Modern Classics of Fantasy

by Gardner Dozois (Editor)

Overview

This wonderful collection celebrates fantasy's heydey with 33 masterpieces of short fiction, ranging from 1940s stories by L. Sprague de Camp, H. L. Gold, Fritz Leiber, and Manly Wade Wellman to more recent tales by such towering modern talents as Peter S. Beagle, Terry Bisson, James P. Blaylock, Suzy McKee Charnas, John Crowley, Tanith Lee, Ursula K. Le Guin, Lucius Shepard, Michael Swanwick, JaneYolen, and Roger Zelazny.

Just as Gardner Dozois's anthology Modern Classics of Science Fiction (SMP, 1992) has helped new generations of readers and old fans discover the genre's finest short stories, so too shall this volume allow readers to find in one volume more than two dozen masterworks of fantasy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312169312
Publisher:	St. Martin's Press
Publication date:	11/19/1997
Pages:	672
Product dimensions:	1.48(w) x 5.00(h) x 8.00(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	xi
	Trouble with Water	1
	The Gnarly Man	18
	The Golem	38
	Walk Like a Mountain	44
	Extempore	58
	Space-Time for Springers	69
	Scylla's Daughter	80
	The Overworld	131
	The Signaller	155
	The Manor of Roses	182
	Death and the Executioner	232
	The Configuration of the North Shore	266
	Two Sadnesses	278
	The Tale of Hauk	291
	Manatee Gal Ain't You Coming Out Tonight	309
	The Troll	339
	The Sleep of Trees	349
	God's Hooks!	359
	The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule	377
	A Cabin on the Coast	401
	Paper Dragons	412
	Into Gold	427
	Flowers of Edo	451
	Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight	472
	A Gift of the People	497
	Missolonghi 1824	513
	Bears Discover Fire	522
	Blunderbore	531
	Death and the Lady	540
	The Changeling's Tale	569
	Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros	584
	Beauty and the Opera or the Phantom Beast	602
	Recommended Reading	643