A current listing of first publication for Howard Waldrop”‘s short fiction.
| Title | Publication |
| “Youth” | H’Ard Starts: The Early Howard Waldrop, Subterranean Press, October 2023 |
| “The Pizza” | H’Ard Starts: The Early Howard Waldrop, Subterranean Press, October 2023 |
| “The Long Goodnight” | H’Ard Starts: The Early Howard Waldrop, Subterranean Press, October 2023 |
| “Davy Crockett Shoots the Moon” | H’Ard Starts: The Early Howard Waldrop, Subterranean Press, October 2023 |
| “The Soul-Catcher (1966)” | H’Ard Starts: The Early Howard Waldrop, Subterranean Press, October 2023 |
| “Vale Proditor! (1966)” | H’Ard Starts: The Early Howard Waldrop, Subterranean Press, October 2023 |
| “The Adventure of the Countess’s Jewels (1965)” | H’Ard Starts: The Early Howard Waldrop, Subterranean Press, October 2023 |
| “Till the Cows Come Home to Roost” | Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #37, March 2018 |
| “The Dead Sea-Bottom Scrolls” | Old Mars, Gardner Dozois & George R.R. Martin eds. (2013) |
| “Ninieslando” | Warriors, Gardner Dozois & George R.R. Martin eds. (2010) |
| “Frogskin Cap” | Songs of the Dying Earth, Gardner Dozois & George R.R. Martin eds. (Subterranean, 2009) |
| “Avast, Abaft!” | Fast Ships, Black Sails, Jeff & Ann VanderMeer eds. (Night Shade Books, 2008) |
| “Kindermarchen” | Sentinel Science Fiction, January 2007, Lou Antonelli ed. |
| “Thin, On the Ground” | Cross Plains Universe, Scott Cupp and Joe Lansdale eds. World Fantasy Convention, November 2006 |
| “The Bravest Girl I Ever Knew”¦” | Kong Unbound, Karen Haber ed, 2005 |
| “The King of Where-I-Go” | Sci Fiction, December 2005 |
| “The Horse of a Different Color (That You Rode in On)” | Sci Fiction, November 2005 |
| “The Wolfman of Alcatraz” | Sci Fiction, Sept 22 2004 |
| “D=RxT” | Sci Fiction, Oct 22 2003 |
| “Calling Your Name” | Janis Ian’s Stars, ed. Janis Ian & Mike Resnick, DAW Books, 2003 |
| A Better World’s in Birth | Golden Gryphon 2003 |
| “Why Then Ile Fit You” | The Silver Gryphon, Gary Turner & Marty Halpern eds., Golden Gryphon 2003 |
| “The Latter Days of the Law”(with Bruce Sterling) | Custer’s Last Jump and Other Stories, Golden Gryphon 2003 |
| “One Horse Town” (with Leigh Kennedy) | Sci Fiction, Mar 14 2001 |
| “The Other Real World” | Sci Fiction, Jul 18 2001 |
| “Major Spacer in the 21st Century” | Dream Factories and Radio Pictures, Electric Story, 2001 |
| “London, Paris, Banana” | Amazing, Winter 2000 |
| “Our Mortal Span” | Black Heart, Ivory Bones, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Avon 2000 |
| “Winter Quarters” | Sci Fiction, Aug 2 2000 |
| “The Dynasters, Vol. I, On the Downs” | F&SF Oct/Nov 1999 |
| “Mr. Goober’s Show” | Omni Online, Mar 1998 |
| “Heart of Whitenesse” | New Worlds, David Garnett ed., 1997 |
| “Scientifiction” | Going Home Again, Eidolon 1997 |
| “Flatfeet!” | Asimov’s, Feb 1996 |
| “El Castillo de la Perseverancia” | 21st Annual World Fantasy Convention Program Book, Baltimore 1995 |
| “Occam’s Ducks” | Omni Feb 1995 |
| “Household Words, or, The Powers-That-Be” | Amazing, Winter 1994 |
| “The Sawing Boys” | Black Thorn, White Rose, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Morrow AvoNova 1994 |
| “Why Did?” | Omni, Aprril 1994 |
| “You Could Go Home Again” | Cheap Street: New Castle, VA 1993 |
| “The Effects of Alienation” | Omni Jun 1992 |
| “Fin de Cycle” | Night of the Cooters, Ursus/Ziesing 1990 |
| A Dozen Tough Jobs | Mark V. Ziesing 1989 |
