Introduction by Elizabeth Bowen. This contains: Spooner by Eleanor Farjeon; Autumn Cricket by Lord Dunsany; Captain Dalgety Returns by Laurence Whistler; Christmas Meeting by Rosemary Timperley; Danse Macabre by L. A. G. Strong; The Memoirs of a Ghost by G. W. Stonier; A Story of Don Juan by V. S. Pritchett; The Bewilderment of Snake McKoy by Nancy Spain; The Guardian by Walter de la Mare; Whitewash by Rose MacAulay; The Chelsea Cat by C. H. B. Kitchin; W. S. by L. P. Hartley; The Amethyst Cross by Mary Fitt; Bombers' Night by Evelyn Fabyan; The Restless Rest-house by Jonathan Curling; Back to the Beginning by John Connell; Possession on Completion by Collin Brooks; The Lass with the Delicat Air by Eileen Bigland; Hand in Glove by Elizabeth Bowen; and One Grave Too Few by Cynthia Asquith.