The Sea-Green Horse

by Barbara Howes (Editor), Jay Smith (Editor), Eleanor Clark

"A good anthology of short stories has a great deal to offer, for in its limited space, a first-rate story reveals much about a writer's mind and style, about his way of seeing and comprehending," writes Barbara Howes in her introduction. "We read a tale by Stephen Crane and then one by Isaac Bashevis Singer, and we have taken on knowledge of two very different worlds. Each fine story provides background for the next, and as we move through a good collection the mind expands, our understanding grows."

The Sea-Green Horse offers thirty stories ranging from the delicate sophistication of Isak Dinesen's "The Ring" and the chilling fantasy of Ray Brad- bury's "The Fog Horn" to the strong realism of Jack London's "To Build a Fire."

The idea for compiling this collection came to Miss Howes while she was look- ing for stories to interest her teen-age son Gregory. Intrigued with what she was finding, Greg soon joined her in the search. The result of their collaboration is a superior anthology to stimulate the imagination of readers of any age.
--front flap

Mysterious madame shanghai / Langston Hughes --
The affair at 7, rue de M / John Steinbeck --
I spy / Graham Greene --
The red-headed murderess / Robert Branson --
Zlateh the goat / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence --
In the forest / Walter de la Mare --
The story of a good dog / James Stephens --
Responsibility / Eleanor Clark --
The ring / Isak Dinesen --
The jewbird / Bernard Malamud --
Sredni Vashtar / Saki (H.H. Munro) --
The bride comes to yellow sky / Stephen Crane --
A game to catch / Richard Wilbur --
Comrade / Alston Anderson --
The mezzotint / M.R. James --
The peterkins at the farm / Lucretia P. Hale --
The cattle drive / B. Traven --
The darning needle / Hans Christian Andersen --
Goodwood comes back / Robert Penn Warren --
To build a fire / Jack London --
The night the ghost got in / James Thurber --
The fog horn / Ray Bradbury --
Bauman's tale / Theodore Roosevelt --
Car drive / Timothy Callender --
Somebody to play with / Jay Williams --
An occurrence at owl creek bridge / Ambrose Bierce --
The master cat; or, puss in boots / Charles Perrault --
The rivals / George Garrett --
Sunset / William Faulkner.

Genres: Short Stories

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1970

About the author

Barbara Howes was an American poet.

She graduated from Bennington College in 1937. She worked briefly for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in Mississippi, and then edited the literary magazine, Chimera, from 1943 to 1947 and lived in Greenwich Village. In 1947 she married the poet William Jay Smith, and they lived for a time in England and Italy. They divorced in the mid-1960s, and she lived in Pownal, Vermont.

In 1971, she signed a letter protesting proposed cuts to the School of the Arts, Columbia University.

Her work was published in, Atlantic, Chicago Review, New Directions, New Republic, New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Saturday Review, Southern Review, University of Kansas Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Yale Review.