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Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories

Eric S. Rabkin

First published 1979
Publisher Oxford University Press
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages xvii+478
Price $22.50
ISBN 0195025423

See the editor's bibliographic comments for a full table of contents.

  • This publication's notes and contents are from the verified tp edition.
  • See the editor's bibliographic comments for a full table of contents and notes on corrections.
  • The printing date and number are not stated other than "1979" on the title page just below the publisher name. The copyright date is also 1979. Amazon.com lists June 7, 1979 for both the hc and tp editions.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Introduction (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) Eric S. Rabkin Essay
27 The Sources of the Fantastic (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) Eric S. Rabkin Essay
41 Genesis (King James Version) uncredited Short Story
47 The Blackfoot Genesis uncredited Short Story
53 The Eye of the Giant uncredited Short Story
56 How I Brought Death Into the World Amos Tutuola Short Story
62 The Myth of Actaeon Ovid Short Story
66 The Myth of Narcissus Ovid Short Story
72 The Myth of Philomela Ovid Short Story
80 The Ghost Wife uncredited Short Story
82 The Magic Swan Geese Alexandr Afanas'ev Short Story
84 Why Tortoise's Shell Is Not Smooth Chinua Achebe Short Story
87 How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox Joel Chandler Harris Short Story
89 Paul Bunyan on the Columbia Esther Shephard Short Story
96 Little Red-Cap Jakob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm Short Story
100 The Sleeping Beauty Jakob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm Short Story
104 Hansel and Grethel Jakob Grimm & Wilhelm Grimm Short Story
112 The Tinderbox Hans Christian Andersen Short Story
120 The Tale of Cosmo George MacDonald Novelette
141 Leaf by Niggle J. R. R. Tolkien Short Story
161 The Diversity of Fantastic Literature (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) Eric S. Rabkin Essay
175 Our Ideas of Time Joseph Addison (1672-1719) Short Story
179 Ritter Gluck: A Recollection from the Year 1809 E. T. A. Hoffmann Short Story
190 The Oval Portrait Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
194 The Garden of Live Flowers Lewis Carroll Short Story
202 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty James Thurber Short Story
208 The Royal Banquet Norton Juster Short Story
214 The Sandman E. T. A. Hoffmann Novelette
247 The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
257 The Picture in the House H. P. Lovecraft Short Story
266 The Hand Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Short Story
274 The Moonlit Road Ambrose Bierce Short Story
284 Lost Hearts M. R. James Short Story
294 Golden Wings William Morris Short Story
311 The Sword of Welleran Lord Dunsany Short Story
325 The Five Black Swans Sylvia Townsend Warner Short Story
333 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
343 The Birthmark Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
360 The Star H. G. Wells Short Story
372 EPICAC Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Short Story
380 The Third Level Jack Finney Short Story
385 The Star Arthur C. Clarke Short Story
393 Modern Fantasy (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) Eric S. Rabkin Essay
399 The Judgment Franz Kafka Short Story
410 A Common Confusion Franz Kafka Short Story
411 Cockroaches Bruno Schulz Short Story
415 Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote Jorge Luis Borges Short Story
424 Axolotl Julio Cortázar Short Story
430 Pastoral Tommaso Landolfi Short Story
438 All at One Point Italo Calvino Short Story
443 There Is No Such Place As America Peter Bichsel Short Story
450 The Piano Player Donald Barthelme Short Story
453 Homage to the San Francisco YMCA Richard Brautigan Short Story
456 The Marker Robert Coover Short Story
460 The Zebra Storyteller Spencer Holst Short Story
463 Annotated Bibliography (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) Eric S. Rabkin Essay
475 Index (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) Eric S. Rabkin Essay
xi Preface (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) Eric S. Rabkin Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories Cover 1979 Oxford University Press Trade Paperback Anthology Hieronymus Bosch xvii+478