Modern Classics of Fantasy

Description:

This wonderful collection celebrates fantasy's heyday with 33 masterpieces of short fiction ranging from the 1940s to today. Contributors include L. Sprague de Camp, H.L. Gold, Manly Wade Wellman, Peter S. Beagle, James P. Blaylock, Suzy McKee, Jane Yolen, and Roger Zelazny. "This well-balanced compilation belongs in all fantasy collections".--"Library Journal".

Selected Reviews:

"What the reader notices about these fantasies, even the ones from pulp magazines, is that they are superbly written...It's hard to imagine a time when such delights were not generally available, but here is what the general public was missing, and what the mainstream old guard is still missing. The choices form the '80s and '90s are equally rich, including Terry Bisson's comic absurdist classic "Bears Discover Fire" and Lucius Shepard's "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule..."

--Darrell Schweitzer, Washington Post Book World