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The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy

Mike Ashley

First published 2001
Publisher Carroll & Graf
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Julek Heller
Pages xii+528
Price $11.95
ISBN 0786708670

Notes

  • Data from Internet Archive scan
  • Second printing
  • "First published in the UK by Robinson ... 2001"
  • "First Carroll & Graf edition 2001"
  • "Reprinted 2001"
  • Cover artist credit per rear cover
  • Cover design by {{A|Pete Rozycki}} per rear cover
  • Each story is preceded, on story title page, with a brief introduction to the author
  • The table of contents has listed "The Devil Times Three" by Fredric Brown on page 147. This is actually three short stories put together for this volume. They are listed separately below as "Nasty", "Rope Trick", and "The Ring of Hans Carvel"

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy Cover 2001 Robinson Trade Paperback Anthology Julek Heller xii+528
The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy Cover 2001 Carroll & Graf Trade Paperback Anthology Julek Heller xii+528
The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy Cover 2014 Mammoth eBook Anthology

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 Happy Valley John Cleese & Connie Booth Short Story
13 Attack of the Charlie Chaplins Garry Kilworth Short Story
24 Mother Duck Strikes Again Craig Shaw Gardner Short Fiction
35 The Blackbird Jack Sharkey Short Story
52 Pale Assassin James Bibby Novelette
76 The Strawhouse Pavilion Ron Goulart Short Story
90 Dragonet Esther Friesner Short Story
96 The Diplodocus Porter Emerson Browne Short Story
110 Nothing in the Rules Nelson Bond Short Story
124 Bad Day on Mount Olympus Marilyn Todd Short Story
137 How Much Would You Pay? Craig Shaw Gardner Short Story
147 Nasty Fredric Brown Short Story
149 Rope Trick Fredric Brown Short Story
150 The Ring of Hans Carvel Fredric Brown Short Story
152 Fair-Weather Fiend John Morressy Novelette
175 The Byrds Michael Coney Short Story
190 Polly Put the Mockers on Stan Nicholls Novelette
211 Ferdie F. Anstey Short Story
234 The Queen's Triplets Israel Zangwill Short Story
247 Crispin the Turnspit Anthony Armstrong (1897-1976) Short Story
258 Touched by a Salesman Tom Holt Short Story
277 Math Takes a Holiday Paul Di Filippo Novelette
304 Broadway Barbarian Cherith Baldry Short Story
315 The Winds of Fate Tony Rath Novelette
337 Not Ours to See David Langford Short Story
344 The Caliber of the Sword Larry Lawrence Short Story
353 Gunsel and Gretel Esther Friesner Novelette
391 Frog Tina Rath Short Story
398 The Swords and the Stones E. K. Grant Short Story
413 A Case of Four Fingers John Grant Novelette
435 The Absolute and Utter Impossibility of the Facts in the Case of the Vanishing of Henning Vok Jack Adrian Short Story
443 Milord Sir Smiht, the English Wizard Avram Davidson Novelette
473 "Put Back That Universe!" F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre Short Story
490 You'll Never Walk Alone Scott Edelman Novelette
xi Another Introduction (The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy) Mike Ashley Essay