The Oxford book of fantasy stories /
The Oxford book of fantasy stories /
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
- xxii, 499 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-493).
The demon pope / The fortress unvanquishable, save for Sacnoth / Through the dragon glass / The nameless city / The wind in the portico / The tower of the elephant / Xeethra / Jirel meets magic / The bleak shore / Homecoming / See you later / Liane the wayfarer / The desrick on Yandro / The silken-swift / Operation Afreet / The singular events which occurred in the hovel on the alley off of eye street / The sudden Wings / Same time, same place / Timothy / The kings of the sea / Not long before the end / The wager lost by winning / Lila the werewolf / Johanna / The Erl-king / Beyond the dead reef / Subworld Phyllis Eisenstein -- Bite-me-not of fleur de fur / The night of white Bhairab / Thorn / Troll Bridge / Richard Garnett -- Lord Dunsany -- Abraham Merritt -- H.P. Lovecraft -- John Buchan -- Robert E. Howard -- Clark Ashton Smith -- Catherine L. Moore -- Fritz Leiber -- Ray Bradbury -- Henry Kuttner -- Jack Vance -- Manly Wade Wellman -- Theodore Sturgeon -- Poul Anderson -- Avram Davidson -- Thomas Burnett Swann -- Mervyn Peake -- Keith Roberts -- Sterling E. Lanier -- Larry Niven -- John Brunner -- Peter S. Beagle -- Jane Yolen -- Angela Carter -- James Tiptree Jr.-- Tanith Lee -- Lucius Shepard -- Robert Holdstock -- Terry Pratchett.
A century's worth of the exotic and the fantastic. The stories range from Richard Garnett's "The Demon Pope," a story on soul-selling, to Terry Prachett's amusing "Troll Bridge, " in which Cohen the Barbarian philosophizes on the decline of magic.
019214216X 9780192142160
93014469
GB9415827 bnb
019-21421 uk
Fantasy fiction, English.
Fantasy fiction, American.
Fantasy fiction Short stories. English fiction.
Fantastic fiction.
PR1309.F3 / O96 1994 PS648.F3 / O94 1994
823/.0876608
Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-493).
The demon pope / The fortress unvanquishable, save for Sacnoth / Through the dragon glass / The nameless city / The wind in the portico / The tower of the elephant / Xeethra / Jirel meets magic / The bleak shore / Homecoming / See you later / Liane the wayfarer / The desrick on Yandro / The silken-swift / Operation Afreet / The singular events which occurred in the hovel on the alley off of eye street / The sudden Wings / Same time, same place / Timothy / The kings of the sea / Not long before the end / The wager lost by winning / Lila the werewolf / Johanna / The Erl-king / Beyond the dead reef / Subworld Phyllis Eisenstein -- Bite-me-not of fleur de fur / The night of white Bhairab / Thorn / Troll Bridge / Richard Garnett -- Lord Dunsany -- Abraham Merritt -- H.P. Lovecraft -- John Buchan -- Robert E. Howard -- Clark Ashton Smith -- Catherine L. Moore -- Fritz Leiber -- Ray Bradbury -- Henry Kuttner -- Jack Vance -- Manly Wade Wellman -- Theodore Sturgeon -- Poul Anderson -- Avram Davidson -- Thomas Burnett Swann -- Mervyn Peake -- Keith Roberts -- Sterling E. Lanier -- Larry Niven -- John Brunner -- Peter S. Beagle -- Jane Yolen -- Angela Carter -- James Tiptree Jr.-- Tanith Lee -- Lucius Shepard -- Robert Holdstock -- Terry Pratchett.
A century's worth of the exotic and the fantastic. The stories range from Richard Garnett's "The Demon Pope," a story on soul-selling, to Terry Prachett's amusing "Troll Bridge, " in which Cohen the Barbarian philosophizes on the decline of magic.
019214216X 9780192142160
93014469
GB9415827 bnb
019-21421 uk
Fantasy fiction, English.
Fantasy fiction, American.
Fantasy fiction Short stories. English fiction.
Fantastic fiction.
PR1309.F3 / O96 1994 PS648.F3 / O94 1994
823/.0876608