Something Strange ed. Marjorie B. Smiley, Mary Delores Jarmon & Domenica Paterno (Macmillan, 1969, 246pp, tp, an)
High School English Text.
- ix · To the Reader · Domenica Paterno · pr
- 1 · The Jam · Henry Slesar · ss Playboy November 1958
- 6 · The Hitch-Hiker · Lucille Fletcher · pl (Senior) Scholastic October 20 1947
- 22 · Zero Hour · Ray Bradbury · ss Planet Stories Fall 1947
- 35 · The Wish · Roald Dahl · ss Someone Like You by Roald Dahl, Knopf, 1953
- 41 · The Mermaid’s Comb · Hartley Neita · ss (r)
- 46 · The Witch of Coös · Robert Frost · pm Poetry January 1922
- 52 · The Snake-Woman · Nakchung Paik · ss Story Spring 1960
- 57 · Her Strong Enchantments Failing · A. E. Housman · pm A Last Poems by A. E. Housman, Grant Richards, 1922, as “Poem iii”
- 59 · A Night in Odessa · Louis Simpson · pm Harper’s Magazine December 1967
- 61 · La Belle Dame Sans Merci · John Keats · pm The Poetical Works of John Keats by John Keats, Edward Moxon, 1848
written in 1819. A somewhat different version was published in The Indicator, May 10, 1820.
- 64 · The Lonely · Rod Serling · pl
broadcast on November 13, 1959.
- 92 · I, Robot [Adam Link] · Eando Binder · ss Amazing Stories January 1939
- 111 · Who Can Replace a Man? · Brian W. Aldiss · ss Infinity Science Fiction June 1958, as “But Who Can Replace a Man?”
- 124 · Men Are Different · Alan Bloch · vi Science-Fiction Thinking Machines ed. Groff Conklin, Vanguard Press, 1954
- 126 · Southbound on the Freeway · May Swenson · pm The New Yorker February 16 1963
- 130 · The Cold Equations · Tom Godwin · nv Astounding Science Fiction August 1954
- 157 · The Term · William Carlos Williams · pm The New Republic December 1 1937
- 158 · Going Into Space · Arthur C. Clarke · ex Harper & Row, 1954; chapter 8.
- 172 · There Will Come Soft Rains [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss Collier’s May 6 1950
- 181 · Epistle to Be Left in the Earth · Archibald MacLeish · pm Collected Poems of Archibald MacLeish by Archibald MacLeish, Houghton Mifflin, 1962
- 183 · The Place of the Gods · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 31 1937
- 199 · The End of the World · Archibald MacLeish · pm Collected Poems of Archibald MacLeish by Archibald MacLeish, Houghton Mifflin, 1962
- 201 · The Birds · Daphne du Maurier · nv Good Housekeeping October 1952
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