A mesmerizing book that evokes the darkness that lies beyond the real world. 72 tales of hauntings, dreams, time warps, transformations, and dealings with God and the devil- stories that take you to the edge of the twilight zone.

Edited by Alberto Manguel

Contents:

• House Taken Over by Julio Cortázar
• How Love Came to Professor Guildea by Robert S. Hichens
• Climax for a Ghost Story by I. A. Ireland
• The Mysteries of the Joy Rio by Tennessee Williams
• Pomegranate Seed by Edith Wharton
• Venetian Masks by Adolfo Bioy Casares
• The Wish House by Rudyard Kipling
• The Playground by Ray Bradbury
• Importance by Manuel Mujica Lainez
• Enoch Soames by Max Beerbohm
• A Visitor from Down Under by L. P. Hartley
• Laura by Saki
• An Injustice Revealed Author Unknown
• A Little Place Off the Edgware Road by Graham Greene
• Excerpt from "A School Story" by M. R. James
• The Signalman by Charles Dickens
• The Tall Woman by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
• A Scent of Mimosa by Francis King
• Death and the Gardener (from Le Grand Ecart) by Jean Cocteau
• Lord Mountdrago by W. Somerset Maugham
• The Sick Gentleman’s Last Visit by Giovanni Papini
• Insomnia by Virgilio Pinera
• The Storm by Jules Verne
• A Dream (from The Arabian Nights Entertainments) Author Unknown
• The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe
• Split Second by Daphne du Maurier
• August 25, 1983 by Jorge Luís Borges
• How Wang-Fo Was Saved by Marguerite Yourcenar
• Excerpt from "Peter and Rosa" by Isak Dinesen
• Tattoo by Junichiro Tanizaki
• John Duffy’s Brother by Flann O’Brien
• Lady into Fox by David Garnett
• Father’s Last Escape by Bruno Schulz
• A Man by the Name of Ziegler by Hermann Hesse
• The Argentine Ant by Italo Calvino
• The Lady on the Grey by John Collier
• The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
• Of a Promise Kept by Lafcadio Hearn
• The Wizard Postponed by Juan Manuel (Adapted by Jorge Luis Borges in A Universal History of Infamy)
• The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs
• The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence
• Certain Distant Suns by Joanne Greenberg
• The Third Bank of the River by João Guimarães Rosa
• Home by Hilaire Belloc
• The Door in the Wall by H.G. Wells
• The Friends by Silvina Ocampo
• Et in Sempiternum Pereant by Charles Williams
• The Captives of Longjumeau by Léon Bloy
• The Visit to the Museum by Vladimir Nabokov
• "Autumn Mountain" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
• The Sight by Brian Moore
• Clorinda by André Pieyre de Mandiargues
• The Pagan Rabbi by Cynthia Ozick
• The Fisherman and His Soul by Oscar Wilde
• The Bureau d’Echange de Maux by Lord Dunsany
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
• In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
• A Dog in Durer’s Etching "The Knight, Death and The Devil" by Marco Denevi
• The Large Ant by Howard Fast
• The Lemmings by Alex Comfort
• The Grey Ones by J. B. Priestley
• The Feather Pillow by Horacio Quiroga
• Seaton’s Aunt by Walter de la Mare
• The Friends of the Friends by Henry James
• The Travelling Companion by Hans Christian Andersen
• The Curfew Tolls by Stephen Vincent Benét
• The State of Grace by Marcel Aymé
• The Story of a Panic by E. M. Forster
• An Invitation to the Hunt by George Hitchcock
• Excerpt from "American Notebooks" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Dream by O. Henry