Description: xix, 572 pages ; 21 cm

Notes: Includes index (pages 567-572)

Contents:

• Introduction: possibility of pleasure / Marjorie Fischer and Rolfe Humphries
• Reason / Ralph Hodgson
• A haunted house / Virginia Woolf
• The philosophy of relative existences / Frank R. Stockton
• Birth / Liam O'Flaherty
• The curious case of Benjamin Button / F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Strong but quirky / Irwin Shapiro
• The man that stopped / Frank O'Connor
• A man and his boots / W. B. Yeats
• Off the ground / Walter De La Mare
• The rime of true Thomas / John Buchan
• The haunted man / Ralph Bates
• A horseman in the sky / Ambrose Bierce
• The Bowmen / Arthur Machen
• Before the battle at lake Trasimenus / Livy
• Private Martin Passy / William March
• Ballad of the buried sword / Ernest Rhys
• The perfect game / G. K. Chesterton
• The canterville ghost / Oscar Wilde
• The rival beauties / W. W. Jacobs
• The dong with the luminous nose / Edward Lear
• A haunted house / Pliny
• The transferred ghost / Frank R. Stockton
• A beautiful maiden / Charles Erskine Scott Wood
• An imperfect conflagration / Ambrose Bierce
• The phantom fence rider of San Miguel / Henry Yelvington
• Old Christmas / Roy Helton
• The real right thing / Henry James
• The quick and the dead / Finley Peter Dunne
• Lady into fox / David Garnett
• Charley Lambert / J. M. Synge
• The bold dragon / Washington Irving
• The vixen / Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
• A blazing starre seene in the west
• The last laugh / D. H. Lawerence
• Dionysus and the pard / Geoffrey Household
• Story of Pygmalion / Ovid
• The chaser / John Collier
• King Cheops' daughter / Herodotus
• Nelly Trim / Sylvia Townsend Warner
• The story of the siren / E. M. Forster
• The unicorn in the garden / James Thurber
• Mount Shasta / Charles Erskine Scott Wood
• The wisdom of the king / W. B. Yeats
• Orpheus and Eurydice / Virgil
• A true account / Cotton Mather
• The witch of Coös / Robert Frost
• Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven / Mark Twain
• Colonel Sterett relates marvels / Alfred Henry Lewis
• A true story / Lucian
• Macavity: the mystery cat / T. S. Eliot
• Private Roger Jones / William March
• Tall tales of the G.I.s / Sergeant Bill Davidson
• The elks / Julius Caesar
• Sacre du printemps / Ludwig Bemelmans
• The elf in Algiers / John Steinbeck
• Lord deliver us / Donald Cowie
• The voice of God / Winifred Holtby
• The judgement seat / W. Somerset Maugham
• The sensitive goldfish / Christina Stead
• Panic / Orson Welles
• The soul of Laploshka / H. H. Munro ("Saki")
• "No trouble at all" / Ludwig Bemelmans
• Wesh incident / Robert Graves
• The angry street: a bad dream / G. K. Chesterton
• Artist Unknown / Heywood Broun
• A miracle of St. Scothinus
• The saint / Antonia White
• The silence of God / Osbert Sitwell
• The miracle of St. Goar
• Building the chruch / J. M. Synge
• Private Edward Romano / William March
• Blessed Patrick of the bells / Lady Gregory
• How Caedmon learned to sing / Bede
• King O'Toole and St. Kevin / Samuel Lover
• The man who could work miracles / H. G. Wells
• A Shepherd and a Shepherdess / Elizabeth Goudge
• The case of Prometheus / Max Beerbohm
• The road from Colonus / E. M. Forster
• Mr. Valiant summoned / John Bunyan
• Philemon and Baucis / Ovid
• The fairy goose / Liam O'Flaherty
• The passing strange / John Masefield
• Index of authors

Control Number: 276439

Subjects: Short stories.

Genre:

• Fiction.
• Short stories.

Other Authors:

• Fischer, Marjorie, editor.
• Humphries, Rolfe, editor.