Anthology contains 30 stories:
Mysterious madame shanghai / Langston Hughes --
The affair at 7, rue de M / John Steinbeck --
I spy / Graham Greene --
The red-headed murderess / Robert Branson --
Zlateh the goat / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence --
In the forest / Walter de la Mare --
The story of a good dog / James Stephens --
Responsibility / Eleanor Clark --
The ring / Isak Dinesen --
The jewbird / Bernard Malamud --
Sredni Vashtar / Saki (H.H. Munro) --
The bride comes to yellow sky / Stephen Crane --
A game to catch / Richard Wilbur --
Comrade / Alston Anderson --
The mezzotint / M.R. James --
The peterkins at the farm / Lucretia P. Hale --
The cattle drive / B. Traven --
The darning needle / Hans Christian Andersen --
Goodwood comes back / Robert Penn Warren --
To build a fire / Jack London --
The night the ghost got in / James Thurber --
The fog horn / Ray Bradbury --
Bauman's tale / Theodore Roosevelt --
Car drive / Timothy Callender --
Somebody to play with / Jay Williams --
Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce --
The master cat; or, puss in boots / Charles Perrault --
The rivals / George Garrett --
Sunset / William Faulkner.