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Introduction / A. S. Byatt --

Sacristan of St. Botolph / William Gilbert -- Haunted house / Charles Dickens -- Relics 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 -- Toys of peace / Saki -- Tremendous adventures of Major Brown / G. K. Chesterton -- Some talk of Alexander / A. E. Coppard -- Reverent wooing of Archibald / P. G. Wodehouse -- Solid objects / Virginia Woolf -- 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 -- Destructors / Graham Greene -- Waterfall / H. E. Bates -- Troll / T. H. White -- Blush / Elizabeth Taylor -- At Hiruharama / Penelope Fitzgerald -- My flannel knickers / Leonora Carrington -- Enoch's two letters / Alan Sillitoe -- Dream cargoes / J. G. Ballard -- Telephone / John Fuller -- My story / John Fuller -- Kiss / Angela Carter -- Beauty of the dawn shift / Rose Tremain -- Solid geometry / Ian McEwan -- Dead languages / Philip Hensher