Introduction / A. S. Byatt The Sacristan of St. Botolph / William Gilbert The haunted house / Charles Dickens Rlics of General Chasse : A tale of Antwerp / Anthony Trollope A mere interlude / Thomas Hardy Little brother / Mary Mann Two doctors / M. R. James Behind the shade / Arthur Morrison 'Wireless' / Rudyard Kipling Under the knife / H. G. Wells A white night / Charlotte Mew The toys of peace / Saki The tremendous adventures of Major Brown / G. K. Chesterton Some talk of Alexander / A. E. Coppard The reverent wooing of Archibald / P. G. Wodehouse Solid objects / Virginia Woolf The man who loved islands / D. H. Lawrence A tragedy in green / Ronald Firbank A widow's quilt / Sylvia Townsend Warner Nuns at luncheon / Aldous Huxley Landlord of the crystal fountain / Malachai Whitaker On the edge of the cliff / V. S. Prichett
A dream of winter / Rosamund Lehmann
An Englishman's home / Evelyn Waugh
The destructors / Graham Greene
The waterfall / H. E. Bates
The blush / Elizabeth Taylor
At Hiruharama / Penelope Fitzgerald
My flannel knickers / Leonora Carrington
Enoch's two letters / Alan Sillitoe
Dream cargoes / J. G. Ballard
The beauty of the dawn shift / Rose Tremain
Solid geometry / Ian McEwan
Dead languages / Philip Hensher.
