Table of Contents

Introduction
Acknowledgments
Robert Browning, Rats and Fools from "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"
Mary Peace Finley, "Mary Peace Finley Spells Danger in White Grizzly"
Gawain-poet, Strange Encounters with "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
O. Henry, Twisting the Tale with "The Ransom of Red Chief"
Washington Irving, Headless in "Sleepy Hollow" with Washington Irving
W.W. Jacobs, Beware! "The Monkey's Paws" by W.W. Jacobs
Jack London, Desperation Grows "To Light a Fire" by Jack London
Edgar Allan Poe, A Gruesome End with "The Masque of Red Death"
Herbert G. Wells, H.G. Wells in the "Country of the Blind"
Sound Appendix
Index