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List Of Fantasy Story Collections
Some notable fantasy short story collections, in alphabetical order by title (some of these collections may also include some science-fiction stories): A *''The Adventures of Doctor Eszterhazy'' by Avram Davidson *'' And Walk Now Gently Through the Fire'' by R. A. Lafferty et al. * Apocalypses (two novellas) by R. A. Lafferty *'' The Avram Davidson Treasury'' by Avram Davidson B *'' The Back Door of History'' by R. A. Lafferty *''The Barnum Museum'' by Steven Millhauser *'' Best Ghost Stories of J. S. Lefanu'' by Sheridan Le Fanu *'' The Best of Avram Davidson'' by Avram Davidson *'' The Best Tales of Hoffmann'' by E. T. A. Hoffmann *'' The Bible Repairman'' by Tim Powers *''The Bloody Chamber'' by Angela Carter *''The Book of Fritz Leiber'' by Fritz Leiber *''The Book of Wonder'' by Lord Dunsany C *''Carnacki the Ghost-Finder'' by William Hope Hodgson *''The Castle of Crossed Destinies (two novellas)'' by Italo Calvino *''Changing Planes'' by Ursula K. Le Guin *'' Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving Magic (supernatural), magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and drama. From the twentieth century, it has expanded further into various media, including film, television, graphic novels, manga, animations and video games. Fantasy is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror fiction, horror by the respective absence of scientific or macabre themes, although these genres overlap. In popular culture, the fantasy genre predominantly features settings that emulate Earth, but with a sense of otherness. In its broadest sense, however, fantasy consists of works by many writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians from ancient mythology, myths and legends to many recent and popular works. Traits Most fantasy uses magic (paranormal), magic or other supernatural elements as a ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Book Of Fritz Leiber
''The Book of Fritz Leiber'' is a collection of short stories and articles by American writer Fritz Leiber. It was first published in paperback in January 1974 by DAW Books. It was later gathered together with '' The Second Book of Fritz Leiber'' into the hardcover omnibus collection ''The Book of Fritz Leiber, Volume I & II'' (Gregg Press, 1980). The book consists of ten fantasy, science fiction and horror short stories alternating with nine related articles, together with a foreword by the author. Some pieces were original to the collection. Others were originally published in the magazines ''Rogue'' for January 1963, ''Worlds of Tomorrow'' for August 1963, '' The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'' for December 1951 and April 1963, ''Galaxy Science Fiction'' for August 1952 and February 1968, and ''Broadside Magazine'' for December 1965, and the collection ''The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces ''The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces'' is a collection of stories, poems ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Compass Rose
''The Compass Rose'' is a 1982 collection of short stories by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, and illustrated by Anne Yvonne Gilbert in 1983. It is organized into sections on the theme of directions, though not strictly compass-related as the title implies. It won the Locus Award for best Single Author Collection in 1983. Contents * Preface ''Nadir'' * "'The Author of the Acacia Seeds' and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics" (1974, '' Fellowship of the Stars'') * "The New Atlantis" (1975, ''The New Atlantis'') * "Schrödinger's Cat" (1974, ''Universe 5'') ''North'' * "Two Delays on the Northern Line" (1979, ''The New Yorker'') * "SQ" (1978, '' Cassandra Rising'') * "Small Change" (1981, '' Tor zu den Sternen'') ''East'' * "The First Report of the Shipwrecked Foreigner to the Kadanh of Derb" (1978, ''Antaeus'') * "The Diary of the Rose" (1976, '' Future Power'') * "The White Donkey" (1980, ''TriQuarterly'') * "The Phoenix" ''Zenith'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known books, ''Ficciones'' (''Fictions'') and '' El Aleph'' (''The Aleph''), published in the 1940s, are collections of short stories exploring themes of dreams, labyrinths, chance, infinity, archives, mirrors, fictional writers and mythology. Borges' works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre, and majorly influenced the magic realist movement in 20th century Latin American literature.Theo L. D'Haen (1995) "Magical Realism and Postmodernism: Decentering Privileged Centers", in: Louis P. Zamora and Wendy B. Faris, ''Magical Realism: Theory, History and Community''. Duhan and London, Duke University Press, pp. 191–208. Born in Buenos Aires, Borges later moved with his family to Switzerland in 1914, where he studied ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collected Fictions
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Collected Fantasies (Avram Davidson Collection)
''Collected Fantasies'' is a collection of fantasy short stories, written by Avram Davidson and edited by John Silbersack. It was first published in paperback by Berkley Books in June 1982. Summary The book collects twelve novelettes and short stories by the author, originally published in various magazines, with an introduction by the editor. Contents *"Introduction" (John Silbersack) *"Sacheverell" *"Help! I Am Dr. Morris Goldpepper" *"Dragon Skin Drum" *"The Lord of Central Park" *"Or All the Seas with Oysters" *"The Man Who Saw the Elephant" *"Manatee Gal, Won't You Come Out Tonight" *"The Sources of the Nile" *"The Certificate" *"The Golem" *"The Cobblestones of Saratoga Street" *"Faed-Out" Reception The collection was reviewed by Debbie Notkin in ''Locus'' #259, August 1982, Len Hatfield in ''Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review'' #7, September 1982, Thomas M. Disch Thomas Michael Disch (February 2, 1940 – July 4, 2008) was an American science fiction author and po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula K
