The treasury of the fantastic
Subtitle: Romanticism to early twentieth century literature
By: [edited by David Sandner & Jacob Weisman ; with a foreword by Peter S. Beagle]
Publisher: Tachyon
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 706
ISBN-13: 9781616960964
Subjects: English Fantasy fiction; English literature; American Fantasy fiction; American literature
Description: Forty-four works that inspired and set the stage for the modern fantasy genre, including pieces by Oscar Wilde, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain.
Notes: Statement of responsibility from cover.
Table of contents: title: Kubla Khan  -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge; title: Darkness  -- Lord Byron; title: La Belle Dame sans Merci  -- John Keats; title: The legend of Sleepy Hollow  -- Washington Irving; title: Peter Rugg, the missing man  -- William Austin; title: The mortal immortal  -- Mary Shelley; title: Young Goodman Brown  -- Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: The fall of the House of Usher  -- Edgar Allan Poe; title: Morte d'Arthur  -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson; title: Goblin market  -- Christina Rossetti; title: The golden key  -- George MacDonald; title: Jabberwocky  -- Lewis Carroll; title: The ogre courting  -- Juliana Horatia Ewing; title: Carmilla  -- J. Sheridan Le Fanu; title: The ghostly rental  -- Henry James; title: The dong with a luminous nose  -- Edward Lear; title: The new mother  -- Lucy Clifford; title: The stolen child  -- W.B. Yeats; title: The Griffin and the Minor Canon  -- Frank R. Stockton; title: The Happy Prince  -- Oscar Wilde; title: Because I could not stop for death  -- Emily Dickinson; title: An occurrence at Owl Creek bridge  -- Ambrose Bierce; title: The bottle imp  -- Robert Louis Stevenson; title: The yellow wall-paper  -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman; title: A moth : genus unknown  -- H.G. Wells; title: Cassilda's song  -- Robert W. Chambers; title: The library window  -- Margaret Oliphant; title: The true lover  -- A.E. Housman; title: The reluctant dragon  -- Kenneth Grahame; title: The Book of Beasts  -- Edith Nesbit; title: The monkey's paw  -- W.W. Jacobs; title: They  -- Rudyard Kipling; title: The sword of Welleran  -- Lord Dunsany; title: The celestial omnibus  -- E.M. Forster; title: The eyes  -- Edith Wharton; title: Casting the runes  -- M.R. James; title: The ghost ship  -- Richard Middleton; title: The listeners  -- Walter De La Mare; title: Red-Peach-Blossom Inlet  -- Kenneth Morris; title: The mysterious stranger  -- Mark Twain; title: Enoch Soames  -- Max Beerbohm; title: Climax for a ghost story  -- I.A. Ireland; title: The Blind God  -- Laurence Housman; title: A haunted house -- Virginia Woolf.