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Unearth the enchanting origins of fantasy fiction with a collection of tales as vast as the tallest tower and as mysterious as the dark depths of the forest.

Fantasy stories have always been with us. They illuminate the odd and the uncanny, the wondrous and the fantastic: all the things we know are lurking just out of sight--on the other side of the looking-glass, beyond the music of the impossibly haunting violin, through the twisted trees of the ancient woods. Other worlds, talking animals, fairies, goblins, demons, tricksters, and mystics: these are the elements that populate a rich literary tradition that spans the globe. A work composed both of careful scholarship and fantastic fun, The Big Book of Classic Fantasy is essential reading for anyone who's never forgotten the stories that first inspired feelings of astonishment and wonder.

INCLUDING:

*Stories by pillars of the genre like the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Shelley, Christina Rossetti, L. Frank Baum, Robert E. Howard, and J. R. R. Tolkien
*Fantastical offerings from literary giants including Edith Wharton, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston, Vladimir Nabokov, Hermann Hesse, and W.E.B. Du Bois
*Rare treasures from Asian, Eastern European, Scandinavian, and Native American traditions
*New translations, including fourteen stories never before in English

PLUS:

*Beautifully Bizarre Creatures! *Strange New Worlds Just Beyond the Garden Path!
*Fairy Folk and Their Dark Mischief! *Seriously Be Careful--Do Not Trust Those Fairies!

