• Publication: Stories Selected from the UnexpectedPublication Record # 308960
• Editor: Bennett Cerf
• Date: 1963-03-00
• Catalog ID: FP30
• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Price:
  $0.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 184
• Format:
  pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 63008930
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1731707
  • Open Library: OL24220649M
  • Reginald-1: 02791A

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• ix • Introduction (The Unexpected) • (1948) • essay by Bennett Cerf
• 1 • Salesmanship • non-genre • (1930) • short story by Mary Ellen Chase
• 9 • The Storm • (1944) • short story by McKnight Malmar
• 23 • The Thousand Dollar Bill • (1935) • short story by Manuel Komroff
• 37 • Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen • non-genre • (1907) • short story by O. Henry
• 43 • Exchange of Men • (1946) • short story by Joseph Cross
• 55 • A Horseman in the Sky • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 62 • Two Bottles of Relish • non-genre • (1932) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 76 • Final Break • (1945) • short story by Ian S. Thomson
• 79 • Addio • non-genre • (1921) • short story by Thomas Beer
• 94 • Suspicion • non-genre • (1933) • short story by Dorothy L. Sayers
• 111 • Gavin • (1945) • short story by John Van Druten
• 124 • Mammon and the Archer • non-genre • (1902) • short story by O. Henry
• 131 • The Interlopers • (1912) • short story by Saki
• 137 • Adam and Eve and Pinch Me • (1921) • short story by A. E. Coppard
• 148 • Revelations in Black • (1933) • novelette by Carl Jacobi
• 169 • The Price of the Head • non-genre • (1916) • short story by John Russell
• 181 • The Chaser • (1940) • short story by John Collier