Benet, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, wrote stories of prophecy, of history, of fantasy, and of modern life. The 13 included in this collection are: By the Waters of Babylon, The Blood of the Martyrs, The King of the Cats, A Story by Angela Poe, The Treasure of Vasco Gomez, The Curfew Tolls, The Sobbin' Women, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent, Glamour, Everybody Was Very Nice, A Death in the Country, and Blossom and Fruit.