Originally published: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages vii-xi).

The sacristan of St Botolph / William Gilbert -- The haunted house / Charles Dickens -- Relics 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 toys of peace / Saki -- The tremendous adventures of Major Brown / G. K. Chesterson -- Some talk of Alexander / A.E. Coppard -- The reverent wooing of Archibald / P.G. Wodehouse -- Solid objects / Virgina Woolfe -- The man who loved islands / D.H. Lawrence -- A tragedy in green / Ronald Firbank -- A widow's quilt / Silvia Townsend Warner -- Nuns at luncheon / Aldous Huxley -- Landlord of the crystal fountain / Malachi Whitaker -- On the edge of the cliff / V.S. Pritchett -- A dream of winter / Rosamond Lehmann -- An Englishman's home / Evelyn Waugh -- The distructors / Grahm Greene -- The waterfall / H.E. Bates -- The troll / T.H. White -- The blush / Elizabeth Taylor -- At Hiruharama / Penelope Fitzgerald -- My flannel knickers / Leonora Carrington -- Enoch's two letters / Alan Sillitoe -- Dream cargoes / J.G. Ballard -- Telephone ; My story / John Fuller -- The kiss / Angela Carter -- The beauty of the dawn shift / Rose Tremain -- Solid geometry / Ian McEwan -- Dead languages / Philip Hensher.

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