Contents: The rocking-horse winner, D. H. Lawrence; Heartburn, Hortense Calisher; The snail-watcher, Patricia Highsmith; Manuscript found in a police state, Brian Aldiss; The man who sold rope to the Gnoles, Idris Seabright (Margaret St. Clair); The mark of the beast, Rudyard Kipling; The summer people, Shirley Jackson; The leopard man's story, Jack London; The garden of forking paths, Jorge Luis Borges