Contents

Introduction by Salman Rushdie

EARLY WORK, 1962-6

The Man Who Loved a Double Bass

A Very, Very Great Lady and Her Son at Home

A Victorian Fable (with Glossary)

FIREWORKS: NINE PROFANE PIECES, 1974

A Souvenir of Japan

The Executioners Beautiful Daughter

The Loves of Lady Purple

The Smile of Winter

Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest

Flesh and the Mirror

Master

Reflections

Elegy for a Freelance

THE BLOODY CHAMBER AND OTHER STORIES, 1979

The Bloody Chamber

The Courtship of Mr Lyon

The Tigers Bride

Puss-in-Boots

The Erl-King

The Snow Child

The Lady of the House of Love

The Werewolf

The Company of Wolves

Wolf-Alice

BLACK VENUS, 1985

Black Venus

The Kiss

Our Lady of the Massacre

The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe

Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Nights Dream

Peter and the Wolf

The Kitchen Child

The Fall River Axe Murders

AMERICAN GHOSTS AND OLD WORLD WONDERS, 1993

Lizzies Tiger

John Fords Tis Pity Shes a Whore

Gun for the Devil

The Merchant of Shadows

The Ghost Ships

In Pantoland

Ashputtle or The Mothers Ghost

Alice in Prague or The Curious Room

Impressions: The Wrightsman Magdalene

UNCOLLECTED STORIES, 1970-81

The Scarlet House

The Snow Pavilion

The Quilt Maker

APPENDIX

Afterword to Fireworks

First Publications