Table of Contents

 
A. S. Byatt, “The Thing in the Forest”

Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”

Neil Gaiman, “Troll Bridge”

Ursula K. LeGuin, “The Poacher”

Isak Dinesen, “The Sailor-Boy’s Tale”

Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Bottle Imp”

William Maxwell, “The Industrious Tailor”

Vladimir Nabokov, “Dragon”

Guy de Maupassant, “Night”

Lord Dunsany, “Where the Tides Ebb and Flow”

Julio Cortázar, “The Night Face Up”

Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”

H. G. Wells, “The Country of the Blind” 

Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

Steven Millhauser, “The Visit”

Angela Carter, “The Tiger’s Bride”

Haruki Murakami, “The Dancing Dwarf”

About the Author

Diana Secker Tesdell is the editor of the Everyman's Pocket Classic anthologies Christmas Stories, Love Stories, Dog Stories, Cat Stories, Horse Stories, New York Stories, Bedtime Stories, Stories of Art and Artists, Stories of Fatherhood, Stories of Motherhood,Stories of the Sea,and Stories from the Kitchen, and ofthe Everyman's Library Pocket Poet Lullabies and Poems for Children.