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Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature ed. Alberto Manguel (Picador, 1983, 0-330-28141-0, £4.95, 967pp, tp, an)     Anthology of 72 stories and excerpts, from “literary” fantasists. xvi · Foreword · Alberto Manguel · fw 1 · House Taken Over · Julio Cortázar · ss End of the Game, and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar, Pantheon Books, 1967 7 · How Love Came to Professor Guildea · Robert S. Hichens · na Pearson’s Magazine October 1897, as “The Man Who Was Beloved” 49 · Climax for a Ghost Story · I. A. Ireland · vi 1919 50 · The Mysteries of the Joy Rio · Tennessee Williams · ss Hard Candy: A Book of Stories by Tennessee Williams, New Directions, 1954 62 · Pomegranate Seed · Edith Wharton · nv The Saturday Evening Post April 25 1931 92 · Venetian Masks · Adolfo Bioy Casares; translated by Alberto Manguel · ss 110 · The Wish House · Rudyard Kipling · ss MacLean’s October 15 1924 127 · The Playground · Ray Bradbury · ss The Illustrated Man (var. 1) by Ray Bradbury, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952 141 · Importance · Manuel Mujica Lainez; translated by Alberto Manguel · ss 1978 144 · Enoch Soames · Max Beerbohm · nv The Century Magazine May 1916 171 · A Visitor from Down Under · L. P. Hartley · ss The Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1926 188 · Laura · Saki · ss The Morning Post June 25 1912, as by H. H. Munro 193 · An Injustice Revealed · [uncredited] · ss (r) 198 · A Little Place Off the Edgware Road · Graham Greene · ss Nineteen Stories by Graham Greene, Heinemann, 1947 204 · From “A School Story” · M. R. James · ex More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Arnold, 1911 206 · The Signalman · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866, as “No. 1 Branch Line. The Signalman” 219 · The Tall Woman · Pedro Antonio de Alarcón; translated by Rollo Ogden · nv Modern Ghosts, Harper's, 1890 translated from the Spanish (“La mujer alta”, Narraciones inverosímiles, 1881). 235 · A Scent of Mimosa · Francis King · ss The Times Anthology of Ghost Stories, Cape, 1975 249 · Death and the Gardener · Jean Cocteau · ex from Le Grand Ecart, 1923 250 · Lord Mountdrago · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Cosmopolitan February 1939, as “Doctor and Patient” 273 · The Sick Gentleman’s Last Visit · Giovanni Papini · ss The Blind Pilot by Giovanni Papini, 1907 279 · Insomnia · Virgilio Pinera · vi 280 · The Storm · Jules Verne (translated) · ss Le Figaro Illustré (English edition) 1885, 1884, as “Frritt-Flacc” translated from the French (“Frritt-Flacc”, Le Figaro Illustré, 1884/5). 287 · A Dream · [uncredited] · vi from The Arabian Nights (r) 289 · The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar · Edgar Allan Poe · ss American Whig Review December 1845 299 · Split Second · Daphne du Maurier · nv Today’s Woman January 1953 345 · August 25, 1983 · Jorge Luís Borges · ss 351 · How Wang-Fo Was Saved · Marguerite Yourcenar · ss translated from the French (Nouvelles Orientales, 1963). 361 · Peter and Rosa · Isak Dinesen · ex Winter’s Tales by Isak Dinesen, Putnam, 1942 363 · Tattoo · Junichiro Tanizaki · ss 1910 371 · John Duffy’s Brother · Flann O’Brien · ss Story #91, July/August 1941 377 · Lady Into Fox · David Garnett · na Chatto & Windus, 1922 430 · Father’s Last Escape · Bruno Schulz · ss Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz, 1937 435 · A Man by the Name of Ziegler · Hermann Hesse · ss 1954 440 · The Argentine Ant · Italo Calvino; translated by Archibald Colquhoun · nv Adam, One Afternoon by Italo Calvino, Colliro, 1957 translated from the Italian (“La Formica Argentina”, 1952). 