Fantastic Tales : Visionary and Everyday

"e;The true theme of the nineteenth-century fantastic tale is the reality of what we see: to believe or not to believe in phantasmagoric apparitions, to glimpse another world, enchanted or infernal, behind everyday appearances."e; - from Calvino's introduction to Fantastic Tales 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. This posthumously published anthology of enchanting, uncanny, terrifying, and immortally entertaining short stories includes E.T.A. Hoffmann's "e;The Sandman,"e; Nikolai Gogol's "e;The Nose,"e; Edgar Allan Poe's "e;The Tell-Tale Heart,"e; Robert Louis Stevenson's "e;The Bottle Imp,"e; and many more, each with an introduction by Calvino. Fantastic Tales is a delight for the mind and a feast for the senses. "e;Impressive and utterly pleasing . . . Each story [Calvino] picks is absorbing, unique, and continually surprising."e; - Los Angeles Times