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Cover of The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Edward L. Ferman

First published 1985
Publisher Octopus Books
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Steve Crisp
Pages 792+[8]
Price $9.98
ISBN 0706425685

  • Cover art credited on back flap of dustjacket.
  • "This edition first published in 1985" on copyright page.
    Locus lists a January, 1986 publication date with a $9.98 price and notes that it is an "instant remainder" book.
  • Pages [793]-[797] are blank.
  • Pages [798]-[800] are "ACKNOWLEDGMENTS" listing sources for the included material.
  • Copyright page lists Jennifer Rhys as editor. Title page and dustjacket list Edward L. Ferman.
  • No BLIC.
  • No LCCN (from LOC lookup).

Page Title Author(s) Type
9 Far from Home Walter S. Tevis Short Story
13 My Dear Emily Joanna Russ Short Story
33 The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule Lucius Shepard Novelette
59 The Vanishing American Charles Beaumont Short Story
69 The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D J. G. Ballard Short Story
85 The Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost Russell Kirk Novelette
125 The Accountant Robert Sheckley Short Story
134 The Fire When It Comes Parke Godwin Novelette
176 My Boy Friend's Name Is Jello Avram Davidson Short Story
181 San Diego Lightfoot Sue Tom Reamy Novelette
222 Sooner or Later or Never Never Gary Jennings Novelette
250 Jeffty Is Five Harlan Ellison Short Story
269 The Third Level Jack Finney Short Story
274 The Silken-Swift Theodore Sturgeon Short Story
292 Another Orphan John Kessel Novelette
334 The Manor of Roses Thomas Burnett Swann Novella
389 Please Stand By Ron Goulart Short Story
409 Downtown Thomas M. Disch Short Story
419 Man Overboard John Collier Novelette
441 One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts Shirley Jackson Short Story
451 Yes, We Have No Ritchard Bruce Jay Friedman Short Story
459 The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet Stephen King Novella
504 That Hell-Bound Train Robert Bloch Short Story
517 Will You Wait? Alfred Bester Short Story
524 Sule Skerry Jane Yolen Short Story
533 La Ronde Damon Knight Short Story
546 Narrow Valley R. A. Lafferty Short Story
559 Not Long Before the End Larry Niven Short Story
570 $1.98 Arthur Porges Short Story
574 The Tehama Bob Leman Novelette
594 Ghost of a Crown Sterling E. Lanier Novelette
634 Pages from a Young Girl's Journal Robert Aickman Novelette
666 Narapoia Alan Nelson Short Story
672 Born of Man and Woman Richard Matheson Short Story
675 Mythago Wood Robert Holdstock Novelette
711 Harrison Bergeron Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Short Story
717 Four Ghosts in Hamlet Fritz Leiber Novelette
748 Gorilla Suit John Shepley Short Story
756 Green Magic Jack Vance Short Story
768 Black Air Kim Stanley Robinson Novelette