Guest host Neil Gaiman introduces two tales of illusion.

Tales with twists and honoring a mother.

Four tales with a hint of fantasy -- from a fateful encounter on a bus, to a lovesick monster.

This week's episode includes three tales by Saki, Liliana Heker, Charles Johnson about something unexpected, along with a fourth in which Edwidge Danticat secretly follows her mother.

This program features four brief tales by absolute masters of the form—Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, Saki and Thomas Wolfe—in which something unexpected occurs.