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](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14863196W/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge) / Ambrose Bierce -- The master cat; or, puss in boots / Charles Perrault -- The rivals / George Garrett -- Sunset / William Faulkner.