470 · The Lady on the Grey · John Collier · ss The New Yorker June 16 1951 478 · The Queen of Spades · Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin; translated by Rosemary Edmonds · nv The Classics of Mystery Volume IX: An Omnibus of Continental Mysteries, Part II ed. Arno Eckberg, Juniper, 1961 translated from the Russian (“Pouschkine”, Biblioteka dlya chteniya, March 1834). 503 · Of a Promise Kept · Lafcadio Hearn · ss A Japanese Miscellany by Lafcadio Hearn, Little, Brown, 1901 507 · The Wizard Postponed · Juan Manuel; adapted by Jorge Luis Borges; translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni · ss The New Yorker January 1 1972 translated from the Spanish (“El Brujo Postergado”, anonymously, Crítica, September 2, 1933), itself adapted from Libro de los enxiemplos del Conde Lucanor et de Patronio (1335). 511 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine September 1902 522 · The Bottle Imp · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv New York Herald February 8 1891 (+3) 550 · The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss Harper’s Bazar July 1926 565 · Certain Distant Suns · Joanne Greenburg · ss High Crimes and Misdemeanors by Joanne Greenberg, Henry Holt & Co., 1979 582 · The Third Bank of the River · João Guimarães Rosa · ss 1967 588 · Home · Hilaire Belloc · ss (r) 596 · The Door in the Wall · H. G. Wells · ss The Daily Chronicle July 14 1906 612 · The Friends · Silvina Ocampo · ss 1982 619 · Et in Sempiternum Pereant · Charles Williams · ss The London Mercury December 1935 629 · The Captives of Longjumeau · Léon Bloy; translated by Alberto Manguel · ss 1967 634 · The Visit to the Museum · Vladimir Nabokov; translated by Dmitri Nabokov · ss Nabokov’s Dozen by Vladimir Nabokov, Heinemann, 1959 translated from the Russian (“Poseshchenie muzeya”, Sovremennyye zapiski, March 1939, as by Sirin). 644 · “Autumn Mountain” · Ryunosuke Akutagawa · ss (r) 652 · The Sight · Brian Moore · nv Irish Ghost Stories ed. Joseph Hone, Hamish Hamilton, 1977 670 · Clorinda · André Pieyre de Mandiargues; translated by Alberto Manguel · ss (r) in Soleil des Loups, Paris: Robert Laffont, 1951. 675 · The Pagan Rabbi · Cynthia Ozick · nv The Hudson Review 1966 704 · The Fisherman and His Soul · Oscar Wilde · nv The House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde, 1891 735 · The Bureau d’Echange de Maux · Lord Dunsany · ss The Smart Set January 1915 740 · The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3 ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday, 1973 748 · In the Penal Colony · Franz Kafka · nv (r) translated from the German (“In der Strafkolonie”, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1919). 774 · A Dog in Durer’s Etching “The Knight, Death and the Devil” · Marco Denevi · ss 1968 782 · The Large Ant · Howard Fast · ss Fantastic Universe February 1960 792 · The Lemmings · Alex Comfort · ss (r) 800 · The Grey Ones · J. B. Priestley · nv Lilliput April/May 1953 816 · The Feather Pillow · Horacio Quiroga; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden · ss The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories by Horacio Quiroga, University of Texas Press, 1976 translated from the Spanish (“El almohadón de plumas”, Caras y Caretas, 1907). 820 · Seaton’s Aunt · Walter de la Mare · nv The London Mercury April 1922 849 · The Friends of the Friends · Henry James · nv Chapman’s Magazine May 1896, as “The Way It Came” 874 · The Travelling Companion · Hans Christian Andersen · ss 1835 891 · The Curfew Tolls · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 5 1935 907 · The State of Grace · Marcel Aymé · ss Across Paris and Other Stories by Marcel Aymé, Harper & Brothers, 1950 919 · The Story of a Panic · E. M. Forster · nv Independent Review March 1904 940 · An Invitation to the Hunt · George Hitchcock · ss San Francisco Review March 1960 950 · Passages from the American Notebooks · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ex Smith, Elder, 1868 952 · The Dream · O. Henry · uw Cosmopolitan Magazine September 1910; completed by Cosmopolitan editor. 956 · The Authors · [uncredited] · bg

Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic ed. Alberto Manguel (Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1990, 0-88619-124-6, xx+941pp, tp, an)     Anthology of 65 stories and novel excerpts, primarily by literary and mainstream authors. First American edition (Canada: Lester & Orpen Dennys 1990). UK edition Picador 1991 tp as White Fire. xviii · Foreword · Alberto Manguel · fw 1 · The Child Who Believed · Grace Amundson · ss The Saturday Evening Post December 16 1950 17 · It’s a Good Life · Jerome Bixby · ss Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953 36 · The Door · E. B. White · ss The New Yorker March 25 1939 42 · Mysterious Kôr · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Penguin New Writing #20, January 1944 57 · Nights at Serampore · Mircea Eliade · nv Two Tales of the Occult by Mircea Eliade, Herder & Herder, 1970 99 · The Dead Fiddler · Isaac Bashevis Singer · nv The New Yorker May 25 1968 127 · The Phoenix · Sylvia Townsend Warner · ss The Cat’s Cradle Book by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Viking, 1940 132 · The Spider · Hanns Heinz Ewers; translated by Walter F. Kohn · nv (r) translated from the German (“Die Spinne”, 1908). 155 · Changeling · Dorothy K. Haynes · ss Modern Reading 8 ed. Reginald Moore, Big Ben Books, 1943 164 · The July Ghost · A. S. Byatt · nv Firebird 1 ed. Tim J. Binding, Penguin, 1982 180 · Poor Girl · Elizabeth Taylor · nv The Third Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955 200 · Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched · May Sinclair · nv The English Review October 1922 222 · The Complete Gentleman · Amos Tutuola · ex The Palm-Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola & ed. George Braziller, Faber and Faber, 1952 231 · The Professor and the Mermaid · Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa; translated by Archibald Colquhoun · nv Two Stories and a Memory by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Pantheon, 1962 255 · The Sausage · Friedrich Dürrenmatt; translated by Alberto Manguel · vi 1989 258 · A Woman Seldom Found · William Sansom · ss A Contest of Ladies and Other Stories by William Sansom, Hogarth Press, 1956 262 · Mummy to the Rescue · Angus Wilson · ss Such Darling Dodos and Other Stories by Angus Wilson, Secker & Warburg, 1950 269 · Aghwee the Sky Monster · Kenzaburō Ōe; translated by John Nathan · nv Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness by Kenzaburo Oe, Grove Press, 1977 298 · Berkeley or Mariana of the Universe · Liliana Heker; translated by Alberto Manguel · ss Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real ed. Celia Correas de Zapata, Arte Público Press, 1990 translated from the Spanish. 305 · The Saint · Antonia White · ss Life and Letters November 1931 313 · The Ghost of Firozsha Baag · Rohinton Mistry · ss Quarry Spring 1986 328 · Miracle of Ash Wednesday · Yevgeny Zamyatin; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · ss The Dragon by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Random House, 1968; dated 1926. 