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.\nFantastic literature Manguel writes in his introduction, makes use of our everyday world as a facade through which the undefinable appears, hinting at the half-forgotten dreams of our imagination. Unlike tales of fantasy, fantastic literature deals with what can be best defined as the impossible seeping into the possible, what Wallace Stevens calls black water breaking into reality . Fantastic literature never really explains everything, it thrives on surprise, on the unexpected logic that is born from its own rules.\nHouse taken over by Julio Cortázar 
How love came to Professor Guildea by Robert S. Hichens 
Climax for a ghost story by I.A. Ireland 
The mysteries of the Joy Rio by Tennessee Williams 
Pomegranate seed by Edith Wharton 
Venetian masks by Adolfo Bioy Casares 
The wish house by Rudyard Kipling 
The playground by Ray Bradbury 
Importance by Manuel Mujica Láinez 
Enoch Soames by Max Beerbohm 
A visitor from down under by L.P. Hartley 
Laura by Saki 
An injustice revealed 
A little place off the Edgware Road by Graham Greene 
From "A School Story" by M.R. James 
The signalman by Charles Dickens 
The tall woman by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón 
A scent of mimosa by Francis King 
Death and the gardener by Jean Cocteau 
Lord Mountdrago by W. Somerset Maugham 
The sick gentleman's last visit by Giovanni Papini 
Insomnia by Virgilio Piñera 
The storm by Jules Verne 
A dream (from The Arabian Nights Entertainments) 
The facts in the case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe 
Split second by Daphne du Maurier 
August 25, 1983 by Jorge Luis Borges 
How Wang-Fo was saved by Marguerite Yourcenar 
From "Peter and Rosa" by Isak Dinesen 
Tattoo by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 
John Duffy's brother by Flann O'Brien 
Lady into fox by David Garnett 
Father's last escape by Bruno Schulz 
A man by the name of Ziegler by Hermann Hesse 
The Argentine ant by Italo Calvino 
The lady on the grey by John Collier 
The queen of spades by Alexander Pushkin 
Of a promise kept by Lafcadio Hearn 
The wizard postponed by Juan Manuel 
The monkey's paw by W.W. Jacobs 
The bottle imp by Robert Louis Stevenson 
The rocking-horse winner by D.H. Lawrence 
Certain distant suns by Joanne Greenburg 
The third bank of the river by João Guimarães Rosa 
Home by Hilaire Belloc 
The door in the wall by H.G. Wells 
The friends by Silvina Ocampo 
Et in sempiternum pereant by Charles Williams 
The captives of Longjumeau by Léon Bloy 
The visit to the museum by Vladimir Nabakov 
Autumn Mountain by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa 
The sight by Brian Moore 
Clorinda by André Pieyre de Mandiargues 
The pagan rabbi by Cynthia Ozick 
The fisherman and his soul by Oscar Wilde 
The bureau d'echange de maux by Lord Dunsany 
The ones who walk away from Omelas by Ursula K. LeGuin 
In the penal colony by Franz Kafka 
A dog in Durer's etching "The Knight, Death and the Devil" by Marco Denevi 
The large ant by Howard Fast 
The lemmings by Alex Comfort 
The grey ones by J.B. Priestley 
The feather pillow by Horacio Quiroga 
Seaton's aunt by Walter de la Mare 
The friends of the friends by Henry James 
The travelling companion by Hans Christian Andersen 
The curfew tolls by Stephen Vincent Benet 
The state of grace by Marcel Aymé 
The story of a panic by E.M. Forster 
An invitation to the hunt by George Hitchcock 
From the "American Notebooks" by Nathaniel Hawthorne 
The dream by O. Henry

Black water: The anthology of fantastic literature

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