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Also Edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
The Queen’s Son by Bettina von Arnim
Hans-My-Hedgehog by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Story of the Hard Nut by E.T.A. Hoffmann
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
The Luck of the Bean-Rows by Charles Nodier
Transformation by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Nest of Nightingales by Théophile Gautier
The Fairytale About a Dead Body, Belonging to No One Knows Whom by Vladimir Odoevsky
The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton by Charles Dickens
The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe
The Story of Jeon Unchi by Anonymous
Feathertop: A Moralized Legend by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Master Zacharius by Jules Verne
The Frost-King: Or, The Power of Love by Louisa May Alcott
The Tartarus of Maids by Herman Melville
The Magic Mirror by George MacDonald
The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O’Brien
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
The Will-o’-the-Wisps Are in Town by Hans Christian Andersen
The Legend of the Pale Maiden by Aleksis Kivi
Looking-Glass House by Lewis Carroll
Furnica, or the Queen of the Ants by Carmen Sylva
The Story of Iván the Fool by Leo Tolstoy
The Goophered Grapevine by Charles W. Chestnutt
The Bee-Man of Orn by Frank R. Stockton
The Remarkable Rocket by Oscar Wilde
The Ensouled Violin by H. P. Blavatskaya
The Death of Odjigh by Marcel Schwob
The Terrestrial Fire by Marcel Schwob
The Kingdom of Cards by Rabindranath Tagore
The Other Side: A Breton Legend by Count Eric Stanlislaus Stenbock
The Fulness of Life by Edith Wharton
Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady by Vernon Lee
The Little Room by Madeline Yale Wynne
The Plattner Story by H. G. Wells
The Princess Baladina—Her Adventure by Willa Cather
The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame
Iktomi Tales by Zitkala-Ša
Marionettes by Louis Fréchette
Dance of the Comets: An Astral Pantomime in Two Acts by Paul Scheerbart
The White People by Arthur Machen
Blamol by Gustav Meyrink
Goblins: A Logging Camp Story by Louis Fréchette
Sowbread by Grazia Deledda
The Angry Street by G. K. Chesterton
The Aunt and Amabel by E. Nesbit
Sacrifice by Aleksey Remizov
The Princess Steel by W. E. B. Du Bois
The Hump by Fernán Caballero
The Celestial Omnibus by E. M. Forster
The Legend of the Ice Babies by E. Pauline Johnson
The Last Redoubt by William Hope Hodgson
Jack Pumpkinhead and the Sawhorse by L. Frank Baum
The Plant Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Strange News from Another Star by Hermann Hesse
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Hoard of the Gibbelins by Lord Dunsany
Through the Dragon Glass by A. Merritt
David Blaize and the Blue Door by E. F. Benson
The Big Bestiary of Modern Literature by Franz Blei
The Alligator War by Horacio Quiroga
Friend Island by Francis Stevens
Magic Comes to a Committee by Stella Benson
Gramophone of the Ages by Yefim Zozulya
Joiwind by David Lindsay
Sound in the Mountain by Maurice Renard
Sennin by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Koshtra Pivrarcha by E. R. Eddison
At the Border by Der Nister
The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan by W. B. Laughead
Talkative Domovoi by Aleksandr Grin
The Ratcatcher by Aleksandr Grin
The Shadow Kingdom by Robert E. Howard
The Man Traveling with the Brocade Portrait by Edogawa Ranpo
A Visit to the Museum by Vladimir Nabokov
The Water Sprite’s Tale by Karel Čapek
The Capital of Cat Country by Lao She
Coyote Stories by Mourning Dove
Uncle Monday by Zora Neale Hurston
Rose-Cold, Moon Skater by María Teresa León
A Night of the High Season by Bruno Schulz
The Influence of the Sun by Fernand Dumont
The Town of Cats by Hagiwara Sakutarō
The Debutante by Leonora Carrington
The Jewels in the Forest by Fritz Leiber
Evening Primrose by John Collier
The Coming of the White Worm by Clark Ashton Smith
The Man Who Could Walk Through Walls by Marcel Aymé
Leaf by Niggle by J. R. R. Tolkien
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