FFB: Some key (and fat) fantasy-fiction anthologies: THE BOOK OF FANTASY (edited by Borges, Ocampo, Bioy Casares), A TREASURY OF MODERN FANTASY (ed. Greenberg, Carr), BLACK WATER (ed. Manguel), THE FANTASY HALL OF FAME (ed. Silverberg from SFFWA and from World Fantasy Convention polling), THE TREASURY OF THE FANTASTIC (ed. Sandner, Weisman)

If one was to want to know what fantasy fiction was about, the books detailed below would be an excellent start; even in their individual and certainly collective vastness, they wouldn't be a comprehensive education in themselves, but they would give the theoretical innocent reader more perspective than most fantasy-fiction fans or casual readers of magical realism currently share, I suspect. Bill Crider drew our attention to the most recent of these fat anthologies a couple of weeks ago, and (correctly) particularly recommended Peter Beagle's introduction, which makes the telling point, deftly and with wit (as one would expect from Beagle) that fantasy fiction is where you find it, which is to say, not hemmed in by the sigh-fie shelves of a bookstore nor library, nor solely the fairytale and/or surreal expression of any given era's avant-garde, nor the exclusive province of comics nor other media akin to literature that have their prose expressions as well. However, despite presumably reading Beagle's quiet dismantling of the notion of meaningful distinctions between kinds of fantasy fiction as art (as opposed to business commodity), the editors of this fine volume of mostly core chestnuts of fantasy traditions (of fiction and poetry published in English before 1923, anyway), can still intend their reference to having collected "mainstream and genre writers" in their volume to be taken seriously...when none of the writers collected are even remotely definable as "genre" writers with the weak exceptions (weakness in the exceptions, not in their work) of M. R. James and Algernon Blackwood, who did specialize in fantasticated work. Look at the writers included in their table of contents. But this pernicious fantasy, that there is a meaningful Us and Them of Mainstream and Genre, with the Mainstream usually intuited as being whatever is beyond the confines of Genre, seems to persist to one degree or another among so many otherwise sane people that they often think I

kid them when I note that nothing escapes genre (the sui generis is a very rare thing indeed, and usually has imitators creating a genre around it, if any good at all), and that there is nothing that is truly "mainstream" about art, and never has been (there is no unified Mainstream audience, for example, simply a disparate and often poorly-served and -informed audience that will take in what they are presented with or made aware of, with greater or lesser degrees of enthusiasm, depending on any number of factors). There are some genres which are more distinct than others, but since art is an amorphous business, there are very few genres which are not so porous as to be at best approximations of sets, however much insisted upon as the True Writ of or by one or another in-group. In short, for examples, Richard Bach and Karen Russell and Fritz Leiber have all mostly published fantasy, and what differentiates them mostly is that Bach writes badly, Russell well, and Leiber, though with less acclaim over the decades of his career from as many privileged quarters than Russell and with far less commercial success than Bach, wrote it brilliantly at his best and in ways that opened new pathways for other writers to explore to much greater degree than nearly anyone else in the last century, in English-language literature. Which doesn't mean that Leiber didn't also write some utterly trivial material, if little as trivial as nearly everything by Bach.

In any case, all the fiction (and some poetry and other bits and pieces) gathered in the assemblies indexed below have somewhat shifting sets of influences, while sharing much of their appeal and approach, and initial and secondary inspiration by the works of myth and metaphor that many literate people are allowed to enjoy. It is telling how each of the books was assembled, not solely from the taste of the editors (with the arguable exception of the first, the book assembled by Borges and his friends), but also from to some degree of an attempt to represent work from sets divided by these self-imposed notions of what Is and Is Not Recognized as true literary art...when the only sensible approach is to gather the best work one can and let the art make its own case...of course, getting the sane readers also afflicted with their Genre/Non-Genre divides (and, usually as a consequence, Genre and Non-Genre expectations) to actually take the art presented on its own terms is also a challenge.  A challenge that is not overcome easily when, for example, the Carroll and Graf edition of The Book of Fantasy shows signs of W.W. Jacobs's "The Monkey's Paw" being translated back from the Spanish(!) of the anthology's initial publication rather than simply reprinted in its original English text...a staggering result and display of ignorance and hostility to the work that can

only be seen as the ultimate result of attempting to pretend that literature should be treated according to how it's labelled rather than by its innate quality. Further evidence of the arrogance of the publishers, if not also the editors, is the recurrent use of the definite article in the titles of the volumes below...with the exception of the Carr/Greenberg first edition, not a one is An Anthology, but rather The compilation, as if mutually exclusive and capable of setting the definitions all by themselves...perhaps they fear to show weakness in the marketplace...what reader worth their salt will dally with a mere An Assortment, when there is The Gold Standard right over here?

