Ray Bradbury short fiction bibliography
This is a chronological list of short fiction by American writer Ray Bradbury. Only original works are listed, along with their first publication. Several stories exist in one or more revised versions, sometimes under different titles.
1930s
1938
1939
1940s
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
| Title | Originally published in | Versions | Notes |
| "The Sea Shell" | Weird Tales, Jan. -44 | ||
| "Reunion" | Weird Tales, Mar. -44 | ||
| "The Monster Maker" | Planet Stories, spring -44 | manuscript title: "Pirates in Profile" | |
| "I, Rocket" | Amazing Stories, May -44 | revised: Long After Midnight comic-strip: Weird Fantasy 20, '53 | |
| "The Lake" | Weird Tales, May -44 | comic-strip: The Vault of Horror 31, '53 | |
| "Morgue Ship" | Planet Stories, summer -44 | ||
| "There Was an Old Woman" | Weird Tales, Jul. -44 | revised: Dark Carnival comic-strip: Tales From the Crypt 34, '53 | |
| "Killer, Come Back to Me!" | Detective Tales, Jul. -44 | manuscript title: "Autopsy" | |
| "The Long Night" | New Detective, Jul. -44 | ||
| "Yesterday I Lived!" | Flynn's Detective Fiction, Aug. -44 | manuscript title: "No Phones, Private Coffin" | |
| "The Trunk Lady" | Detective Tales, Sep. -44 | ||
| "Bang! You're Dead!" | Weird Tales, Sep. -44 | ||
| "And Then—the Silence" The October Country | 1964 episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episodes|The Alfred Hitchcock Hour] | ||
| "It Burns Me Up!" | Dime Mystery Magazine, Nov. -44 | ||
| "Lazarus Come Forth" | Planet Stories, winter -44 | ||
| "Undersea Guardians" | Amazing Stories, Dec. -44 | ||
| "Four-Way Funeral" | Detective Tales, Dec. -44 |
1945
1946
| Title | Originally published in | Versions | Notes |
| "Final Victim" | Amazing Stories, Feb. -46 | ||
| "The Traveller" comic-strip: Frost and Fire, '85 | manuscript title: "Eight Day Wonder" | ||
| "Homecoming" re-revised: The October Country rewritten: From the Dust Returned comic-strip: The Ray Bradbury Chronicles 3, 1992 final revision: The October Country, paperback ed. | |||
| "Let's Play 'Poison' " | Weird Tales, Nov. -46 | comic-strip: The Vault of Horror 29, '53 | |
| "The Small Assassin" | Dime Mystery Magazine, Nov. -46 | revised: Dark Carnival later revisions: ?? comic-strip: Shock Suspenstories 7, '53 | |
| "A Careful Man Dies" | New Detective, Nov. -46 |
1947
1948
1949
1950s
1950
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| "I'll Not Ask for Wine" comic-strip: West , Mar. 12, -72, together with "Mars Is Heaven!" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "All on a Summer's Night" | Today, Jan. 22, -50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Payment in Full" | Thrilling Wonder Stories, Feb. -50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Outcast of the Stars" comic-strip 2: The Ray Bradbury Chronicles 2, -92 | manuscript title: "Behold, Thou Art Fair" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "The Highway" | Copy, spring -50 | as Leonard Spalding | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Forever and the Earth" | Planet Stories, spring -50 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Carnival of Madness" comic-strip: Ray Bradbury Comics 4, -93 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
"Miss Bidwell" 1951
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