Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• xvi • Foreword (Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature) • (1983) • essay by Alberto Manguel
• 1 • House Taken Over • (1967) • short story by
  Julio Cortázar^?Julio Cortazar
  (trans. of Casa tomada 1946)
• 7 • How Love Came to Professor Guildea • (1957) • novella by Robert Hichens [as by Robert S. Hichens]
• 49 • Climax for a Ghost Story • (1919) • short story by I. A. Ireland
• 50 • The Mysteries of the Joy Rio • (1954) • short story by Tennessee Williams
• 62 • Pomegranate Seed • (1931) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 92 • Venetian Masks • (1983) • short story by Adolfo Bioy Casares (trans. of Máscaras venecianas 1982)
• 110 • The Wish House • (1924) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 127 • The Playground • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 141 • Importance • (1983) • short story by Manuel Mujica Láinez (trans. of Importancia 1978)
• 144 • Enoch Soames • (1916) • novelette by Max Beerbohm (variant of Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties)
• 171 • A Visitor from Down Under • (1926) • short story by L. P. Hartley
• 188 • Laura • (1914) • short story by Saki
• 193 • An Injustice Revealed • (1983) • short story by Anonymous
• 198 • A Little Place Off the Edgware Road • (1939) • short story by Graham Greene
• 204 • From "A School Story" • (1983) • short fiction by M. R. James
• 206 • The Signalman • (1866) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 219 • The Tall Woman • (unknown) • novelette by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón (trans. of La mujer alta 1881)
• 235 • A Scent of Mimosa • (1975) • short story by Francis King
• 249 • Death and the Gardener • (1983) • short fiction by Jean Cocteau (trans. of Le jardinier et la Mort 1923)
• 250 • Lord Mountdrago • (1983) • novelette by W. Somerset Maugham [as by William Somerset Maugham]
• 273 • The Sick Gentleman's Last Visit • (1983) • short story by Giovanni Papini (trans. of L'ultima visita del gentiluomo malato 1906)
• 279 • Insomnia • (1983) • short story by
  Virgilio Piñera^?Virgilio Pinera
  (trans. of En el insomnio 1946)
• 280 • The Storm • (1983) • short story by Jules Verne (trans. of Frritt-Flacc 1886)
• 287 • A Dream • (1983) • short story by Edward William Lane [as by Anonymous]
• 289 • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 299 • Split Second • (1952) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
• 345 • August 25, 1983 • (1983) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Veinticinco de agosto, 1983)
• 351 • How Wang-Fo Was Saved • (1983) • short story by Marguerite Yourcenar (trans. of Comment Wang-Fô fut sauvé 1936)
• 361 • From 'Peter and Rosa' • (1983) • short fiction by Karen Blixen [as by Isak Dinesen]
• 363 • Tattoo • (1962) • short story by
  谷崎潤一郎^?Junichiro Tanizaki
  (trans. of
  刺青^?Irezumi
  1910) [as by Junichiro Tanizaki]
• 371 • John Duffy's Brother • (1940) • short story by Flann O'Brien
• 377 • Lady Into Fox • (1922) • novella by David Garnett (I)
• 430 • Father's Last Escape • (1978) • short story by Bruno Schulz (trans. of Ostatnia ucieczka ojca 1937)
• 435 • A Man by the Name of Ziegler • (1972) • short story by Hermann Hesse (trans. of Ein Mensch mit Namen Ziegler 1908)
• 440 • The Argentine Ant • (1971) • novelette by Italo Calvino (trans. of La formica argentina 1952)
• 470 • The Lady on the Grey • (1951) • short story by John Collier (variant of The Lady on the Gray)
• 478 • The Queen of Spades • (1958) • novelette by
  Александр Пушкин^?Alexander Pushkin
  (trans. of
  Пиковая дама^?Pikovaya dama
  1834) [as by Alexander Pushkin]
• 503 • Of a Promise Kept • (1901) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• 507 • The Wizard Postponed • (1973) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El brujo postergado 1933) [as by Juan Manuel]
• 511 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 522 • The Bottle Imp • (1891) • novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 550 • The Rocking-Horse Winner • (1926) • short story by D. H. Lawrence
• 565 • Certain Distant Suns • (1983) • short story by Joanne Greenberg [as by Joanne Greenburg]
• 582 • The Third Bank of the River • (1967) • short story by João Guimarães Rosa (trans. of A terceira margem do rio 1962)
• 588 • Home • (1910) • short story by Hilaire Belloc
• 596 • The Door in the Wall • (1906) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 612 • The Friends • (1983) • short story by Silvina Ocampo (trans. of Los amigos 1959)
• 619 • Et in Sempiternum Pereant • (1935) • short story by Charles Williams
• 629 • The Captives of Longjumeau • (1983) • short story by Léon Bloy (trans. of Les captifs de Longjumeau 1893)
• 634 • The Visit to the Museum • (1958) • short story by Vladimir Nabokov (trans. of
  Посещение музея^?Poseshchenie muzeya
  1939)
• 644 • 'Autumn Mountain' • (1983) • short story by
  芥川龍之介^?Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  (trans. of
  秋山図^?Shūzanzu
  1921) [as by Ryunosuke Akutagawa]
• 652 • The Sight • (1977) • short story by Brian Moore
• 670 • Clorinda • (1983) • short story by
  André Pieyre de Mandiargues^?Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues
  (trans. of Clorinde 1951)
• 675 • The Pagan Rabbi • (1966) • novelette by Cynthia Ozick
• 704 • The Fisherman and His Soul • (1891) • novelette by Oscar Wilde
• 735 • The Bureau d'Echange de Maux • (1915) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 740 • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas • (unknown) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin [as by Ursula K. LeGuin]
• 748 • In the Penal Colony • (1981) • novelette by Franz Kafka (trans. of In der Strafkolonie 1919)
• 774 • A Dog in Dürer's Etching: 'The Knight, Death and the Devil' • (1983) • short story by Marco Denevi (trans. of Un perro en el grabado de Durero titulado "El caballero, la muerte y el diablo" 1977)
• 782 • The Large Ant • (1960) • short story by Howard Fast
• 792 • The Lemmings • (1946) • short story by Alex Comfort
• 800 • The Grey Ones • (1953) • short story by J. B. Priestley
• 816 • The Feather Pillow • (1976) • short story by Horacio Quiroga (trans. of El almohadón de plumas 1907)
• 820 • Seaton's Aunt • (1922) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
• 849 • The Friends of the Friends • (1896) • novelette by Henry James
• 874 • The Travelling Companion • (1893) • short story by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of Reisekammeraten 1835)
• 891 • The Curfew Tolls • (1935) • short story by
  Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet
• 907 • The State of Grace • (1957) • short story by
  Marcel Aymé^?Marcel Ayme
  (trans. of La grâce 1944)
• 919 • The Story of a Panic • (1904) • novelette by E. M. Forster
• 940 • An Invitation to the Hunt • (1960) • short story by George Hitchcock
• 950 • From the 'American Notebooks' • (1983) • short fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 952 • The Dream • (1910) • short story by O. Henry