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The Fantastic Imagination II: An Anthology of High Fantasy
Author: | Robert H. Boyer Kenneth J. Zahorski |
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Avon, 1978 |
Series: | The Fantastic Imagination: Book 2 |
1. The Fantastic Imagination |
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Book Type: | Anthology |
Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Sixteen phantasmal stories of the past century evoking illusion, myth and mystical delights as primary world beings, fairies and other supernatural figures interact in magical adventures.
A collection of fantasy literature chosen from the most popular works of the past 100 years, and including brief biographical sketches of each author.
Table of Contents:
- Preface - essay by Robert H. Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorski
- Introduction - essay by Robert H. Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorski
- The Golden Key - (1867) - novelette by George MacDonald
- The Glass of Supreme Moments - (1892) - short story by Barry Pain
- Old Pipes and the Dryad - short story by Frank R. Stockton
- The Kith of the Elf-Folk - (1908) - short story by Lord Dunsany
- Red-Peach-Blossom Inlet - (1916) - short story by Kenneth Morris
- The Legend of the Christmas Rose - (1910) - short story by Selma Lagerlof
- Above Ker-Is - (1978) - short story by Evangeline Walton
- The Abominable Imprecation - (1935) - short story by Eric Linklater
- Jirel Meets Magic - [Jirel of Joiry] - (1935) - novelette by C. L. Moore
- The Thirty and One - [Tales from Cornwall - 4] - (1938) - short story by David H. Keller
- April in Paris - (1962) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
- A Harp of Fishbones - (1960) - short story by Joan Aiken
- The Smith, the Weaver, and the Harper - juvenile - [The Prydain Chronicles / Taran] - (1973) - short story by Lloyd Alexander
- From The Throme of the Erril of Sherill (excerpt) - (1973) - short fiction by Patricia A. McKillip
- Elphenor and Weasel - (1974) - short story by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- Crusader Damosel - (1978) - short story by Vera Chapman
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