Edited and translated by Mike Mitchell.

Contents:

• Flowers by Arthur Schnitzler
• The Master by Gustav Meyrink
• The Extracts from: The Great Bestiary of Modern Literature by Franz Blei
• Folter’s Gems by Paul Busson
• Sergeant Anton Lerch by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
• The Death of Christoph Detlev Brigge of Ulsgard by Rainer Maria Rilke
• Signor Scurri or Herr von Yb’s Strange Voyage to the Seaside by Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando
• The Head by Karl Hans Strobl
• The Ghost of the Jewish Ghetto by Paul Leppin
• "Pour Avoir Bien Servi" by Leo Perutz
• Outside the Law by Franz Kafka
• A Country Doctor by Franz Kafka
• Gracchus the Huntsman by Franz Kafka
• The First Hour After Death by Max Brod
• The Kiss of the Stone Woman by Franz Theodor Csokor
• Shadowtown by Franz Theodor Csokor
• The Playground: A Fantasy by Franz Werfel
• The Dream by George Saiko
• The Reason for It by Hermann Ungar
• The Moving Frontier by Jeannie Ebner
• The Singing in the Swamp by Jeannie Ebner
• Something to Say for the Rain by Rudolf Bayr
• Ebb and Flow by Anton Fuchs
• Flow and Ebb by Anton Fuchs
• Cannibals by Marlen Haushofer
• The Toad by Florian Kalbeck
• An Up-and-coming Concern by Erich Fried
• Where I Live by Ilse Aichinger
• In the Gulf of Carpentaria by H.C. Artmann
• Journey through the Night by Jakov Lind
• The Unmasking of the Briefly Sketched Gentleman by Gerhard Amanshauser
• At the World’s End by Hannelore Valencak
• The Sewermaster by Peter von Tramin
• Funeral Meats by Peter Marginter
• Incident in St. Wolfgang by Peter Daniel Wolfkind
• The Journey to the World’s End by Barbara Frischmuth
• The Epidemic by Marianne Gruber
• My Day by G.F. Jonke
• The Thief by Michael Köhlmeier
• Snitto-Snot by Michael Köhlmeier
• The Trouble with Time Trave by Martin Auer
• In the Sand by Barbara Neuwirth
• The Furnished Room by Barbara Neuwirth
• Extracts from Novak: A Grotesque by Günther Kaip