A collection of 14 fantasy short stories, being unique in the fact that Sydney Sime drew the illustrations first, and Lord Dunsany wrote the stories afterwards. Stories include: The Book of Wonder; The Bride of the Man-Horse; Distressing Tale of Thangobrind the Jeweller; The House of the Sphinx; Probable Adventure of the Three Literary Men; The Injudicious Prayers of Pombo the Idolater; The Loot of Bombasharna; Miss Cubbidge and the Dragon of Romance; The Quest of the Queen's Tears; The Hoard of the Gibbelins; How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles; How One Came, as Was Foretold, to the City of Never; The Coronation of Mr. Thomas Shap; Chu-bu and Sheemish; and, The Wonderful Window.