Acknowledgments A Note on Chesterton Page References Foreword by Dale Ahlquist Prologue: "Under a Crooked Sky" Introduction: The Table Is Set Chapter One. Chesterton and His Gargoyles: "A Gnarled Fancy" Chapter Two. "Let the Tale Be Told": The Weird Tales Chapter Three. "Sometimes I See Things in the Dark": The Detective Stories Chapter Four. "Will Someone Please Explain the Explanation?" Locked Rooms and Miracle Crimes Interlude: Chesterton and Jorge Luis Borges: "The Precarious Subjection of a Demoniacal Will" Chapter Five. "It is a new planet and it shall bear my name" Chesterton and Science Fiction Chapter Six. Thursday's Children: Job, The Man Who Was Thursday and The Surprise Epilogue Appendix A. "On the Road to Top Meadow" Appendix B. "The Man Who Knew Too Much": The Story of Ignatius Press' Collected Chesterton Appendix C. "A Mastery of Miracles": G.K. Chesterton and John Dickson Carr (by Douglas G. Greene) Appendix D. "G.K. Chesterton, Ray Bradbury, and George Bernard Shaw" by Jonathan Eller Appendix E. Father Brown's Space-Age Adventure: "The Spear of the Sun" G.K. Ch*st*rt*n Chapter Notes Bibliography Index