Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds is a collection of Benét's finest and most famous short stories, including “The Devil and Daniel Webster” (1936), “By the Waters of Babylon” (1937), and “The King of the Cats” (1929). The complete contents consists of:

By the Waters of Babylon

The Blood of the Martyrs

The King of the Cats

A Story by Angela Poe

The Treasure of Vasco Gomez

The Curfew Tolls

The Sobbin' Women

The Devil and Daniel Webster

Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent

Glamour

Everybody was Very Nice

A Death in the Country

Blossom and Fruit

Introduction by Karl Wurf.