In any case, the books below, as they overlap slightly and are, of course, uniformly uneven in the quality of their selections, are all worthy of attention and, as mentioned, can be broadening, particularly when taken together, to (however incompletely) suggest how diversely the field of fantasy fiction can be harvested in short form and excerpt. You could do worse. Most readers who restrict themselves to "realistic" fiction

only or to solely to novels already have.

This week, the list of links to reviews is being assembled by Evan Lewis, at his blog.

Indices from the Locus Indices and ISFDB:

The Book of Fantasy ed. Jorge Luís Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares & Silvina Ocampo (Viking 0-670-82393-7, Jan ’89 [Dec ’88], $19.95, 384pp, hc) Fantasy anthology of 81 stories, story fragments, and anecdotes. This is its first English-language appearance (though many of the stories were written in English) and contains the contents of the second revised edition (Argentina 1976) plus a new introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin.

• 9 · Introduction · Ursula K. Le Guin · in
• 13 · Sennin · Ryunosuke Akutagawa · ss The Three Treasures, Hokuseido Press, 1951
• 16 · A Woman Alone with Her Soul · Thomas Bailey Aldrich · vi, 1912; this is most likely by Jorge Luís Borges.
• 17 · Ben-Tobith · Leonid Andreyev · ss
• 20 · The Phantom Basket · John Aubrey · vi Miscellanies, John Aubrey, 1696
• 21 · The Drowned Giant · J. G. Ballard · ss The Terminal Beach, London: Gollancz, 1964
• 28 · Enoch Soames · Max Beerbohm · nv The Century May ’16
• 48 · The Tail of the Sphinx · Ambrose Bierce · vi San Francisco Examiner Jan 14, 1893
• 49 · The Squid in Its Own Ink [from El Lado de La Sombra, 1962] · Adolfo Bioy Casares; trans. by Alexandra Potts · ss
• 57 · Guilty Eyes · Ah‘med Ech Chiruani · vi
• 58 · Anything You Want!... [from Histoires Désobligeantes, 1894] · Léon Bloy; trans. by Moira Banks · vi
• 61 · Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius [1941] · Jorge Luís Borges · ss Labyrinths, New Directions, 1962
• 73 · Odin · Jorge Luís Borges & Delia Ingenieros · vi
• 73 · The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind · Ray Bradbury · ss Epoch Win ’53
• 77 · The Man Who Collected the First of September, 1973 · Tor Åge Bringsvaerd; trans. by Oddrun Grønvik · ss, 1973
• 81 · The Careless Rabbi · Martin Buber; trans. by Olga Marx · vi Tales of the Hasidim, vol. 1, Schocken, 1947
• 81 · The Tale and the Poet · Sir Richard Burton · vi
• 82 · Fate Is a Fool · Arturo Cancela, Pilar de Lusarreta; trans. by Lucia Alvarez de Toledo & Alexandra Potts · ss
• 92 · An Actual Authentic Ghost [from Sartor Resartus] · Thomas Carlyle · ex, 1834
• 92 · The Red King’s Dream [from Through the Looking-Glass] · Lewis Carroll · ex London: Macmillan, 1871
• 94 · The Tree of Pride · G. K. Chesterton · vi The Man Who Knew Too Much, Cassell, 1922
• 95 · The Tower of Babel · G. K. Chesterton · vi The Man Who Knew Too Much, Cassell, 1922
• 95 · The Dream of the Butterfly [“Chuang Chu and the Butterfly”] · Chuang Tzu; trans. by Herbert A. Giles · vi, 1926
• 96 · The Look of Death [from Le Grand Ecart] · Jean Cocteau · ex, 1923
• 96 · House Taken Over · Julio Cortázar · ss End of the Game and Other Stories, Random House, 1967
• 100 · Being Dust · Santiago Dabove · ss, 1961
• 104 · A Parable of Gluttony [from With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet] · Alexandra David-Neel · ex, 1931
• 105 · The Persecution of the Master [from With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet] · Alexandra David-Neel · ex, 1931
• 106 · The Idle City · Lord Dunsany · ss Saturday Review (UK) Apr 10 ’09
• 110 · Tantalia · Macedonio Fernández; trans. by Lucia Alvarez de Toledo & Alexandra Potts · ss
• 114 · Eternal Life [from The Golden Bough] · J. G. Frazer · ex, 1913
• 115 · A Secure Home · Elena Garro · pl
• 123 · The Man Who Did Not Believe in Miracles [from Confucianism and Its Rivals] · Herbert A. Giles · ex, 1915
