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Synopsis

This dazzling new collection of off-the-wall fantasies features stories from the minds of the funniest writers in the field, including Esther Friesner, Neil Gaiman, Tom Holt, Paul di Filippo, Adam Roberts and Molly Brown. Here are 35 stories guaranteed to reassure us that the next-door world will be just as mad as this one.

It includes a mix of brand-new stories and rare finds or forgotten gems, with a wide range of tales to suit every taste in humour. From the missionary plunged into the bizarre initiation rituals of a lost tribe to the bloke who thought magic would help his love life, from a wizard allergic to magic who sneezes his way into chaos to a man who finds his shoes have taken over control of his life, The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy unfalteringly turns fantasy and horror fiction on its head and makes magic into mayhem. A welcome new shot of comic genius in the sphere of fantasy fiction.

Contents:

• ix - Copyrights and Acknowledgements - essay by uncredited
• xiii - Introduction: Still Crazy After All These Years - essay by Mike Ashley
• 1 - Peregrine: Alflandia - [Peregrine] - (1973) - novelette by Avram Davidson
• 24 - Pizza to Go - short fiction by Tom Holt
• 39 - A Malady of Magicks - [Ebenezum] - (1978) - short story by Craig Shaw Gardner
• 56 - Golden Apples of the Sun - (1984) - novelette by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois and Michael Swanwick
• 75 - Death Swatch - novelette by Esther M. Friesner
• 99 - Press Ann - [Dialogue] - (1991) - short story by Terry Bisson
• 108 - Troll Bridge - [Discworld] - (1992) - short story by Terry Pratchett
• 119 - The Toll Bridge - (1988) - short story by Harvey Jacobs
• 131 - Alaska - [Kedrigern] - (1989) - novelette by John Morressy
• 161 - The Cat with Two Tails - (1992) - short fiction by Terry Jones
• 166 - The Warlock's Daughter - (1938) - short story by Anthony Armstrong
• 177 - The Glass Slip-Up - short fiction by Louise Cooper
• 197 - The Distressing Damsel - (1984) - short story by David Langford
• 214 - Tender is the Night-Gaunt - short fiction by Peter Cannon
• 227 - Shoggoth's Old Peculiar - short story by Neil Gaiman
• 239 - Looking-Glass Land - [Alice] - short fiction by Lewis Carroll
• 247 - The Story of the Four Little Children - (1871) - short story by Edward Lear (variant of The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World)
• 256 - The Disadvantages of Mind - short fiction by James F. Sullivan
• 265 - The Return of Max Kearny - [Max Kearny] - (1981) - short story by Ron Goulart
• 288 - The Unpleasantness at the Baloney Club - short fiction by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
• 296 - A Fortnight of Miracles - (1965) - novelette by Randall Garrett
• 346 - Aphrodite's New Temple - short fiction by Amy Myers
• 361 - The Fifty-First Dragon - (1919) - short story by Heywood Broun
• 370 - The Boscombe Walters Story - short fiction by Robert Rankin
• 377 - Fall'n Into the Sear - short fiction by James Bibby
• 400 - The Cunning Plan - short fiction by Anne Gay
• 414 - War of the Doom Zombies - (1971) - short story by Richard A. Lupoff
• 426 - The Tale of the Seventeenth Eunuch - (1992) - short fiction by Jane Yolen
• 435 - An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth - (1994) - short story by Lawrence Schimel
• 439 - Queen of the Green Sun - (1959) - short story by Jack Sharkey
• 453 - Wu-Ling's Folly - [Amos Malone - 1] - (1982) - novelette by Alan Dean Foster
• 475 - Mebodes' Fly - [Clever Rolf the Scribe] - (1992) - short story by Harry Turtledove
• 487 - The Return of Mad Santa - (1982) - short story by Al Sarrantonio
• 503 - Ruella in Love - (1993) - short story by Molly Brown
• 517 - Been a Long, Long Time - (1970) - short story by R. A. Lafferty

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