The Troll Garden is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1905. Contents This collection contains the following seven stories: "Flavia and Her Artists" "The Sculptor's Funeral" "A Death in the Desert" "The Garden Lodge" "The Marriage of Phaedra" "A Wagner Matinee" "Paul's Case" Four of these stories--"The Sculptor's Funeral," "A Death in the Desert," "A Wagner Matinee," and "Paul's Case"-were revised and included in Cather's next collection of short fiction Youth and the Bright Medusa, published in 1920.