Cervantes wrote Don Quixote in part as a satire upon those who read the romances of chivalry as literally as the miracles of the Bible. Before the eighteenth century, a significant portion of the reading audience considered what we now read as fantastic literature to be in some way true: the tales of gods and goddesses, witches, voyages to strange lands, knights battling monsters, were all presented as taking place in the real world, or in historical or distant parts of that real world. What we recognize today as the fantasy story, however, has a much shorter history. Tales of wonder and the fantastic are as old as recorded human imaginative thought, from the epic of Gilgamesh to the Odyssey and the fantastic myths of all cultures.
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It is characteristic of stories of fantasy that they take the reader out of the real world of hard facts, hard objects, and hard decisions, into a world of wonders and enchantments, a world that need not be either frivolous or inherently juvenile. Introduction Fantasy promises escape from reality. Merritt The Sword of Welleran Lord Dunsany Delany from Phantasmion Sara Coleridge 3 Tales Kenneth Morris The Sapphire Necklace The Regent of the North The Eyeless Dragons: A Chinese StoryĪdventures Elric at the End of Time Michael Moorcock Lindenborg Pool William Morris The Moon Pool A. Frank Baum The Glass Dog The Queen of Quok The Magic Bonbons The Dummy That Lived The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers Samuel R. Tobermory Saki The King of the Elves Philip K. Lupescu Anthony Boucher The King of the Cats Stephen Vincent Benét Uncle Einar Ray Bradbury Space-Time for Springers Fritz Leiber Great Is Diana Avram Davidson The Last of the Huggermuggers: A Giant Story Christopher Pearse Cranch Lynn The Canvasser’s Tale Mark TwainĬreatures The Silken-swift… Theodore Sturgeon The New Mother Lucy Clifford Mr. Wonders The Man Who Could Not See Devils Joanna Russ Hieroglyphic Tales Horace Walpole A New Arabian Night’s Entertainment The King and His Three Daughters The Dice-box: A Fairy Tale The Peach in Brandy: A Milesian Tale Mi Li: A Chinese Fairy TaleĪ True Love Story The Bird’s Nest Bird of Prey John Collier The Detective of Dreams Gene Wolfe The Bee-man of Orn Frank R. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt Our Fair City Robert A.
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Clair Feathertop: A Moralized Legend Nathaniel Hawthorne The Root and the Ring Wyman Guin The Green Magician L. Le Guin The Magic Fishbone Charles Dickens The Goddess on the Street Corner Margaret St. Hartwell with the assistance of Kathryn Cramer Scanned & Proofed By MadMaxAUĮnchantments The Rule of Names Ursula K.