Table of Contents

A. S. Byatt: Introduction
William Gilbert: The Sacristan of St Botolph
Charles Dickens: The Haunted House
Anthony Trollope: Relics of General Chassé, A Tale of Antwerp
Thomas Hardy: A Mere Interlude
Mary Mann: Little Brother
M. R. James: Two Doctors
Arthur Morrison: Behind the Shade
Rudyard Kipling: Wireless
H. G. Wells: Under the Knife
Charlotte Mew: A White Night
Saki: The Toys of Peace
G. K. Chesterton: The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown
A. E. Coppard: Some Talk of Alexander
P. G. Wodehouse: The Reverent Wooing of Archibald
Virginia Woolf: Solid Objects
D. H. Lawrence: The Man who Loved Islands
Ronald Firbank: A Tragedy in Green
Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Widow's Quilt
Aldous Huxley: Nuns at Luncheon
Malachi Whitaker: Landlord of the Crystal Fountain
V. S. Pritchett: On the Edge of the Cliff
Rosamund Lehmann: A Dream of Winter
Evelyn Waugh: An Englishman's Home
Graham Greene: The Destructors
H. E. Bates: The Waterfall
T. H. White: The Troll
Elizabeth Taylor: The Blush
Penelope Fitzgerald: At Hiruharama
Leonora Carrington: My Flannel Knickers
Alan Sillitoe: Enoch's Two Letters
J. G. Ballard: Dream Cargoes
John Fuller: Telephone
John Fuller: My Story
Angela Carter: The Kiss
Rose Tremain: The Beauty of the Dawn Shift
Ian McEwan: Solid Geometry
Philip Hensher: Dead Languages