Thirteen O'Clock - Stories of Several Worlds — Stephen Vincent Benet

This book contains Benét's first collection of short stories originally published in 1937. Contents include: The Waters of Babylon, The Blood of the Martyrs, The King of the Cats, The Story of Angela Poe, The Treasure of Vasco Gomez, The Curfew Tolls, The Sobbin' Women, The Devil and Daniel Webster, and Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent. Benét was an accomplished writer at an early age, having had his first book published at 17. His best known works are the book-length narrative poem American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), and two short stories, The Devil and Daniel Webster (1936) and By the Waters of Babylon (1937).