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Gray Heroes: Elder Tales from Around the World

Jane Yolen

First published 1999
Publisher Penguin Books (US)
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Philippe Weisbecker
Pages xxxv+233
Price $12.95
ISBN 0140276181

Info from OCLC and the Locus review An anthology of 75 folk tales Contents from scan at archive.org Only genre content has been added. Cover art credited on back cover C$18.99

Year Reviewer Publication
1999 Gary K. Wolfe Locus, #460 May 1999

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Page Title Author(s) Type
7 The Old Woman of the Spring Richard Erdoes & Alfonso Ortiz Short Fiction
8 The Brownie of Blednock Elizabeth Grierson Short Story
52 The Devil and the Gypsy Ja. Balagur Short Story
56 The Old Woman and the Giant uncredited Short Story
66 The Fortune-Teller Alexander Afanasiev Short Story
75 The Straw Ox R. Nisbet Bain Short Story
80 The Two Old Women's Bet Richard Chase Short Story
83 The Fisherman and the Genie uncredited Short Story
88 The Five Wolves Franz Boas Short Fiction
89 The Crafty Woman Charles Fillingham Coxwell Short Story
91 The Talking Turkeys Inea Bushnaq Short Fiction
92 The Old Woman and the Fox Sayantani DasGupta & Shamita Das Dasgupta Short Fiction
96 Bucca Dhu and Bucca Gwidden Ruth Manning-Sanders Short Fiction
103 Verlioka Peter Nikolaevich Polevoi Short Story
108 The Lord of Death A. K. Ramanujan Short Fiction
111 The Man Who Lodged with Serpents Linda Degh Short Fiction
115 Kwatee and the Monster in the Lake Ella E. Clark Short Fiction
116 Lump on, Lump Off Royall Tyler Short Fiction
120 Siksruk, the Witch-Doctor Edward L. Keithahn Short Fiction
123 Old Roaney Richard Chase Short Fiction
130 The Old Woman and the Rice Cakes Ethel Johnston Phelps Short Fiction
135 The Poor Countryman and the Greedy Hag W. S. Kuniczak Short Fiction
139 St. David's Flood Ruth L. Tongue & Katharine M. Briggs Short Fiction
140 The Staff of Elijah Howard Schwartz Short Fiction
143 The Magical Words Lafcadio Hearn Short Story
152 Kalapana Mary Kawena Pukui Short Fiction
157 The Great Jaguar Victor Montejo Short Fiction
159 The Haunted Hare Ethel Johnston Phelps Short Fiction
162 The Apparition of Arran Neil Philip Short Fiction
164 The Valiant Fish-Trapper Linda Degh Short Fiction
166 Grandmother Spider Steals the Fire Richard Young Short Fiction
170 The Monster of Loch Garten R. Macdonald Robertson Short Fiction
171 The Woman in the Moon Suzanne I. Barchers Short Fiction
173 The Hedley Kow Ethel Johnston Phelps Short Fiction
177 The Search for Luck R. M. Dawkins Short Story
198 The Old Man in the Moon Maung Htin Aung & Helen G. Trager Short Fiction
xvi The Seventh Father of the House Peter Christen Asbjørnsen Short Story
xxii The Mountain of Abandoned Old People Richard M. Dorson Short Fiction