Elizabeth Madox Roberts's first collection of stories, The Haunted Mirror (1932), was reviewed ecstatically in the New York Times by J. Donald Adams (20 November 1932): "In that remarkable galaxy of talent and genius formed by writers of the contemporary South, no star is more brilliantly ascendant than that of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. She is an artist in whom there is an extraordinary blending of delicacy and power that is nowhere more clearly exhibited than in this collection of her short stories." Indeed, by 1932 she was placed by most critics in the front rank of American fiction writers. Although the most lavish praise was directed at her novels, particularly The Time of Man (1926) and The Great Meadow (1930), her short stories were admired by readers of the American Caravan, Harper's Magazine, and the American Mercury. Roberts published only thirteen stories, all of them available in her two collections: seven in The Haunted...