Fantastic Tales

The acclaimed author presents "e;a rich and wide-ranging anthology"e; of 19th century fantasy and horror stories-with an original introduction for each (Library Journal). 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. As Calvino explains in his introduction to this collection, "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; This anthology of twenty-six 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 a introduction by Calvino. "e;Impressive and utterly pleasing Each story [Calvino] picks is absorbing, unique, and continually surprising."e; Los Angeles Times