Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday

The acclaimed author presents "a rich and wide-ranging anthology" of 19th century fantasy and horror stories—with an original introduction for each (Library Journal).

Vampires, ghosts, and other horrors abound in this collection of nineteenth-century fantastic literature, selected and edited by Italo Calvino, a twentieth-century master of the speculative. As Calvino explains in his introduction to this collection, "the true theme of the nineteenth-century fantastic tale is the reality of ...