Basilisk

Now these stories of mythical creatures are good but the illustrations are excellent and well worth the price of entry. Then again Terry Windling is an amazing artist.

There is an overriding sense of menace in a lot of these stories, these are not stories of safe monsters, these are creatures of other. Some of the stories are just not to my taste and a while later none really stand out exceptionally in my mind. They were a fairly quick read and nothing stands out as being truly bad either. There's a variety of SF and Fantasy stories here.

curiously unfocused collection of new and previously published work, ranging from classic to mediocre worth. and not a single basilisk. really nice illustrations by Terri Windling, though.

[2010-01-22] Intended to do a full review, but still too sore from the fall. Here's what I'd already written. Note -- contents include Alan Garner's short "Feel Free", which covers some of the same themes as "Red Shift", and the Earthsea short "The Word of Unbinding"

Anthology of fantasy short stories, first published in 1980. Going by the copyright page, this is a mix of reprints and new stories, originally published from 1956 to 1980. There's a good mix of styles here. A couple of the pieces didn't work for me, but this anthology had a very high hit rate for me.

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The Hunt of the Unicorn • novelette by Joan D. Vinge

The Man Who Sold Magic • (1965) • novelette by Nicholas Stuart Gray

Peter Kagan and the Wind • (1971) • poem by Gordon Bok

The Forty-Seventh Island • novelette by R. A. Lafferty

The Lamia and Lord Cromis • [Viriconium] • (1971) • novelette by M. John Harrison

War Wounds • novelette by Lynn Abbey

“Feel Free” • (1967) • short story by Alan Garner

“The Word of Unbinding” • [Earthsea Cycle] • (1964) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin

“Grounding Song” • poem by Gordon Grant

“The Amulet” • poem by Gordon Grant

“The Yukio Mishima Cultural Association of Kudzu Valley, Georgia” • short story by Michael Bishop

Wizard’s Domain • novelette by show more Elizabeth A. Lynn show less

Joan D. Vinge: La caza del unicornio; Nicholas Stuart Gray: El hombre que vendía magia; Gordon Bok: Peter Kagan y el viento; R. A. Lafferty: Isla cuarenta y siete; M. John Harrison: Lamia y lord Cromis; Lynn Abbey: Heridas de guerra; Alan Garner: Disfrutar es gratis; Ursula K. Le Guin: La palabra que libera; Gordon Grant: Poemas de ensueño; Michael Bishop: La Asociación Cultural Yukio Mishima, de Kudzu Valley, Georgia; Elizabeth Lynn: El dominio del brujo.