Search Worlds Without End

This huge anthology offers a kaleidoscope of brilliant writing from the Magi of the imagination. Alberto Manguel has selected 72 fantastic tales from life on the edge of the twilight zone, with stories from Marguerite Yourcenar, Herman Hesse, Italo Calvino, Vladimir Nabokov, and many, many more. This is a collection of irresistible masterpieces, many of which have never before appeared in the English language.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword - Alberto Manguel
• House Taken Over - Julio Cortázar - 1967
• How Love Came to Professor Guildea - Robert S. Hichens - 1897
• Climax for a Ghost Story - I. A. Ireland - 1919
• The Mysteries of the Joy Rio - Tennessee Williams - 1954
• Pomegranate Seed - Edith Wharton - 1931
• Venetian Masks - Adolfo Bioy Casares
• The Wish House - Rudyard Kipling - 1924
• The Playground - Ray Bradbury - 1953
• Importance - Manuel Mujica Lainez - 1978
• Enoch Soames - Max Beerbohm - 1916
• A Visitor from Down Under - L. P. Hartley - 1926
• Laura - Saki - 1914
• An Injustice Revealed - Anon.
• A Little Place Off the Edgware Road - Graham Greene - 1947
• From "A School Story" - M. R. James - 1911
• The Signalman - Charles Dickens - 1866
• The Tall Woman - Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
• A Scent of Mimosa - Francis King - 1975
• Death and the Gardener - Jean Cocteau - 1923
• Lord Mountdrago - W. Somerset Maugham - 1939
• The Sick Gentleman's Last Visit - Giovanni Papini - 1907
• Insomnia - Virgilio Pinera
• The Storm - Jules Verne - 1884
• A Dream (from The Arabian Nights Entertainments) - Anon.
• The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - Edgar Allan Poe - 1845
• Split Second - Daphne du Maurier - 1952
• August 25, 1983 - Jorge Luís Borges - 1982
• How Wang-Fo Was Saved - Marguerite Yourcenar - 1963
• From "Peter and Rosa" - Isak Dinesen - 1942
• Tattoo - Junichiro Tanizaki - 1910
• John Duffy's Brother - Flann O'Brien - 1941
• Lady into Fox - David Garnett - 1923
• Father's Last Escape - Bruno Schulz - 1937
• A Man by the Name of Ziegler - Hermann Hesse - 1954
• The Argentine Ant - Italo Calvino - 1957
• The Lady on the Grey - John Collier - 1951
• The Queen of Spades - Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin- 1834
• Of a Promise Kept - Lafcadio Hearn - 1901
• The Wizard Postponed - Juan Manuel - 1973
• The Monkey's Paw - W. W. Jacobs - 1902
• The Bottle Imp - Robert Louis Stevenson - 1891
• The Rocking-Horse Winner - D. H. Lawrence - 1926
• Certain Distant Suns - Joanne Greenburg - 1979
• The Third Bank of the River - João Guimarães Rosa - 1967
• Home - Hilaire Belloc
• The Door in the Wall - H. G. Wells - 1906
• The Friends - Silvina Ocampo - 1982
• Et in Sempiternum Pereant - Charles Williams - 1935
• The Captives of Longjumeau - Léon Bloy - 1967
• The Visit to the Museum - Vladimir Nabokov - 1958
• "Autumn Mountain" - Ryunosuke Akutagawa
• The Sight - Brian Moore - 1977
• Clorinda - André Pieyre de Mandiargues - 1979
• The Pagan Rabbi - Cynthia Ozick - 1966
• The Fisherman and His Soul - Oscar Wilde - 1891
• The Bureau d'Echange de Maux - Lord Dunsany - 1915
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula K. Le Guin - 1973
• In the Penal Colony - Franz Kafka - 1919.
