[Elsewhere 01] • Elsewhere: Tales of Fantasy

From the secret places of the soul to sorcerous lands of faraway from hidden magical coves to vast and dragon-haunted plains:

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Fantasy worlds created by the masters of the genre, including original stories by:

C. J. Cherryh — "Sea Change"

M. John Harrison — "Virivonium Knights"

Michael Moorcock — "Elric at the End of Time"

Evangeline Walton — "Judgement of St. Yves"

and other tales fo timeless fantasy — plus an "Islandian Tale" from teh unpublished writings of Austin Tappan Wright, author of the American utopia classic ISLANDIA.

Come journey through realms of twilight and enchantment that like just beyond the everyday world...

ELSEWHERE

30 short stories, poems and drawings from the best of fantasy literature.

Introduction (Elsewhere) • essay by Mark Alan Arnold and Terri Windling

The Green Child • short story by John Crowley

Pooka's Bridge • short story by Gillian Fitzgerald

The Hosting of the Sidhe • (1893) • poem by W. B. Yeats [as by William Butler Yeats]

The Judgement of St. Yves • short story by Evangeline Walton

Sweetly the Waves Call to Me • short story by Pat Murphy

The Merman in Love • poem by Jane Yolen

The Renders • short story by Janny Wurts

The Golden Slipper • (1959) • short story by Antanas Vaiciulaitis

A Spell for Sleeping • (1958) • poem by Alastair Reid

The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship • (1972) • short story by Gabriel García Márquez? (trans. of El último viaje del Buque Fantasma)

Pale Horse • (1969) • poem by Masao Takiguchi

The Thunder Cat • (1965) • short story by Nicholas Stuart Gray

Queen Louisa • (1972) • short story by John Gardner

The Song of the Dragon's Daughter • (1977) • poem by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Prodigal Daughter • novelette by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Little Boy Waiting at the Edge of the Darkwood • short fiction by Andrew J. Offutt

The Tree's Wife • (1978) • short story by Jane Yolen

Introduction (An Islandian Tale: The Story of Alwina) • essay by Tappan King (variant of Introduction (Islandian Tale: The Story of Alwina)) [as by Tappan Wright King]

An Islandian Tale: The Story of Alwina • [Islandia] • (1981) • novelette by Austin Tappan Wright

The Unicorn Masque • novelette by Ellen Kushner

The Succubus • (1971) • poem by John Alfred Taylor

Ku Mei Li: A Chinese Ghost Story • novelette by M. Lucie Chin

Tatuana's Tale • (1973) • short story by Miguel Ángel Asturias (trans. of Leyenda de la Tatuana 1930)

Overheard on a Saltmarsh • (1912) • poem by Harold Monro

Tales of Houdini • short story by Rudy Rucker

Oh! My Name Is John Wellington Wells • (1877) • poem by W. S. Gilbert

Elric at the End of Time • [Tales from the End of Time • 5] • novelette by Michael Moorcock

Song of Amergin • (1948) • poem by Robert Graves

Viriconium Knights • [Viriconium] • short story by M. John Harrison

The Magician • (1971) • short story by William Kotzwinkle

Sea Change • short story by C. J. Cherryh

* Contributors' Notes (Elsewhere) • essay by uncredited