Short Story by W. W. Jacobs. A classic horror story about fate, and what can happen if you try to change it using black magic. A man makes a wish upon an enchanted monkey’s paw with disastrous results. Things get worse when his family try to reverse the spell.
Short Story by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. A six-year-old boy’s best friend, an eight-year-old girl, is married off to a seventeen-year-old-man. Her family are neighbors, and for months afterwards he is kept awake by her screams at night. A year later she is divorced, a tainted “woman” facing a miserable future.
Novelette by Robert Aikman. A driver low on petrol is forced to spend the night at a strange, isolated hotel that treats its guests in very unusual ways. Was it all a dream? Delirium caused by an animal bite? Supernatural forces? Or did he die along the way?
Quick Read by Ernest Hemingway. A couple waiting for a train have an important decision to make that will determine the direction of their lives. Unfortunately, they have reached a point in their relationship where they find it hard to open up and talk about their feelings.
Short Story by Alexander Pushkin. A Russian undertaker who has had too many drinks at a neighbor’s party threatens to have his own celebration the next day for those for whom I work: the orthodox dead. He wakes to find that his threat has become a reality. Or has it?