A scintillating collection of tales with unexpected endings.

• The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs
• American Sir! By Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
• The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence
• William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe
• A Bottomless Grave by Ambrose Bierce
• The Assignation by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
• Cannibalism in the Cars by Mark Twain
• The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy
• The Finest Story in the World by Rudyard Kipling
• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• A Terribly Strange Bed by Wilkie Collins