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A collection of fantasy literature chosen from the most popular works of the past 150 years, and including brief biographical sketches of each author.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Robert H. Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorski
• The Elves - (1977) - novelette by Ludwig Tieck (trans. of Die Elfen 1812)
• The Sword of Welleran - (1908) - short story by Lord Dunsany
• The Light Princess - juvenile - (1864) - novelette by George MacDonald
• The Grove of Ashtaroth - (1910) - novelette by John Buchan
• The Music from Behind the Moon - [Biography of the Life of Manuel - 4.1] - (1926) - novelette by James Branch Cabell
• The Accommodating Circumstance - (1887) - short story by Frank R. Stockton
• The Peach Tree - (1929) - short story by H. E. Bates
• The Loquacious Goblin - (1961) - short story by Alexander Grin
• Riddles in the Dark - (1972) - short story by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Magician's Book - (1952) - short fiction by C. S. Lewis
• The Dufflepuds Made Happy - (1952) - short fiction by C. S. Lewis
• The Tall One - (1950) - short story by Mark Van Doren
• The Foundling - [The Prydain Chronicles / Taran] - (1973) - short story by Lloyd Alexander
• Come Lady Death - (1963) - short story by Peter S. Beagle
• The Rule of Names - [Earthsea Cycle] - (1964) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Beliard - (1974) - short story by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sixteen phantasmal stories of the past century evoking illusion, myth and mystical delights as primary world beings, fairies and other supernatural figures interact in magical adventures.

A collection of fantasy literature chosen from the most popular works of the past 100 years, and including brief biographical sketches of each author.

Table of Contents:

• Preface - essay by Robert H. Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorski
• Introduction - essay by Robert H. Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorski
• The Golden Key - (1867) - novelette by George MacDonald
• The Glass of Supreme Moments - (1892) - short story by Barry Pain
• Old Pipes and the Dryad - short story by Frank R. Stockton
• The Kith of the Elf-Folk - (1908) - short story by Lord Dunsany
• Red-Peach-Blossom Inlet - (1916) - short story by Kenneth Morris
• The Legend of the Christmas Rose - (1910) - short story by Selma Lagerlof
• Above Ker-Is - (1978) - short story by Evangeline Walton
• The Abominable Imprecation - (1935) - short story by Eric Linklater
• Jirel Meets Magic - [Jirel of Joiry] - (1935) - novelette by C. L. Moore
• The Thirty and One - [Tales from Cornwall - 4] - (1938) - short story by David H. Keller
• April in Paris - (1962) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• A Harp of Fishbones - (1960) - short story by Joan Aiken
• The Smith, the Weaver, and the Harper - juvenile - [The Prydain Chronicles / Taran] - (1973) - short story by Lloyd Alexander
• From The Throme of the Erril of Sherill (excerpt) - (1973) - short fiction by Patricia A. McKillip
• Elphenor and Weasel - (1974) - short story by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• Crusader Damosel - (1978) - short story by Vera Chapman