• "The Bear Fell Free" (1935) •
Twenty-One Stories (Heinemann, 1954) (originally
The Basement Room (
Cresset Press, 1935) with 8 stories; then
Nineteen Stories (Heinemann, 1947) adding 11 new stories; then
Twenty-One Stories [1954] adding 4 new stories and removing 2 previous) :#"
The End of the Party" (1929) :#"The Second Death" (1929) :#"
Proof Positive" (1930) :#"
I Spy" (1930) :#"A Day Saved" (1934) :#"Jubilee" (1936) :#"Brother" (1936) :#"A Chance For Mr Lever" (1936) :#"
The Basement Room" (1936) (adapted by the author as
The Fallen Idol, a film directed by
Carol Reed) :#"The Innocent" (1937) :#"A Drive in the Country" (1937) :#"
Across the Bridge" (1938) :#"A Little Place Off the Edgware Road" (1939) :#"The Case for the Defence" (1939) :#"
Alas, Poor Maling" (1940) :#"Men at Work" (1940) :#"When Greek Meets Greek" (1941) (elsewhere retitled "Her Uncle Versus His Father") :#"The Hint of an Explanation" (1948) :#"
The Blue Film" (1954) :#"Special Duties" (1954) (elsewhere retitled "A Peculiar Affair of Westbourne Grove") :#"
The Destructors" (1954) •
A Visit to Morin (Heinemann, 1960) •
A Sense of Reality (The Bodley Head, 1963) :#"Under the Garden" :#"A Visit to Morin" (previously published in a limited edition) :#"Dream of a Strange Land" :#"A Discovery in the Woods" •
May We Borrow Your Husband? (The Bodley Head, 1967) :#"
May We Borrow Your Husband?" :#"Beauty" :#"Chagrin in Three Parts" :#"The Over-night Bag" :#"Mortmain" :#"Cheap in August" :#"
A Shocking Accident" :#"
The Invisible Japanese Gentlemen" :#"Awful When You Think of It" :#"Doctor Crombie" :#"The Root of All Evil" :#"Two Gentle People" •
Collected Stories (The Bodley Head & William Heinemann, 1972) (including
May We Borrow Your Husband?,
A Sense of Reality, and
Twenty-One Stories) •
How Father Quixote Became a Monsignor (Sylvester & Orphanos, 1980) (later becoming the first chapter of the novel
Monsignor Quixote [1982]) • "The New House" (Eurographica, 1988) •
The Last Word and Other Stories (Reindhart Books, 1990) :#"
The Last Word" :#"The News in English" :#"The Moment of Truth" :#"The Man Who Stole the Eiffel Tower" :#"The Lieutenant Died Last" :#"A Branch of the Service" :#"An Old Man's Memory" :#"The Lottery Ticket" :#"The New House" (previously published in a limited edition) :#"Work Not in Progress" :#"Murder for the Wrong Reason" :#"An Appointment With the General" •
The Complete Short Stories (
Penguin Books, 2005) (adding
The Last Word, and adding or reinstating 4 stories, to
Collected Stories) :#"The Blessing" (1966) :#"Church Militant" (1956) :#"Dear Dr Falkenheim" (1963) :#"The Other Side of the Border" (1936 unfinished novel originally published in
Nineteen Stories [1947]) • ''No Man's Land
(Hesperus Press, 2005) (a film story, posthumously published with an incomplete film story, The Stranger's Hand'') ==Plays==