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Fantastic Worlds

Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories

anthology

edited by Eric S. Rabkin

Published: Oxford University Press - hardback - 1979
ISBN: 0195025423 / 9780195025422

Oxford University Press - paperback - 1979
ISBN: 0195025415 / 9780195025415

Oxford University Press, US - Kindle - ?
ASIN: B004UP9ADY


contents
Preface- essay by Eric S. Rabkin
Introduction - essay by Eric S. Rabkin
The Sources of the Fantastic - essay by Eric S. Rabkin
Genesis ( King James Version ) - short story by unknown ( 0000 )
The Blackfoot Genesis - short story from Blackfoot Myth ( 1882 )
The Eye of the Giant - short story from Togoland Myth
How I Brought Death Into the World • (1952) • shortstory by Amos Tutuola
The Myth of Actaeon - short story by Ovid
The Myth of Narcissus - short story by Ovid
The Myth of Philomela - short story by Ovid
The Ghost Wife - short story from Pawnee Folktale ( 1889 )
The Magic Swan Geese- short story from Russian Folktale ( 1855 )
Why Tortoise's Shell Is Not Smooth - short story by Chinua Achebe ( 1958 )
How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox - short story by Joel Chandler Harris ( 1880 )
Paul Bunyan on the Columbia - short story by Esther Shephard ( 1924 )
96 • Little Red-cap • (1812) • shortstory by Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob Grimm as by Wilhelm Grimm and Jakob Grimm
100 • The Sleeping Beauty • (1824) • shortstory by Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob Grimm as by Wilhelm Grimm and Jakob Grimm
104 • Hansel and Grethel • (1812) • shortstory by Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob Grimm as by Wilhelm Grimm and Jakob Grimm
112 • The Tinder-Box • (1835) • shortstory by Hans Christian Andersen
The Tale of Cosmo - novelette by George MacDonald ( 1858 )
Leaf by Niggle - short story by J. R. R. Tolkien ( 1964 )
The Diversity of Fantastic Literature - essay by Eric S. Rabkin
Our Ideas of Time - short story by Joseph Addison ( 1711 )
179 • Ritter Gluck: A Recollection from the Year 1809 • (1809) • shortstory by E. T. A. Hoffmann (aka Ritter Gluck)
The Oval Portrait - short story by Edgar Allan Poe ( aka Life in Death 1842 ))
The Garden of Live Flowers - short story by Lewis Carroll ( 1872 )
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - short story by James Thurber ( 1939 )
The Royal Banquet - short story by Norton Juster ( 1961 )
214 ⢠The Sandman • (1816) • novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (aka Der Sandmann)
The Black Cat - short story by Edgar Allan Poe ( 1843 )
The Picture in the House - short story by H. P. Lovecraft ( 1924 )
The Hand - short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu ( 1861 )
The Moonlit Road - short story by Ambrose Bierce ( 1907 )
Lost Hearts - short story by M. R. James ( 1895 )
Golden Wings - short story by William Morris ( 1856 )
The Sword of Welleran - short story by Lord Dunsany ( 1908 )
The Five Black Swans - short story by Sylvia Townsend Warner ( 1973 )
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - short story by Edgar Allan Poe ( aka The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case 1845 ))
The Birthmark - short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne ( 1843 )
The Star - short story by Arthur C. Clarke ( 1955 )
372 • EPICAC • (1950) • shortstory by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Third Level - short story by Jack Finney ( 1950 )
The Star - shortstory by H. G. Wells ( 1897 )
Modern Fantasy - essay by Eric S. Rabkin
399 • The Judgment • (1913) • shortstory by Franz Kafka (aka Das Urteil 1912 )
410 • A Common Confusion • (1952) • shortstory by Franz Kafka (aka Eine alltägliche Verwirrung 1931 )
411 • Cockroaches • (1934) • shortstory by Bruno Schulz
415 • Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote • (1962) • shortstory by Jorge Luís Borges
Axolotl - short story by Julio Cortázar ( aka Axolotl 1967 )
Pastoral - short story by Tommaso Landolfi ( 1964 )
438 • All at One Point • (1968) • shortstory by Italo Calvino (aka Tutto in un punto 1964 )
443 • There Is No Such Place as America • (1969) • shortstory by Peter Bichsel
The Piano Player - short story by Donald Barthelme ( 1963 )
Homage to the San Francisco YMCA - short story by Richard Brautigan ( 1971 )
The Marker -short story by Robert Coover ( 1963 )
The Zebra Storyteller - short story by Spencer Holst ( 1971 )
Annotated Bibliography - essay by Eric S. Rabkin
Index- essay by Eric S. Rabkin

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