Fancies and Goodnights

10 best books like Fancies and Goodnights (John Collier): The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories, Don't Look Now, Selected Stories, Great Granny Webster, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, The Road: Stories, Journalism, and Essays, My Fantoms, Starburst, Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn, The Knife Thrower and Other Stories

The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories

Author	Saki
ISBN	1590176243

The whimsical, macabre tales of British writer H. H. Munro—better known as Saki—deftly, mercilessly, and hilariously skewer the banality and hypocrisy of polite upper-class English society between the end of Queen Victoria’s reign and the beginning of World War I. Their heroes are clever,...

Don't Look Now

Author	Daphne du Maurier
ISBN	1590172884

An NYRB Original
Daphne du Maurier wrote some of the most compelling and creepy novels of the twentieth century. In books like Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn she transformed the small dramas of everyday life—love, grief, jealousy—into the stuff of nightmares. Less known, though...

Selected Stories

Author	Robert Walser
ISBN	0940322986

How to place the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser, a humble genius who possessed one of the most elusive and surprising sensibilities in modern literature? Walser is many things: a Paul Klee in words, maker of droll, whimsical, tender, and heartbreaking verbal artifacts; an inspiration to such...

Great Granny Webster

Author	Caroline Blackwood
ISBN	1590170075

Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the...

The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime

Author	Michael Sims
ISBN	0143105663

Take a trip back to a time when criminals armed themselves with wit rather than with guns, and the pinnacle of crime-fighting technology was represented by Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. Edited by award-winning author and editor Michael Sims, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime presents, for...

The Road: Stories, Journalism, and Essays

Author	Vasily Grossman
ISBN	1590173619

The Road brings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of Life and Fate, providing new insight into the life and work of this extraordinary writer. The stories range from Grossman’s first success, “In the Town of Berdichev,” a piercing reckoning...

My Fantoms

Author

Théophile Gautier

Romantic provocateur, flamboyant bohemian, precocious novelist, perfect poet—not to mention an inexhaustible journalist, critic, and man-about-town—Théophile Gautier is one of the major figures, and great characters, of French literature.
In My Fantoms Richard Holmes, the celebrated...

Starburst

Author	Alfred Bester
ISBN	0451091329

Time, Space and the Future. Here is your passport into the fascinating world of science fiction...eleven dazzling, jet-propelled, rocket-paced tales of tomorrow by one of today's leading writers.

Contents:

Disappearing Act
Adam and No Eve
Star Light, Star Bright
The...

Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn

Author	Harvey Swados
ISBN	1590170849

There was a time when New York was everything to me: my mother, my mistress, my Mecca, when I could no more have wanted to live any place else than I could have conceived of myself as a daddy, disciplining my boy and dandling my daughter.

So begins "Nights in the Gardens of Brooklyn", which gives...

The Knife Thrower and Other Stories

Author	Steven Millhauser
ISBN	0753808218

The Knife Thrower introduces a series of distinctively Millhauserian worlds: tiny, fabulous, self-enclosed, like Fabergé eggs or like the short-story genre itself. Flying carpets; subterranean amusement parks; a band of teenage girls who meet secretly in the night in order to do "nothing at all";...

The Stories of J.F. Powers

Author	J.F. Powers
ISBN	0940322226

Hailed by Frank O'Connor as one of "the greatest living storytellers," J. F. Powers, who died in 1999, stands with Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver among the authors who have given the short story an unmistakably American cast. In three slim collections of perfectly crafted stories,...

Compulsory Games

Author	Robert Aickman
ISBN	1681371898

Cross Henry James with M.R. James and you might end up with a writer like Robert Aickman, though his self-described “strange stories” remain confoundingly and uniquely his own. Aickman’s superbly written tales terrify not with standard thrills and gore but through a radical overturning of...

Henri Duchemin and His Shadows

Author	Emmanuel Bove
ISBN	1590178327

Emmanuel Bove was one of the most original writers to come out of twentieth-century France and a popular success in his day. Discovered by Colette, who arranged for the publication of his first novel, My Friends, Bove enjoyed a busy literary career, until the German occupation silenced him. During...

Autobiography of a Corpse

Author	Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
ISBN	1590176707

The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky's most dazzling conceits: a provincial...

Seven Men

Author	Max Beerbohm
ISBN	0940322544

In Seven Men the brilliant English caricaturist and critic Max Beerbohm turns his comic searchlight upon the fantastic fin-de-siècle world of the 1890s—the age of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, and the young Yeats, as well of Beerbohm's own first success. In a series of luminous sketches, Beerbohm...

The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories

Author	Mavis Gallant
ISBN	1590173279

A New York Review Books Original
Mavis Gallant is renowned as one of the great short-story writers of our day. This new gathering of long-unavailable or previously uncollected work presents stories from 1951 to 1971 and shows Gallant's progression from precocious virtuosity, to accomplished...

Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature

Author	Alberto Manguel
ISBN	0517552698

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....

Store of the Worlds: The Stories of Robert Sheckley

Author	Robert Sheckley
ISBN	1590174941

Robert Sheckley was an eccentric master of the American short story, and his tales, whether set in dystopic city­scapes, ultramodern advertising agencies, or aboard spaceships lighting out for hostile planets, are among the most startlingly original of the twentieth century. Today, as the new...

The Oval Lady, Other Stories: Six Surreal Stories

Author	Leonora Carrington
ISBN	0884960374

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Shadows of Carcosa: Tales of Cosmic Horror by Lovecraft, Chambers, Machen, Poe, and Other Masters of the Weird

Author	H.P. Lovecraft
ISBN	1590178734

From the fictional land of Carcosa that inspired the HBO show True Detective to H. P. Lovecraft’s accursed New England hills, this collection features some of the most legendary landscapes of the cosmic horror genre. The collection includes the following twelve stories:
 
Edgar Allan...

Nine Hundred Grandmothers

Author

R.A. Lafferty

Lafferty's Nine Hundred Grandmothers collects the following stories:
• Nine Hundred Grandmothers
• Land of the Great Horses
• Ginny Wrapped in the Sun
• The Six Fingers of Time
• Frog on the Mountain
• All the People
• Primary Education of the Camiroi
•...

Memoirs of Hecate County

Author	Edmund Wilson
ISBN	1590170938

Hecate is the Greek goddess of sorcery, and Edmund Wilson's Hecate County is the bewitched center of the American Dream, a sleepy bedroom community where drinks flow endlessly and sexual fantasies fill the air. Memoirs of Hecate County, Wilson's favorite among his many books, is a set of interlinked...