Pause to Wonder: Stories of the Marvelous, Mysterious and Strange

xix, 572 pp. A collection of numerous stories, including Fitzgerald's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which inspired the recent film starring Brad Pitt; A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf; Macavity: The Mystery Cat by T.S. Eliot; The Elfin Algiers by John Steinbeck; etc. CONTENTS: Introduction: Possibility of Pleasure; Reason - Ralph Hodgson; A Haunted House - Virginia Woolf; The Philosophy of Relative Existences - Frank R. Stockton; Birth - Liam O'Flaherty; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F. Scott Fitzgerald; Strong But Quirky - Irwin Shapiro; The Man That Stopped - Frank O'Connor; A Man And His Boots - W.B. Yeats; Off The Ground - Walter de la Mare; the Rime of True Thomas - John Buchan; The Haunted Man - Ralph Bates; A Horseman In The Sky - Ambrose Bierce; The Bowmen - Arthur Machen; Before The Battle At Lake Trasimenus - Livy; Private Martin Passy - William March; Ballad of the Buried Sword - Ernest Rhys; The Perfect Game - G.K. Chesterton; The Canterville Ghost - Oscar Wilde; The Rival Beauties - W.W. Jacobs; The Dong With The Luminous Nose - Edward Lear; A Haunted House - Pliny; The Transferred Ghost - Frank R. Stockton; A Beautiful Maiden - Charles Erskine Scott Wood; An Imperfect Conflagration - Ambrose Bierce; The Phantom Fence Rider of San Miguel - Henry Yelvington; Old Christmas - Roy Helton; The Real Right Thing - Henry James; The Quick and the Dead - Finley Peter Dunne; Lady Into Fox - David Garnett; Charley Lambert - J.M. Synge; The Bold Dragoon - Washington Irving; The Vixen - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson; A Blazing Starre Seene In The West - D.H. Lawrence; Dionysus And The Pard - Geoffrey Household; Story of Pygmalion - Ovid; The Chaser - John Collier; King Cheops' Daughter - Herodotus; Nelly Trim - Sylvia Townsend Warner; The Story of the Siren - E.M. Forster; The Unicorn In the Garden - James Thurber; Mount Shasta - Charles Erskine Scott Wood; The Wisdom of the King - W.B. Yeats; Orpheus and Eurydice - Virgil; A True Account - Cotton Mather; The Witch of Coos - Robert Frost; Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit To Heaven - Mark Twain; Colonel Sterett Relates Marvels - Alfred Henry Lewis; A True Story - Lucian; Macavity: The Mystery Cat - T.S. Eliot; Private Roger Jones - William March; Tall Tales of the G.I.'s - Sergeant Bill Davidson; The Elks - Julius Caesar; Sacre Du Printemps - Ludwig Bemelmans; The Elf In Algiers - John Steinbeck; Lord Deliver Us - Donald Cowie; The Voice of God - Winifred Holtby; The Judgement Seat - W. Somerset Maugham; The Sensitive Goldfish - Christina Stead; Panic- Orson Welles; The Soul of Laploshka - H.H. Munro (Saki); "No Trouble At All" - Ludwig Bemelmans; Welsh Incident - Robert Graves; The Angry Street: A Bad Dream - G.K. Chesterton; Artist Unknown - Heywood Broun; A Miracle of St. Scothinus; The Saint - Antonia White; The Silence of God - Osbert Sitwell; A Miracle of St. Goar; Building The Church - J.M. Synge; Private Edward Romano - William March; Blessed Patrick of the Bells - Lady Gregory; How Caedmon Learned To Sing - Bede; King O'Toole and St. Kevin - Samuel Lover; The Man Who Could Work Miracles - H.G. Wells; A Sheperd and A Sheperdess - Elizabeth Goudge; The Case of Prometheus - Max Beerbohm; The Road From Colonus - E.M. Forster; Mr. Valiant Summoned - John Bunyan; Philemon and Baucis - Ovid; The Fairy Goose - Liam O'Flaherty; The Passing Strange - John Masefield; Index of Authors.