Fourteen short stories by Lord Dunsany includes: The Bride of the Man-Horse Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller The House of the Sphinx Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater The Look of Bombasharna Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance The Quest of the Queen's Tears The Hoard of the Gibbelins How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles How One Came, As Was Foretold, to the City of Never The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap Chu-By and Sheemish The Wonderful Window Epilogue