Ursula may refer to: * Ursula (name), feminine name and a list of people and fictional characters with the name * ''Ursula'' (album), an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron *Ursula (crater), a crater on Titania, a moon of Uranus *Ursula (detention center), processing facility for unaccompanied minors in McAllen, Texas *Ursula (The Little Mermaid), a fictional character who appears in ''The Little Mermaid'' (1989) *Ursula Channel, body of water in British Columbia, Canada * 375 Ursula, a large main-belt asteroid * HMS ''Ursula'', a destroyer and two submarines that served with the Royal Navy *Tropical Storm Ursula (other), a typhoon, two cyclones, and a tropical depression, all in the Pacific Ocean * Ursula, signals intelligence system used by the Finnish Defence Intelligence Agency See also *Saint Ursula *Urszula Urszula may refer to: * Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa (1705–1753), Polish-Lithuania-Belarusian noble dramatist and writer * Urszula Augustyn (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Changing Planes
''Changing Planes'' is a 2003 collection of short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin. Each chapter describes a different world and the society that inhabits it; these societies share similarities to Earth's cultures in some respects, but may be notably dissimilar in other respects. Many of the chapters are brief vignettes or ethnographic profiles of the societies they describe. ''Changing Planes'' won the Locus Award for best collection in 2004. Conception and analysis The conceit of the collection, described in the first story, "Sita Dulip's Method", is based on a pun that ties the book together: that the low-level discomfort of forced occupation of an airport while changing planes can, in fact, cause one to change from one "plane" of reality to another. Because of the different flow of time in other planes, one can spend a week visiting another plane and return in time to make a connecting flight. One scholar notes that the stories explore an underlying, unifying theme around the "i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (, also , ;. RAI (circa 1970), retrieved 25 October 2012. 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best known works include the ''Our Ancestors'' trilogy (1952–1959), the '' Cosmicomics'' collection of short stories (1965), and the novels ''Invisible Cities'' (1972) and ''If on a winter's night a traveler'' (1979). Admired in Britain, Australia and the United States, he was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death. Italo Calvino is buried in the garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia, in Tuscany. Biography Parents Italo Calvino was born in Santiago de las Vegas, a suburb of Havana, Cuba, in 1923. His father, Mario, was a tropical agronomist and botanist who also taught agriculture and floriculture. Born 47 years earlier in Sanremo, Italy, Mario Calvino had emigrated to Mexico in 1909 where he took up an important position with the Ministry of Agriculture. In an autobiographical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Castle Of Crossed Destinies
''The Castle of Crossed Destinies'' ( it, Il castello dei destini incrociati) is a 1973 novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. Background The novel is in two parts, each using a different style of tarot deck. The first part was published alone in 1969 as ''Tarocchi: Il mazzo visconteo di Bergamo e New York'' (Tarots: The Visconti Pack in Bergamo and New York). It contains allusions to Ludovico Ariosto's ''Orlando Furioso''. The second part, with the header "The Tavern of Crossed Destinies", features the Tarot of Marseilles. Plot The narrative details a meeting among travelers who are inexplicably unable to speak after passing through a forest. The characters in the novel recount their tales via tarot cards, which are reconstructed by the narrator. The deck scatters at the end of the novel, as do the characters' identities. Themes The novel is an exploration of how meaning is created, whether that be written via words (by the author, via the book, since the characters in the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hope Hodgson
William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 – 19 April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction.Alder, Emily. "Passing the Barrier or Life: Spiritualism, Psychical Research and Boundaries in William Hope Hodgson's "The Night Land"". in Ramone, Jenni and Twitchen, Gemma, eds. ''Boundaries''. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. (pp. 120-139). Stableford, Brian, "Hodgson, William Hope", in Pringle, David ed., ''St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers''. London: St. James Press, 1998. (pp. 273-275). Hodgson used his experiences at sea to lend authentic detail to his short horror stories, many of which are set on the ocean, including his series of linked tales forming the "Sargasso Sea Stories". His novels, such as '' The House on the Borderland'' (1908) and ''The Night Land'' (1912), feature more cosm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carnacki The Ghost-Finder
''Carnacki the Ghost-Finder'' is a collection of occult detective short stories by English writer William Hope Hodgson, featuring the titular protagonist. It was first published in 1913 by the English publisher Eveleigh Nash. In 1947, a new edition of 3,050 copies was published by Mycroft & Moran and included three additional stories (the last three listed below). In 1951 Ellery Queen covered the Mycroft & Moran version as No. 53 in ''Queen's Quorum: A History of the Detective-Crime Short Story As Revealed by the 100 Most Important Books Published in this Field Since 1845''. For several decades subsequent to the Mycroft and Moran edition, Carnacki collections routinely if not always contained all nine stories. Project Gutenberg Ebook #10832 (2004) contains only the first six stories, however, and arranges them in sequence of their 1910 and 1912 magazine publication. Some other publications follow Project Gutenberg, perhaps using its text. Contents ''Carnacki the Ghost-Finde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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