bagombo snuff box is a collection of 23 short stories written by kurt vonnegut. the stories were originally published in us periodicals between 1950 and 1963, and consisted of virtually all of vonnegut's previously published short fiction of the 1950s and 60s that had not been collected in 1968's "welcome to the monkey house". this collection was published in 1999 by g. p. putnam's sons.