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First published 1999
Series 100 Stories / Barnes & Noble
Publisher Barnes & Noble Books
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Lucy Corvino
Pages 483
Price $7.98
ISBN 0760713855

  • First hardcover edition per the numberline (9—1) that is found on this book's copyright page.
  • Published by Barnes & Noble Books for distribution in their bookstores.
  • Humorous anthology with only the stories with a fantastic or speculative nature are listed, there may be others that the verifier has missed.
  • Stories appear alphabetical order.
  • "Cinderella" is based on an unproduced stage play, original publishing date is not listed.
  • The story "Project Hush" is given the wrong copyright date (1956 instead of 1954) on this anthology's acknowledgment page.
  • There are also non-speculative stories by Anton Chekhov, Donald Wandrei, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, E. F. Benson, Stephen Leacock, Hugh B. Cave, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Crane, Booth Tarkington, Rudyard Kipling, Charles Dickens, Ben P. Indick, Frank R. Stockton, Robert Benchley, Irvin S. Cobb, Washington Irving, Morris Hershman, and William F. Nolan ("With Nott in the Terrible Targa").

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 The Advent on Channel Twelve C. M. Kornbluth Short Story
11 After You, Montagu (and after getting the hell out of certain eating places) Howard Wandrei Short Story
20 All Moon-Beasts Amorphous and Mephitic Peter Cannon Short Story
29 Believing in the Twentieth Century Darrell Schweitzer Short Story
51 The Case of Jack the Clipper, or a Fimbulwinter's Tale David Langford Short Story
57 Chalk Talk Edward Wellen Short Story
60 A Change of Lifestyle Joe Lansdale & Karen Lansdale Short Story
63 Chasing the Ugly Dog Tom Piccirilli Short Story
70 Christmas Eve in the Blue Chamber Jerome K. Jerome Short Story
77 Cinderella Ring Lardner Short Story
80 The Cleft Gahan Wilson Short Story
83 Deflation 2001 Bob Shaw Short Story
86 Dentondagon! Don Webb Short Story
88 Detection Perfection Tim Lebbon Short Story
105 A Difficult Subject Jane Rice Short Story
109 The Dog That Spoke French Vincent Starrett Short Story
119 The Egg Sherwood Anderson Short Story
132 The Final Apprentice Steve Rasnic Tem Short Story
145 Gandhi at the Bat Chet Williamson Short Story
149 Getting Enough Chet Williamson Short Story
153 Great-Aunt Ella and the Stanley Steamer Jane Rice Short Story
159 Gremlin Karl Edward Wagner Short Story
169 The Hand That Feeds John Maclay Short Story
172 The Hapless Bachelors E. F. Benson Short Story
183 Hearing Aid David Langford Short Story
191 The Helping Hand Robert Sheckley Short Story
192 The Hexer Howard Wandrei Short Story
215 If at First You Don't Succeed, to Hell with It! Charles E. Fritch Short Story
220 An Imperfect Conflagration Ambrose Bierce Short Story
223 In Mid-Atlantic W. W. Jacobs Short Story
229 The Independent Fiend Gordon Linzner Short Story
236 Interlude in a Laboratory Steve Rasnic Tem Short Story
243 The Legend of Scotland Lewis Carroll Short Story
249 The Life of Anybody Robert Sheckley Short Story
255 Little Red in the Hood Linda Addison Short Story
256 The Lot's Wife Caper Edward D. Hoch Short Story
272 Malice Aforethought Donald A. Wollheim Short Story
277 Mirror, Mirror Tina Rath & Tony Rath Short Story
293 Monster Tales: Return of the Jumbo Shrimp Les Daniels Short Story
313 Nothing But the Best Brian McNaughton Short Story
316 Novelty and Romancement: A Broken Spell Lewis Carroll Short Story
323 Oil of Dog Ambrose Bierce Short Story
333 Our New Bedstead Frederick Swartwout Cozzens Short Story
337 Papa's Planet William F. Nolan Short Story
341 Paranoid Fantasy #1 Lawrence Watt-Evans Short Story
343 Patrons Jessica Amanda Salmonson Short Story
345 The Perfumed Garden David H. Keller Short Story
352 Personality Problem Joe R. Lansdale Short Story
362 Project Hush William Tenn Short Story
376 Santa's Tenth Reindeer Gordon Van Gelder Short Story
379 The Second Coming of a First Husband Irvin S. Cobb Short Story
391 "Sorry, but We Only Offer That Course in the Fall" William Relling, Jr. Short Story
394 Speak Henry Slesar Short Story
396 The Stalled Ox Saki Short Story
400 The Stampeding of Lady Bastable Saki Short Story
422 Truman Capote's Trilby: The Facts Garry Kilworth Short Story
430 Two Dead Guys Walkin' Around Eatin' People John R. Platt Short Story
437 Upon My Soul Jack Ritchie Short Story
466 The Worst Fog of the Year Ramsey Campbell Short Story
466 Witch Hunt Lawrence Schimel Short Story
472 X-ing a Paragrab Edgar Allan Poe Short Story