The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories

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An anthology of fantasy stories selected by the eminent Medievalist and Fantasy scholar Tom Shippey, The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories gathers together thirty-one tales brimming over with imagination. This rich and intriguing collection of fantasy stories features classic figures—the Devil, trolls and werewolves, sorcerers and dragons—that have long been a part of the human psyche. The authors of these marvelous tales draw upon a deep well of images, characters, and landscapes with great imagination and ...

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An anthology of fantasy stories selected by the eminent Medievalist and Fantasy scholar Tom Shippey, The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories gathers together thirty-one tales brimming over with imagination. This rich and intriguing collection of fantasy stories features classic figures—the Devil, trolls and werewolves, sorcerers and dragons—that have long been a part of the human psyche. The authors of these marvelous tales draw upon a deep well of images, characters, and landscapes with great imagination and subtlety. Featuring writers as diverse as John Buchan and Mervyn Peake, Angela Carter and Terry Pratchett, this is an anthology for the newcomer and dedicated fan alike.

Shippey brings together 31 short fantasy stories, from the last years of the 19th century to the immediate present, to show both the development of the fantasy genre over time and to showcase the talents of the individual writers it has embraced. Includes an extensive bibliography.

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Editorial Reviews

John Mort
Shippey discusses the long tradition of fantasy and then offers stories from 1888 through 1992 to illustrate its growth in this century. Some familiar names, such as Kate Wilhelm and James Blish, aren't to be found here, and some overrated ones, such as Lord Dunsany and Robert E. Howard, are; but for the most part, Shippey avoids chestnuts and offers unusual, provocative tales. There's Phyllis Eisenstein's childlike "Subworld," about an unhappy, confused little boy who finds a secret passageway in the subway system and becomes a mouse; there's Lucius Shepard's "Night of White Bhairab," a witty parody of the spiritual search featuring a spaced-out, drunken American's fumblings as he blunders into an epic battle between good and evil. Though published in 1888, Richard Garnett's "Demon Pope" gives a fresh spin to the myth of Mephistopheles: the devil trades places with the pope, and no one can tell the difference. But the best tale here is Poul Anderson's manic "Operation Afleet," which takes the crisp, desperate quality of an army combat mission and combines it with weird magic and the powers werewolves can evoke. Vast, mythic, and wild.
Robert Irwin
...As Tom Shippey puts it, in his own...intelligent and interesting introduction..."the rule is that sorcerers always lose." -- The Times Literary Supplement
Margo Jefferson
All the writers here know their craft, and the best of them know much more than that. -- The New York Times
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780192142160
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 3/10/1994
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 528
  • Product dimensions: 5.75 (w) x 8.75 (h) x 1.59 (d)

Meet the Author

Tom Shippey holds the Walter J. Ong Chair of Humanities at St Louis University, Missouri, specializing in Medieval Literature, Old English Arthurian and Romance Literature, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. He has written and edited numerous books, including J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (2001).

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Table of Contents

Introduction 1
The Demon Pope 1888
The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth 1908 9
Through the Dragon Glass 1917 23
The Nameless City 1921 35
The Wind in the Portico 1928 46
The Tower of the Elephant 1933 66
Xeethra 1934 88
Jirel Meets Magic 1935 105
The Bleak Shore 1940 135
Homecoming 1947 144
See You Later 1949 156
Liane the Wayfarer 1950 174
The Desrick on Yandro 1952 184
The Silken-Swift... 1953 195
Operation Afreet 1956 212
The Singular Events which Occurred in the Hovel on the Alley off of Eye Street 1962 238
The Sudden Wings 1962 244
Same Time, Same Place 1963 263
Timothy 1966 271
The Kings of the Sea 1968 283
Not Long Before the End 1969 300
The Wager Lost by Winning 1970 311
Lila the Werewolf 1974 342
Johanna 1978 361
The Erl-King 1979 364
Beyond the Dead Reef 1983 372
Subworld 1983 388
Bite-Me-Not or Fleur de Fur 1984 409
The Night of White Bhairab 1984 433
Thorn 1986 464
Troll Bridge 1992 480
Select Bibliography 489
Sources 494
Source Acknowledgements 498
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