Comedy meets fantasy in this eclectic collection of tales by honored humorists from the printed page and the silver screen. Terry Pratchett attempts to answer the age-old question of why the chicken crossed the road; Ray Bradbury sneaks us a peek behind the scenes of an avant-garde movie studio; Woody Allen introduces us to a failed assassin; and legends such as Peter S. Beagle, Tom Sharpe, Mark Twain, and Orson Welles explore the endless possibilities of the absurd...

Edited by Peter Haining.

Contents:

• 1: Flights of Fantasy: Stories of the Absurd
  • Hollywood Chickens by Terry Pratchett
  • The New Utopia by Jerome K. Jerome
  • The Angry Street by G.K. Chesterton
  • The Party at Lady Cusp-Canine’s by Mervyn Peake
  • The Little Man Who Wasn’t All There by Robert Bloch
  • The Year the Glop-Monster Won the Golden Lion at Cannes by Ray Bradbury
  • Lila the Werewolf by Peter S. Beagle
  • The War with the Fnools by Philip K. Dick
• 2: The Muddle Ages: Tales of Heroic Times
  • The Creation according to Spike Milligan by Spike Milligan
  • Mediaeval Romance by Mark Twain
  • Ethelred the Unready by Ben Travers
  • Dream Damsel by Evan Hunter
  • Three Months in a Balloon [from Mr Münchausen] by John Kendrick Bangs
  • How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion by Gene Wolfe
  • Fifi and the Chilean Truffle by Orson Welles
  • The Wastrel by Peter Sellers
• 3: Malice in Blunderland: Cases of Crime
  • Stirring the Pot by Tom Sharpe
  • The Suicide of Kiaros by L. Frank Baum
  • The Rape of the Sherlock by A.A. Milne
  • The White Rabbit Caper by James Thurber
  • Wot the Eye Don’t See by Stan McMurtry
  • The Condemned by Woody Allen
  • The Mulligan Stew by Donald E. Westlake
  • The Dulwich Assassins by David L. Stone