Masters of Fantasy

Abridged from 'A Treasury of Modern Fantasy' which was published as a soft cover by Avon in 1981. 31 stories. This anthology was created to fill an astonishing gap in fantasy book publishing. while there have been numerous anthologies of fantasy stories, many of them excellent, until now no one has made the effort to gather together in one volume a selection of the finest stories that have been published since the first all-fantasy magazine was born. Masters of Fantasy attempts just that task; it might be called the "definitive" anthology of magazine fantasy. Every story in this book originally appeared in a fantasy magazine, and the overall mixture of styles and subjects shows the rich variety of imagination that these magazines have presented Table of Contents The Rats in the Walls H. P. LOVECRAFT The Woman of the Wood A. MERRITT Trouble with Water H. L. GOLD Thirteen O'Clock C. M. KORNBLUTH The Coming of the White Worm CLARK ASHTON SMITH Yesterdsy Was Monday THEODORE STURGEON They Bite ANTHONY BOUCHER Call Him Demon HENRY KUTINER Daemon C. L. MOORE The Black Ferris RAY BRADBURY Displaced Person ERIC FRANK RUSSELL Our Fair City ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Come and Go Mad FREDRICB ROWN There Shall Be No Darkness JAMES BLISH The Loom of Darkness JACK VANCE The Rag Thing DONALD A. WOLLTIEIM Sail On! Sail On! PHILIP JOS6 FARMER One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts SHIRLEY JACKSON The Hell-Bound Train ROBERT BLOCH Nine Yards of Other Cloth MANLY WADE WELLMAN Thc Montavarde Camera AVRAM DAVIDSON Man Overboard JOHN COLLIER My Dear EmilY JOANNA RUSS Descending THOMAS M. DISCH Four Ghosts in Hamlet FRITZ LEIBER Divine Madness ROGER ZELAZNY Narrow ValIeY R.A. LAFFERTY Timothy KEITH ROBERTS Through a Glass-DarklY ZENNA HENDERSON Jeffty Is Five HARLAN ELLISON Within the Walls of TYre MICHAEL BISHOP