• 124 · Earth’s Holocaust · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine May, 1844
• 137 · Ending for a Ghost Story · I. A. Ireland · vi, 1919
• 137 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Sep ’02
• 145 · What Is a Ghost? [from Ulysses] · James Joyce · ex, 1921
• 146 · May Goulding [from Ulysses] · James Joyce · ex, 1921
• 147 · The Wizard Passed Over · Don Juan Manuel · vi A Universal History of Infamy, Allen Lane, 1970
• 149 · Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk [March 1924] · Franz Kafka · ss
• 160 · Before the Law · Franz Kafka · vi
• 162 · The Return of Imray [“The Recrudescence of Imray”; E. Strickland] · Rudyard Kipling · ss Life’s Handicap, Macmillan, 1891; EQMM Sep ’58
• 170 · The Horses of Abdera · Leopoldo Lugones · ss; Las Fuerzas Extranas, Buenos Aires, 1906.
• 175 · The Ceremony [1897] · Arthur Machen · ss Ornaments in Jade, New York: A.A. Knopf, 1924
• 177 · The Riddle · Walter de la Mare · ss Monthly Review Feb ’03
• 180 · Who Knows? · Guy de Maupassant · ss Apr 6, 1890
• 190 · The Shadow of the Players [from The Weekend Guide to Wales] · Edwin Morgan · ex
• 190 · The Cat · H. A. Murena · vi
• 192 · The Story of the Foxes · Niu Chiao · vi
• 193 · The Atonement · Silvina Ocampo · ss, 1961
• 202 · The Man Who Belonged to Me · Giovanni Papini · ss; in Il Trangico Quoticliano, 1906.
• 208 · Rani · Carlos Peralta · ss
• 213 · The Blind Spot · Barry Perowne · ss EQMM Nov ’45
• 222 · The Wolf [from The Satyricon, Rome, 60 A.D.] · Petronius · ex
• 224 · The Bust · Manuel Peyrou · ss
• 229 · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book Nov, 1846
• 234 · The Tiger of Chao-ch’êng [from Liao Chai, 1679] · P’u Sung Ling · vi Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, De La Rue, 1880
• 236 · How We Arrived at the Island of Tools [from Pantagruel] · François Rabelais · ex, 1564
• 237 · The Music on the Hill · Saki · ss The Chronicles of Clovis, John Lane, 1911
• 241 · Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched · May Sinclair · nv The English Review Oct ’22
• 256 · The Cloth Which Weaves Itself [from Malay Magic] · W. W. Skeat · ex, 1900
• 257 · Universal History [from Star Maker] · Olaf Stapledon · ex London: Methuen, 1937
• 257 · A Theologian in Death · Emanuel Swedenborg · vi A Universal History of Infamy, Allen Lane, 1970
• 259 · The Encounter · from the T’ang Dynasty (618-906 a.d.) · ss
• 260 · The Three Hermits · Leo Tolstoy · ss
• 265 · Macario · B. Traven · nv The Night Visitor, and Other Stories, 1966
• 291 · The Infinite Dream of Pao-Yu · Ts’ao Chan (Hsueh Ch’in) · vi
• 292 · The Mirror to Wind-and-Moon · Ts’ao Chan (Hsueh Ch’in) · vi
• 294 · The Desire to Be a Man · Villiers de l’Isle-Adam · ss Contes Cruels, Calmann Levy, 1883
• 300 · Memnon, or Human Wisdom · Voltaire · ss, 1749
• 304 · The Man Who Liked Dickens · Evelyn Waugh · ss Hearst’s International Magazine Sep ’33
• 315 · Pomegranate Seed · Edith Wharton · nv The Saturday Evening Post Apr 25 ’31
• 336 · Lukundoo [1907] · Edward Lucas White · ss Weird Tales Nov ’25
• 346 · The Donguys · Juan Rudolfo Wilcock · ss
• 353 · Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime · Oscar Wilde · nv Court and Society Review May 11, 1887
• 376 · The Sorcerer of the White Lotus Lodge · Richard Wilhelm; trans. by F. H. Martens · vi; in Chinesische Volksmaerchen, 1924.
• 377 · The Celestial Stag · G. Willoughby-Meade · vi Chinese Ghouls and Goblins, Constable, 1928
• 377 · Saved by the Book · G. Willoughby-Meade · vi Chinese Ghouls and Goblins, Constable, 1928
• 378 · The Reanimated Englishman [from “Roger Dodsworth, the Re-Animated Englishman”] · Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · ex, 1826
• 379 · The Sentence [from Monkey, 16th century] · Wu Ch’Eng En; trans. by Arthur Waley · vi, 1921
• 380 · The Sorcerers · William Butler Yeats · vi The Celtic Twilight, Lawrence & Bullen, 1893
• 382 · Fragment [from Don Juan Tenorio, 1844] · José Zorrilla · ex

•  A Treasury of Modern Fantasy
• Editors: Martin Harry Greenberg , Terry Carr
• Year: 1981-03-00

