Pause to wonder : stories of the marvelous mysterious and strange

xix, 572 pages ; 21 cm

Includes index (pages 567-572)

Introduction: possibility of pleasure / Marjorie Fischer and Rolfe Humphries
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 dragon / Washington Irving
The vixen / Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
A blazing starre seene in the west
The last laugh / D. H. Lawerence
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 Coös / 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
Wesh 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
The miracle of St. Goar
Building the chruch / 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 Shepherd and a Shepherdess / 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

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Fischer, Marjorie, editor
Humphries, Rolfe, editor