David Madden bibliography

The following is a list of published works by David Madden (born July 25, 1933), including his novels, short stories, and literary criticism. He also published several poems and works of nonfiction.

Novels

 * The Beautiful Greed (1961)
 * Hair of the Dog (serialized novel) (1967)
 * Cassandra Singing (1969)
 * Brothers in Confidence (1972)
 * Bijou (1974)
 * The Suicide's Wife (1978)
 * Pleasure-Dome (1979)
 * On the Big Wind (1980)
 * Sharpshooter: A Novel of the Civil War (1996)
 * Abducted by Circumstance (2010)
 * London Bridge in Plague and Fire (2012)

Short story collections

 * The Shadow Knows (1970)
 * The New Orleans of Possibilities (1982)

Short stories

 * “Imprisoned Light” (1952)
 * “Gristle” (1956)
 * “Hurry Up Please It's Time” (1959)
 * “Bearers of the Dead” (1959)
 * “My Name Is Not Antonio” (1960)
 * “Adonis in the Underworld” (1961)
 * “The Shadow Knows” (1963)
 * “Something Mourns” (n.d.)
 * “Cassandra Singing” (1964)
 * “The Singer” (1966)
 * “Thad Miller and Atlas” (1966)
 * “Lone Riding” (1966)
 * “Big Bob's Night Owl Show” (1966)
 * “Mirage” (1967)
 * “A Piece of the Sky” (1967)
 * “Big Bob and the Hellhounds” (1967)
 * “Children of a Cold Sun” (1967)
 * “The Master's Thesis” (1967)
 * “Cassandra Singing: A Rasping of Leather” (1967)
 * “Lorashan: A Romantic Tale” (1968)
 * “Love Makes Nothing Happen” (1968)
 * “The Day the Flowers Came” (1968)
 * “Nothing Dies but Something Mourns” (1968)
 * “The Passenger” (1969)
 * “Skin Deep” (1969)
 * “A Voice in the Garden” (1969)
 * “On Target” (1969)
 * “No Trace” (1970)
 * “Home Comfort” (1970)
 * “A Human Interest Death” (1970)
 * “Frank Brown's Brother” (1970)
 * “The House of Pearl” (1970)
 * “The Pale Horse of Fear” (1970)
 * “Night Shift” (1971)
 * “Seven Frozen Starlings” (1971)
 * “A Secondary Character” (1972)
 * “Lindbergh's Rival” (1973)
 * “Here He Comes! There He Goes!” (1973)
 * “Wanted: Ghost Writer” (1973)
 * “The Phantom Circuit” (1975)


 * “Second Look Presents: The Rape of an Indian Brave” (1975)
 * “From God's Typewriter” (1975)
 * “Wipes and Finales, or Machine Close-Outs” (1976)
 * “In the Bag” (1977)
 * “The Hero and the Witness” (1977)
 * “On the Big Wind” (1978)
 * “Putting an Act Together” (1980)
 * “Code-A-Phone” (1983)
 * “Three of Them” (1984)
 * “Lights” (1984–85)
 * “Willis Carr at Bleak House” (1985)
 * “The Eyes of Another” (1985)
 * “Rosanna” (1985)
 * “Was Jesse James at Rising Fawn?” (1985)
 * “A Fever of Dying” (1986)
 * “Children of the Sun” (1988)
 * “Gristle” 1988)
 * “The Invisible Girl” (1989)
 * “Crossing the Lost and Found River” (1989)
 * “The Demon in My View” (1989)
 * “Willis Carr, Sharpshooter” (1989)
 * “The Burning of the Railroad Bridges on the Grand Trunk Line in the Great Valley of East Tennessee” (1989)
 * “The Satirist's Daughter” (1989)
 * “The Violent Meditations of Willis Carr, Sharpshooter (1848-1933)” (1990)
 * “James Agee Never Lived in This House” (1990)
 * “A Forgotten Nightmare” (1991)
 * “The Last Bizarre Tale” (1991)
 * “A Survivor of the Sinking of the Sultana” (1992)
 * “The Invisible Girl” (1993)
 * “The Retriever” (excerpt) (1993)
 * “Fragments Found on the Field” (1994)
 * “Hairtrigger Pencil Lines” (1994)
 * “Retracing My Steps” (1994)
 * “Over the Cliff” (1995)
 * “A Walk with Thomas Jefferson at Poplar Forest” (1996)
 * “The Retriever” (1996)
 * “Cherokee Is Missing” (1996)
 * “The Incendiary at the Forks of the River” (2003-4)
 * “London Bridge Nocturnes: January, A Memoir” (2005)

Authored

 * The Poetic Image in 6 Genres (1969)
 * Harlequin’s Stick, Charlie’s Cane: A Comparative Study of Commedia dell’arte and Silent Slapstick Comedy (1975)
 * A Primer of the Novel (1980)
 * Writers’ Revisions (1981)
 * Revising Fiction: A Handbook for Writers (1988)
 * Beyond the Battlefield (2000)
 * Touching the Web of Southern Novelists (2006)
 * The Tangled Web of the Civil War and Reconstruction (forthcoming in 2015)

Compiled/edited

 * Rediscoveries (1971)
 * American Dreams, American Nightmares (1972)
 * Proletarian Writers of the Thirties (1979)
 * Tough Guy Writers of the Thirties (1979)
 * Rediscoveries II (1988)