• xiii • Introduction (A Treasury of Modern Fantasy) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg and Terry Carr [as by Martin Harry Greenberg and Terry Carr ]
• 1 • The Rats in the Walls • (1924) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 19 • The Woman of the Wood • (1926) • novelette by A. Merritt
• 45 • Trouble with Water • (1939) • shortstory by H. L. Gold
• 63 • Thirteen O'Clock • [Thirteen O'Clock • 1] • (1941) • novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• 85 • The Coming of the White Worm • [Hyperborea] • (1941) • shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith
• 97 • Yesterday Was Monday • (1941) • shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
• 113 • They Bite • (1943) • shortstory by Anthony Boucher
• 123 • Call Him Demon • (1946) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner ]
• 145 • Daemon • (1946) • shortstory by C. L. Moore
• 165 • The Black Ferris • (1948) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• 173 • Displaced Person • (1948) • shortstory by Eric Frank Russell
• 177 • Our Fair City • (1949) • shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
• 193 • Come and Go Mad • (1949) • novelette by Fredric Brown
• 227 • There Shall Be No Darkness • (1950) • novelette by James Blish
• 259 • The Loom of Darkness • [Dying Earth] • (1950) • shortstory by Jack Vance
• 269 • The Rag Thing • (1951) • shortstory by Donald A. Wollheim
• 275 • Sail On! Sail On! • (1952) • shortstory by Philip José Farmer
• 285 • One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts • (1955) • shortstory by Shirley Jackson
• 295 • That Hell-Bound Train • (1958) • shortstory by Robert Bloch
• 307 • Nine Yards of Other Cloth • [John the Balladeer] • (1958) • shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman
• 323 • The Montavarde Camera • (1959) • shortstory by Avram Davidson
• 335 • Man Overboard • (1960) • novelette by John Collier
• 355 • My Dear Emily • (1962) • shortstory by Joanna Russ
• 375 • Descending • (1964) • shortstory by Thomas M. Disch
• 387 • Four Ghosts in Hamlet • (1965) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
• 417 • Divine Madness • (1966) • shortstory by Roger Zelazny
• 425 • Narrow Valley • (1966) • shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• 437 • Timothy • [Anita] • (1966) • shortstory by Keith Roberts
• 449 • Longtooth • (1970) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• 479 • Through a Glass - Darkly • (1970) • novelette by Zenna Henderson
• 501 • Piper at the Gates of Dawn • [The White Bird of Kinship] • (1976) • novella by Richard Cowper
• 547 • Jeffty Is Five • (1977) • shortstory by Harlan Ellison
• 565 • Within the Walls of Tyre • (1978) • novelette by Michael Bishop

and its later variant title (slightly abridged):
Masters of Fantasy ed. Terry Carr & Martin H. Greenberg (Galahad 0-883-65786-4, Aug ’92 [Sep ’92], $9.98, 512pp, hc, cover by Henri Rousseau) Anthology of 31 fantasy stories, an abridged version of A Treasury of Modern Fantasy (Avon 1981). “Longtooth” by Edgar Pangborn and “Piper at the Gates of Dawn” by Richard Cowper have been omitted. This is an instant remainder edition.

• xi · Introduction · Terry Carr & Martin H. Greenberg · in
• 1 · The Rats in the Walls · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales Mar ’24
• 19 · The Woman of the Wood · A. Merritt · nv Weird Tales Aug ’26
• 45 · Trouble with Water · Horace L. Gold · ss Unknown Mar ’39
• 63 · Thirteen O’Clock [as by Cecil Corwin; Peter Packer] · C. M. Kornbluth · nv Stirring Science Stories Feb ’41
• 85 · The Coming of the White Worm · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Stirring Science Stories Apr ’41
• 97 · Yesterday Was Monday · Theodore Sturgeon · ss Unknown Jun ’41
• 113 · They Bite · Anthony Boucher · ss Unknown Aug ’43
• 123 · Call Him Demon [as by Keith Hammond] · Henry Kuttner · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Fll ’46
• 145 · Daemon · C. L. Moore · ss Famous Fantastic Mysteries Oct ’46
• 165 · The Black Ferris · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales May ’48
• 173 · Displaced Person · Eric Frank Russell · vi Weird Tales Sep ’48
• 177 · Our Fair City · Robert A. Heinlein · ss Weird Tales Jan ’49
• 193 · Come and Go Mad · Fredric Brown · nv Weird Tales Jul ’49
• 227 · There Shall Be No Darkness · James Blish · nv Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr ’50
• 259 · The Loom of Darkness [“Liane the Wayfarer”; Dying Earth] · Jack Vance · ss The Dying Earth, Hillman, 1950
• 269 · The Rag Thing [as by David Grinnell] · Donald A. Wollheim · ss F&SF Oct ’51
• 275 · Sail On! Sail On! · Philip José Farmer · ss Startling Stories Dec ’52
• 285 · One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts · Shirley Jackson · ss F&SF Jan ’55
• 295 · That Hell-Bound Train · Robert Bloch · ss F&SF Sep ’58
• 307 · Nine Yards of Other Cloth [John] · Manly Wade Wellman · ss F&SF Nov ’58
• 323 · The Montavarde Camera · Avram Davidson · ss F&SF May ’59
• 335 · Man Overboard · John Collier · nv Argosy (UK) Jan ’60
• 355 · My Dear Emily · Joanna Russ · nv F&SF Jul ’62
• 375 · Descending · Thomas M. Disch · ss Fantastic Jul ’64
• 387 · Four Ghosts in Hamlet · Fritz Leiber · nv F&SF Jan ’65
• 417 · Divine Madness · Roger Zelazny · ss Magazine of Horror Sum ’66
• 425 · Narrow Valley · R. A. Lafferty · ss F&SF Sep ’66
• 437 · Timothy [Anita] · Keith Roberts · ss sf Impulse Sep ’66
• 449 · Through a Glass—Darkly · Zenna Henderson · nv F&SF Oct ’70
• 471 · Jeffty Is Five · Harlan Ellison · ss F&SF Jul ’77
• 489 · Within the Walls of Tyre · Michael Bishop · nv Weirdbook #13 ’78

Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature ed. Alberto Manguel (Picador 0-330-28141-0, 1983 [Feb ’84], £4.95, 967pp, tp) Anthology of 72 stories and excerpts, from “literary” fantasists (including Bradbury and Le Guin as well as Poe, Kafka, Calvino, etc.[and Howard Fast, more a popular than critical success as a fiction writer and an occasional fantasy/sf hand; Brian Moore arguably likewise, if with more critical support, and certainly Alex Comfort as well...--TM] A 1983 book — not seen till 1984.

• xvi · Foreword · Alberto Manguel · fw
• 1 · House Taken Over · Julio Cortázar · ss End of the Game and Other Stories, Random House, 1967
• 7 · How Love Came to Professor Guildea [“The Man Who Was Beloved”] · Robert S. Hichens · na Pearson’s Magazine Oct, 1897
• 49 · Climax for a Ghost Story · I. A. Ireland · vi, 1919
• 50 · The Mysteries of the Joy Rio · Tennessee Williams · ss, 1954
• 62 · Pomegranate Seed · Edith Wharton · nv The Saturday Evening Post Apr 25 ’31
• 92 · Venetian Masks · Adolfo Bioy Casares; trans. by Alberto Manguel · ss *
• 110 · The Wish House · Rudyard Kipling · ss Maclean’s Oct 15 ’24
• 127 · The Playground · Ray Bradbury · ss Esquire Oct ’53
• 141 · Importance · Manuel Mujica Lainez · ss, 1978
• 144 · Enoch Soames · Max Beerbohm · nv The Century May ’16
• 171 · A Visitor from Down Under · L. P. Hartley · ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1926
• 188 · Laura · Saki · ss Beasts and Super-Beasts, John Lane, 1914
• 193 · An Injustice Revealed · Anon. · ss
• 198 · A Little Place Off the Edgware Road · Graham Greene · ss Nineteen Stories, Heinemann, 1947
• 204 · From “A School Story” · M. R. James · ex More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Arnold, 1911
• 206 · The Signalman · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas, 1866
• 219 · The Tall Woman · Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · nv
• 235 · A Scent of Mimosa · Francis King · ss The Times Anthology of Ghost Stories, Anon., London: Cape, 1975
• 249 · Death and the Gardener [from Le Grand Ecart] · Jean Cocteau · ex, 1923
• 250 · Lord Mountdrago [“Doctor and Patient”] · W. Somerset Maugham · nv The International Feb ’39
• 273 · The Sick Gentleman’s Last Visit · Giovanni Papini · ss The Blind Pilot, 1907
• 279 · Insomnia [1956] · Virgilio Pinera · vi
• 280 · The Storm [“Frritt-Flacc”] · Jules Verne · ss; Le Figaro Illustre December 1884.
• 287 · A Dream (from The Arabian Nights Entertainments) · Anon. · vi
• 289 · The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar · Edgar Allan Poe · ss American Whig Review Dec, 1845
• 299 · Split Second · Daphne du Maurier · nv The Apple Tree, London: Gollancz, 1952
• 345 · August 25, 1983 · Jorge Luís Borges · ss, 1982
• 351 · How Wang-Fo Was Saved · Marguerite Yourcenar · ss; in Nouvelles Orientales, 1963.
• 361 · From “Peter and Rosa” · Isak Dinesen · ex Winter’s Tales, Putnam, 1942
• 363 · Tattoo · Junichiro Tanizaki · ss, 1910
• 371 · John Duffy’s Brother · Flann O’Brien · ss Story Jul/Aug ’41
• 377 · Lady into Fox · David Garnett · na New York: Knopf, 1923
• 430 · Father’s Last Escape · Bruno Schulz · ss Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, 1937
• 435 · A Man by the Name of Ziegler · Hermann Hesse · ss, 1954
• 440 · The Argentine Ant [1952] · Italo Calvino; trans. by Archibald Colquhoun · nv Adam, One Afternoon, Colliro, 1957
