| Description |
xxii, 499 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-493). |
| Contents |
The demon pope / Richard Garnett -- The fortress unvanquishable, save for Sacnoth / Lord Dunsany -- Through the dragon glass / Abraham Merritt -- The nameless city / H.P. Lovecraft -- The wind in the portico / John Buchan -- The tower of the elphant / Robert E. Howard -- Xeethra / Clark Ashton Smith -- Jirel meets magic / Catherine L. Moore -- The bleak shore / Fritz Leiber -- Homecoming / Ray Bradbury -- See you later / Henry Kuttner -- Liane the wayfarer / Jack Vance -- The desrick on Yandro / Manly Wade Wellman -- The silken-swift / Theodore Sturgeon -- Operation Afreet / Poul Anderson -- The singular events which occurred in the hovel on the alley off of eye street / Avram Davidson -- The sudden Wings / Thomas Burnett Swann -- Same time, same place / Mervyn Peake -- Timothy / Keith Roberts -- The kings of the sea / Sterling E. Lanier -- Not long before the end / Larry Niven -- The wager lost by winning / John Brunner -- Lila the werewolf / Peter S. Beagle -- Johanna / Jane Yolen -- The Erl-king / Angela Carter -- Beyond the dead reef / James Tiptree Jr.-- Subworld Phyllis Eisenstein -- Bite-me-not of fleur de fur / Tanith Lee -- The night of white Bhairab / Lucius Shepard -- Thorn / Robert Holdstock -- Troll Bridge / Terry Pratchett. |
| Summary |
A century's worth of the exotic and the fantastic. The stories range from Richard Garnett's "The Demon Pope," a story on soul-selling, to Terry Prachett's amusing "Troll Bridge, " in which Cohen the Barbarian philosophizes on the decline of magic. |
| Subject |
Fantasy fiction, English.
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Fantasy fiction, American.
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| Indexed Term |
Fantasy fiction Short stories. |
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English fiction. |
| Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction.
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| Added Author |
Shippey, T. A.
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| ISBN |
019214216X (acid-free paper) |
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9780192142160 (acid-free paper) |
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