Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday
10 best books like Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday (Italo Calvino): Hauntings and Other Fantastic Tales, Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M.R. James, Charles Dickens and Others, The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories, Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old & New, The Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories, The Power of Darkness: Tales of Terror, Trampoline: An Anthology
| Author | Vernon Lee |
| ISBN | 1551115786 |
Violet Paget (given-name of writer Vernon Lee) was a lesbian, a female dandy, a disciple of Walter Pater, and an acquaintance of Oscar Wilde, so it should not be a surprise that these four tales of the supernatural are filled with gorgeous descriptive passages (particularly of Italy ad it's art)...
Dover Publication has published numerous collections of short ghost stories, so many, in fact, that I always read two or three of them as Halloween approaches. Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M.R. James, Charles Dickens and Others has eleven gems, the best of which are Sheridan LeFanu's "An...
| Author | Michael Cox |
| ISBN | 0192840851 |
With their evocative settings amid mists and shadows, in ruinous houses, on lonely roads and wild moorlands, in abandoned churches and over-grown gardens, ghost stories have long exercised a universal fascination. Responding to people's overwhelming attraction to anything frightening, this...
| Author | Phyllis Fraser |
| ISBN | 0679601287 |
When this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror. Represented in...
| Author | Marvin Kaye |
| ISBN | 0385185065 |
Marvin Kaye
Saralee Kaye
Introduction (Ghosts) • Marvin Kaye
A Prologue of Last Words • Marvin Kaye
Minuke • (1949) • Nigel Kneale
The Wind in the Rose-Bush • (1902) • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Legal Rites • (1950) • Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl
Smee...
| Author | E.F. Benson |
| ISBN | 0786709804 |
United by a perfect chilling atmosphere and graceful literary style, these ghostly stories range from the horror of vampires, homicidal ghosts and monstrous spectral worms and slugs (appearing in the classic "Negotium Perambulans" and "And No Bird Sings") to the satire of humorous tales that poke...
| 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...
| Author | M.R. James |
| ISBN | 0192837737 |
A selection of 21 stories, which also includes three stories that are not in the Collected Edition.
Canon Alberic's scrap-book --
The mezzotint --
Number 13 --
Count Magnus --
Oh, whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad --
The treasure of Abbot Thomas --
A School story...
| Author | E. Nesbit |
| ISBN | 1840225319 |
The figure of my wife came in... it came straight towards the bed... its wide eyes were open and looked at me with love unspeakable' Edith Nesbit, best known as the author of The Railway Children and other children's classics, was also the mistress of the ghost story and tales of terror. She was able to create...
| Author | Kelly Link |
| ISBN | 1931520046 |
Hard to write a review of a collection of stories from different authors, as there's such a difference in quality. The longer stories tended to be the weakest; I couldn't even finish Jackson's insufferable, interminable "Crowd of Bone", and "Insect Dreams" was a slog, despite a good premise and setting....
Conjunctions #39: The New Wave Fabulists
| Author | Bradford Morrow |
| ISBN | 0941964558 |
For perhaps two decades, a small group of writers rooted in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror have been simultaneously exploring and erasing the boundaries of those genres by creating fiction of remarkable depth and power. Their connections to the genres they have been radically redefining...
Collection of 17 short stories.
1. The Lonesome Place by August Derleth c. 1947 by All-Fiction Field, Inc. and c. 1962 by August Derleth. Reprinted by permission of Arkham House.
2. In The Vault by H. P. Lovecraft c. 1932 by Popular Fiction Publishing Company, c. 1939, 1945 by August...
The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories
| Author | Peter Haining |
| ISBN | 1854875361 |
An outstanding collection of literary ghost stories includes 30 of the best examples of the genre, featuring contributions from Jack London, Agatha Christie, John Steinbeck, Muriel Spark, Daphne du Maurier, William Trevor, Mary Higgins Clark, and others.
Contents:
The third person...
| Author | Steven Millhauser |
| ISBN | 0753808226 |
The seven stories of In the Penny Arcade blend both the real and the fantastic in a seductive mix that illuminates the full range of Steven Millhauser's gifts, from 'August Eschenburg', the story of a clockmaker's son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world whose...
| Author | Roger Luckhurst |
| ISBN | 0192804804 |
The Victorian fin de siecle has many associations: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on which the sun never set. This heady brew was caught nowhere better than in the revival of the Gothic tale in the late Victorian age, where the undead walked...
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....
| Author | Leslie Shepard |
| ISBN | 0806507047 |
Features "Carmilla" by Sheridan Le Fanu, "Dracula's Guest" by Bram Stoker, "Le Horla" by Guy de Maupassant, "The Sad Story of a Vampire" by Count Stenbock, "Good Lady Ducayne" by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, "The Tomb of Sarah" by F.G. Loring, "For the Blood Is the Life" by F. Marion Crawford, "The Room in...
| Author | Ellen Kushner |
| ISBN | 0976466066 |
Ellen Kushner's much-loved 1998 story, "The Death of the Duke", tells how Sophia, a lonely village physician, well past the age for being wed, met and married a stranger, "half-crazed with grief over the loss of his lover." Her new story, "The Man with the Knives" (available as a chapbook from Temporary...
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self
| Author | Marina Warner |
| ISBN | 0199266840 |
Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic,...
| Author | Ítalo Moriconi |
| ISBN | 8573023066 |
Os Cem Melhores Contos Brasileiros do Século é uma das melhores introduções à literatura brasileira que já vi, uma viagem pelas nossas letras , pela arte do conto brasileiro, e uma forma gostosa de conhecer muitos autores feras de uma só vez. Além de também dublar de guia para escritores, te...
| Author | Elizabeth Hand |
| ISBN | 0061053481 |
This is Elizabeth Hand's long-awaited collection of short stories, centered around her Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning novella The Last Summer at Mars Hill. There are 12 pieces in all here, ranging from those first published in places like Interzone and Pulphouse to a two-page poem taken from...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 1616960884 |
The spookiest of specters inhabit this spine-tingling anthology—compiled by an acclaimed editor of the horror genre—that collects the most chilling ghost stories from the past 25 years. The human obsession with the mysteries of the afterlife is explored in these supernatural tales of haunted...
| Author | Daphne du Maurier |
| ISBN | 0385243022 |
This sumptuous volume celebrates the 80th birthday of one of the best-known and most-loved storytellers in the English language today, Daphne du Maurier.
Here are six masterpieces of the imagination, illustrated in glowing color by prize-winning artist, Michael Foreman.
Don't...
