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The Oxford book of fantasy stories /

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.Description: xxii, 499 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 019214216X
  • 9780192142160
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823/.0876608 20
LOC classification:
  • PR1309.F3 O96 1994
  • PS648.F3 O94 1994
Other classification:
  • 18.05
  • 18.06
  • HG 862
  • HN 1617
  • 7,25
Online resources:
Contents:
The demon pope / Richard Garnett -- The fortress unvanquishable, save for Sacnoth / Lord Dunsany -- Through the dragon glass / Abraham Merritt -- The nameless city / H.P. Lovecraft -- The wind in the portico / John Buchan -- The tower of the elephant / Robert E. Howard -- Xeethra / Clark Ashton Smith -- Jirel meets magic / Catherine L. Moore -- The bleak shore / Fritz Leiber -- Homecoming / Ray Bradbury -- See you later / Henry Kuttner -- Liane the wayfarer / Jack Vance -- The desrick on Yandro / Manly Wade Wellman -- The silken-swift / Theodore Sturgeon -- Operation Afreet / Poul Anderson -- The singular events which occurred in the hovel on the alley off of eye street / Avram Davidson -- The sudden Wings / Thomas Burnett Swann -- Same time, same place / Mervyn Peake -- Timothy / Keith Roberts -- The kings of the sea / Sterling E. Lanier -- Not long before the end / Larry Niven -- The wager lost by winning / John Brunner -- Lila the werewolf / Peter S. Beagle -- Johanna / Jane Yolen -- The Erl-king / Angela Carter -- Beyond the dead reef / James Tiptree Jr.-- Subworld Phyllis Eisenstein -- Bite-me-not of fleur de fur / Tanith Lee -- The night of white Bhairab / Lucius Shepard -- Thorn / Robert Holdstock -- Troll Bridge / Terry Pratchett.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
F F Chamberlin Free Public Library Fiction F OXF (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PR1309.F3 O96 1994 1 Available 34562000040591

Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-493).

The demon pope / Richard Garnett -- The fortress unvanquishable, save for Sacnoth / Lord Dunsany -- Through the dragon glass / Abraham Merritt -- The nameless city / H.P. Lovecraft -- The wind in the portico / John Buchan -- The tower of the elephant / Robert E. Howard -- Xeethra / Clark Ashton Smith -- Jirel meets magic / Catherine L. Moore -- The bleak shore / Fritz Leiber -- Homecoming / Ray Bradbury -- See you later / Henry Kuttner -- Liane the wayfarer / Jack Vance -- The desrick on Yandro / Manly Wade Wellman -- The silken-swift / Theodore Sturgeon -- Operation Afreet / Poul Anderson -- The singular events which occurred in the hovel on the alley off of eye street / Avram Davidson -- The sudden Wings / Thomas Burnett Swann -- Same time, same place / Mervyn Peake -- Timothy / Keith Roberts -- The kings of the sea / Sterling E. Lanier -- Not long before the end / Larry Niven -- The wager lost by winning / John Brunner -- Lila the werewolf / Peter S. Beagle -- Johanna / Jane Yolen -- The Erl-king / Angela Carter -- Beyond the dead reef / James Tiptree Jr.-- Subworld Phyllis Eisenstein -- Bite-me-not of fleur de fur / Tanith Lee -- The night of white Bhairab / Lucius Shepard -- Thorn / Robert Holdstock -- Troll Bridge / 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.

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