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As the first international anthology to cover the entire scope of fantastic narrative, Fantastic Worlds presents over fifty tales, myths, and stories, ranging from Genesis to Ovid, Hans Christian Andersen to J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe to James Thurber, and Franz Kafka to Italo Calvino. Including tales of fairies and elves, ghost stories, high fantasy, and stories of social criticism and the conflict between science and religion, this volume presents a diverse selection of writings that all share the same capacity to liberate the human spirit through the wild mental acrobatics of fantasy.

Table of Contents:

• Preface - (1979) - essay by Eric S. Rabkin
• Introduction (1979) - essay by Eric S. Rabkin
• The Sources of the Fantastic - (1979) - essay by Eric S. Rabkin
• Genesis (King James Version) - (unknown) - shortstory by unknown
• The Blackfoot Genesis - (1892) - shortstory by Blackfoot Myth
• The Eye of the Giant - (1979) - shortstory by Togoland Myth
• How I Brought Death Into the World - (1952) - shortstory by Amos Tutuola
• The Myth of Actaeon - (1979) - shortstory by Ovid
• The Myth of Narcissus - (1979) - shortstory by Ovid
• The Myth of Philomela - (1979) - shortstory by Ovid
• The Ghost Wife - (1889) - shortstory by Pawnee Folktale
• The Magic Swan Geese - (1855) - shortstory by Russian Folktale
• Why Tortoise's Shell Is Not Smooth - (1958) - shortstory by Chinua Achebe
• How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox - (1880) - shortstory by Joel Chandler Harris
• Paul Bunyan on the Columbia - (1924) - shortstory by Esther Shephard
• Little Red-cap - (1979) - shortstory by Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob Grimm (trans. of Rothkäppchen 1812)
• The Sleeping Beauty - (1979) - shortstory by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (trans. of Dornröschen 1812)
• Hansel and Grethel - (1979) - shortstory by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (trans. of Hänsel und Gretel 1812)
• The Tinder-Box - (1835) - shortstory by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of Fyrtøiet)
• The Tale of Cosmo - (1858) - novelette by George MacDonald
• Leaf by Niggle - (1964) - shortstory by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Diversity of Fantastic Literature - (1979) - essay by Eric S. Rabkin
• Our Ideas of Time - (1711) - shortstory by Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
• Ritter Gluck: A Recollection from the Year 1809 - shortstory by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Ritter Gluck 1808)
• The Oval Portrait - (1842) - shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Garden of Live Flowers - (1872) - shortstory by Lewis Carroll
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - (1939) - shortstory by James Thurber
• The Royal Banquet - (1961) - shortstory by Norton Juster
• The Sandman - (1943) - novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Der Sandmann 1816)
• The Black Cat - (1843) - shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Picture in the House - (1919) - shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Hand - (1861) - shortstory by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Moonlit Road - (1907) - shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
• Lost Hearts - (1895) - shortstory by M. R. James
• Golden Wings - (1856) - shortstory by William Morris
• The Sword of Welleran - (1908) - shortstory by Lord Dunsany
• The Five Black Swans - (1973) - shortstory by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - (1845) - shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Birthmark - (1843) - shortstory by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Star - (1955) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• EPICAC - (1950) - shortstory by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• The Third Level - (1950) - shortstory by Jack Finney
• The Star - (1897) - shortstory by H. G. Wells
• Modern Fantasy - (1979) - essay by Eric S. Rabkin
• The Judgment - (1948) - shortstory by Franz Kafka (trans. of Das Urteil 1913)
• A Common Confusion - (1933) - shortstory by Franz Kafka (trans. of Eine alltägliche Verwirrung 1931)
• Cockroaches - (1963) - shortstory by Bruno Schulz
• Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote - shortstory by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote 1939)
• Axolotl - (1967) - shortstory by Julio Cortázar (trans. of Axolotl 1956)
• Pastoral - shortstory by Tommaso Landolfi
• All at One Point - (1968) - shortstory by Italo Calvino (trans. of Tutto in un punto 1964)
• There Is No Such Place as America - (1970) - shortstory by Peter Bichsel (trans. of Kindergeschichten 1969)
• The Piano Player - (1963) - shortstory by Donald Barthelme
• Homage to the San Francisco YMCA - (1971) - shortstory by Richard Brautigan
• The Marker - (1963) - shortstory by Robert Coover
• The Zebra Storyteller - (1971) - shortstory by Spencer Holst
• Annotated Bibliography (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) - (1979) - essay by Eric S. Rabkin
• Index (1979) - essay by Eric S. Rabkin

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