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White Fire

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

London, Pan Books, 1991

Softcover, xx; 941 p.

Selection, foreword, author references
by Alberto Manguel
Translation of Isabel Allende,
Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Günter Grass
by Alberto Manguel

9780330313803

  • GRACE AMUNDSON: The Child Who Believed
  • JEROME BIXBY: It’s a Good Life
  • E. B. WHITE: The Door
  • ELIZABETH BOWEN: Mysterious Kor
  • MIRCEA ELIADE: Nights at Serampore
  • ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER: The Dead Fiddler
  • SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER: The Phoenix
  • HANNS HEINZ EWERS: The Spider
  • DOROTHY HAYNES: Changeling
  • A. S. BYATT: The July Ghost
  • ELIZABETH TAYLOR: Poor Girl
  • MARY SINCLAIR: Where Their Fire is Not Quenched
  • AMOS TUTUOLA: The Complete Gentleman
  • GIUSEPPE TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA: Professor and the Mermaid
  • FRIEDRICH DÜRRENMATT: The Sausage
  • WILLIAM SANSOM: 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
  • YSVGENY ZAMYATIN: Ghost 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: Woman Who Talked to Horses
  • WILLIAM GOYEN: The White Rooster
  • TOMMASO LANDOLFI: The Labrenas
  • BORIS VAN: The Dead Fish
  • ALFONSO REYES: Major Aranda’s Hand
  • MARGARET ATWOOD: Giving Birth
  • BERNARD MALAMUD: The Jewbird
  • J. D. BERESFORD: The Misanthrope
  • HERMANN 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 That Man
  • ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE: How It Happened
  • MERVYN PEAKE: Same Time Same Place
  • V.S. NAIPAUL: The Enigma of Arrival
  • LION FEUCHTWANGER: Faithful Peter
  • GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ: Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship
  • PETER GREEN: The House-hunters
  • CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN: The Yellow Wall Paper
  • ERIC MCCORMACK: Eckhardt at a Window
  • GUNTER 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: Rooms of Blood
  • BEN HECHT: The Shadow
  • ARTHUR C. CLARKE: The Nine Billion Names of God

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