Fantastic Tales: Visionary And Everyday (Penguin Modern Classics Ser.)

By: Italo Calvino

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Synopsis: The acclaimed author presents &“a rich and wide-ranging anthology&” of 19th century fantasy and horror stories—with an original introduction for each (Library Journal). Vampires, ghosts, and other horrors abound in this collection of nineteenth-century fantastic literature, selected and edited by Italo Calvino, a twentieth-century master of the speculative. As Calvino explains in his introduction to this collection, &“the true theme of the nineteenth-century fantastic tale is the reality of what we see: to believe or not to believe in phantasmagoric apparitions, to glimpse another world, enchanted or infernal, behind everyday appearances.&” This anthology of twenty-six enchanting, uncanny, terrifying, and immortally entertaining short stories includes E.T.A. Hoffmann&’s &“The Sandman,&” Nikolai Gogol&’s &“The Nose,&” Edgar Allan Poe&’s &“The Tell-Tale Heart,&” Robert Louis Stevenson&’s &“The Bottle Imp,&” and many more, each with a introduction by Calvino. &“Impressive and utterly pleasing…Each story [Calvino] picks is absorbing, unique, and continually surprising.&”—Los Angeles Times