A rocking-horse that brings mixed fortune. A heart which death cannot silence. A pig that falls from the sky... This collection contains short stories from around the world by such celebrated authors as Roald Dahl, Saki, P. G. Wodehouse, Edgar Allen Poe, Graham Greene, Jack London, D. H. Lawrence and Guy de Maupassant. Surprising, shocking, amusing, intriguing, terrifying, each of these stories has a sting in its tail