Notes

Table of contents: Kittens / by Dean Koontz -- The Magic Shop / by H.G. Wells -- Miriam / by Truman Capote -- The tell-tale heart / by Edgar Allan Poe -- Genesis and catastrophe (a true story) / by Roald Dahl -- The squaw / by Bram Stoker -- Here there be tygers / by Stephen King -- Man overboard! / by Winston Churchill -- The lottery / by Shirley Jackson -- The bus-conductor / by E.F. Benson -- Thanksgiving / by Joyce Carol Oates -- Excerpt from The legend of Sleepy Hollow / by Washington Irving -- The terrible old man / by H.P. Lovecraft -- John Charrington's wedding / by E. Nesbit -- The furnished room / by O. Henry -- The man upstairs / by Ray Bradbury -- The music on the hill / by Saki -- The boarded window / by Ambrose Bierce -- Fingers on the back of the neck / by Margaret Mahy -- The cremation of Sam McGee / by Robert W. Service