Dangerous Laughter
by Steven Millhauser | 
The Knife Thrower and Other Stories
by Steven Millhauser | 
Little Kingdoms
by Steven Millhauser | 
Enchanted Night
by Steven Millhauser | 
The Barnum Museum
by Steven Millhauser | 
The King in the Tree
by Steven Millhauser | 
Norse Mythology
by Neil Gaiman | 
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
by George R. R. Martin | 
Jackalope Wives And Other Stories
by T. Kingfisher | 
Sixth of the Dusk
by Brandon Sanderson |
Toad Words And Other Stories
by T. Kingfisher | 
Willful Creatures
by Aimee Bender |
Academic Exercises
by K. J. Parker | 
Black Heart, Ivory Bones
by Ellen Datlow |
In the Forest of Forgetting
by Theodora Goss | 
The Overneath
by Peter S. Beagle |
The Armless Maiden
by Terri Windling | 
Tales of Falling and Flying
by Ben Loory |
Prickle Moon
by Juliet Marillier | 
Numbers in the Dark
by Italo Calvino |
The seven stories of In the Penny Arcade blend both the real and the fantastic in a seductive mix that illuminates the full range of Steven Millhauser's gifts, from 'August Eschenburg', the story of a clockmaker's son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world whose taste for the perverse and crude supersedes that of the refined and beautiful, to 'Cathay', a kingdom whose wonders include landscape paintings executed on the bodies of court ladies.