The Book of Fantasy

Pagination is given per the Penguin edition.

• Introduction. Ursula K. Le Guin (begins page 9)
• "Sennin". Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Three Treasures, 1951 (begins page 13)
  • This is a reworking of a Japanese Zen koan; the koan can be found in the collection Zen Flesh, Zen Bones.
• "A Woman Alone with Her Soul". Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1912 (begins page 16)
• "Ben-Tobith". Leonid Andreyev, from his The Crushed Flower and Other Stories (begins page 17)
• "The Phantom Basket". John Aubrey, Miscellanies, 1696 (begins page 20)
• "The Drowned Giant". J. G. Ballard, The Terminal Beach, London: Gollancz, 1964 (begins page 21)
• "Enoch Soames". Max Beerbohm, The Century May ’16 (begins page 28)
• "The Tail of the Sphinx". Ambrose Bierce, San Francisco Examiner January 14, 1893. Later included in Bierce's Fantastic Fables
• "The Squid in Its Own Ink". From El Lado de La Sombra, 1962, Adolfo Bioy Casares; translated by Alexandra Potts (begins page 49)
• "Guilty Eyes". Ah‘med Ech Chiruani (no information besides the name is given about Chiruani) begins page 57)
• "Anything You Want!..." from Histoires Désobligeantes ("Disagreeable tales"), 1894, Léon Bloy; translated by Moira Banks, (begins page 58)
• "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius". 1941, Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths, New Directions, 1962 (begins page 61)
• "Odin". Jorge Luis Borges & Delia Ingenieros, (begins page 73)
• "The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind" Ray Bradbury, Epoch Win ’53. Also in Bradbury's The Golden Apples of the Sun (begins page 73)
• "The Man Who Collected the First of September, 1973". Tor Åge Bringsvaerd; translated by Oddrun Grønvik, 1973 (begins page 77)
• "The Careless Rabbi". Martin Buber; translated by Olga Marx, Tales of the Hasidin, vol. 1, 1956 (begins page 81)
• "The Tale of the Poet". Sir Richard Burton (begins page 81)
• "Fate Is a Fool". Arturo Cancela, Pilar de Lusarreta; translated by Lucia Alvarez de Toledo & Alexandra Potts (begins page 82)
• "An Actual Authentic Ghost". From Sartor Resartus, Thomas Carlyle, 1834 (begins page 92)
• "The Red King’s Dream". From Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll, London: Macmillan, 1871 (begins page 92)
• "The Tree of Pride". G. K. Chesterton, The Trees of Pride, Cassell, 1922 (begins page 94)
• "The Tower of Babel". G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Cassell, 1922 (begins page 95)
• "The Dream of the Butterfly or “Chuang Chu and the Butterfly”". Chuang Tzu; translated by Herbert A. Giles, 1926 (begins page 95)
• "The Look of Death". From Le Grand Ecart, Jean Cocteau, 1923 (begins page 96)
• "House Taken Over". Julio Cortázar, End of Game and Other Stories, Random House, 1967 (begins page 96)
• "Being Dust". Santiago Dabove, La Muerta y su Traje, 1961 (begins page 100)
• "A Parable of Gluttony". From With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet, Alexandra David-Neel, 1931 (begins page 104)
• "The Persecution of the Master". From With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet, Alexandra David-Neel, 1931 (begins page 105)
• "The Idle City". Lord Dunsany, Saturday Review (UK) April 10 ’09 (begins page 106)
• "Tantalia". Macedonio Fernández; translated by Lucia Alvarez de Toledo & Alexandra Potts - (begins page 110)
• "Eternal Life" J. G. Frazer 1913; Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul (begins page 114)
• "A Secure Home". Elena Garro (begins page 115)
• "The Man Who Did Not Believe in Miracles". From Confucianism and Its Rivals, Herbert A. Giles, 1915 (begins page 123)
• "Earth’s Holocaust" Nathaniel Hawthorne, Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine May, 1844 (begins page 124)
• "Ending for a Ghost Story". I. A. Ireland, 1919 (begins page 137)
• "The Monkey's Paw". W. W. Jacobs, Harper’s Monthly, September ’02 (begins page 137)
• "What Is a Ghost?". From Ulysses, James Joyce 1921 (begins page 145)
• "May Goulding". From Ulysses. James Joyce, 1921 (begins page 146)
• "The Wizard Passed Over". Don Juan Manuel, Libro de los ejemplos del conde Lucanor y de Patronio, Allen Lane, 1970 (begins page 147)
