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This collection really does take the term 'short story' to the extreme. Many are less than a single page long, in fact, and are really more of a series of tableaux than actual stories.

Still, there's some interesting ideas here; very much in the 'shocking twist' style of its Twilight Zone-era contemporaries (writers such as Rod Serling, Richard Matheson and Ray Bradbury).

Unfortunately, I couldn't help but feel that some of what's on offer here has aged fairly poorly - particularly when that rather awkward mid-twentieth century attitude towards overtly objectifying women shines through as often as it does - making this more of a curious representative of its time rather than a classic anthology in its own right.