| 100% | ASET | 4 | "___ of Six" (Joseph Conrad story collection) |
| 73% | ASET | 4 | Joseph Conrad's "— of Six" |
| 73% | ASET | 4 | Joseph Conrad’s “___ of Six” |
| 56% | DARKNESS | 8 | Joseph Conrad novel: "Heart of __" |
| 54% | OMNIBUS | 7 | Collection of stories |
| 54% | ANTHOLOGY | 9 | Collection of stories |
| 54% | ANTHOLOGIES | 11 | Collections of stories |
| 53% | SIAM | 4 | Gulf of ___ (Joseph Conrad story setting) |
| 51% | ASET | 4 | Frank O'Connor short story collection "___ of Variations" |
| 49% | OMNIBUS | 7 | Reprinted collection of short stories, say |
| 49% | NOSTROMO | 8 | 1904 novel by Joseph Conrad subtitled A Tale of the Seaboard |
| 48% | IROBOT | 6 | 1950 story collection that explores the moral implications of A.I. |
| 48% | GODOWN,OOEE | 11 | 1942 collection of stories by William Faulkner |
| 48% | EVA | 3 | "The Stories of ___ Luna" (Isabel Allende collection) |
| 48% | IROBOT | 6 | Classic Isaac Asimov collection of short stories |
| 47% | UNCLETOMS | 9 | With 27-Across, Richard Wright short story collection of 1938: 2 wds. |
| 47% | JUNGLE | 6 | Kipling's 1894 collection of stories, The __ Book |
| 47% | BOOK | 4 | "The Jungle ___," collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling |
| 47% | SONOFTHEWOLF | 12 | The —, 1900 story collection by Jack London subtitled Tales of the Far North |
| 46% | TAKE | 4 | "Winner ___ Nothing," collection of short stories by Ernest Hemingway |
| 45% | CONGO | 5 | Setting of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" |
| 44% | MEMORYWALL | 10 | Collection of short stories that 28-Across attempted to arrange "neurologically" (2 wds.) |
| 44% | JAMES | 5 | M R —, author of 1904 collection Ghost Stories of an Antiquary |
| 44% | BARRELFEVER | 11 | 1994 collection of stories and essays by David Sedaris (2 wds.) |
| 44% | ARABIAN | 7 | "The ___ Nights," collection of stories that includes Aladdin and Ali Baba |
| 44% | NOW | 3 | "Apocalypse ___," 1979 film starring Marlon Brando, loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness" |
| 44% | NIN | 3 | Author of the story collection "Little Birds" |
| 44% | SHOES | 5 | One of the six words in Hemingway’s apocryphal six-word story |