Great Fantasy

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Contents 9 Introduction (The Fantasy Hall of Fame) (1983) essay by Robert Silverberg 13 The Masque of the Red Death (1842) shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Mask of the Red Death) 21 An Inhabitant of Carcosa (1886) shortstory by Ambrose Bierce 26 The Sword of Welleran (1908) shortstory by Lord Dunsany 42 The Women of the Wood (1926) novelette by A. Merritt (variant of The Woman of the Wood) 76 The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan [Hyperborea] (1932) shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith 86 The Valley of the Worm [James Allison] (1934) novelette by Robert E. Howard 110 Black God's Kiss [Jirel of Joiry] (1934) novelette by C. L. Moore 143 The Silver Key [Randolph Carter] (1929) shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft 157 Nothing in the Rules (1939) novelette by L. Sprague de Camp 191 A Gnome There Was (1941) shortstory by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett ] 221 Snulbug (1941) shortstory by Anthony Boucher 239 The Words of Guru (1941) shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth 248 Homecoming [The Elliott Family] (1946) shortstory by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Homecoming) 263 Mazirian the Magician [Dying Earth] (1950) novelette by Jack Vance 282 O Ugly Bird! [John the Balladeer] (1951) shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman 296 The Silken-Swift (1953) shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon 318 The Golem (1955) shortstory by Avram Davidson 325 That Hell-Bound Train (1958) shortstory by Robert Bloch 341 Kings in Darkness [The Elric Saga] (1962) novelette by Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorn [as by Michael Moorcock ] 375 Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes (1967) novelette by Harlan Ellison 399 Gonna Roll the Bones (1967) novelette by Fritz Leiber 424 The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (1973) shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin