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First edition

London, Pan Books, 1991

Softcover, xx; 941 p.

Selection, foreword, author references
by Alberto Manguel
Translation of Isabel Allende,
Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Günter Grass
by Alberto Manguel

 
   
 

More Tales of the Fantastic

A second celebrated anthology of nightmarish imagination, seventy more hypnotic tales of prophetic dreams, strange creatures and bizarre coincidences, of what Wallace Stevens called ‘black water breaking into reality’, from such writers as Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt and Kenzaburo Oe.

 
 

GRACE AMUNDSON

The Child Who Believed

JEROME BIXBY

It's a Good Life

E. B. WHITE

The Door

ELIZABETH BOWEN

Mysterious Kor

MIRCEA ELIADE

Nights at Serampore

ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER

The Dead Fiddler

SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER

The Phoenix

HANNS HEINZ EWERS

The Spider

DOROTHY HAYNES

Changeling

A. S. BYATT

The July Ghost

ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Poor Girl

MARY SINCLAIR

Where Their Fire is Not Quenched

AMOS TUTUOLA

The Complete Gentleman

GIUSEPPE TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA

Professor and the Mermaid

FRIEDRICH DÜRRENMATT

The Sausage

WILLIAM SANSOM

Woman Seldom Found

ANGUS WILSON

Mummy to the Rescue

KENZABURO OE

Aghwee the Sky Monster

LILIANA HEKER

Berkeley or Mariana of the Universe

ANTONIA WHITE

The Saint

YSVGENY ZAMYATIN

Ghost of Ash Wednesday

HORTENSE CALISHER

Heartburn

ANN BRIDGE

The Accident

JOYCE MARSHALL

The Old Woman

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

A Short Trip Home

JOSEPH CONRAD

The Brute

ETHEL WILSON

Mr. Sleepwalker

JULIAN BARNES

A Self-possessed Woman

LEON ROOKE

Woman Who Talked to Horses

WILLIAM GOYEN

The White Rooster

TOMMASO LANDOLFI

The Labrenas

BORIS VAN

The Dead Fish

ALFONSO REYES

Major Aranda's Hand

MARGARET ATWOOD

Giving Birth

BERNARD MALAMUD

The Jewbird

J. D. BERESFORD

The Misanthrope

HERMANN MELVILLE

Bartleby

PHILIP MACDONALD

Private-Keep Out

TIMOTHY FINDLEY

Dreams

GEOFFREY DRAYTON

Mr. Dombey, the Zombie

WOLFGANG HILDESHEIMER

Why I Changed Into a Nightingale

T. H. WHITE

The Troll

ISABEL ALLENDE

Two Words

CHEN XUANYOU

Ch'ien-niang

ROBERT AICKMAN

The Visiting Star

SATYAJIT RAY

Ratanbabu and That Man

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

How It Happened

MERVYN PEAKE

Same Time Same Place

V.S. NAIPAUL

The Enigma of Arrival

LION FEUCHTWANGER

Faithful Peter

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship

PETER GREEN

The House-hunters

CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN

The Yellow Wall Paper

ERIC MCCORMACK

Eckhardt at a Window

GUNTER GRASS

The Lefthanders

CONRAD AIKEN

Mr. Arcularis

YEHUDA AMICHAI

The Times My Father Died

LUIGI PIRANDELLO

The Haunted House

ELIZABETH SPENCER

The Finder

JAMES STEPHENS

Desire

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The Miraculous Revenge

BRETT BALON

Rooms of Blood

BEN HECHT

The Shadow

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

The Nine Billion Names of God

 
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