| “The Passing of the Western” | Razored Saddles, ed. Joe R. Lansdale & Pat LoBrutto, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1989 |
| “Do Ya, Do Ya, Wanna Dance?” | IASFM Aug 1988 |
| “French Scenes” | Synergy #2, ed. George Zebrowski, HBJ Harvest 1988 |
| “Hoover’s Men” | Omni Oct 1988 |
| “US” | Event Horizon, Oct 14 1998 |
| “Wild, Wild Horses” | Omni Jun 1988 |
| “He-We-Await” | All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past, Kansas City, MO: Ursus Imprints 1987 |
| “Night of the Cooters” | Omni Apr 1987 |
| “Thirty Minutes Over Broadway! [Wild Cards]” | Wild Cards, ed. George R. R. Martin, Bantam 1987 |
| “Fair Game” | Afterlives, ed. Pamela Sargent & Ian Watson, Vintage 1986 |
| “The Lions Are Asleep This Night” | Omni Aug 1986 |
| “Flying Saucer Rock and Roll” | Omni Jan 1985 |
| “Heirs of the Perisphere” | Playboy, Jul 1985 |
| “What Makes Heironymous Run?” | Shayol #7 1985 |
| “Helpless, Helpless” | Light Years and Dark, ed. Michael Bishop, Berkley 1984 |
| “Apprenticeship” | Modern Stories # 1, ed. Lewis Shiner, April 1983 |
| “The World As We Know’T | Shayol #6, 1982 |
| “God’s Hooks!” | Universe 12, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday 1982 |
| “Green Brother” | Shayol #5 1982 |
| “Ike at the Mike” | Omni Jun 1982 |
| “All About Strange Monsters of the Recent Past” | Shayol #4 1980 |
| “Billy Big-Eyes” | The Berkley Showcase, ed. Victoria Schochet & John Silbersack, Berkley 1980 |
| “In the Shubbi Arms” (with Steven Utley) | Galaxy, August 1980 |
| “The Ugly Chickens” | Universe 10, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday 1980 |
| “Horror, We Got” | Shayol #3 1979 |
| “Black as the Pit, from Pole to Pole” (with Steven Utley) | New Dimensions 7, ed. Robert Silverberg, Harper & Row 1977 |
| “Dr. Hudson’s Secret Gorilla” | Shayol #1 1977 |
| “The Adventure of the Grinder’s Whistle by Sir Edward Malone” | Chacal Spr 1977 |
| “Cthu’lablanca and Other Lost Screenplays” | MidAmeriCon Program Book, Kansas City, MO. 1976 |
| “Custer’s Last Jump” (with Steven Utley) | Universe 6, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday 1976 |
| “Der Untergang des Abendlandesmenschen” | Chacal, Winter 1976 |
| “Man-Mountain Gentian” | Omni Sep 1983 |
| “Mary Margaret Road-Grader” | Orbit 18, ed. Damon Knight, Harper & Row 1976 |
| “Men of Greywater Station ” (with George R.R. Martin) | Amazing, March 1976 |
| “Save a Place in the Lifeboat for Me” | Nickelodeon #2 1976 |
| “Sic Transit”¦?, A Shaggy Hairless-Dog Story (vt “Willow Beeman”) (with Steven Utley) | Stellar #2, ed. Judy-Lynn del Rey, Ballantine 1976 |
| “Sun Up” (with A. A. Jackson, IV) | Faster Than Light, ed. George Zebrowski & Jack Dann, Harper & Row 1976 |
| “Unsleeping Beauty and the Beast” | Lone Star Universe, ed. Steven Utley & George Proctor, Heidelberg Press, Austin, 1976 |
| “Crab o.t. Rex and Regina” (with Steven Utley) | Eternity SF, May 1975 |
| “Up Uranus!” (as by Franklin David Wyatt) (with Steven Utley and George Proctor) | Adam, Vol 19 #1, January 1975 |
| “My Sweet Lady Jo” | Universe 4, ed. Terry Carr, Random House 1974 |
| “Time and Variance” (with Buddy Jake Saunders and Steven Utley) | Vertex, vol. 2 #3, June 1974 |
| “Even The Children Know o.t Where I Lodge a Little While . . .” (with Steven Utley) | Famous Monsters of Filmland # 102, August 1973 |
| “Mono No Aware” | Haunt of Horror # 2, August 1973 |
| “A Voice and Bitter Weeping” (with Buddy Jake Saunders) | Galaxy, June 1973 |
| “Lunchbox” | Analog, May 1972 |