INTRODUCTION
by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
THE QUEEN’S SON
Bettina von Arnim
HANS-MY-HEDGEHOG
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
THE STORY OF THE HARD NUT
E. T. A. Hoffmann
RIP VAN WINKLE
Washington Irving
THE LUCK OF THE BEAN-ROWS
Charles Nodier
TRANSFORMATION
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
THE NEST OF NIGHTINGALES
Théophile Gautier
THE FAIRYTALE ABOUT A DEAD BODY, BELONGING TO NO ONE KNOWS WHOM
Vladimir Odoevsky
THE STORY OF THE GOBLINS WHO STOLE A SEXTON
Charles Dickens
THE NOSE
Nikolai Gogol
THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR
Edgar Allan Poe
THE STORY OF JEON UNCHI
Anonymous
FEATHERTOP: A MORALIZED LEGEND
Nathaniel Hawthorne
MASTER ZACHARIUS
Jules Verne
THE FROST-KING: OR, THE POWER OF LOVE
Louisa May Alcott
THE TARTARUS OF MAIDS
Herman Melville
THE MAGIC MIRROR
George MacDonald
THE DIAMOND LENS
Fitz-James O’Brien
GOBLIN MARKET
Christina Rossetti
THE WILL-O’-THE-WISPS ARE IN TOWN
Hans Christian Andersen
THE LEGEND OF THE PALE MAIDEN
Aleksis Kivi
LOOKING-GLASS HOUSE
Lewis Carroll
FURNICA, OR THE QUEEN OF THE ANTS
Carmen Sylva
THE STORY OF IVÁN THE FOOL
Leo Tolstoy
THE GOOPHERED GRAPEVINE
Charles W. Chestnutt
THE BEE-MAN OF ORN
Frank R. Stockton
THE REMARKABLE ROCKET
Oscar Wilde
THE ENSOULED VIOLIN
H. P. Blavatskaya
THE DEATH OF ODJIGH
Marcel Schwob
THE TERRESTRIAL FIRE
Marcel Schwob
THE KINGDOM OF CARDS
Rabindranath Tagore
THE OTHER SIDE: A BRETON LEGEND
Count Eric Stanlislaus Stenbock
THE FULNESS OF LIFE
Edith Wharton
PRINCE ALBERIC AND THE SNAKE LADY
Vernon Lee
THE LITTLE ROOM
Madeline Yale Wynne
THE PLATTNER STORY
H. G. Wells
THE PRINCESS BALADINA—HER ADVENTURE
Willa Cather
THE RELUCTANT DRAGON
Kenneth Grahame
IKTOMI TALES
Zitkala-Ša
MARIONETTES
Louis Fréchette
DANCE OF THE COMETS: AN ASTRAL PANTOMIME IN TWO ACTS
Paul Scheerbart
THE WHITE PEOPLE
Arthur Machen
BLAMOL
Gustav Meyrink
GOBLINS: A LOGGING CAMP STORY
Louis Fréchette
SOWBREAD
Grazia Deledda
THE ANGRY STREET
G. K. Chesterton
THE AUNT AND AMABEL
E. Nesbit
SACRIFICE
Aleksey Remizov
THE PRINCESS STEEL
W. E. B. Du Bois
THE HUMP
Fernán Caballero
THE CELESTIAL OMNIBUS
E. M. Forster
THE LEGEND OF THE ICE BABIES
E. Pauline Johnson
THE LAST REDOUBT
William Hope Hodgson
JACK PUMPKINHEAD AND THE SAWHORSE
L. Frank Baum
THE PLANT MEN
Edgar Rice Burroughs
STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER STAR
Hermann Hesse
THE METAMORPHOSIS
Franz Kafka
THE HOARD OF THE GIBBELINS
Lord Dunsany
THROUGH THE DRAGON GLASS
A. Merritt
DAVID BLAIZE AND THE BLUE DOOR
E. F. Benson
THE BIG BESTIARY OF MODERN LITERATURE
Franz Blei
THE ALLIGATOR WAR
Horacio Quiroga
FRIEND ISLAND
Francis Stevens
MAGIC COMES TO A COMMITTEE
Stella Benson
GRAMOPHONE OF THE AGES
Yefim Zozulya
JOIWIND
David Lindsay
SOUND IN THE MOUNTAIN
Maurice Renard
SENNIN
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
KOSHTRA PIVRARCHA
E. R. Eddison
AT THE BORDER
Der Nister
THE MARVELOUS EXPLOITS OF PAUL BUNYAN
W. B. Laughead
TALKATIVE DOMOVOI
Aleksandr Grin
THE RATCATCHER
Aleksandr Grin
THE SHADOW KINGDOM
Robert E. Howard
THE MAN TRAVELING WITH THE BROCADE PORTRAIT
Edogawa Ranpo
A VISIT TO THE MUSEUM
Vladimir Nabokov
THE WATER SPRITE’S TALE
Karel Čapek
THE CAPITAL OF CAT COUNTRY
Lao She
COYOTE STORIES
Mourning Dove
UNCLE MONDAY
Zora Neale Hurston
ROSE-COLD, MOON SKATER
María Teresa León
A NIGHT OF THE HIGH SEASON
Bruno Schulz
THE INFLUENCE OF THE SUN
Fernand Dumont
THE TOWN OF CATS
Hagiwara Sakutarō
THE DEBUTANTE
Leonora Carrington
THE JEWELS IN THE FOREST
Fritz Leiber
EVENING PRIMROSE
John Collier
THE COMING OF THE WHITE WORM
Clark Ashton Smith
THE MAN WHO COULD WALK THROUGH WALLS
Marcel Aymé
LEAF BY NIGGLE
J. R. R. Tolkien
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
