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Title The secret history of fantasy / edited by Peter S. Beagle.

Publication Info. San Francisco, CA : Tachyon, 2010.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  813.087 SECRET    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  813.087 SE31    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  813 SECRET    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 379 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Tired of the same old fantasy? Here are nineteen much-needed antidotes to clichéd tales of swords and sorcery. Fantasy is back, and it's better than ever!
Contents Introduction / by Peter S. Beagle -- Ancestor money / Maureen F. McHugh -- Scarecrow / Gregory Maguire -- Lady of the skulls / Patricia A. McKillip -- We are Norsemen / T.C. Boyle -- The Barnum Museum / Steven Millhauser -- Mrs. Todd's shortcut / Stephen King -- Bears discover fire / Terry Bisson -- Bones / Francesca Lia Block -- Snow, glass, apples / Neil Gaiman -- Fruit and words / Aimee Bender -- The empire of ice cream / Jeffrey Ford -- The edge of the world / Michael Swanwick -- Super goat man / Jonathan Lethem -- John Uskglass and the cumbrian charcoal burner / Susanna Clarke -- The book of Martha / Octavia E. Butler -- The Vita Æterna Mirror Company / Yann Martel -- Sleight of hand / Peter S. Beagle -- Mythago wood / Robert Holdstock -- 26 monkeys, also the abyss / Kij Johnson - Appendix 1: The critics, the monsters, and the fantasists / Ursula LeGuin -- Appendix 2: The making of the American fantasy genre / David G. Hartwell.
Subject Fantasy fiction, American.
American fiction -- 20th century.
American fiction -- 21st century.
Genre/Form Short stories.
Added Author Beagle, Peter S.
Added Title Fantasy
ISBN 9781892391995 paperback
1892391996 paperback
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