Edited by Jorge Luís Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo.

Contents:

• Sennin by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
• A Woman Alone with Her Soul by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Ben-Tobith by Leonid Andreyev
• The Phantom Basket by John Aubrey
• The Drowned Giant by J. G. Ballard
• Enoch Soames by Max Beerbohm
• The Tail of the Sphinx by Ambrose Bierce
• The Squid in Its Own Ink by Adolfo Bioy Casares
• Guilty Eyes by Ah‘med Ech Chiruani
• Anything You Want!... by Léon Bloy
• Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luís Borges
• Odin by Jorge Luís Borges and Delia Ingenieros
• The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind by Ray Bradbury
• The Man Who Collected the First of September, 1973 by Tor Åge Bringsvaerd
• The Careless Rabbi by Martin Buber
• The Tale and the Poet by Sir Richard Burton
• Fate Is a Fool by Arturo Cancela and Pilar de Lusarreta
• An Actual Authentic Ghost [from Sartor Resartus] by Thomas Carlyle
• The Red King’s Dream [from Through the Looking-Glass] by Lewis Carroll
• The Tree of Pride by G. K. Chesterton
• The Tower of Babel by G. K. Chesterton
• The Dream of the Butterfly by Chuang Tzu
• The Look of Death by Jean Cocteau
• House Taken Over by Julio Cortázar
• Being Dust by Santiago Dabove
• A Parable of Gluttony [from With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet] by Alexandra David-Neel
• The Persecution of the Master [from With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet] by Alexandra David-Neel
• The Idle City by Lord Dunsany
• Tantalia by Macedonio Fernández
• Eternal Life [from The Golden Bough] by J. G. Frazer
• A Secure Home by Elena Garro
• The Man Who Did Not Believe in Miracles [from Confucianism and Its Rivals] by Herbert A. Giles
• Earth’s Holocaust by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Ending for a Ghost Story by I. A. Ireland
• The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs
• What Is a Ghost? [from Ulysses] by James Joyce
• May Goulding [from Ulysses] by James Joyce
• The Wizard Passed Over by Don Juan Manuel
• Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk by Franz Kafka
• Before the Law by Franz Kafka
• The Return of Imray by Rudyard Kipling
• The Horses of Abdera by Leopoldo Lugones
• The Ceremony by Arthur Machen
• The Riddle by Walter de la Mare
• Who Knows? by Guy de Maupassant
• The Shadow of the Players [from The Weekend Guide to Wales] by Edwin Morgan
• The Cat by H. A. Murena
• The Story of the Foxes by Niu Chiao
• The Atonement by Silvina Ocampo
• The Man Who Belonged to Me by Giovanni Papini
• Rani by Carlos Peralta
• The Blind Spot by Barry Perowne
• The Wolf [from The Satyricon] by Petronius
• The Bust by Manuel Peyrou
• The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Tiger of Chao-ch’êng by P’u Sung Ling
• How We Arrived at the Island of Tools [from Pantagruel] by François Rabelais
• The Music on the Hill by Saki
• Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched by May Sinclair
• The Cloth Which Weaves Itself [from Malay Magic] by W. W. Skeat
• Universal History [from Star Maker] by Olaf Stapledon
• A Theologian in Death by Emanuel Swedenborg
• The Encounter [anonymous, T'ang Dynasty]
• The Three Hermits by Leo Tolstoy
• Macario by B. Traven
• The Infinite Dream of Pao-Yu by Ts’ao Chan (Hsueh Ch’in)
• The Mirror to Wind-and-Moon by Ts’ao Chan (Hsueh Ch’in)
• The Desire to Be a Man by Villiers de l’Isle-Adam
• Memnon, or Human Wisdom by Voltaire
• The Man Who Liked Dickens by Evelyn Waugh
• Pomegranate Seed by Edith Wharton
• Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White
• The Donguys by Juan Rudolfo Wilcock
• Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime by Oscar Wilde
• The Sorcerer of the White Lotus Lodge by Richard Wilhelm
• The Celestial Stag by G. Willoughby-Meade
• Saved by the Book by G. Willoughby-Meade
• The Reanimated Englishman [from Roger Dodsworth] by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• The Sentence by Wu Ch’Eng En
• The Sorcerers by William Butler Yeats
• Fragment [from Don Juan Tenorio] by José Zorrilla