Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday

( Italian title - Racconti Fantisastici Dell'Ottocento Vol. Primo, Il Fantastico Visionari" and "Vol. Secundo, Il Fantastico Quotidiano - 1983 )

anthology

translated by various

edited by Italo Calvino

Published: Pantheon - hardback - 1997
ISBN: 0679415262 / 9780679415268

Vintage Books - trade paperback - 1998
ISBN: 067975544-6 / 9780679755449

Penguin Books - trade paperback - 2009
ISBN: 0141190124 / 9780141190129

Penguin Books - Kindle ( Amazon ) - 2012
ASIN: B0074YVYJ6

Mariner Books - trade paperback - 2015
ISBN: 0544152093 / 9780544152090

Mariner Books - e-book - 2015
eISBN: 054423104X / 9780544231047


contents
Introduction ( Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday ) - essay by Italo Calvino
The Story of the Demoniac Pacheco - chapter ( from The Manuscript Found in Saragossa ) by Jan Potocki ( aka Histoire du démoniaque Pacheco ( from Manuscrit trouvé à Saragosse )1804/5) ( translated by Christine Donougher )
Autumn Sorcery - short story by Joseph von Eichendorff ( aka Die Zauberei im Herbste 1808 ) ( translated by Alfred MacAdam )
The Sandman - novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann ( aka Der Sandmann 1816 ) ( translated by J.T. Bealby )
Wandering Willie's Tale ( Redgauntlet excerpt ) - short story by Sir Walter Scott ( 1824 )
The Elixir of Life - short story by Honoré de Balzac ( aka L'élixir de longue vie 1830 )
The Eye with No Lid - short fiction by Philarète Chasles ( aka L'œil sans paupière 1832 ) ( translated by Alfred MacAdam )
The Enchanted Hand - novelette by Gérard de Nerval ( aka La main enchantée 1832 ) ( translated by Alfred MacAdam )
Young Goodman Brown - short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne ( 1835 )
The Nose - short story by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol ( aka Нос 1836 ) ( translated by Andrew MacAndrew )
The Beautiful Vampire - novelette by Théophile Gautier ( aka La morte amoureuse 1836 )
The Venus of Ille - novelette by Prosper Mérimée ( aka La Vénus d'Ille 1837 ) ( translated by Jean Kimber )
The Ghost and the Bonesetter ( The Purcell Papers 1 ) - short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ( variant of The Ghost and the Bone-Setter 1838 )
The Tell-Tale Heart - short story by Edgar Allan Poe ( 1843 )
The Shadow - short story by Hans Christian Andersen ( aka Skyggen 1847 ) ( translated by M.R. James )
The Signalman - short story by Charles Dickens ( 1866 )
The Dream - novelette by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev ( aka Сон 1877 ) ( translated by Robert Dessaix )
A Shameless Rascal - short fiction by Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov ( aka Чертогон 1879 ) ( translated by Michael Shotton )
The Very Image - short story by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam ( aka À s'y méprendre! 1875 )
Night: A Nightmare - short story by Guy de Maupassant ( aka La nuit 1887 ) ( translated by Storm Jameson )
A Lasting Love - novelette by Vernon Lee ( variant of Amour Dure 1887 )
Chickamauga -• short story by Ambrose Bierce ( 1889 )
The Holes in the Mask - short story by Jean Lorrain ( aka Les trous du masque 1895 ) ( translated by Alfred MacAdam )
The Bottle Imp - novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson ( 1891 )
The Friends of the Friends - novelette by Henry James ( 1896 )
The Bridge-Builders - novelette by Rudyard Kipling ( 1893 )
The Country of the Blind - novelette by H. G. Wells ( 1904 )