''The Fantasy Hall of Fame'' is an
anthology
In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs or excerpts by different authors.
In genre fiction, the term ''anthology'' typically categ ...
of
fantasy short works edited by
Robert Silverberg and
Martin H. Greenberg. It was first published in hardcover by
Arbor House
Arbor House was an independent publishing house founded by Donald Fine in 1969. Specializing in hard cover publications, Arbor House published works by Hortense Calisher, Ken Follett, Cynthia Freeman, Elmore Leonard and Irwin Shaw before being ac ...
in October 1983. The first British edition was issued by Robinson in trade paperback in June 1988 under the alternate title ''The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats'', under which title it was reprinted by the same publisher in July 1990. A second British edition was issued by W. H. Smith in trade paperback under the alternate title ''Great Fantasy'' in 2004. This work should not be confused with the
later anthology of the same title with different content (only four stories are common to the two books) edited by Silverberg alone for HarperPrism in March 1998.
The book collects twenty-two novelettes and short stories by various authors, together with an introduction by Silverberg.
Contents
*"Introduction" (
Robert Silverberg)
*"
The Masque of the Red Death" (
Edgar Allan Poe)
*"
An Inhabitant of Carcosa" (
Ambrose Bierce)
*"
The Sword of Welleran" (
Lord Dunsany
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (; 24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957, usually Lord Dunsany) was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist. Over 90 volumes of fiction, essays, poems and plays appeared in his lifetime.Lanham, M ...
)
*"The Woman of the Wood" (
A. Merritt)
*"The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan" (
Clark Ashton Smith
Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was an American writer and artist. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Algernon Charles Swinburne ...
)
*"The Valley of the Worm" (
Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906June 11, 1936) was an American writer. He wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subge ...
)
*"Black God's Kiss" (
C. L. Moore)
*"
The Silver Key" (
H. P. Lovecraft)
*"
Nothing in the Rules" (
L. Sprague de Camp)
*"
A Gnome There Was" (
Lewis Padgett (
Henry Kuttner
Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 – February 3, 1958) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror.
Early life
Henry Kuttner was born in Los Angeles, California in 1915. Kuttner (1829–1903) and Amelia Bush (c. 1834–1911), the ...
and
C. L. Moore)
*"Snulbug" (
Anthony Boucher)
*"The Words of Guru" (
C. M. Kornbluth)
*"Homecoming" (
Ray Bradbury)
*"
Mazirian the Magician "Mazirian the Magician" is a sword and sorcery short story by American writer Jack Vance. It was first published in 1950 as part of '' The Dying Earth'', a collection of loosely linked tales. It has been reissued in numerous anthologies since 1965 ...
" (
Jack Vance)
*"O Ugly Bird!" (
Manly Wade Wellman)
*"The Silken-Swift" (
Theodore Sturgeon)
*"The Golem" (
Avram Davidson)
*"
That Hell-Bound Train
"That Hell-Bound Train" is a fantasy short story by American writer Robert Bloch. It was originally published in '' The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' in September 1958.
Plot summary
Martin is a young hobo with a fondness for trains. On ...
" (
Robert Bloch
Robert Albert Bloch (; April 5, 1917September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He also wrote a relatively small ...
)
*"
Kings in Darkness" (
Michael Moorcock (and James Cawthorn, uncredited))
*"Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes" (
Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality. Robert Bloch, the author of '' Psycho'' ...
)
*"
Gonna Roll the Bones
"Gonna Roll the Bones" is a fantasy novelette by American writer Fritz Leiber, in which a character plays craps with Death. First published in Harlan Ellison's '' Dangerous Visions'', it won both the Hugo Award and Nebula Award for Best Novelette.
...
" (
Fritz Leiber)
*"
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (
Ursula K. Le Guin)
Notes
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