The big book of classic fantasy: the ultimate collection

INTRODUCTION / Ann and Jeff VanderMeer --

THE QUEEN'S SON / Bettina von Arnim --

HANS-MY-HEDGEHOG / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm --

THE STORY OF THE HARD NUT / E. T. A. Hoffmann --

RIP VAN WINKLE / Washington Irving --

THE LUCK OF THE BEAN-ROWS / Charles Nodier --

TRANSFORMATION / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley --

THE NEST OF NIGHTINGALES / Théophile Gautier --

THE FAIRYTALE ABOUT A DEAD BODY, BELONGING TO NO ONE KNOWS WHOM / Vladimir Odoevsky --

THE STORY OF THE GOBLINS WHO STOLE A SEXTON / Charles Dickens --

THE NOSE / Nikolai Gogol --

THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR / Edgar Allan Poe --

THE STORY OF JEON UNCHI / Anonymous --

FEATHERTOP: A MORALIZED LEGEND / Nathaniel Hawthorne --

MASTER ZACHARIUS / Jules Verne --

THE FROST-KING: OR, THE POWER OF LOVE / Louisa May Alcott --

THE TARTARUS OF MAIDS / Herman Melville --

THE MAGIC MIRROR / George MacDonald --

THE DIAMOND LENS / Fitz-James O'Brien --

GOBLIN MARKET / Christina Rossetti --

THE WILL-O'-THE-WISPS ARE IN TOWN / Hans Christian Andersen --

THE LEGEND OF THE PALE MAIDEN / Aleksis Kivi --

LOOKING-GLASS HOUSE / Lewis Carroll --

FURNICA, OR THE QUEEN OF THE ANTS / Carmen Sylva --

THE STORY OF IVÁN THE FOOL / Leo Tolstoy --

THE GOOPHERED GRAPEVINE / Charles W. Chestnutt --

THE BEE-MAN OF ORN / Frank R. Stockton --

THE REMARKABLE ROCKET / Oscar Wilde --

THE ENSOULED VIOLIN / H. P. Blavatskaya --

THE DEATH OF ODJIGH / Marcel Schwob --

THE TERRESTRIAL FIRE / Marcel Schwob --

THE KINGDOM OF CARDS / Rabindranath Tagore --

THE OTHER SIDE: A BRETON LEGEND / Count Eric Stanlislaus Stenbock --

THE FULNESS OF LIFE / Edith Wharton --

PRINCE ALBERIC AND THE SNAKE LADY / Vernon Lee --

THE LITTLE ROOM / Madeline Yale Wynne --

THE PLATTNER STORY / H. G. Wells --

THE PRINCESS BALADINA-HER ADVENTURE / Willa Cather --

THE RELUCTANT DRAGON / Kenneth Grahame --

IKTOMI TALES / Zitkala-Ša --

MARIONETTES / Louis Fréchette --

DANCE OF THE COMETS: AN ASTRAL PANTOMIME IN TWO ACTS / Paul Scheerbart --

THE WHITE PEOPLE / Arthur Machen --

BLAMOL / Gustav Meyrink --

GOBLINS: A LOGGING CAMP STORY / Louis Fréchette --

SOWBREAD / Grazia Deledda --

THE ANGRY STREET / G. K. Chesterton --

THE AUNT AND AMABEL / E. Nesbit --

SACRIFICE / Aleksey Remizov --

THE PRINCESS STEEL / W. E. B. Du Bois --

THE HUMP / Fernán Caballero --

THE CELESTIAL OMNIBUS / E. M. Forster --

THE LEGEND OF THE ICE BABIES / E. Pauline Johnson --

tTHE LAST REDOUBT / William Hope Hodgson --

JACK PUMPKINHEAD AND THE SAWHORSE / L. Frank Baum --

THE PLANT MEN / Edgar Rice Burroughs --

STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER STAR / Hermann Hesse --

THE METAMORPHOSIS / Franz Kafka --

THE HOARD OF THE GIBBELINS / Lord Dunsany --

THROUGH THE DRAGON GLASS / A. Merritt --

DAVID BLAIZE AND THE BLUE DOOR / E. F. Benson --

THE BIG BESTIARY OF MODERN LITERATURE / Franz Blei --

THE ALLIGATOR WAR / Horacio Quiroga --

FRIEND ISLAND / Francis Stevens --

MAGIC COMES TO A COMMITTEE / Stella Benson --

GRAMOPHONE OF THE AGES / Yefim Zozulya --

JOIWIND / David Lindsay --

SOUND IN THE MOUNTAIN / Maurice Renard --

SENNIN / Ryūnosuke Akutagawa --

KOSHTRA PIVRARCHA / E. R. Eddison --

AT THE BORDER / Der Nister --

THE MARVELOUS EXPLOITS OF PAUL BUNYAN / W. B. Laughead --

TALKATIVE DOMOVOI / Aleksandr Grin --

THE RATCATCHER / Aleksandr Grin --

THE SHADOW KINGDOM / Robert E. Howard --

THE MAN TRAVELING WITH THE BROCADE PORTRAIT / Edogawa Ranpo --

A VISIT TO THE MUSEUM / Vladimir Nabokov --

THE WATER SPRITE'S TALE / Karel Čapek --

THE CAPITAL OF CAT COUNTRY / Lao She --

COYOTE STORIES / Mourning Dove --

UNCLE MONDAY / Zora Neale Hurston --

ROSE-COLD, MOON SKATER / María Teresa León --

A NIGHT OF THE HIGH SEASON / Bruno Schulz --

THE INFLUENCE OF THE SUN / Fernand Dumont --

THE TOWN OF CATS / Hagiwara Sakutarō --

THE DEBUTANTE / Leonora Carrington --

THE JEWELS IN THE FOREST / Fritz Leiber --

EVENING PRIMROSE / John Collier --

THE COMING OF THE WHITE WORM / Clark Ashton Smith --

THE MAN WHO COULD WALK THROUGH WALLS / Marcel Aymé --

LEAF BY NIGGLE / J. R. R. Tolkien