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Description:Forty-four classic tales from British and American fantasy icons of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.The fantastic, the supernatural, the poetic, and the macabre entwine in this incomparable culmination of storytelling. Major literary figures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Mary Shelley, Emily Dickinson, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, and many more—these masters of literature created unforgettable tales where goblins and imps comingle with humans from all walks of life.This deftly curated assemblage of notable classics and unexpected gems from the pre-Tolkien era will captivate and enchant readers. Forerunners of today's speculative fiction, these are the authors that changed the fantasy genre forever.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION • David Sandner and Jacob WeismanFOREWORD • Peter S. BeagleKUBLA KHAN • Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1816)DARKNESS • Lord Byron (1816)LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI • John Keats (1819)THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW • >Washington Irving (1820)PETER RUGG, THE MISSING MAN • William Austin (1824)THE MORTAL IMMORTAL • Mary Shelley (1833)YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN • Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835)THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER • Edgar Allan Poe (1839)MORTE D' ARTHUR • Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1842)GOBLIN MARKET • Christina Rossetti (1862)THE GOLDEN KEY • George MacDonald (1867)JABBERWOCKY • Lewis Carroll (1871)THE OGRE COURTING • Juliana Horatia Ewing (1871)CARMILLA • J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)THE GHOSTLY RENTAL • Henry James (1876)THE DONG WITH A LUMINOUS NOSE • Edward Lear (1877)THE NEW MOTHER • Lucy Clifford (1882)THE STOLEN CHILD • W. B. Yeats (1886)THE GRIFFIN AND THE MINOR CANON • Frank R. Stockton (1887)THE HAPPY PRINCE • Oscar Wilde (1889)BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH • Emily Dickinson (1890)AN OCCURENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE • Ambrose Bierce (1890)THE BOTTLE IMP • Robert Louis Stevenson (1891)THE YELLOW WALL-PAPER • Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)A MOTH: GENUS UNKNOWN • H. G. Wells (1895)CASSILDA'S SONG • Robert W. Chambers (1895)THE LIBRARY WINDOW • Margaret Oliphant (1896)THE TRUE LOVER • A. E. Housman (1896)THE RELUCTANT DRAGON • Kenneth Grahame (1898)THE BOOK OF BEASTS • Edith Nesbit (1899)THE MONKEY'S PAW • W. W. Jacobs (1902)THEY • Rudyard Kipling (1904)THE SWORD OF WELLERAN • Lord Dunsany (1908)THE CELESTIAL OMNIBUS • E. M. Forster (1908)THE EYES • Edith Wharton (1910)CASTING THE RUNES • M. R. James (1911)THE GHOST SHIP • Richard Middleton (1912)THE LISTENERS • Walter de la Mare (1912)RED-PEACH-BLOSSOM INLET • Kenneth Morris (1916)THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER • Mark Twain (1916)ENOCH SOAMES • Max Beerbohm (1916)CLIMAX FOR A GHOST STORY • I. A. Ireland (1919)THE BLIND GOD • Laurence Housman (1920)A HAUNTED HOUSE • Virginia Woolf (1921)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Treasury of the Fantastic. To get started finding The Treasury of the Fantastic, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Forty-four classic tales from British and American fantasy icons of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.The fantastic, the supernatural, the poetic, and the macabre entwine in this incomparable culmination of storytelling. Major literary figures from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Mary Shelley, Emily Dickinson, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, and many more—these masters of literature created unforgettable tales where goblins and imps comingle with humans from all walks of life.This deftly curated assemblage of notable classics and unexpected gems from the pre-Tolkien era will captivate and enchant readers. Forerunners of today's speculative fiction, these are the authors that changed the fantasy genre forever.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION • David Sandner and Jacob WeismanFOREWORD • Peter S. BeagleKUBLA KHAN • Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1816)DARKNESS • Lord Byron (1816)LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI • John Keats (1819)THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW • >Washington Irving (1820)PETER RUGG, THE MISSING MAN • William Austin (1824)THE MORTAL IMMORTAL • Mary Shelley (1833)YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN • Nathaniel Hawthorne (1835)THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER • Edgar Allan Poe (1839)MORTE D' ARTHUR • Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1842)GOBLIN MARKET • Christina Rossetti (1862)THE GOLDEN KEY • George MacDonald (1867)JABBERWOCKY • Lewis Carroll (1871)THE OGRE COURTING • Juliana Horatia Ewing (1871)CARMILLA • J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1872)THE GHOSTLY RENTAL • Henry James (1876)THE DONG WITH A LUMINOUS NOSE • Edward Lear (1877)THE NEW MOTHER • Lucy Clifford (1882)THE STOLEN CHILD • W. B. Yeats (1886)THE GRIFFIN AND THE MINOR CANON • Frank R. Stockton (1887)THE HAPPY PRINCE • Oscar Wilde (1889)BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH • Emily Dickinson (1890)AN OCCURENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE • Ambrose Bierce (1890)THE BOTTLE IMP • Robert Louis Stevenson (1891)THE YELLOW WALL-PAPER • Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)A MOTH: GENUS UNKNOWN • H. G. Wells (1895)CASSILDA'S SONG • Robert W. Chambers (1895)THE LIBRARY WINDOW • Margaret Oliphant (1896)THE TRUE LOVER • A. E. Housman (1896)THE RELUCTANT DRAGON • Kenneth Grahame (1898)THE BOOK OF BEASTS • Edith Nesbit (1899)THE MONKEY'S PAW • W. W. Jacobs (1902)THEY • Rudyard Kipling (1904)THE SWORD OF WELLERAN • Lord Dunsany (1908)THE CELESTIAL OMNIBUS • E. M. Forster (1908)THE EYES • Edith Wharton (1910)CASTING THE RUNES • M. R. James (1911)THE GHOST SHIP • Richard Middleton (1912)THE LISTENERS • Walter de la Mare (1912)RED-PEACH-BLOSSOM INLET • Kenneth Morris (1916)THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER • Mark Twain (1916)ENOCH SOAMES • Max Beerbohm (1916)CLIMAX FOR A GHOST STORY • I. A. Ireland (1919)THE BLIND GOD • Laurence Housman (1920)A HAUNTED HOUSE • Virginia Woolf (1921)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Treasury of the Fantastic. To get started finding The Treasury of the Fantastic, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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