Acclaimed as one of America`s most distinguished and successful playwrights, Tennessee Williams also published four volumes of short stories. In COLLECTED STORIES, these volumes are combined with a wealth of unpublished and uncollected work, ranging from his first his story published in `Weird Tales` when William was seventeen, to his later frank homosexual fantasies. Introduced by Gore Vidal, a friend of Williams since the late forties, these fifty stories can be read as individual pieces or as a collection which offers fresh insight into Williams` personal and artistic life.