336 · Heartburn · Hortense Calisher · ss The American Mercury January 1951 347 · The Accident · Ann Bridge · nv The Song in the House by Ann Bridge, 1936 370 · The Old Woman · Joyce Marshall · ss Canadian Short Stories ed. Robert Weaver, Oxford, 1960 383 · A Short Trip Home · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post December 17 1927 405 · The Brute · Joseph Conrad · ss The Daily Chronicle December 5 1906 426 · Mr. Sleepwalker · Ethel Wilson · ss Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories by Ethel Wilson, Macmillan, 1961 444 · A Self-Possessed Woman · Julian Barnes · ss The Times Anthology of Ghost Stories, Cape, 1975 460 · The Woman Who Talked to Horses · Leon Rooke · ss Sing Me No Love Songs, I’ll Say You No Prayers by Leon Rooke, Ecco Press, 1984 469 · The White Rooster · William Goyen · ss Mademoiselle April 1947 484 · The Labrenas · Tommaso Landolfi; translated by Kathrine Jason · nv Words in Commotion, and Other Stories by Tommaso Landolfi, Viking, 1986 508 · The Dead Fish · Boris Vian; translated by Damon Knight · ss 13 French Science-Fiction Stories ed. Damon Knight, Bantam, 1965 translated from the French (“Les poissons morts”, L’Arbalète #12, Spring 1947). 521 · Major Aranda’s Hand · Alfonso Reyes; translated by Mildred Johnson · ss The Eye of the Heart ed. Barbara Howes, Bobbs-Merrill, 1973; dated 1955. 528 · Giving Birth · Margaret Atwood · ss Dancing Girls and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood, McClelland and Stewart, 1977 543 · The Jewbird · Bernard Malamud · ss The Reporter April 11 1963 553 · The Misanthrope · John D. Beresford · ss Nineteen Impressions by J. D. Beresford, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918 563 · Bartleby · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), as “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”, uncredited. 600 · Private—Keep Out! · Philip MacDonald · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Fall 1949 616 · Dreams · Timothy Findley · nv Stones by Timothy Findley, Penguin Books Canada, 1988 638 · Mr. Dombey, the Zombie · Geoffrey Drayton · vi first broadcast by the BBC in 1951. 642 · Why I Changed Into a Nightingale · Wolfgang Hildesheimer; translated by Joachim Neugroschel · ss The Art of the Tale ed. Daniel Halpern, Viking, 1986 648 · The Troll · T. H. White · ss Gone to Ground, 1935 660 · Two Words · Isabel Allende; translated by Alberto Manguel · ss; dated 1989. 668 · Ch’ien-niang · Chen Xuanyou; translated by Wayne Schlepp · vi translated from the Chinese (T’aip’ing Kwangchi, ca. 900 AD). 671 · The Visiting Star · Robert Aickman · nv Powers of Darkness by Robert Aickman, Collins, 1966 696 · Ratanbabu and the Man · Satyajit Ray · ss The Unicorn Expedition by Satyajit Ray, Dutton, 1987 711 · How It Happened · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine September 1913 716 · Same Time, Same Place · Mervyn Peake · ss Science Fantasy #60, 1963 726 · The Enigma of Arrival · V. S. Naipaul · ss The New Yorker August 11 1986 728 · Faithful Peter · Lion Feuchtwanger; translated by Renatha Oppenheimer · ss Stories from Far and Near by Lion Feuchtwanger, Viking, 1945 736 · The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship · Gabriel García Márquez; translated by Gregory Rabassa · ss The Leaf Storm and Other Stories by Gabriel García Márquez, Cape, 1972 translated from the Spanish. 742 · The House-Hunters · Peter Green · ss The New Strand January 1962 762 · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 780 · Eckhardt at a Window · Eric McCormack · ss Inspecting the Vaults by Eric McCormack, Penguin Canada, 1987 792 · The Lefthanders · Günter Grass; translated by Alberto Manguel · ss 1989 799 · Mr. Arcularis · Conrad Aiken · nv Harper’s Magazine March 1931 819 · The Times My Father Died · Yehuda Amichai; translated by Yosef Schachter · ss The World Is a Room and Other Stories by Yehuda Amichai, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1984 830 · The Haunted House · Luigi Pirandello; translated by Michele Pettinati · ss A Character in Distress, and Other Stories by Luigi Pirandello, Duckworth, 1938 translated from the Italian (“La casa del Granella”). 847 · The Finder · Elizabeth Spencer · ss The New Yorker January 23 1971 866 · Desire · James Stephens · ss Reedy’s Mirror March 1 1918 874 · The Miraculous Revenge · George Bernard Shaw · ss Time March 1885 896 · Room of Blood · Brett Balon · ss 1984 904 · The Shadow · Ben Hecht · ss Liberty January 30 1926 920 · The Nine Billion Names of God · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Star Science Fiction Stories ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953 928 · The Authors · [uncredited] · bg

