The muse / by Anthony Burgess -- The unsafe deposit box / by Gerald Kersh -- Something strange / by Kingsley Amis -- Sold to Satan / by Mark Twain -- The end of the party / by Graham Greene -- The circular ruins / by Jorge Luis Borges -- The shout / by Robert Graves -- The door / by E.B. White -- The machine stops / by E.M. Forster -- The Mark Gable Foundation / by Leo Szilard -- The enormous radio / by John Cheever -- The finest story in the world / by Rudyard Kipling -- The Shoddy Lands / by C.S. Lewis