2007 The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense

-2006 High Lonesome: New & Selected Stories, 1966–2006

-2006 The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense
-2004 I Am No One You Know: Stories
-2001 Faithless: Tales of Transgression
-1998 The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque
-1996 Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories
-1996 Demon and other tales
-1994 Haunted: Tales of the Grotesque
-1993 Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories
-1992 Where Is Here?: Stories
-1991 Heat And Other Stories
-1990 Oates In Exile
-1989 The Assignation: Stories
-1986 Raven's Wing: Stories
-1984 Wild Saturday
-1984 Last Days: Stories
-1980 A Sentimental Education: Stories
-1979 All the Good People I've Left Behind
-1977 Night-Side
-1976 Crossing the Border
-1975 The Poisoned Kiss And Other -Stories from the Portuguese
-1975 The Seduction & Other Stories
-1974 Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? : Stories of Young America
-1974 The Goddess and Other Women
-1974 The Hungry Ghosts: Seven Allusive Comedies
-1972 Marriages and Infidelities
-1970 The Wheel of Love And Other Stories
-1966 Upon the Sweeping Flood And Other Stories

-1963 By the North Gate