Foreword ix
Graham Greene
THE ANIMAL-LOVER'S BOOK OF BEASTLY MURDER
Chorus Girl's Absolutely Final Performance
3(9)
Djemal's Revenge
12(13)
There I Was, Stuck with Bubsy
25(12)
Ming's Biggest Prey
37(9)
In the Dead of Truffle Season
46(11)
The Bravest Rat in Venice
57(14)
Engine Horse
71(13)
The Day of Reckoning
84(14)
Notes from a Respectable Cockroach
98(5)
Eddie and the Monkey Robberies
103(14)
Hamsters vs. Websters
117(17)
Harry: A Ferret
134(13)
Goat Ride
147(14)
LITTLE TALES OF MISOGYNY
The Hand
161(2)
Oona, the Jolly Cave Woman
163(2)
The Coquette
165(2)
The Female Novelist
167(2)
The Dancer
169(2)
The Invalid, or, the Bedridden
171(2)
The Artist
173(3)
The Middle-Class Housewife
176(3)
The Fully Licensed Whore, or, the Wife
179(4)
The Breeder
183(6)
The Mobile Bed-Object
189(5)
The Perfect Little Lady
194(4)
The Silent Mother-in-Law
198(4)
The Prude
202(5)
The Victim
207(6)
The Evangelist
213(4)
The Perfectionist
217(6)
SLOWLY, SLOWLY IN THE WIND
The Man Who Wrote Books in His Head
223(6)
The Network
229(14)
The Pond
243(16)
Something You Have to Live With
259(14)
Slowly, Slowly in the Wind
273(15)
Those Awful Dawns
288(14)
Woodrow Wilson's Necktie
302(14)
One for the Islands
316(6)
A Curious Suicide
322(10)
The Baby Spoon
332(9)
Broken Glass
341(16)
Please Don't Shoot the Trees
357(18)
THE BLACK HOUSE
Something the Cat Dragged In
375(18)
Not One of Us
393(13)
The Terrors of Basket-Weaving
406(11)
Under a Dark Angel's Eye
417(16)
I Despise Your Life
433(21)
The Dream of the Emma C
454(20)
Old Folks at Home
474(20)
When in Rome
494(21)
Blow It
515(15)
The Kite
530(16)
The Black House
546(19)
MERMAIDS ON THE GOLF COURSE
Mermaids on the Golf Course
565(12)
The Button
577(15)
Where the Action Is
592(14)
Chris's Last Party
606(20)
A Clock Ticks at Christmas
626(14)
A Shot from Nowhere
640(18)
The Stuff of Madness
658(13)
Not in This Life, Maybe the Next
671(14)
I Am Not As Efficient As Other People
685(12)
The Cruelest Month
697(15)
The Romantic
712