• The Peasant and the Devil by The Brothers Grimm
• Boris Cherneusky's Hands by Jane Yolen
• The Hobgoblin's Hat by Tove Jansson
• Ully The Piper by Andre Norton
• Milo Conducts the Dawn by Norton Juster
• Who Goes Down This Road by Joan Aiken
• The House of Harfang by C S Lewis
• Martha in the Witches Power by K M Briggs
• Abu Ali Meets a Dragon by Noel Langley
• The Box of Delights by John Masefield (extract)
• The Amazing Flight of the Gump by L Frank Baum
• On the Great Wall by Rudyard Kipling
• The Waking of the Kraken by Eva Ibbotson
• The Caves in the Hills by Elizabeth Goudge
• Bigger Than The Baker's Boy by E Nesbit
• Jermain and the Sorceress by Patricia C Wrede
• Una and the Red Cross Knight by Andrew Lang
• What the Cat Told Me by Diana Wynne Jones

What the Cat Told Me

A cat settles down on someone's lap and tells the story of how she lived with Old Man, who was cruel, and Boy, who was nice but belonged to Old Man.  How she and Boy escaped from Old Man and how she became a nomad, destined to wander for a thousand years, is told in between requests for strawberries and a piece of paper with a string.

What Diana Wynne Jones says
I asked myself for a story with "What the Cat Told Me".  When I wrote it, I was suffering cat-deprivation.  I was brought up with cats and didn't have one at that time.  I love the exacting self-centredness of cats.  The story is about that. (Also published in Minor Arcana).

Contents

• True Believer by Douglas Hill
• Ceres Passing by Tanith Lee
• Dogfaerie by Garry Kilworth
• The Walled Garden by Lisa Tuttle
• The Master by Diana Wynne Jones
• The Vision by Mary Rayner
• Urgeya's Choice by Geraldine Harris
• The Sky Sea by Helen Cresswell
• A Bird That Whistles by Emma Bull
• Kalifriki of the Thread by Roger Zelazny
• Turntables of the Night by Terry Pratchett

The Master

A vet is called out in the early hours of the morning to a strange location in the middle of nowhere.  After being chased by wolves a strange man shows her around the Master's house and she tries to understand who the Master is and why he keeps wolves. 

What Diana Wynne Jones says about The Master
"The Master" was another dream, or maybe a nightmare, which I dreamed more than once and had again to exorcise by writing it down.  It is of course about precognition.  At that time, I was quite worried about the way most of my books came true to me after I had written them, but I am glad to say that the events in "The Master" have (so far) not happened to me. (Also published in Minor Arcana).

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