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This huge anthology offers a kaleidoscope of brilliant writing from the Magi of the imagination. Alberto Manguel has selected 72 fantastic tales from life on the edge of the twilight zone, with stories from Marguerite Yourcenar, Herman Hesse, Italo Calvino, Vladimir Nabokov, and many, many more. This is a collection of irresistible masterpieces, many of which have never before appeared in the English language.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword - Alberto Manguel
• House Taken Over - Julio Cortázar - 1967
• How Love Came to Professor Guildea - Robert S. Hichens - 1897
• Climax for a Ghost Story - I. A. Ireland - 1919
• The Mysteries of the Joy Rio - Tennessee Williams - 1954
• Pomegranate Seed - Edith Wharton - 1931
• Venetian Masks - Adolfo Bioy Casares
• The Wish House - Rudyard Kipling - 1924
• The Playground - Ray Bradbury - 1953
• Importance - Manuel Mujica Lainez - 1978
• Enoch Soames - Max Beerbohm - 1916
• A Visitor from Down Under - L. P. Hartley - 1926
• Laura - Saki - 1914
• An Injustice Revealed - Anon.
• A Little Place Off the Edgware Road - Graham Greene - 1947
• From "A School Story" - M. R. James - 1911
• The Signalman - Charles Dickens - 1866
• The Tall Woman - Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
• A Scent of Mimosa - Francis King - 1975
• Death and the Gardener - Jean Cocteau - 1923
• Lord Mountdrago - W. Somerset Maugham - 1939
• The Sick Gentleman's Last Visit - Giovanni Papini - 1907
• Insomnia - Virgilio Pinera
• The Storm - Jules Verne - 1884
• A Dream (from The Arabian Nights Entertainments) - Anon.
• The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - Edgar Allan Poe - 1845
• Split Second - Daphne du Maurier - 1952
• August 25, 1983 - Jorge Luís Borges - 1982
• How Wang-Fo Was Saved - Marguerite Yourcenar - 1963
• From "Peter and Rosa" - Isak Dinesen - 1942
• Tattoo - Junichiro Tanizaki - 1910
• John Duffy's Brother - Flann O'Brien - 1941
• Lady into Fox - David Garnett - 1923
• Father's Last Escape - Bruno Schulz - 1937
• A Man by the Name of Ziegler - Hermann Hesse - 1954
• The Argentine Ant - Italo Calvino - 1957
• The Lady on the Grey - John Collier - 1951
• The Queen of Spades - Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin- 1834
• Of a Promise Kept - Lafcadio Hearn - 1901
• The Wizard Postponed - Juan Manuel - 1973
• The Monkey's Paw - W. W. Jacobs - 1902
• The Bottle Imp - Robert Louis Stevenson - 1891
• The Rocking-Horse Winner - D. H. Lawrence - 1926
• Certain Distant Suns - Joanne Greenburg - 1979
• The Third Bank of the River - João Guimarães Rosa - 1967
• Home - Hilaire Belloc
• The Door in the Wall - H. G. Wells - 1906
• The Friends - Silvina Ocampo - 1982
• Et in Sempiternum Pereant - Charles Williams - 1935
• The Captives of Longjumeau - Léon Bloy - 1967
• The Visit to the Museum - Vladimir Nabokov - 1958
• "Autumn Mountain" - Ryunosuke Akutagawa
• The Sight - Brian Moore - 1977
• Clorinda - André Pieyre de Mandiargues - 1979
• The Pagan Rabbi - Cynthia Ozick - 1966
• The Fisherman and His Soul - Oscar Wilde - 1891
• The Bureau d'Echange de Maux - Lord Dunsany - 1915
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - Ursula K. Le Guin - 1973
• In the Penal Colony - Franz Kafka - 1919.
• A Dog in Durer's Etching "The Knight, Death and The Devil" - Marco Denevi - 1968
• The Large Ant - Howard Fast - 1960
• The Lemmings - Alex Comfort
• The Grey Ones - J. B. Priestley - 1953
• The Feather Pillow - Horacio Quiroga - 1907
• Seaton's Aunt - Walter de la Mare - 1922
• The Friends of the Friends - Henry James - 1896
• The Travelling Companion - Hans Christian Andersen - 1835
• The Curfew Tolls - Stephen Vincent Benét - 1935
• The State of Grace - Marcel Aymé - 1959
• The Story of a Panic - E. M. Forster - 1904
• An Invitation to the Hunt - George Hitchcock - 1960
• From the "American Notebooks" - Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1868
• The Dream - O. Henry - 1910

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