The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories ed. Alberto Manguel (Oxford University Press Canada, April 1990, 0-19-540761-X, $15.95, 276pp, tp, an)     Anthology of 26 ghost stories by Canadian writers, from Mazo De La Roche to Margaret Atwood. vii · Introduction · Alberto Manguel · in 1 · La Corriveau · Philippe Aubert de Gaspé; translated by Charles G. D. Roberts · ss The Canadians of Old by Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, tr. Charles G. D. Roberts, D. Appleton, 1890; dated 1863. 11 · The Gerrard Street Mystery · John Charles Dent · nv The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales by John Charles Dent, Rose, 1886 34 · The Miser’s Ghost · Honoré Beaugrand; translated by Alberto Manguel · ss (r) translated from the French (La Chasse-galérie, Canada 1900). 39 · A Tale of the Grand Jardin · W. H. Blake · ss Brown Waters and Other Sketches by William H. Blake, Toronto, 1915 46 · The Flood [Pretty Pierre] · Gilbert Parker · ss The National Observer 53 · Vengeance Is Mine · Duncan Campbell Scott · ss In the Village of Viger by Duncan Campbell Scott, 1896 63 · Buggam Grange: A Good Old Ghost Story · Stephen Leacock · ss Winsome Winnie and Other New Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock, John Lane, 1920 70 · Portrait of a Wife · Mazo de la Roche · ss The Graphic December 30 1927 80 · Mr. Sleepwalker · Ethel Wilson · ss Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories by Ethel Wilson, Macmillan, 1961 96 · No Traveller Returns… · A. M. Klein · ss Short Stories by A. M. Klein, 1983 101 · Dickens Digested · Robertson Davies · ss High Spirits by Robertson Davies, Penguin, 1982 109 · The Sight · Brian Moore · nv Irish Ghost Stories ed. Joseph Hone, Hamish Hamilton, 1977 126 · The Snow Walker · Farley Mowat · ss The Snow Walker by Farley Mowat, McClelland, 1975 134 · From the Fifteenth District · Mavis Gallant · ss The New Yorker October 30 1978 140 · Fallowfields · Virgil Burnett · ss Farewell Tour by Virgil Burnett, 1986 158 · The Ghost of Lovers’ Lane · Antonine Maillet; translated by Alberto Manguel · ss 1989 translated from the French (“Le Revenant du chemin des amoureux”, Les Contes de par derrière chez mon père, Leméac Editeurm, 1987). 163 · Dreams · Timothy Findley · nv Stones by Timothy Findley, Penguin Books Canada, 1988 183 · If There Is No Gate · Jane Rule · ss (r) 188 · Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa · W. P. Kinsella · ss Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa by W. P. Kinsella, Oberon Press, 1980 201 · Joseph and His Brother · Audrey Thomas · ss Two in the Bush and Other Stories by Audrey Thomas, McClelland & Stewart, 1981 210 · As Birds Bring Forth the Sun · Alistair MacLeod · ss As Birds Bring Forth the Sun by Alistair Macleod, McClelland & Stewart, 1986 218 · No Country for Old Men · Eric McCormack · ss Inspecting the Vaults by Eric McCormack, Penguin Canada, 1987 221 · Death by Landscape · Margaret Atwood · ss Saturday Night July 1989 238 · Haunt · Sean Virgo · ss Illusion One ed. Geoff Hancock, Aya Press, 1983 250 · The Woman with the Lounge-Act Hair · Tim Wynne-Jones · ss Descant #51, 1985 259 · The Ghost of Firozsha Baag · Rohinton Mistry · ss Quarry Spring 1986 273 · Notes on Authors · [uncredited] · bg