• Publication: Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and StoriesPublication Record # 264802
• Editor: Eric S. Rabkin
• Date: 1979-00-00
• ISBN: 0-19-502542-3 [978-0-19-502542-2]
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Price:
  $22.50^?$: US dollar
• Pages: xvii+478
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes:

  • This publication's notes and contents are from the verified tp edition.
  • See the editor's bibliographic comments for a full table of contents and notes on corrections.
  • The printing date and number are not stated other than "1979" on the title page just below the publisher name. The copyright date is also 1979. Amazon.com lists June 7, 1979 for both the hc and tp editions.

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• xi • Preface (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) • essay by Eric S. Rabkin
• 3 • Introduction (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) • essay by Eric S. Rabkin
• 27 • The Sources of the Fantastic (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) • essay by Eric S. Rabkin
• 41 • Genesis (King James Version) • (unknown) • short story by uncredited
• 47 • The Blackfoot Genesis • (1892) • short story by George Bird Grinnell [as by uncredited]
• 53 • The Eye of the Giant • short story by A. W. Cardinall [as by uncredited]
• 56 • How I Brought Death Into the World • [The Palm-Wine Drinkard] • (1952) • short story by Amos Tutuola
• 62 • The Myth of Actaeon • short story by Ovid
• 66 • The Myth of Narcissus • short story by Ovid
• 72 • The Myth of Philomela • short story by Ovid
• 80 • The Ghost Wife • (1889) • short story by George Bird Grinnell [as by uncredited]
• 82 • The Magic Swan Geese • (1945) • short story by
  Александр Афанасьев^?Aleksandr Afanasiev
  (trans. of
  Гуси-лебеди^?Gusi-lebedi
  ) [as by Alexandr Afanas'ev]
• 84 • Why Tortoise's Shell Is Not Smooth • (1958) • short story by Chinua Achebe
• 87 • How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox • (1880) • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 89 • Paul Bunyan on the Columbia • (1924) • short story by Esther Shephard (variant of On the Columbia)
• 96 • Little Red-Cap • [
  KHM (Kinder- und Hausmärchen)^?KHM (Kinder- und Hausmaerchen)
  • 26] • short story by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (trans. of Rothkäppchen 1812) [as by Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm]
• 100 • The Sleeping Beauty • [
  KHM (Kinder- und Hausmärchen)^?KHM (Kinder- und Hausmaerchen)
  • 50] • short story by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (trans. of
  Dornröschen^?Dornroeschen
  1812) [as by Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm]
• 104 • Hansel and Grethel • [
  KHM (Kinder- und Hausmärchen)^?KHM (Kinder- und Hausmaerchen)
  • 15] • short story by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (trans. of
  Hänsel und Gretel^?Haensel und Gretel
  1812) [as by Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm]
• 112 • The Tinderbox • (1974) • short story by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of Fyrtøiet 1835)
• 120 • The Tale of Cosmo • (1858) • novelette by George MacDonald
• 141 • Leaf by Niggle • (1964) • short story by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 161 • The Diversity of Fantastic Literature (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) • essay by Eric S. Rabkin
• 175 • Our Ideas of Time • (1711) • short story by Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
• 179 • Ritter Gluck: A Recollection from the Year 1809 • (1979) • short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Ritter Gluck 1808)
• 190 • The Oval Portrait • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 194 • The Garden of Live Flowers • [Alice] • (1872) • short story by Lewis Carroll
• 202 • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty • non-genre • (1939) • short story by James Thurber
• 208 • The Royal Banquet • (1961) • short story by Norton Juster
• 214 • The Sandman • (1974) • novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Der Sandmann 1816)
• 247 • The Black Cat • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 257 • The Picture in the House • (1919) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 266 • The Hand • (1861) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• 274 • The Moonlit Road • (1907) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 284 • Lost Hearts • (1895) • short story by M. R. James
• 294 • Golden Wings • (1856) • short story by William Morris
• 311 • The Sword of Welleran • (1908) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 325 • The Five Black Swans • (1973) • short story by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• 333 • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 343 • The Birthmark • (1854) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (variant of The Birth-Mark 1843)
• 360 • The Star • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 372 • EPICAC • (1950) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• 380 • The Third Level • (1950) • short story by Jack Finney
• 385 • The Star • (1955) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
• 393 • Modern Fantasy (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) • essay by Eric S. Rabkin
• 399 • The Judgment • (1948) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of Das Urteil 1913)
• 410 • A Common Confusion • (1933) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of Eine alltägliche Verwirrung 1931)
• 411 • Cockroaches • (1963) • short story by Bruno Schulz (trans. of Karakony 1934)
• 415 • Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote • (1979) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote 1939)
• 424 • Axolotl • (1967) • short story by
  Julio Cortázar^?Julio Cortazar
  (trans. of Axolotl 1956)
• 430 • Pastoral • (1963) • short story by Tommaso Landolfi
• 438 • All at One Point • (1968) • short story by Italo Calvino (trans. of Tutto in un punto 1964)
• 443 • There Is No Such Place As America • (1970) • short story by Peter Bichsel (trans. of Kindergeschichten 1969)
• 450 • The Piano Player • (1963) • short story by Donald Barthelme
• 453 • Homage to the San Francisco YMCA • (1971) • short story by Richard Brautigan
• 456 • The Marker • (1963) • short story by Robert Coover
• 460 • The Zebra Storyteller • (1954) • short story by Spencer Holst
• 463 • Annotated Bibliography (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) • essay by Eric S. Rabkin
• 475 • Index (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) • essay by Eric S. Rabkin