The Mammoth Book Of Comic Fantasy

The very best in whimsical and hilarious fantasy writing, this collection features specially commissioned stories by such masters of the fanciful imagination as Rabelais and Swift, Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, P.G. Wodehouse, and James Thurber.

Contents

Peregrine: Alflandia / Avram Davidson --

Pizza to go / Tom Holt --

A malady of magicks / Craig Shaw Gardner --

Golden apples of the sun / Gardner Dozois, Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick --

Death swatch / Esther Friesner --

Press Ann / Terry Bisson --

Troll bridge / Terry Pratchett --

The toll bridge / Harvey Jacobs --

Alaska / John Morressy --

The cat with two tails / Terry Jones --

A bunch of fairy tales: The warlock's daughter / Anthony Armstrong --

The glass slip-up / Louise Cooper --

The distressing damsel / David Langford --

A pair of Lovecraftians: Tender is the night-gaunt / Peter Cannon --

Shoggoth's old peculiar / Neil Gaiman --

A cocoon of oldies: Looking-glass land / Lewis Carroll --

The story of the four little children / Edward Lear --

The disadvantages of mind / James F. Sullivan --

A quiver of spooks: The return of Max Kearny / Ron Goulart --

The unpleasantness at the Baloney Club / F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre --

A fortnight of miracles / Randall Garrett --

Aphrodite's new temple / Amy Myers --

The fifty-first dragon / Heywood Broun --

The Boscombe Walters story / Robert Rankin --

Fall's into the sear / James A. Bibby --

The cunning plan / Anne Gay --

War of the doom zombies / Richard A. Lupoff --

The tale of the seventeenth eunuch / Jane Yolen --

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth / Lawrence Schimel --

Queen of the green sun / Jack Sharkey --

Wu-ling's folly / Alan Dean Foster --

Mebodes' fly / Harry Turtledove --

The return of mad Santa / Al Sarrantonio --

Ruella in love / Molly Brown --

Been a long, long time / R.A. Lafferty.