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First published 1988
Publisher Viking
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages 384
Price $19.95
ISBN 0670823937

First English edition of the second revised edition (1976) {{Tr|uncredited hands}}

  • Translated from Antologia de la literatura fantastica (Argentina 1940, revised 1965, 1976). Published simultaneously in Great Britain by Xanadu Publications Limited.
  • The WorldCat record lists the contents, but only up to p. 192.

Page Title Author(s) Type
9 Introduction (The Book of Fantasy) Ursula K. Le Guin Essay
13 Sennin Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Short Story
16 A Woman Alone with Her Soul Thomas Bailey Aldrich Short Story
17 Ben-Tobith Leonid Andreyev Short Story
20 The Phantom Basket John Aubrey Short Story
21 The Drowned Giant J. G. Ballard Short Story
28 Enoch Soames Max Beerbohm Novelette
48 The Tail of the Sphinx Ambrose Bierce Short Story
49 The Squid in Its Own Ink Adolfo Bioy Casares Short Story
57 Guilty Eyes Ah'med Ech Chiruani Short Story
58 Anything You Want! ... Léon Bloy Short Fiction
61 Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius Jorge Luis Borges Short Story
73 Odin Jorge Luis Borges & Delia Ingenieros Short Story
73 The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind Ray Bradbury Short Story
77 The Man Who Collected the First of September 1973 Tor Ă…ge Bringsvaerd Short Story
81 The Careless Rabbi Martin Buber Short Story
81 The Tale and the Poet Sir Richard Burton Short Fiction
82 Fate Is a Fool Arturo Cancela & Pilar de Lusarreta Short Story
92 An Actual Authentic Ghost Thomas Carlyle Short Story
92 The Red King's Dream Lewis Carroll Short Fiction
94 The Tree of Pride G. K. Chesterton Short Fiction
95 The Dream of the Butterfly Chuang Tzu Short Fiction
95 The Tower of Babel G. K. Chesterton Short Story
96 House Taken Over Julio Cortázar Short Story
96 The Look of Death Jean Cocteau Short Story
100 Being Dust Santiago Dabove Short Story
104 A Parable of Gluttony Alexandra David-Neel Short Story
105 The Persecution of the Master Alexandra David-Neel Short Fiction
106 The Idle City Lord Dunsany Short Story
110 Tantalia Macedonio Fernández Short Story
114 Eternal Life J. G. Frazer Essay
115 A Secure Home Elena Garro Short Fiction
123 The Man Who Did Not Believe in Miracles Herbert A. Giles Short Fiction
124 Earth's Holocaust Nathaniel Hawthorne Short Story
137 Ending for a Ghost Story I. A. Ireland Short Fiction
138 The Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs Short Story
145 What Is a Ghost? James Joyce Short Fiction
146 May Goulding James Joyce Short Fiction
147 The Wizard Passed Over Don Juan Manuel Short Story
149 Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk Franz Kafka Short Story
160 Before the Law Franz Kafka Short Story
162 The Return of Imray Rudyard Kipling Short Story
170 The Horses of Abdera Leopoldo Lugones Short Fiction
175 The Ceremony Arthur Machen Short Story
177 The Riddle Walter de la Mare Short Story
180 Who Knows? Guy de Maupassant Short Story
190 The Cat H. A. Murena Short Story
190 The Shadow of the Players Edwin Morgan (I) Short Story
192 The Story of the Foxes Niu Chiao Short Story
193 The Atonement Silvina Ocampo Short Fiction
202 The Man Who Belonged to Me Giovanni Papini Short Fiction
208 Rani Carlos Peralta Short Story
213 The Blind Spot Barry Perowne Short Story
222 The Wolf Petronius Short Fiction
224 The Bust Manuel Peyrou Short Fiction
229 The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
234 The Tiger of Chao-Ch'Eng P'u Sung Ling Short Fiction
236 How We Arrived at the Island of Tools François Rabelais Short Fiction
237 The Music on the Hill Saki Short Story
241 Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched May Sinclair Novelette
256 The Cloth Which Weaves Itself W. W. Skeat Short Fiction
257 A Theologian in Death Emanuel Swedenborg Essay
257 Universal History Olaf Stapledon Short Fiction
259 The Encounter unknown Short Fiction
260 The Three Hermits Leo Tolstoy Short Story
265 Macario B. Traven Novelette
291 The Infinite Dream of Pao-Yu Tsao Hsueh-Chin Short Fiction
292 The Mirror to Wind-and-Moon Tsao Hsueh-Chin Short Fiction
294 The Desire to Be a Man Villiers de l'Isle Adam Short Fiction
300 Memnon, or Human Wisdom Voltaire Short Story
304 The Man Who Liked Dickens Evelyn Waugh Short Story
315 Pomegranate Seed Edith Wharton Novelette
336 Lukundoo Edward Lucas White Short Story
346 The Donguys Juan Rodolfo Wilcock Short Story
353 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Oscar Wilde Novelette
376 The Sorcerer of the White Lotus Lodge Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930) Short Story
377 Saved by the Book G. Willoughby-Meade Short Story
377 The Celestial Stag G. Willoughby-Meade Short Story
378 The Reanimated Englishman Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Short Fiction
379 The Sentence Wu Ch'Eng En Short Fiction
380 The Sorcerers William Butler Yeats Short Story
382 Fragment José Zorrilla Short Story
383 Sources and Acknowledgements (The Book of Fantasy) uncredited Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Book of Fantasy Cover 1988 Xanadu Hardcover Anthology 384
The Book of Fantasy Cover 1989 Viking / QPBC Trade Paperback Anthology 384
The Book of Fantasy Cover 1990 Black Swan Trade Paperback Anthology Stephen Player 523
The Book of Fantasy Cover 1990 Carroll & Graf Trade Paperback Anthology 384