• "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk". March 1924, Franz Kafka (begins page 149)
• "Before the Law". Franz Kafka (begins page 160)
• "The Return of Imray". Rudyard Kipling, Mine Own People or Life's Handicap, New York: Hurst & Co., 1891; EQMM Sep ’58 (begins page 162)
• "The Horses of Abdera". Leopoldo Lugones; Las Fuerzas Extranas, Buenos Aires, 1906. (begins page 170)
• "The Ceremony". Arthur Machen, Ornaments in Jade, New York: A.A. Knopf, 1924 (begins page 175)
• "The Riddle". Walter de la Mare, Monthly Review February ’03; The Riddle, and Other Stories (begins page 177)
• "Who Knows?". Guy de Maupassant April 6, 1890 (begins page 180)
• "The Shadow of the Players". From The Weekend Guide to Wales, Edwin Morgan (begins page 190)
  • Based on The Dream of Rhonabwy of the Mabinogion
• "The Cat". H. A. Murena (begins page 190)
• "The Story of the Foxes". Niu Chiao (begins page 192)
• "The Atonement". Silvina Ocampo, 1961 (begins page 193)
• "The Man Who Belonged to Me". Giovanni Papini; in Il Trangico Quoticliano, 1906. (begins page 202)
• "Rani". Carlos Peralta (begins page 208)
• "The Blind Spot". Barry Perowne, EQMM November ’45 (begins page 213)
• "The Wolf". From the Satyricon, Rome, 60 CE. Petronius (begins page 222)
• "The Bust". Manuel Peyrou (begins page 224)
• "The Cask of Amontillado", Edgar Allan Poe, Godey's Lady's Book November, 1846 (begins page 29)
• "The Tiger of Chao-ch’êng". From Liao Chai, 1679, P’u Sung Ling. Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, De La Rue, 1880 (begins page 234)
• "How We Arrived at the Island of Tools". From Gargantua and Pantagruel. François Rabelais, 1564 (begins page 236)
• "The Music on the Hill". Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis, John Lane, 1911 (begins page 37)
• "Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched". May Sinclair, The English Review Oct ’22 (begins page 241)
• "The Cloth Which Weaves Itself". From Malay Magic. W. W. Skeat, 1900 (begins page 256)
• "Universal History". From Star Maker, Olaf Stapledon, London: Methuen, 1937 (begins page 257)
• "A Theologian in Death". Emanuel Swedenborg, Arcana Coelestia (1794), Allen Lane, 1970 (begins page 257)
• "The Encounter". From the T’ang Dynasty (618-906 CE) (begins page 259)
• "The Three Hermits". Leo Tolstoy, Twenty-Three Tales (begins page 260)
• "Macario". B. Traven The Night Visitor, and Other Stories, 1966 (begins page 265)
• "The Infinite Dream of Pao-Yu". Ts’ao Chan (Hsueh Ch’in), The Dream of the Red Chamber (begins page 291)
• "The Mirror to Wind-and-Moon". Ts’ao Chan (Hsueh Ch’in), The Dream of the Red Chamber (begins page 292)
• "The Desire to Be a Man". Villiers de l’Isle-Adam Contes Cruels, 1883 (begins page 294)
• "Memnon, or Human Wisdom". Voltaire, 1749; from Romances, Tales and Smaller Pieces of M. de Voltaire, Vol. 1 1794 (begins page 300)
• "The Man Who Liked Dickens". Evelyn Waugh Hearst's International September ’33 (begins page 304)
• "Pomegranate Seed". Edith Wharton, The Saturday Evening Post, April 25 ’31 (begins page 315)
• "Lukundoo" 1907 Edward Lucas White, Weird Tales, November ’25 (begins page 336)
• "The Donguys". Juan Rodolfo Wilcock (begins page 346)
• "Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime". Oscar Wilde, Court and Society Review, May 11, 1887 (begins page 353)
• "The Sorcerer of the White Lotus Lodge". Richard Wilhelm; translated by F. H. Martens; in Chinesische Volksmaerchen, 1924 (begins page 376)
• "The Celestial Stag". G. Willoughby-Meade, Chinese Ghouls and Goblins, Constable, 1928 (begins page 377)
• "Saved by the Book". G. Willoughby-Meade, Chinese Ghouls and Goblins, Constable, 1928 (begins page 377)
• "The Reanimated Englishman". Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Roger Dodsworth, 1826 (begins page 378)
• "The Sentence" from Monkey, 16th century, Wu Ch’Eng En; translated by Arthur Waley, 1921 (begins page 379)
• "The Sorcerers". William Butler Yeats, The Celtic Twilight, Lawrence & Bullen, 1893 (begins page 380)
• "Fragment" from Don Juan Tenorio, 1844, José Zorrilla (begins page 382)

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