Good or better antiquarian condition: toned pages as to be expected from a 50 year old pulp paperback. Tight, flat, square. Some wear. A collection first published in 1952, the first of a series of books with this title by a number of well known science fiction writers and editors. From Kafka to Dahl; Isherwood to Steinbeck; EB White to Shirley Jackson: the range is vast and the world is weird. A UNIQUE COLLECTION OF EXTRAORDINARY STORIES Every one of them represents a dangerous excursion by its writer to the slippery edge that marks the murky abyss of the unpredictable unconscious. For most of us, one look at those depths means a compulsive, shrieking plunge into horror. For the chosen, for the fantasy writer, every trip to the brink is an inspiration. For it is here, on the tremulous border of relative light and unspeakable darkness, that the mundane, the maniacal and the miraculous meet and mingle to form the stuff of fantasy--the stuff of which this book is made!