• A Dog in Durer's Etching "The Knight, Death and The Devil" - Marco Denevi - 1968
• The Large Ant - Howard Fast - 1960
• The Lemmings - Alex Comfort
• The Grey Ones - J. B. Priestley - 1953
• The Feather Pillow - Horacio Quiroga - 1907
• Seaton's Aunt - Walter de la Mare - 1922
• The Friends of the Friends - Henry James - 1896
• The Travelling Companion - Hans Christian Andersen - 1835
• The Curfew Tolls - Stephen Vincent Benét - 1935
• The State of Grace - Marcel Aymé - 1959
• The Story of a Panic - E. M. Forster - 1904
• An Invitation to the Hunt - George Hitchcock - 1960
• From the "American Notebooks" - Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1868
• The Dream - O. Henry - 1910

The original Black Water was hailed by the Washington Post as "a celebration of nightmarish imagination." Now master anthologist Alberto Manguel assembles 70 more hypnotic tales from such writers as Julian Barnes, Joseph Conrad, V.S. Naipaul, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.B. White, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Elizabeth Bowen.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword - Alberto Manguel
• The Child Who Believed - Grace Amundson - 1950
• It's a Good Life - Jerome Bixby - 1953
• The Door - E. B. White - 1939
• Mysterious Kôr - Elizabeth Bowen - 1945
• Nights at Serampore - Mircea Eliade - 1970
• The Dead Fiddler - Isaac Bashevis Singer - 1966
• The Phoenix - Sylvia Townsend Warner - 1940
• The Spider - Hanns Heinz Ewers - 1915
• Changeling - Dorothy K. Haynes - 1978
• The July Ghost - Antonia S. Byatt - 1982
• Poor Girl - Elizabeth Taylor - 1955
• Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched - 1922
• The Complete Gentleman - Amos Tutuola - 1952
• The Professor and the Mermaid - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - 1962
• The Sausage - Friedrich Dürrenmatt - 1989
• A Woman Seldom Found - William Sansom - 1956
• Mummy to the Rescue - Angus Wilson - 1950
• Aghwee the Sky Monster - Kenzaburõ Õe - 1977
• Berkeley or Mariana of the Universe - Liliana Heker - 1986
• The Saint - Antonia White - 1931
• The Ghost of Firozsha Baag - Rohinton Mistry - 1986
• The Miracle of Ash Wednesday - Yevgeny Zamyatin - 1968
• Heartburn - Hortense Calisher - 1951
• The Accident - Ann Bridge - 1936
• The Old Woman - Joyce Marshall - 1960
• A Short Trip Home - F. Scott Fitzgerald - 1927
• The Brute - Joseph Conrad - 1906
• Mr. Sleepwalker - Ethel Wilson - 1961
• A Self-Possessed Woman - Julian Barnes - 1975
• The Woman Who Talked to Horses - Leon Rooke - 1984
• The White Rooster - William Goyen - 1947
• The Labrenas - Tommaso Landolfi - 1986
• The Dead Fish - Boris Vian - 1965
• Major Aranda's Hand - Alfonso Reyes - 1973
• Giving Birth - Margaret Atwood - 1977
• The Jewbird - Bernard Malamud - 1963
• The Misanthrope - John D. Beresford - 1918
• Bartleby - Herman Melville - 1853
• Private--Keep Out! - Philip MacDonald - 1949
• Dreams - Timothy Findley - 1988
• Mr. Dombey, the Zombie - Geoffrey Drayton - 1951
• Why I Changed into a Nightingale - Wolfgang Hildesheimer - 1986
• The Troll - T. H. White - 1935
• Two Words - Isabel Allende - 1991
• Ch'ien-niang - Chen Xuanyou - 1990
• The Visiting Star - Robert Aickman - 1966
• Ratanbabu and the Man - Satyajit Ray - 1987
• How It Happened - Arthur Conan Doyle - 1913
• Same Time, Same Place - Mervyn Peake - 1963
• The Enigma of Arrival - V. S. Naipaul - 1986
• Faithful Peter - Lion Feuchtwanger - 1945
• The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship - Gabriel García Márquez - 1972
• The House-Hunters - Peter Green - 1963
• The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 1892
• Eckhardt at a Window - Eric McCormack - 1987
• The Lefthanders - Günter Grass - 1989
• Mr. Arcularis - Conrad Aiken - 1922
• The Times My Father Died - Yehuda Amichai - 1984
• The Haunted House - Luigi Pirandello - 1939
• The Finder - Elizabeth Spencer - 1971
• Desire - James Stephens - 1920
• The Miraculous Revenge - George Bernard Shaw - 1951
• Room of Blood - Brett Balon - 1984
• The Shadow - Ben Hecht - 1926
• The Nine Billion Names of God - Arthur C. Clarke - 1953