Contained here are a mixture of the well-known and more obscure short stories. 'The Speckled Band' by Conan Doyle should have been read by just about everybody and thus it is difficult to know why it has also been included here. (Excellent though it is) The other inclusions apart from 'The Bottle Imp' by Robert Louis Stevenson and 'The Magic Shop' by H.G.Wells,were unknown to me. They are 'Invisible Boy' by Ray Bradbury/'The King Is Dead,Long Live The King' by Mary Coleridge/ 'Comrade Pigeon' by Romain Gary/ 'The Crossways' by L.P.Hartley/ 'The Roll-Call of the Reef' by Arthur Quiller-Couch/ 'The Ballroom' by William Sansom.
On the whole a quite acceptable selection of 'fantastic' tales which have by the way several interesting illustrations by Edward Pagram. ( )

9 tales of strange situations