The Big Book of Classic Fantasy (Paperback)

INTRODUCTION by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer THE QUEEN'S SON Bettina von Arnim HANS-MY-HEDGEHOG Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm THE STORY OF THE HARD NUT E. T. A. Hoffmann RIP VAN WINKLE Washington Irving THE LUCK OF THE BEAN-ROWS Charles Nodier TRANSFORMATION Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley THE NEST OF NIGHTINGALES Theophile Gautier THE FAIRYTALE ABOUT A DEAD BODY, BELONGING TO NO ONE KNOWS WHOM Vladimir Odoevsky THE STORY OF THE GOBLINS WHO STOLE A SEXTON Charles Dickens THE NOSE Nikolai Gogol THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR Edgar Allan Poe THE STORY OF JEON UNCHI Anonymous FEATHERTOP: A MORALIZED LEGEND Nathaniel Hawthorne MASTER ZACHARIUS Jules Verne THE FROST-KING: OR, THE POWER OF LOVE Louisa May Alcott THE TARTARUS OF MAIDS Herman Melville THE MAGIC MIRROR George MacDonald THE DIAMOND LENS Fitz-James O'Brien GOBLIN MARKET Christina Rossetti THE WILL-O'-THE-WISPS ARE IN TOWN Hans Christian Andersen THE LEGEND OF THE PALE MAIDEN Aleksis Kivi LOOKING-GLASS HOUSE Lewis Carroll FURNICA, OR THE QUEEN OF THE ANTS Carmen Sylva THE STORY OF IVAN THE FOOL Leo Tolstoy THE GOOPHERED GRAPEVINE Charles W. Chestnutt THE BEE-MAN OF ORN Frank R. Stockton THE REMARKABLE ROCKET Oscar Wilde THE ENSOULED VIOLIN H. P. Blavatskaya THE DEATH OF ODJIGH Marcel Schwob THE TERRESTRIAL FIRE Marcel Schwob THE KINGDOM OF CARDS Rabindranath Tagore THE OTHER SIDE: A BRETON LEGEND Count Eric Stanlislaus Stenbock THE FULNESS OF LIFE Edith Wharton PRINCE ALBERIC AND THE SNAKE LADY Vernon Lee THE LITTLE ROOM Madeline Yale Wynne THE PLATTNER STORY H. G. Wells THE PRINCESS BALADINA-HER ADVENTURE Willa Cather THE RELUCTANT DRAGON Kenneth Grahame IKTOMI TALES Zitkala-Sa MARIONETTES Louis Frechette DANCE OF THE COMETS: AN ASTRAL PANTOMIME IN TWO ACTS Paul Scheerbart THE WHITE PEOPLE Arthur Machen BLAMOL Gustav Meyrink GOBLINS: A LOGGING CAMP STORY Louis Frechette SOWBREAD Grazia Deledda THE ANGRY STREET G. K. Chesterton THE AUNT AND AMABEL E. Nesbit SACRIFICE Aleksey Remizov THE PRINCESS STEEL W. E. B. Du Bois THE HUMP Fernan Caballero THE CELESTIAL OMNIBUS E. M. Forster THE LEGEND OF THE ICE BABIES E. Pauline Johnson THE LAST REDOUBT William Hope Hodgson JACK PUMPKINHEAD AND THE SAWHORSE L. Frank Baum THE PLANT MEN Edgar Rice Burroughs STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER STAR Hermann Hesse THE METAMORPHOSIS Franz Kafka THE HOARD OF THE GIBBELINS Lord Dunsany THROUGH THE DRAGON GLASS A. Merritt DAVID BLAIZE AND THE BLUE DOOR E. F. Benson THE BIG BESTIARY OF MODERN LITERATURE Franz Blei THE ALLIGATOR WAR Horacio Quiroga FRIEND ISLAND Francis Stevens MAGIC COMES TO A COMMITTEE Stella Benson GRAMOPHONE OF THE AGES Yefim Zozulya JOIWIND David Lindsay SOUND IN THE MOUNTAIN Maurice Renard SENNIN Ryunosuke Akutagawa KOSHTRA PIVRARCHA E. R. Eddison AT THE BORDER Der Nister THE MARVELOUS EXPLOITS OF PAUL BUNYAN W. B. Laughead TALKATIVE DOMOVOI Aleksandr Grin THE RATCATCHER Aleksandr Grin THE SHADOW KINGDOM Robert E. Howard THE MAN TRAVELING WITH THE BROCADE PORTRAIT Edogawa Ranpo A VISIT TO THE MUSEUM Vladimir Nabokov THE WATER SPRITE'S TALE Karel Capek THE CAPITAL OF CAT COUNTRY Lao She COYOTE STORIES Mourning Dove UNCLE MONDAY Zora Neale Hurston ROSE-COLD, MOON SKATER Maria Teresa Leon A NIGHT OF THE HIGH SEASON Bruno Schulz THE INFLUENCE OF THE SUN Fernand Dumont THE TOWN OF CATS Hagiwara Sakutarō THE DEBUTANTE Leonora Carrington THE JEWELS IN THE FOREST Fritz Leiber EVENING PRIMROSE John Collier THE COMING OF THE WHITE WORM Clark Ashton Smith THE MAN WHO COULD WALK THROUGH WALLS Marcel Ayme LEAF BY NIGGLE J. R. R. Tolkien ACKNOWLEDGMENTS