Contents

• Introduction, by Ray Bradbury
  Ray Bradbury
  Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...
  
  
• "The Hour After Westerly", by Robert M. Coates
• "Housing Problem", by Henry Kuttner
  Henry Kuttner
  Henry Kuttner was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror.-Early life:Henry Kuttner was born in Los Angeles, California in 1915...
  
  
• "The Portable Phonograph", by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  Walter Van Tilburg Clark was an American novelist, short story writer, and educator. He ranks as one of Nevada's most distinguished literary figures of the 20th century and is known primarily for his novels, his one volume of stories, as well as his uncollected short stories...
  
  
• "None Before Me", by Sidney Carroll
  Sidney Carroll
  Sidney Carroll was a film and television screenwriter. Although Carroll wrote most frequently for television, he is perhaps best remembered today for writing the screenplay for The Hustler for which he was nominated for an Academy Award...
  
  
• "Putzi", by Ludwig Bemelmans
  Ludwig Bemelmans
  Ludwig Bemelmans was an Austrian author, an internationally known gourmet, and a writer and illustrator of children's books. He is most noted today for his Madeline books, six of which were published from 1939-1961...
  
  
• "The Daemon Lover", by Shirley Jackson
  Shirley Jackson
  Shirley Jackson was an American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years...
  
  
• "Miss Winters and the Wind", by Christine N. Govan
• "Mr. Death and the Redheaded Woman", by Helen Eustis
• "Jeremy in the Wind", by Nigel Kneale
  Nigel Kneale
  Nigel Kneale was a British screenwriter from the Isle of Man. Active in television, film, radio drama and prose fiction, he wrote professionally for over fifty years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and was twice nominated for the British Film Award for Best Screenplay...
  
  
• "The Glass Eye", by John Keir Cross
• "Saint Katy the Virgin", by John Steinbeck
  John Steinbeck
  John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American writer. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden and the novella Of Mice and Men...
  
  
• "Night Flight", by Josephine Johnson
• "The Cocoon", by John B. L. Goodwin
• "The Hand", by Wessel H. Smitter
• "The Sound Machine", by Roald Dahl
  Roald Dahl
  Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, fighter pilot and screenwriter.Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence agent, rising to the rank of Wing Commander...
  
  
• "The Laocoön Complex", by J. C. Furnas
• "I Am Waiting", by Christopher Isherwood
  Christopher Isherwood
  Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood was an English-American novelist.-Early life and work:Born at Wyberslegh Hall, High Lane, Cheshire in North West England, Isherwood spent his childhood in various towns where his father, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army, was stationed...
  
  
• "The Witnesses", by William Sansom
  William Sansom
  William Sansom FRSL was a British novelist, travel and short story writer known for his highly descriptive prose-style...
  
  
• "The Enormous Radio", by John Cheever
  John Cheever
  John William Cheever was an American novelist and short story writer. He is sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy,...
  
  
• "Heartburn", by Hortense Calisher
  Hortense Calisher
  Hortense Calisher was an American writer of fiction.-Personal life:Born in New York City, New York, and a graduate of Hunter College High School and Barnard College , Calisher was the daughter of a young German Jewish immigrant mother and a somewhat older Jewish father from Virginia whose family...
  
  
• "The Supremacy of Uruguay", by E. B. White
  E. B. White
  Elwyn Brooks White , usually known as E. B. White, was an American writer. A long-time contributor to The New Yorker magazine, he also wrote many famous books for both adults and children, such as the popular Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little, and co-authored a widely used writing guide, The...
  
  
• "The Pedestrian
  The Pedestrian
  "The Pedestrian" is a short story by author Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in 1951 by The Fortnightly Publishing Company. It is included in the collection The Golden Apples of the Sun .-Summary:...
  
  ", by Ray Bradbury
  Ray Bradbury
  Ray Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...
  
  
• "A Note for the Milkman", by Sidney Carroll
  Sidney Carroll
  Sidney Carroll was a film and television screenwriter. Although Carroll wrote most frequently for television, he is perhaps best remembered today for writing the screenplay for The Hustler for which he was nominated for an Academy Award...
  
  
• "The Eight Mistresses", by Jean Hrolda
• "In the Penal Colony
  In the Penal Colony
  "In the Penal Colony" is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, revised in November 1918, and first published in October 1919....
  
  ", by Franz Kafka
  Franz Kafka
  Franz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...
  
  
• "Inflexible Logic", by Russell Maloney