Contained within is a collection of short stories of various categories: fantasy, gothic, chess stories, humorous, science fiction, and historical fiction, even stories taken whole cloth from dreams. Some are new, some are old, but none have been published before. They are examples of experiments in style and genre that the author has written over many years. Each category is introduced and why. The origin and what the author was trying to achieve is explained for each story. These are the ones he has selected for your enjoyment.