| Title | Publication | Collected in |
|---|
| "The Party" | River (March 1937) | Complete Stories 1938-1959 |
| "The Lady Is Civilized" | River (April 1937) |
| "The Life Before" | HIKA (November 1939) |
a.k.a. "Middle-Age" | HIKA (December 1939)
The New Yorker (November 6, 1948) (revised) | The Widows of Thornton
Miss Leonora When Last Seen |
| "A Spinster's Tale" | The Southern Review (Autumn 1940) | A Long Fourth and Other Stories
Miss Leonora When Last Seen |
"Skyline"
a.k.a. "Winged Chariot" | The Southern Review (Winter 1941) |
| "The Fancy Woman" | The Southern Review (Summer 1941) |
"A Walled Garden"
a.k.a. "Like the Sad Heart of Ruth" | The New Republic (December 8, 1941) | Happy Families Are All Alike
The Old Forest and Other Stories |
| "The School Girl" | American Prefaces (Spring 1942) | Complete Stories 1938-1959 |
| "Attendant Evils" | A Vanderbilt Miscellany (1944) |
| "Rain in the Heart" | The Sewanee Review (Winter 1945) | A Long Fourth and Other Stories
The Old Forest and Other Stories |
| "The Scoutmaster" | Partisan Review (Summer 1945) |
| "A Long Fourth" | The Sewanee Review (Summer 1946) |
| "Allegiance" | The Kenyon Review (Spring 1947) | A Long Fourth and Other Stories
Miss Leonora When Last Seen
The Old Forest and Other Stories |
| "Casa Anna"* | Harper's Bazaar (November 1948) | * Excerpt from A Woman of Means |
| "Dudley for the Dartmouth Cup"* | The New Yorker (May 28, 1949) |
| "Porte-Cochere" | The New Yorker (July 16, 1949) | The Widows of Thornton
The Old Forest and Other Stories |
| "A Wife of Nashville" | The New Yorker (December 3, 1949) | The Widows of Thornton
Miss Leonora When Last Seen |
| "Uncles" | The New Yorker (December 17, 1949) | Complete Stories 1938-1959 |
| "Their Losses | The New Yorker (March 11, 1950) | The Widows of Thornton
Miss Leonora When Last Seen |
| "What You Hear From 'Em?" | The New Yorker (February 10, 1951) |
| "Two Ladies in Retirement" | The New Yorker (March 31, 1951) | The Widows of Thornton
The Old Forest and Other Stories |
| "Bad Dreams" | The New Yorker (May 19, 1951) | The Widows of Thornton
Miss Leonora When Last Seen
The Old Forest and Other Stories |
| "The Dark Walk" | Harper's Bazaar (March 1954) | The Widows of Thornton |
"1939"
a.k.a. "A Sentimental Journey" | The New Yorker (March 12, 1955) | Happy Families Are All Alike |
| "The Other Times" | The New Yorker (February 23, 1957) |
"Promise of Rain"
a.k.a. "The Unforgivable" | The New Yorker (January 25, 1958) | Happy Families Are All Alike
The Old Forest and Other Stories |
| "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time" | The Kenyon Review (Spring 1958) | Happy Families Are All Alike |
"Je Suis Perdu"
a.k.a. "A Pair of Bright-Blue Eyes" | The New Yorker (June 7, 1958) |
"The Little Cousins"
a.k.a. "Cousins, Family Life, Family Love, All That" | The New Yorker (April 25, 1959) | Happy Families Are All Alike
The Old Forest and Other Stories |
"A Friend and Protector"
a.k.a. "Who Was Jesse's Friend and Protector?" | The Kenyon Review (Summer 1959) |
| "Heads of Houses" | The New Yorker (September 12, 1959) | Happy Families Are All Alike |
| "Guests" | The New Yorker (October 3, 1959) |
| "Miss Leonora When Last Seen" | The New Yorker (November 19, 1960) | Miss Leonora When Last Seen |
| "Reservations: A Love Story" | The New Yorker (February 25, 1961) |
| "Nerves" | The New Yorker (September 16, 1961) | The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court |
| "An Overwhelming Question" | Encounter (March 1962) | Miss Leonora When Last Seen
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court |
| "At the Drugstore" | The Sewanee Review (Autumn 1962) | Miss Leonora When Last Seen |
| "Demons" a.k.a. "A Strange Story" | The New Yorker (August 24, 1963) | The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court |
| "Two Pilgrims" | The New Yorker (September 7, 1963) | Miss Leonora When Last Seen |
| "There" | The Kenyon Review (Winter 1964) | The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor |
| "The Throughway" | The Sewanee Review (Autumn 1964) | In the Miro District |
| "The End of Play" | Virginia Quarterly Review (Spring 1965) | The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court |
| "A Cheerful Disposition" | The Sewanee Review (Spring 1967) | Complete Stories 1960-1992 |
| "Mrs. Billingsby's Wine" | The New Yorker (October 14, 1967) | The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor |
| "First Heat" | Shenandoah (Winter 1968) |
"The Decline and Fall of the Episcopal Church in the Year of Our Lord 1952"
a.k.a. "Tom, Tell Him" | The Sewanee Review (Spring 1968) | The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court |
| "The Elect" | McCall's (April 1968) | The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor |
| "Dean of Men" | Virginia Quarterly Review (Spring 1969) |
| "Daphne's Lover" | The Sewanee Review (Spring 1969) | In the Miro District |
| "The Instruction of a Mistress" | The New Review (September 1974) |
| "The Hand of Emmagene" | Shenandoah (Winter 1975) |
| "Three Heroines" | Virginia Quarterly Review (Spring 1975) |
| "The Megalopolitans" | Ploughshares (Fall 1975) | Complete Stories 1960-1992 |
| "The Captain's Son" | The New Yorker (January 12, 1976) | In the Miro District |
| "Her Need" | Shenandoah (Summer 1976) |
| "In the Miro District" | The New Yorker (February 7, 1977) |
| "The Old Forest" | The New Yorker (May 14, 1979) | The Old Forest and Other Stories |
| "The Gift of the Prodigal" | The New Yorker (June 1, 1981) |
| "The Witch of Owl Mountain Springs: An Account of Her Remarkable Powers" | The Kenyon Review (Winter 1991) | The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court |
| "The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court" | New Virginia Review (Summer 1992) |
| "At the Art Theater" | Greensboro Review (Summer 1992) |
"In the Waiting Room"
a.k.a. "The Waiting Room" | The Southern Review (Autumn 1992) |
"The Real Ghost"
a.k.a. "Reflections" | - |