• 470 · The Lady on the Grey · John Collier · ss New Yorker Jun 16 ’51
• 478 · The Queen of Spades [1834] · Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin; trans. by Rosemary Edmonds · nv
• 503 · Of a Promise Kept · Lafcadio Hearn · ss A Japanese Miscellany, Little, Brown, 1901
• 507 · The Wizard Postponed [from The Book of Examples of Count Lucanor, adapt. 1935] · Juan Manuel, Jorge Luís Borges, adapt.; trans. by Norman Thomas di Giovanni · ss A Universal History of Infamy, Allen Lane, 1973
• 511 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Sep ’02
• 522 · The Bottle Imp · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv New York Herald Feb 8-Mar 1, 1891
• 550 · The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1926
• 565 · Certain Distant Suns · Joanne Greenburg · ss High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979
• 582 · The Third Bank of the River · João Guimarães Rosa · ss, 1967
• 588 · Home · Hilaire Belloc · ss
• 596 · The Door in the Wall · H. G. Wells · ss The Daily Chronicle Jul 14 ’06
• 612 · The Friends · Silvina Ocampo · ss, 1982
• 619 · Et in Sempiternum Pereant · Charles Williams · ss The London Mercury Dec ’35
• 629 · The Captives of Longjumeau · Léon Bloy · ss, 1967
• 634 · The Visit to the Museum · Vladimir Nabokov · ss, 1958
• 644 · “Autumn Mountain” · Ryunosuke Akutagawa · ss
• 652 · The Sight · Brian Moore · ss Irish Ghost Stories, ed. Joseph Hone, Hamish Hamilton, 1977
• 670 · Clorinda · André Pieyre de Mandiargues · ss, 1979
• 675 · The Pagan Rabbi · Cynthia Ozick · nv The Hudson Review, 1966
• 704 · The Fisherman and His Soul · Oscar Wilde · nv The House of Pomegranates, 1891
• 735 · The Bureau d’Echange de Maux · Lord Dunsany · ss The Smart Set Jan ’15
• 740 · The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3, ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday, 1973
• 748 · In the Penal Colony · Franz Kafka · nv; Kurt Wolff Verlag, May ’19.
• 774 · A Dog in Durer’s Etching “The Knight, Death and The Devil” · Marco Denevi · ss, 1968
• 782 · The Large Ant · Howard Fast · ss Fantastic Universe Feb ’60
• 792 · The Lemmings · Alex Comfort · ss
• 800 · The Grey Ones · J. B. Priestley · ss Lilliput Apr-May ’53
• 816 · The Feather Pillow · Horacio Quiroga · ss, 1907
• 820 · Seaton’s Aunt · Walter de la Mare · nv The London Mercury Apr ’22
• 849 · The Friends of the Friends [“The Way It Came”] · Henry James · nv Chap Book May, 1896
• 874 · The Travelling Companion · Hans Christian Andersen · ss, 1835
• 891 · The Curfew Tolls · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 5 ’35
• 907 · The State of Grace · Marcel Aymé · ss Across Paris and Other Stories, Paris, 1947; F&SF Dec ’59
• 919 · The Story of a Panic · E. M. Forster · nv Independent Review Mar ’04
• 940 · An Invitation to the Hunt · George Hitchcock · ss San Francisco Review Mar ’60
• 950 · From the “American Notebooks” · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ex, 1868
• 952 · The Dream · O. Henry · ss Cosmopolitan Sep ’10; completed by Cosmopolitan editor.
• 956 · The Authors · Misc. · bg

The Fantasy Hall of Fame ed. Robert Silverberg (HarperPrism 0-06-105215-9, Mar ’98 [Feb ’98], $14.00, 562pp, tp) Anthology of 30 fantasy stories from 1939 to 1990, chosen by SFWA members. Introduction by Silverberg; individual story introductions by Martin H. Greenberg.

