The author of THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS and OUT OF THE DEEP presents a collection of short stories of an eerie sort with humor throughout the weirdness. In the first story, "Chinese Puzzle" (published originally as "A Stray from Cathay"), a town sets up a showdown fight between two dragons, while a woman who believes that love is stronger than the desire to fight has her belief supported in the strangest way. This book has 11 stories in all, with an introduction by English Professor Richard H. Tyre.