Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy ed. Peter Haining (Souvenir Press, September 10, 1998, 0-285-63450-X, £16.99, 252pp, hc, oa, cover by Josh Kirby)
Anthology of 24 comic fantasy, historical and crime stories, including work by Pratchett, Peake, Bloch, Dick, Beagle, and Westlake; an original story by Stan McMurtry; and stories by David L. Stone and Ray Bradbury, seemingly in book form for the first time.
- 9 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in
- 13 · 1: Flights of Fantasy: Stories of the Absurd
- 15 · Hollywood Chickens · Terry Pratchett · ss More Tales from the Forbidden Planet ed. Roz Kaveney, Titan, 1990
- 28 · The New Utopia · Jerome K. Jerome · ss Diary of a Pilgrimage by Jerome K. Jerome, J.W. Arrowsmith, 1891
- 38 · The Angry Street [Club of Queer Trades] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Daily News January 25 1908, as “A Somewhat Improbable Story”
- 44 · The Party at Lady Cusp-Canine’s [Gormenghast] · Mervyn Peake · ss New Worlds #194, September/October 1969
- 52 · The Little Man Who Wasn’t All There [Lefty Feep] · Robert Bloch · ss Fantastic Adventures August 1942
- 72 · The Year the Glop-Monster Won the Golden Lion at Cannes · Ray Bradbury · ss Cavalier July 1967
- 85 · Lila the Werewolf [Sam Farrell] · Peter S. Beagle · nv guabi #1, 1969, as “Farrell and Lila the Werewolf”
- 107 · The War with the Fnools · Philip K. Dick · ss Galactic Outpost Spring 1964
- 121 · 2: The Muddle Ages: Tales of Heroic Times
- 123 · The Creation According to Spike Milligan · Spike Milligan · ss Punch February 1989
- 129 · A Mediaeval Romance · Mark Twain · ss Buffalo Express January 1 1870, as “An Awful, Terrible Medieval Romance”
- 137 · Ethelred the Unready · Ben Travers · ss The Passing Show 192?
- 142 · Dream Damsel · Evan Hunter · ss Fantastic Universe October 1954
- 152 · Three Months in a Balloon · John Kendrick Bangs · ex from Mr Münchausen, 1901
- 159 · How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German Invasion · Gene Wolfe · ss Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact May 1973
- 177 · Fifi and the Chilean Truffle [Did It Happen?] · Orson Welles · ss The Evening Standard March 18 1955
- 183 · The Wastrel · Peter Sellers · ss The (London) Evening News April 26 1963
- 189 · 3: Malice in Blunderland: Cases of Crime
- 191 · Stirring the Pot · Tom Sharpe · ss The Daily Telegraph 1994
- 197 · The Suicide of Kiaros · L. Frank Baum · ss The White Elephant #16, September 1897
- 210 · The Rape of the Sherlock [Sherlock Holmes] · A. A. Milne · vi Vanity Fair (UK) October 15 1903
- 213 · The White Rabbit Caper · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker November 19 1949
- 221 · Wot the Eye Don’t See · Stan McMurtry · ss
- 230 · The Condemned · Woody Allen · ss The New Yorker November 21 1977
- 237 · The Mulligan Stew · Donald E. Westlake · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1979
- 243 · The Dulwich Assassins · David L. Stone · ss Xenos #42, April 1997
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