Collected stories / Tennessee Williams ; with an introduction by Gore Vidal.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 571-574).

Preface: The man in the overstuffed chair -- Introduction / Gore Vidal -- The vengence of Nitrocris -- A lady's beaded bag -- Something by Tolstoi -- Big Black: a Mississippi idyll -- The accent of a coming foot -- Twenty-seven wagons full of cotton -- Sand -- Ten minute stop -- Gift of an apple -- The field of blue children -- In memory of an aristocrat -- The dark room -- The mysteries of the Joy Rio -- Portrait of a girl in glass -- The angel in the alcove -- Oriflamme -- The vine -- The malediction -- The important thing -- One arm -- The interval -- Tent worms -- Desire and the black masseur -- Something about him -- The yellow bird -- The night of the iguana -- The poet -- Chronicle of a demise -- Rubio y Morena -- The resemblance between a violin case and a coffin -- Two on a party -- Three players of a summer game -- The coming of something to the Widow Holly -- Hard candy -- Man bring this up road -- The mattress by the tomato patch -- The kingdom of Earth -- "Grand" -- Mama's old stucco house -- The knightly quest -- A recluse and his guest -- Happy August the tenth -- The inventory at Fontana Bella -- Miss Coynte of Greene -- Sabbatha and solitude -- Completed -- Das Wasser ist kalt -- Mother yaws -- The killer chicken and the closet queen.