Story to anti-story / [compiled by] Mary Rohrberger.

Includes index.

The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irvine -- The hollow of the three hills; Roger Malvin's burial; The maypole of Merry Mount / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The fall of the House of Usher; Ligeia; The masque of the red death / Edgar Allan Poe -- The diary of a madman / Nikolai Gogol -- Benito Cereno / Herman Melville -- The dream of a ridiculous man / Feodor Dostoevsky -- My platonic sweetheart / Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) -- The tree of knowledge / Henry James -- La Mere Sauvage / Guy de Maupassant -- The secret sharer / Joseph Conrad -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- A trifle from real life; La cigale; Dreams / Anton Chekhov -- Juan Manso: A dead man's tale / Miguel de Unamuno -- Horse in the moon / Luigi Pirandello -- The infant prodigy / Thomas Mann -- Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- An encounter; Two gallants; Clay / James Joyce -- The Prussian officer / D. H. Lawrence -- The wind blows; The daughters of the late colonel; The man without a temperament / Katherine Mansfield -- Blood-burning moon / Jean Toomer -- The fig tree / Katherine Anne Porter -- The baby party / F. Scott Fizgerald -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- In another country / Ernest Hemingway -- Flight / John Steinbeck -- Judas / Frank O'Connor -- The black wedding / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The room / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Keela, the outcast Indian maiden / Eudora Welty -- Flying home / Ralph Ellison -- The deep range / Arthur C. Clarke -- A tree, a rock, a cloud / Carson McCullers -- Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor -- The Leopold locked room / Edward D. Hoch -- The black prince / Shirley Ann Grau -- Shifting / Ann Beattie -- The hunter Gracchus; A country doctor / Franz Kafka -- The Babylon lottery; The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges -- The Leonardo; The visit to the museum; "That in Aleppo once..."; Vladimir Nabokov -- Tropism XVIII / Nathalie Sarraute -- Hands / Tommaso Landolfi -- Idiots first / Bernard Malamud -- The secret room / Alain Robbe-Grillet -- In the heart of the heart of the country / William Gass -- Mr. Blue / Robert Creeley -- The whole truth / Frank London Brown -- The incredible and sad tale of innocent Erendira and her heartless grandmother / Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Lost in the funhouse / John Barth -- Views of my father weeping; A city of churches / Donald Barthelme -- Scenes from the Thistledown Theatre / Irene Musillo Mitchell -- The babysitter / Robert Coover -- The birds / Ronald Sukenick -- Answers in progress / Imamu Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) -- How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again / Joyce Carol Oates.