Excerpt

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (The Big Book of Classic Fantasy) - essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
• The Queen's Son - (1808) - short story by Bettina von Arnim
• Hans-My-Hedgehog - (1815) - short story by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
• The Story of the Hard Nut - (1816) - short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann
• Rip Van Winkle: A Posthumous Writing of Dierdrich Knickerbocker - (1850) - short story by Washington Irving
• The Luck of the Bean Rows: A Fairy Tale for Lucky Children - (1822) - short story by Charles Nodier
• Transformation - (1891) - short story by Mary Shelley
• The Nest of Nightingales - (1834) - short story by Théophile Gautier
• The Fairytale About a Dead Body, Belonging to No One Knows Whom - (1833) - short story by Vladimir Odoevsky
• The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton - (1836) - short story by Charles Dickens
• The Nose - (1836) - short story by Nikolai Gogol
• The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - (1845) - short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Story of Jeon Unchi - novelette by Anonymous
• Feathertop: A Moralized Legend - (1852) - short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Master Zacharius - (1854) - novelette by Jules Verne
• The Frost King; or, The Power of Love - (1855) - short story by Louisa May Alcott
• The Tartarus of Maids - (1855) - short story by Herman Melville
• The Magic Mirror - (1858) - short story by George MacDonald
• The Diamond Lens - (1858) - novelette by Fitz-James O'Brien
• Goblin Market - (1859) - poem by Christina Rossetti
• The Will-o'-the-Wisps Are in Town - (1965) - short story by Hans Christian Andersen
• The Legend of the Pale Maiden - short fiction by Aleksis Kivi
• Looking-Glass House - short fiction by Lewis Carroll
• Furnica; or, The Queen of the Ants - (1883) - short story by Carmen Sylva
• The Story of Iván the Fool - (1886) - novelette by Leo Tolstoy
• The Goophered Grapevine - short fiction by Charles W. Chesnutt
• The Bee-Man of Orn - (1887) - short story by Frank R. Stockton
• The Remarkable Rocket - (1888) - short story by Oscar Wilde
• The Ensouled Violin - novelette by Helena P. Blavatsky
• The Death of Odjigh - (1892) - short story by Marcel Schwob
• The Terrestrial Fire - (1892) - short story by Marcel Schwob
• The Kingdom of Cards - (1892) - short story by Rabindranath Tagore
• The Other Side: A Breton Legend - (1893) - short story by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock
• The Fulness of Life - (1893) - short story by Edith Wharton
• Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady - (1896) - novella by Vernon Lee
• The Little Room - (1895) - short story by Madeline Yale Wynne
• The Plattner Story - (1896) - short story by H. G. Wells
• The Princess Baladina--Her Adventure - (1896) - short story by Willa Cather
• The Reluctant Dragon - (1898) - novelette by Kenneth Grahame
• Iktomi and the Ducks - (1901) - short story by Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
• Iktomi's Blanket - (1901) - short story by Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
• Iktomi and the Muskrat - (1901) - short story by Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
• Iktomi and the Coyote - (1901) - short story by Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
• Iktomi and the Fawn - (1901) - short story by Gertrude Simmons Bonnin
• Marionettes - (1902) - short story by Louis Fréchette
• Dance of the Comets: An Astral Pantomime in Two Acts - (1903) - short fiction by Paul Scheerbart
• The White People - (1904) - novelette by Arthur Machen
• Blamol - (1903) - short story by Gustav Meyrink
• Goblins: A Logging Camp Story - (1905) - short story by Louis Fréchette
• Sowbread - (1908) - short story by Grazia Deledda
• The Angry Street - (1908) - short story by G. K. Chesterton
• The Aunt and Amabel - (1909) - short story by E. Nesbit
• Sacrifice - (1909) - short story by Aleksey Remizov
• The Princess Steel - short story by W. E. B. Du Bois
• The Hump - (1911) - short story by Fernán Caballero
• The Celestial Omnibus - (1908) - short story by E. M. Forster
• The Legend of the Ice Babies - (1911) - short story by E. Pauline Johnson
• The Last Redoubt (Excerpt from The Night Land) - (1912) - short fiction by William Hope Hodgson
• Jack Pumpkinhead and the Sawhorse - (1913) - short story by L. Frank Baum
• The Plant Men (Excerpt from The Gods of Mars) - (1918) - short fiction by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Strange News from Another Star - (1919) - novelette by Hermann Hesse
• The Metamorphosis - (1915) - novella by Franz Kafka
• The Hoard of the Gibbelins - (1911) - short story by Lord Dunsany
• Through the Dragon Glass - (1917) - short story by A. Merritt
• David Blaize and the Blue Door (Excerpt) - short fiction by E. F. Benson
• The Big Bestiary of Modern Literature - short fiction by Franz Blei
• The Alligator War - (1918) - short story by Horacio Quiroga
• Friend Island - (1918) - short story by Francis Stevens
• Magic Comes to a Committee (Excerpt from Living Alone) - (1919) - short fiction by Stella Benson
• Gramophone of the Ages - (1919) - short story by Yefim Zozulya
• Joiwind (Excerpt from A Voyage to Arcturus) - (1920) - short fiction by David Lindsay
• Sound in the Mountain - (1920) - short story by Maurice Renard
• Sennin (Immortal) - (1916) - short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
• Koshtra Pivrarcha (Excerpt from The Worm Ouroboros) - (1922) - short fiction by E. R. Eddison
• At the Border - (1922) - short story by Der Nister
• The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan: As Told in the Camps of the White Pine Lumbermen for Generations During Which Time the Loggers Have Pioneered the Way Through the North Woods form Maine to California Collected from Various Sources and Embellished for Publication - short story by W. B. Laughead
• Talkative Domovoi - (1923) - short story by Aleksandr Grin
• The Ratcatcher - (1924) - novelette by Aleksandr Grin
• The Shadow Kingdom - (1929) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
• The Man Traveling with the Brocade Portrait - (1929) - novelette by Edogawa Ranpo
• A Visit to the Museum - (1939) - short story by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Water Sprite's Tale - (1932) - short story by Karel Capek
• The Capital of Cat Country - short fiction by Lao She?
• The Spirit Chief Names the Animal People - (1933) - short story by Mourning Dove
• Coyote Juggles His Eyes - (1933) - short story by Mourning Dove
• Uncle Monday - (1934) - short story by Zora Neale Hurston
• Rose-Cold, Moon Skater - (1914) - short story by María Teresa León
• A Night of the High Season - (1934) - short story by Bruno Schulz
• The Influence of the Sun - (1935) - short story by Fernand Dumont
• The Town of Cats - (1935) - short story by Hagiwara Sakutaro
• The Debutante - (1939) - short story by Leonora Carrington
• The Jewels in the Forest - (1939) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• Evening Primrose - (1940) - short story by John Collier
• The Coming of the White Worm - (1941) - short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls - (1941) - short story by Marcel Aymé
• Leaf by Niggle - (1964) - short story by J. R. R. Tolkien
• About the Translators - essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
• About the Editors - essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer

Copyright © 2019 by Ann VanderMeer

Copyright © 2019 by Jeff VanderMeer

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