Top Fantasy ed. Josh Pachter (Dent, June 1985, 0-460-04659-4, £9.50, 311pp, hc, an)
“Author’s choice” anthology, plus comments by the authors on why each story is their personal favorite.
- vii · Introduction · Josh Pachter · in
- 1 · The Man Who Walked on Air · Michael Avallone · ss Weird Tales September 1953
- 12 · Report on an Unidentified Space Station · J. G. Ballard · ss City Limits December 10 1982
- 18 · The Ship of Disaster · Barrington J. Bayley · ss New Worlds SF #151, June 1965
- 33 · Collaborating · Michael Bishop · ss Rooms of Paradise ed. Lee Harding, Quartet Books, 1978
- 51 · The Man Who Collected Poe · Robert Bloch · ss Famous Fantastic Mysteries October 1951
- 65 · The Fog Horn · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post June 23 1951, as “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms”
- 73 · The Day of the Butterflies · Marion Zimmer Bradley · ss The DAW Science Fiction Reader ed. Donald A. Wollheim, DAW, 1976
- 84 · The Depths · Ramsey Campbell · nv Dark Companions by Ramsey Campbell, Macmillan, 1982
- 104 · Touchstone · Terry Carr · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1964
- 117 · Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory · Thomas M. Disch · ss Quark/1 ed. Samuel R. Delany & Marilyn Hacker, Paperback Library, 1970
- 134 · Trouble with Water · Horace L. Gold · ss Unknown March 1939
- 154 · Harpist · Joe L. Hensley · ss Speculations ed. Isaac Asimov & Alice Laurance, Houghton Mifflin, 1982
- 168 · Blue Vase of Ghosts · Tanith Lee · nv Dragonfields #4, Winter 1983
- 188 · The Wife’s Story · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss The Compass Rose by Ursula K. Le Guin, Harper & Row, 1982
- 193 · The House of Cthulhu [Cthulhu] · Brian Lumley · ss Whispers July 1973
- 206 · The Real Shape of the Coast · John Lutz · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1971
- 217 · The Smallest Dragonboy [Pern] · Anne McCaffrey · ss Science Fiction Tales ed. Roger Elwood, Rand McNally, 1973
- 230 · Caves in Cliffs · Josh Pachter · ss
- 239 · The Broken Hoop · Pamela Sargent · ss Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine June 1982
- 253 · Dancers in the Time-Flux · Robert Silverberg · ss Heroic Visions ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Ace, 1983
- 270 · Amends, A Tale of the Sun Kings · Nancy Springer · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1983
- 281 · Sing a Last Song of Valdese [Kane] · Karl Edward Wagner · nv Chacal v1 #1, 1976
- 293 · The Father of the Bride · Connie Willis · vi Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine May 1982
- 301 · Kevin Malone · Gene Wolfe · ss New Terrors 1 ed. Ramsey Campbell, Pan, 1980
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