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Book Review of Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories (Galaxy Books)

Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories (Galaxy Books)
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* xi Preface (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) (1979) essay by Eric S. Rabkin
* 3 Introduction (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) (1979) essay by Eric S. Rabkin
* 27 The Sources of the Fantastic (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) (1979) essay by Eric S. Rabkin
* 41 Genesis (King James Version) (0000) shortstory by unknown
* 47 The Blackfoot Genesis (1892) shortstory by Blackfoot Myth
* 53 The Eye of the Giant (1979) shortstory by Togoland Myth
* 56 How I Brought Death Into the World (1952) shortstory by Amos Tutuola
* 62 The Myth of Actaeon (1979) shortstory by Ovid
* 66 The Myth of Narcissus (1979) shortstory by Ovid
* 72 The Myth of Philomela (1979) shortstory by Ovid
* 80 The Ghost Wife (1889) shortstory by Pawnee Folktale
* 82 The Magic Swan Geese (1855) shortstory by Russian Folktale
* 84 Why Tortoise's Shell Is Not Smooth (1958) shortstory by Chinua Achebe
* 87 How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox (1880) shortstory by Joel Chandler Harris
* 89 Paul Bunyan on the Columbia (1924) shortstory by Esther Shephard
* 96 Little Red-cap (1812) shortstory by Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob Grimm [as by Wilhelm Grimm and Jakob Grimm ]
* 100 The Sleeping Beauty (1824) shortstory by Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob Grimm [as by Wilhelm Grimm and Jakob Grimm ]
* 104 Hansel and Grethel (1812) shortstory by Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob Grimm [as by Wilhelm Grimm and Jakob Grimm ]
* 112 The Tinderbox (1835) shortstory by Hans Christian Andersen
* 120 The Tale of Cosmo (1858) novelette by George MacDonald
* 141 Leaf by Niggle (1964) shortstory by J. R. R. Tolkien
* 161 The Diversity of Fantastic Literature (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) (1979) essay by Eric S. Rabkin
* 175 Our Ideas of Time (1711) shortstory by Joseph Addison
* 179 Ritter Gluck: A Recollection from the Year 1809 (1809) shortstory by E. T. A. Hoffmann
* 190 The Oval Portrait (1842) shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe (aka Life in Death)
* 194 The Garden of Live Flowers (1872) shortstory by Lewis Carroll
* 202 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1939) shortstory by James Thurber
* 208 The Royal Banquet (1961) shortstory by Norton Juster
* 214 The Sandman (1816) novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (aka Der Sandmann)
* 247 The Black Cat (1843) shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
* 257 The Picture in the House (1924) shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
* 266 The Hand (1861) shortstory by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
* 274 The Moonlit Road (1894) shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
* 284 Lost Hearts (1895) shortstory by M. R. James
* 294 Golden Wings (1856) shortstory by William Morris
* 311 The Sword of Welleran (1908) shortstory by Lord Dunsany
* 325 The Five Black Swans (1973) shortstory by Sylvia Townsend Warner
* 333 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe (aka The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case)
* 343 The Birthmark (1843) shortstory by Nathaniel Hawthorne
* 360 The Star (1955) shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
* 372 EPICAC (1950) shortstory by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
* 380 The Third Level (1950) shortstory by Jack Finney
* 385 The Star (1897) shortstory by H. G. Wells
* 393 Modern Fantasy (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) (1979) essay by Eric S. Rabkin
* 399 The Judgment (1913) shortstory by Franz Kafka
* 410 A Common Confusion (1931) shortstory by Franz Kafka
* 411 Cockroaches (1934) shortstory by Bruno Schulz
* 415 Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (1962) shortstory by Jorge Luís Borges
* 424 Axolotl (1967) shortstory by Julio Cortázar
* 430 Pastoral (1954) shortstory by Tommaso Landolfi
* 438 All at One Point (1965) shortstory by Italo Calvino
* 443 There Is No Such Place as America (1969) shortstory by Peter Bichsel
* 450 The Piano Player (1963) shortstory by Donald Barthelme
* 453 Homage to the San Francisco YMCA (1971) shortstory by Richard Brautigan
* 456 The Marker (1963) shortstory by Robert Coover
* 460 The Zebra Storyteller (1971) shortstory by Spencer Holst
* 463 Annotated Bibliography (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) (1979) essay by Eric S. Rabkin
* 475 Index (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) (1979) essay by Eric S. Rabkin