Anthologies

The Circus of Dr. Lao and Other Improbable Stories

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Information

• First editions:
  • Bantam Books, 1956, USA.
    • Edited by Ray Bradbury
• Contains:
  • "The Wish"
  • "The Circus of Dr. Lao" by Charles Finney
  • "The Pond" by Nigel Kneale
  • "The Summer People" by Shirley Jackson
  • "Earth's Holocaust" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • "Buzby's Petrified Woman" by Loren Eiseley
  • "The Resting Place" by Oliver LaFarge
  • "Threshold" by Henry Kuttner
  • "Greenface" by James H. Schmitz
  • "The Limits of Walter Horton" by John Seymour Sharnik
  • "The Man Who Vanished" by Robert M.Coates

Teacher Resources

• "The Wish"
  • Classroom Activities
    • Includes a number of questions and exercises pertaining to the story

Cover Illustration

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Bantam Books, 1956