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Black Water 2

More Tales of the Fantastic

A second celebrated anthology of nightmarish imagination, seventy more hypnotic tales of prophetic dreams, strange creatures and bizarre coincidences, of what Wallace Stevens called ‘black water breaking into reality’, from such writers as Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, A.S. Byatt and Kenzaburo Oe.

First Edition

New York, Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1990
Softcover, xx; 941 p.

Foreword and author notes by Alberto Manguel
Isabel Allende, Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Günter Grass translated by Alberto Manguel

9780517575598

  • GRACE AMUNDSON: The Child Who Believed
  • JEROME BIXBY: It’s a Good Life
  • E. B. WHITE: The Door
  • ELIZABETH BOWEN: Mysterious Kôr
  • MIRCEA ELIADE: Nights at Serampore
  • ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER: The Dead Fiddler
  • SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER: The Phoenix
  • HANNS HEINZ EWERS: The Spider
  • DOROTHY K. HAYNES: Changeling
  • ANTONIA S. BYATT: The July Ghost
  • ELIZABETH TAYLOR: Poor Girl
  • MAY SINCLAIR: Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched
  • AMOS TUTUOLA: The Complete Gentleman (from The Palm-Wine Drinkard)
  • GIUSEPPE TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA: The Professor and the Mermaid
  • FRIEDRICH DÜRRENMATT: The Sausage
  • WILLIAM SANSOM: A Woman Seldom Found
  • ANGUS WILSON: Mummy to the Rescue
  • KENZABURO OE: Aghwee the Sky Monster
  • LILIANA HEKER: Berkeley or Mariana of the Universe
  • ANTONIA WHITE: The Saint
  • ROHINTON MISTRY: The Ghost of Firozsha Baag
  • YEVGENY ZAMYATIN: The Miracle of Ash Wednesday
  • HORTENSE CALISHER: Heartburn
  • ANN BRIDGE: The Accident
  • JOYCE MARSHALL: The Old Woman
  • F. SCOTT FITZGERALD: A Short Trip Home
  • JOSEPH CONRAD: The Brute
  • ETHEL WILSON: Mr. Sleepwalker
  • JULIAN BARNES: A Self-Possessed Woman
  • LEON ROOKE: The Woman Who Talked to Horses
  • WILLIAM GOYEN: The White Rooster
  • TOMMASO LANDOLFI: The Labrenas
  • BORIS VIAN: The Dead Fish
  • ALFONSO REYES: Major Aranda’s Hand
  • MARGARET ATWOOD: Giving Birth
  • BERNARD MALAMUD: The Jewbird
  • J.D. BERESFORD: The Misanthrope
  • HERMAN MELVILLE: Bartleby
  • PHILIP MACDONALD: Private – Keep Out!
  • TIMOTHY FINDLEY: Dreams
  • GEOFFREY DRAYTON: Mr. Dombey, the Zombie
  • WOLFGANG HILDESHEIMER: Why I Changed into a Nightingale
  • T. H. WHITE: The Troll
  • ISABEL ALLENDE: Two Words
  • CHEN XUANYOU: Ch’ien-niang
  • ROBERT AICKMAN: The Visiting Star
  • SATYAJIT RAY: Ratanbabu and the Man
  • ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE: How It Happened
  • MERVYN PEAKE: Same Time, Same Place
  • V. S. NAIPAUL: The Enigma of Arrival (from The Enigma of Arrival)
  • LION FEUCHTWANGER: Faithful Peter
  • GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ: The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship
  • PETER GREEN: The House-Hunters
  • CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN: The Yellow Wallpaper
  • ERIC MCCORMACK: Eckhardt at a Window
  • GÜNTER GRASS: The Lefthanders
  • CONRAD AIKEN: Mr. Arcularis
  • YEHUDA AMICHAI: The Times My Father Died
  • LUIGI PIRANDELLO: The Haunted House
  • ELIZABETH SPENCER: The Finder
  • JAMES STEPHENS: Desire
  • GEORGE BERNARD SHAW: The Miraculous Revenge
  • BRETT BALON: Room of Blood
  • BEN HECHT: The Shadow
  • ARTHUR C. CLARKE: The Nine Billion Names of God

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