• vii · Introduction · Robert Silverberg · in
• 1 · Trouble with Water · H. L. Gold · ss Unknown Mar ’39
• 21 · Nothing in the Rules · L. Sprague de Camp · nv Unknown Jul ’39
• 47 · Fruit of Knowledge · C. L. Moore · nv Unknown Oct ’40
• 77 · Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius [1941] · Jorge Luís Borges · ss Labyrinths, New Directions, 1962
• 91 · The Compleat Werewolf [Fergus O’Breen] · Anthony Boucher · na Unknown Apr ’42
• 137 · The Small Assassin · Ray Bradbury · ss Dime Mystery Magazine Nov ’46
• 153 · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss New Yorker Jun 26 ’48
• 161 · Our Fair City · Robert A. Heinlein · ss Weird Tales Jan ’49
• 177 · There Shall Be No Darkness · James Blish · nv Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr ’50
• 211 · The Loom of Darkness [“Liane the Wayfarer”; Dying Earth] · Jack Vance · ss The Dying Earth, Hillman, 1950
• 221 · The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles [as by Idris Seabright] · Margaret St. Clair · ss F&SF Oct ’51
• 225 · The Silken-Swift · Theodore Sturgeon · nv F&SF Nov ’53
• 243 · The Golem · Avram Davidson · ss F&SF Mar ’55
• 249 · Operation Afreet [Steven Matuchek; Ginny Greylock] · Poul Anderson · nv F&SF Sep ’56
• 277 · That Hell-Bound Train · Robert Bloch · ss F&SF Sep ’58
• 289 · Bazaar of the Bizarre [Fafhrd & Gray Mouser] · Fritz Leiber · nv Fantastic Aug ’63
• 311 · Come Lady Death · Peter S. Beagle · ss Atlantic Monthly Sep ’63
• 327 · The Drowned Giant · J. G. Ballard · ss The Terminal Beach, London: Gollancz, 1964
• 337 · Narrow Valley · R. A. Lafferty · ss F&SF Sep ’66
• 349 · Faith of Our Fathers · Philip K. Dick · nv Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967
• 379 · The Ghost of a Model T · Clifford D. Simak · nv Epoch, ed. Roger Elwood & Robert Silverberg, Berkley, 1975
• 393 · The Demoness · Tanith Lee · ss The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories #2, ed. Lin Carter, DAW, 1976
• 405 · Jeffty Is Five · Harlan Ellison · ss F&SF Jul ’77
• 423 · The Detective of Dreams · Gene Wolfe · nv Dark Forces, ed. Kirby McCauley, Viking, 1980
• 439 · Unicorn Variations · Roger Zelazny · nv IASFM Apr 13 ’81
• 461 · Basileus · Robert Silverberg · ss The Best of Omni Science Fiction, No. 5, ed. Don Myrus, Omni, 1983
• 477 · The Jaguar Hunter · Lucius Shepard · nv F&SF May ’85
• 501 · Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv Buffalo Gals and Other Animal Presences, Capra Press, 1987
• 527 · Bears Discover Fire · Terry Bisson · ss IASFM Aug ’90
• 537 · Tower of Babylon · Ted Chiang · nv Omni Nov ’90

...not to be confused with the 1983 anthology from Silverberg and Greenberg (and drawn from a poll of attendees of a World Fantasy Convention):

• The Fantasy Hall of Fame
• Editors: Robert Silverberg , Martin H. Greenberg
• Year: 1983-10-00

• 9 • Introduction (The Fantasy Hall of Fame) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 13 • The Masque of the Red Death • (1842) • shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Mask of the Red Death)
• 21 • An Inhabitant of Carcosa • (1886) • shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
• 26 • The Sword of Welleran • (1908) • shortstory by Lord Dunsany
• 42 • The Women of the Wood • (1926) • novelette by A. Merritt (variant of The Woman of the Wood)
• 76 • The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan • [Hyperborea] • (1932) • shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith
• 86 • The Valley of the Worm • [James Allison] • (1934) • novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 110 • Black God's Kiss • [Jirel of Joiry] • (1934) • novelette by C. L. Moore
• 143 • The Silver Key • [Randolph Carter] • (1929) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
• 157 • Nothing in the Rules • (1939) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 191 • A Gnome There Was • (1941) • shortstory by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett ]
• 221 • Snulbug • (1941) • shortstory by Anthony Boucher
• 239 • The Words of Guru • (1941) • shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
• 248 • Homecoming • [The Elliott Family] • (1946) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Homecoming)
• 263 • Mazirian the Magician • [Dying Earth] • (1950) • novelette by Jack Vance
• 282 • O Ugly Bird! • [John the Balladeer] • (1951) • shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman
• 296 • The Silken-Swift • (1953) • shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
• 318 • The Golem • (1955) • shortstory by Avram Davidson
• 325 • That Hell-Bound Train • (1958) • shortstory by Robert Bloch
• 341 • Kings in Darkness • [The Elric Saga] • (1962) • novelette by Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorn [as by Michael Moorcock ]
• 375 • Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes • (1967) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 399 • Gonna Roll the Bones • (1967) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
• 424 • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas • (1973) • shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Treasury of the Fantastic: Romanticism to Early Twentieth Century Literature ed. David Sandner & Jacob Weisman (North Atlantic/Frog/Tachyon Publications 1-58394-030-8, Feb 2001, $27.50, 747pp, hc, cover by Michael Dashow) Anthology of 46 stories and poems, by authors ranging from Coleridge, Byron, and Keats through Virginia Woolf and Algernon Blackwood. Foreword by Peter S. Beagle.

