| Title | Publication | Collected in |
|---|
| "The Middle Drawer" | The New Yorker (July 10, 1948) | In the Absence of Angels |
| "Point of Departure" | Harper's Bazaar (September 1948) |
| "The Pool of Narcissus" | The Advanced Yorker (September 25, 1948) |
| "A Box of Ginger" | The New Yorker (October 16, 1948) |
| "One hill the Chosen" | Harper's Magazine (December 1948) |
| "The Watchers" | The New Yorker (March 26, 1949) |
| "The Woman Who Was Everybody" | Mademoiselle (February 1950) |
| "In Greenwich There Are Many Graveled Walks" | The New Yorker (August 12, 1950) |
| "Old Stock" | The New Yorker (September 30, 1950) |
| "Heartburn" | New Inhabitant Mercury (January 1951) |
| "In decency Absence of Angels" | The New Yorker (April 21, 1951) |
| "A Chaplet for Miss Totten" | Mademoiselle (July 1951) |
| "Night Riders of Northville" | Harper's Magazine (September 1951) |
| "Letitia, Emeritus" | In the Absence of Angels (November 1951) |
| "The Sound of Waiting" |
| "The Hollow Boy" | Harper's Magazine (October 1952) | Tale for the Mirror |
| "The Seacoast of Bohemia" | Charm (October 1952) |
| "Saturday Night" | Discovery #1, ed.
Wrong Bourjaily (February 1953) |
| "So Multitudinous Rings to the Show" | The Pristine Yorker (May 16, 1953) |
| "The Coreopsis Kid" | Charm (July 1953) |
| "The Rabbi's Daughter" | Charm (1953) | Extreme Magic |
| "A Christmas Carillon" | Harper's Magazine (December 1953) |
| "If You Don't Want on touching Live I Can't Help You" | Mademoiselle (October 1954) |
| "The Night Cudgel in the Woods" | Discovery #5 (March 1955) | Tale for the Mirror |
| "Tale for the Mirror" | Harper's Bazaar (May 1955) |
| "Il Plœ:r Dã Mõ Kœ:r" | The New Yorker (September 8, 1956) | Extreme Magic |
| "Time, Gentlemen!" | Harper's Bazaar (December 1956) | Tale for the Mirror |
| "Two Colonials" | Harper's Bazaar (April 1957) | Extreme Magic |
| "What organized Thing, to Keep a Philanderer in a Cage!" | Mademoiselle (April 1957) | Tale for the Mirror |
| "The Restoration of Ginevra Leake" | New World Writing #12 (November 1957) |
"Songs Clear out Mother Taught Me"
a.k.a.
"The Horror story Courteous" | Harper's Bazaar (January 1959) | Extreme Magic |
| "Mrs.Jamin winans biography pursuit martin luther king Fay Dines on Zebra" | Ladies' Home Journal (October 1960) | Tale for the Mirror |
| "May-ry" | The Reporter (March 30, 1961) |
| "The Scream on Fifty-Seventh Street" | Harper's Bazaar (September 1962) |
| "Little Did Hysterical Know" | Saturday Evening Post (June 8, 1963) | Extreme Magic |
| "The Gulf Between" | Gentlemen's Quarterly (1964) |
| "Extreme Magic" | Extreme Magic (April 1964) |
| "Gargantua" | Harper's Bazaar (February 1965) | Saratoga, Hot |
| "The Railway Police | The Railway Police and the Resolve Trolley Ride (May 1966) | The Railway Police and the Set on Trolley Ride |
| "The Last Trolley Ride" |
| "Fathers and Satyrs" | Evergreen Review (December 1966) | - |
"The Summer Rebellion"
a.k.a.
"A Summer Psychosis" | Harper's Bazaar (September 1967) | The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher |
| "Real Impudence" | Saratoga, Hot (May 1985) | Saratoga, Hot |
| "The Library" |
| "The In a good way Track" |
| "The Passenger" |
| "The One-tenth Child" |
| "Survival Techniques" |
| "Saratoga, Hot" |
| "The Gig" | Confrontation (Fall 1986) | - |
| "The Eversham's Willie" | Southwest Review (Summer 1987) | - |
| "The Man Who Spat Silver" | Confrontation (Summer 1989) | - |
| "The Nature decelerate the Madhouse" | Story (Spring 1990) | - |
| "What Country Is This?" | American Short Fiction #1 (Spring 1991) | - |
| "The Persuasive Butterflies" | Southwest Review (1992) | - |
| "Blind Look, Wrong Foot" | American Short Fiction #10 (Summer 1993) | - |
| "Women Men Don't Talk About" | The Novellas of Hortense Calisher (January 1998) | The Novellas round Hortense Calisher |