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The Giant Book of Fantasy Tales

Stephen Jones & David Sutton

First published 1996
Series Fantasy Tales
Publisher The Book Company
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art J. K. Potter
Pages xxiii+553
Price A$
ISBN 1863092242

Anthology, published in Australia, collecting the majority of contents (including original introductions and afterwords) of the 7-issue (v10#1 to v13#7) three-year paperback incarnation of the magazine, Fantasy Tales. Printed by (UK) Magpie Books, but not published in the UK.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Now and Again in Summer Charles L. Grant Short Story
11 The Thievery of Yish Lin Carter Short Story
15 Vampire Village Guy N. Smith Short Story
26 The Farmer and the Travelling Salesman's Daughter C. Bruce Hunter Short Story
34 Writer's Cramp David Riley Short Story
52 Memories ("Shall we remember, friend of the morning...") Robert E. Howard Poem
53 Ice and Fire Ken Bulmer Novelette
72 The Cure William F. Nolan Short Story
89 The Dispossessed Joel Lane Novelette
108 The Man Who Felt Pain Brian Lumley Short Story
123 Vampire Sestina Neil Gaiman Poem
125 The Sustenance of Hoak Ramsey Campbell Novelette
152 The One Left Behind Stephen Gresham Short Story
162 The Drain Stephen Gallagher Novelette
191 Alice Smiling Charles L. Grant Short Story
200 Into the Dark Land Darrell Schweitzer Short Story
215 The Man Who Collected Barker Kim Newman Short Story
224 Sea-Reverie Steve Eng Poem
225 In the Trees Steve Rasnic Tem Short Story
231 The Invisible Boy Roberta Lannes Novelette
254 The Changer of Names Ramsey Campbell Novelette
275 Night Bloomer David J. Schow Novelette
300 On the Wing Jean-Daniel Brèque Short Story
310 Black the Water Jessica Amanda Salmonson Poem
312 The Bridge People J. N. Williamson Novelette
331 Networks Garry Kilworth Short Story
345 Foreign Parts Neil Gaiman Short Story
363 The Monster R. Chetwynd-Hayes Short Story
377 How Jaquerel Made War in Bel Azhurra Janet Fox Novelette
407 Mother Hen Kim Newman Short Story
423 The Spectacles in the Drawer Thomas Ligotti Short Story
439 The Sorcerer to His Long-Lost Love Darrell Schweitzer Poem
440 The Pit of Wings Ramsey Campbell Short Story
457 Rehearsals Thomas F. Monteleone Novelette
496 The Medusa Thomas Ligotti Novelette
519 Only Human Adrian Cole Short Story
531 Island with the Stink of Ghosts Garry Kilworth Short Story
545 Afterword: The Supernatural - Fiction & Fact (The Giant Book of Fantasy Tales) Peter James Essay
xiii Preface: The Cauldron (The Giant Book of Fantasy Tales) Stephen Jones & David Sutton Essay
xv Introduction: Speaking from the Dark (The Giant Book of Fantasy Tales) Clive Barker Essay