description: With this posthumously published anthology--a successor to his bestselling Italian Folktales --Italo Calvino, a contemporary surveyor of the otherwordly, pays homage to twenty-six of his nineteenth-century precursors. The resulting volume is both an education in the history of fantastic literature and a rollercoaster ride of wonder and terror, vampires, ghosts, and the rebellious creatures of our own psyches.Selections E.T.A. Hoffmann--"The Sandman"Gérard de Nerval--"the Enchanted Hand"Nikolai Gogol--"The Nose"Edgar Allan Poe--"The Tell-Tale Heart"Hans Christian Andersen--"The Shadow"Ambrose Bierce--"Chickamauga"Robert Louis Stevenson--"The Bottle Imp"Henry James--"The Friends of the Friends"H.G. Wells--"The Country of the Blind"Comprising stories of the supernatural and narratives of the everyday uncanny, Fantastic Tales is a gallery of enchantments, deliciously entertaining yet more disturbing than our most persistent nightmares.From the Trade Paperback edition.
language: English
title: Fantastic Tales
titlecomplete: Fantastic Tales
genres: Literature, Classics, Italian Literature, Gothic, Anthologies, Horror, Fiction, Short Stories, Fantasy, Mystery
ratings_count: 523
publisher: Random House Value Publishing