Introduction / A. S. Byatt
The Sacristan of St. Botolph / William Gilbert
The haunted house / Charles Dickens
Rlics 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
The tremendous adventures of Major Brown / G. K. Chesterton
Some talk of Alexander / A. E. Coppard
The reverent wooing of Archibald / P. G. Wodehouse
Solid objects / Virginia Woolf
The 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
The destructors / Graham Greene
The waterfall / H. E. Bates
The blush / Elizabeth Taylor
At Hiruharama / Penelope Fitzgerald
My flannel knickers / Leonora Carrington
Enoch's two letters / Alan Sillitoe
Dream cargoes / J. G. Ballard
The beauty of the dawn shift / Rose Tremain
Solid geometry / Ian McEwan
Dead languages / Philip Hensher.
