Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories (1979)

by Eric S. Rabkin

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Covers fantastic narrative from ancient myths to modern science fiction in more than fifty tales which represent man's imagination in etiology, entertainment, and wonder.

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What an interesting selection.

One of my coworkers is an early scifi geek, which is cool; he was telling me about this Hoffman guy. This thing has, like, Hawthorne in it. Just a neat way of looking at it.

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Contains

The Oval Portrait [short story] by Edgar Allan Poe

The Black Cat [short story] by Edgar Allan Poe

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar [short fiction] by Edgar Allan Poe

The Moonlit Road [Short story] by Ambrose Bierce

The Picture in the the House [short story] by H. P. Lovecraft

EPICAC [short story] by Kurt Vonnegut

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1979

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As the first international anthology to cover the entire scope of fantastic narrative, Fantastic Worlds presents over fifty tales, myths, and stories, ranging from Genesis to Ovid, Hans Christian Andersen to J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe to James Thurber, and Franz Kafka to Italo Calvino. Including tales of fairies and elves, ghost stories, high fantasy, and stories of social criticism and the conflict between science and religion, this volume presents a diverse selection of writings that all share the same capacity to liberate the human spirit through the wild mental acrobatics of fantasy.

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