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Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder

David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer

First published 1989
Publisher GuildAmerica Books / SFBC
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Catalog ID 14784
Cover art Thomas Canty
Pages xvi+656
Price $7.98

Title page: "Compiled by David G. Hartwell with the assistance of Kathryn Cramer".

  • First edition
  • SFBC ID# 14784 and it is found on the book's lower back cover.
  • No ISBN number found anywhere in or on the book. According to OCLC, there is a printing with ISBN 1-56865-039-6, which may have been an earlier or later printing than the verified copy.
  • Kathryn Cramer is listed as assistant editor, who also translated "The Mouse Festival".
  • The J. M. Barrie excerpts are from his novel The Little White Bird.
  • Anthology is broken down into five separate parts. Part One: Enchantments (1-136), Part Two: Wonders (p 137-243), Part Three: Creatures (p 244-364), Part Four: Worlds (p 365-500) and Part Five: Adventures (p 501-656).

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Green Is the Color John M. Ford Novella
58 Wooden Tony Lucy Clifford Short Story
71 Lest Levitation Come Upon Us Suzette Haden Elgin Novelette
93 Prince Bull: A Fairy Tale Charles Dickens Short Story
99 The Triumph of Vice: A Fairy Tale W. S. Gilbert Short Story
111 Turandina Fyodor Sologub Short Story
122 The Princess and the Frog Robin McKinley Short Story
139 Darkness Box Ursula K. Le Guin Short Story
148 Jack and the Beanstalk Osbert Sitwell Short Story
156 Peter Pan J. M. Barrie Short Fiction
164 The Thrush's Nest J. M. Barrie Short Fiction
171 Lock-out Time J. M. Barrie Short Fiction
180 The Mouse Festival Johannes Bobrowski Short Story
183 A Proper Santa Claus Anne McCaffrey Short Story
192 Inside Out Rudy Rucker Novelette
213 The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut Mark Twain Short Story
229 The Woman Who Thought She Could Read Avram Davidson Short Story
238 The Third Level Jack Finney Short Story
245 The Griffin and the Minor Canon Frank R. Stockton Short Story
259 The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles Margaret St. Clair Short Story
264 The Dragons Murilo Rubião Short Story
269 On the Downhill Side Harlan Ellison Short Story
284 The Parrot Isaac Bashevis Singer Short Story
300 The Gray Wolf George MacDonald Short Story
306 The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath Patricia A. McKillip Novelette
325 The Last of the Dragons Edith Nesbit Short Story
332 Lila the Werewolf Peter S. Beagle Novelette
353 The Drowned Giant J. G. Ballard Short Story
367 The Enchanted Buffalo L. Frank Baum Short Story
375 Narrow Valley R. A. Lafferty Short Story
389 Beyond the Dead Reef James Tiptree, Jr. Short Story
406 The King's Bride: A Fairy Tale After Nature E. T. A. Hoffmann Novella
451 Under the Garden Graham Greene Novella
503 The Things That Are Gods John Brunner Novelette
540 The King of Nodland and His Dwarf Fitz-James O'Brien Novelette
571 The Seventeen Virgins Jack Vance Novelette
596 The Bagful of Dreams Jack Vance Novelette
623 The Hollow Land William Morris Novelette
xiii Introduction: Worlds of Wonder, Worlds of Difference (Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder) David G. Hartwell Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder Cover 1993 Longmeadow Press Hardcover Anthology Kelvin P. Oden xvi+656
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder Cover 1994 St. Martin's Press Hardcover Anthology Thomas Canty xvi+656