• ix · Foreword · Peter S. Beagle · fw
• 1 · Kubla Khan [written 1797] · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · pm, 1816
• 5 · Darkness · Lord Byron · pm, 1816
• 8 · La Belle Dame Sans Merci · John Keats · pm Indicator May 10, 1820
• 11 · The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book, 1819
• 40 · Peter Rugg, the Missing Man · William Austin · nv New England Galaxy Sep 10, 1824
• 69 · The Mysterious Bride [as by The Ettrick Shepherd] · James Hogg · ss Blackwood’s Dec, 1830
• 84 · The Mortal Immortal · Mary Shelley · ss The Keepsake, 1834, 1833
• 97 · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss New England Magazine Apr, 1835
• 110 · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine Sep, 1839
• 128 · Morte d’Arthur · Alfred Tennyson, Lord · pm, 1842
• 137 · Goblin Market [1859] · Christina Rossetti · pm The Goblin Market and Other Poems, 1862
• 155 · Because I Could Not Stop for Death [c1863] · Emily Dickinson · pm
• 157 · The Golden Key · George MacDonald · nv Dealings with the Fairies, Arthur Strahan, 1867
• 183 · Carmilla [Martin Hesselius] · Sheridan Le Fanu · na The Dark Blue Dec, 1871 (+3)
• 253 · Jabberwocky [from Through the Looking-Glass] · Lewis Carroll · pm London: Macmillan, 1871
• 256 · The Ogre Courting · Juliana Horation Ewing · ss Aunt Judy’s Magazine, 1871
• 261 · The Ghostly Rental · Henry James · nv Scribner’s Sep, 1876
• 293 · The Dong with the Luminous Nose · Edward Lear · pm Laughable Lyrics, 1877
• 297 · The New Mother · Lucy Lane Clifford · ss Anyhow Stories, Moral and Otherwise, Macmillan and Co., 1882
• 318 · The Griffin and the Minor Canon · Frank R. Stockton · ss St. Nicholas Magazine Oct, 1885
• 332 · The Happy Prince · Oscar Wilde · ss The Happy Prince and Other Tales, London: David Nutt, 1888
• 341 · The Stolen Child · W. B. Yeats · pm The Irish Monthly Dec, 1886
• 344 · An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 13, 1890
• 354 · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Gilman · ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
• 371 · The Bottle Imp · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv New York Herald Feb 8-Mar 1, 1891
• 400 · A Moth: Genus Unknown · H. G. Wells · ss Pall Mall Gazette Mar 28, 1895
• 410 · Cassilda’s Song · Robert W. Chambers · pm The King in Yellow, New York & Chicago: F. Tennyson Neely, 1895
• 411 · The Library Window · Margaret Oliphant · na Blackwood’s Jan, 1896
• 451 · The True Lover · A. E. Housman · pm, 1896
• 453 · The Blind God · Laurence Housman · ss Gods and Their Makers, London: John Lane, 1897
• 460 · The Reluctant Dragon · Kenneth Grahame · nv Dream Days, London: John Lane, 1898
• 481 · The Book of Beasts [Seven Dragons] · Edith Nesbit · ss The Strand Mar, 1899
• 493 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Sep ’02
• 504 · Casting the Runes · M. R. James · nv More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Arnold, 1911
• 525 · “They” · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Aug ’04
• 547 · The Sword of Welleran · Lord Dunsany · ss The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories, London: G. Allen, 1908
• 561 · The Celestial Omnibus · E. M. Forster · ss Albany Review Jan ’08
• 577 · The Eyes · Edith Wharton · ss Scribner’s Jun ’10
• 596 · The Ghost Ship · Richard Middleton · ss The Century Apr ’12
• 607 · The Listeners · Walter de la Mare · pm The Living Age Apr 29 ’11
• 609 · Red-Peach-Blossom Inlet [as by Hankin Maggs] · Kenneth Morris · ss The Theosophical Path Oct ’16
• 619 · The Mysterious Stranger · Mark Twain · na, 1916
• 706 · Enoch Soames · Max Beerbohm · nv The Century May ’16
• 734 · Climax for a Ghost Story · I. A. Ireland · vi, 1919
• 735 · A Haunted House · Virginia Woolf · vi Monday or Tuesday, London: Hogarth Press, 1921
• 738 · The Man Who Was Milligan · Algernon Blackwood · ss Pearson’s Magazine Nov ’23