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"The Tower of the Elephant"
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Non-REH Content
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"Foreword" by Jack Williamson
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"Preface" by Garyn G. Roberts
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SECTION ONE: TWO ARCHETYPAL STORIES
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"Enduring Traditions of Mary Shelley
and Edgal Allan Poe" by Garyn G. Roberts
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"The Mortal Immortal" by
Mary W. Shelley
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"he Fall of the House of Usher" by
Edgar Allan Poe
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SECTION TWO: FANTASY
Stories of the Fantastique, Tales of the Quest
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"Dark Fantasy: Edgar Allan Poe, Howard
Phillips Lovecraft, and Stephen King—and Traditions Before, Between, and
Since" by Garyn G. Roberts
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"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The Old Nurse’s Story" by
Elizabeth Gaskel
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"No. 1 Branch Line, the Signalman" by
Charles Dickens
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"The Ghost in the Cap’n Brown House"
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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"The Body Snatcher" by
Robert Louis Stevenson
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"The Damned Thing" by Ambrose
Bierce
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"Dracula’s Guest" by
Bram Stoker
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"The Monkey’s Paw" by W.
W. Jacobs
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"The Colour Out of Space" by
H. P. Lovecraft
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"The Three Marked Pennies" by
M. E. Counselman
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"Catnip" by Robert
Bloch
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"The Lottery" by Shirley
Jackson
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"To Serve Man" by
Damon Knight
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"The Third Level" by
Jack Finney
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"The Howling Man" by
Charles Beaumont
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"Duel" by Richard
Matheson
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"The Raft" by Stephen
King
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"Nightcrawlers" by
Robert R. McCammon
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"High Fantasy: Ancestors and Disciples
of Robert E. Howard and J. R. R. Tolkien" by Garyn G. Roberts
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"The Gray Wolf" by George
MacDonald
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"The People of the Pit" by
A. Merritt
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"Friend Island" by
Francis Stevens
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"The City of the Singing Flame" by
Clark Ashton Smith
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"Riddles in the Dark" [Chapter 5 of The
Hobbit]
by J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Smoke Ghost" by Fritz
Leiber
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"The Strange Drug of Doctor Caber" by
Lord Dunsany
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"Anything Box" by Zenna
Henderson
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"The Drowned Giant" by
J. G. Ballard
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"Red as Blood" by Tanith
Lee
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"The Malaysian Mer" by
Jane Yolen
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"Troll Bridge" by Neil
Gaiman
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"Thirteen Phantasms" by
James P. Blaylock
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SECTION THREE: SCIENCE FICTION
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"Jules Verne, Herbert George Wells, Hugo
Gernsback, and the Early Days of Modern Scientifiction" by
Garyn G. Roberts
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"The Diamond Lens" by
Fitz-James O’Brien
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"The Clock that Went Backwards"
by Edward Page Mitchell
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"An Express of the Future" by
Jules Verne
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"The Star" by H. G.
Wells
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"The Ray of Displacement"
by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
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"A Princess of Mars" by
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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"The Eggs from Lake Tanganyika" by
Curt Siodmak
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"The Fate of the Poseidonia" by
Clare Winger Harris
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"The Conquest of Gola" by
Leslie F. Stone
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"Robot Nemesis" by E. E.
“Doc” Smith
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"A Martian Odyssey" by
Stanley G. Weinbaum
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"Robbie" by Isaac
Asimov
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"Jay Score" by Eric
Frank Russell
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"The Weapon Shop" by
A. E. van Vogt
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"Arena" by Fredric
Brown
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"Thunder and Roses" by
Theodore Sturgeon
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"That Only a Mother" by
Judith Merril
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"Enchantress of Venus" by
Leigh Brackett
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"The Long Watch" by
Robert A. Heinlein
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"There Will Come Soft Rains" by
Ray Bradbury
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"Invasion" by Frank
Belknap Long
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"The Harpers of Titan" by
Edmond Hamilton
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"The Sentinel" by
Arthur C. Clarke
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"Pictures Don’t Lie" by
Katherine MacLean
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"The Lovers" by Philip
José Farmer
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"Mousetrap" by Andre Norton
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"Fondly Fahrenheit" by
Alfred Bester
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"Exiles of Tomorrow" by
Marion Zimmer Bradley
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"Dust Rag" by Hal Clement
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"Or All the Seas with Oysters" by
Avram Davidson
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"The Store of the Worlds" by
Robert Sheckley
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"Harrison Bergeron" by
Kurt Vonnegut
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"Without a Thought" by
Fred Saberhagen
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"The Fiend" by Frederik
Pohl
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"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale"
by Philip K. Dick
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"Driftglass" by Samuel
R. Delany
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"The Jigsaw Man" by Larry
Niven
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"The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" by
James Tiptree, Jr.
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"Seed Stock" by Frank Herbert
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"Roommates" by Harry Harrison
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"When It Changed" by Joanna
Russ
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"The Undercity" by Dean
R. Koontz
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"Opening Fire" by Barry
N. Malzberg
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"The Engine at Heartspring’s Center"
by Roger Zelazny
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"Ender’s Game" by Orson
Scott Card
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"Melancholy Elephants" by
Spider Robinson
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"Burning Chrome" by William
Gibson
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"Blood Music" by Greg Bear
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"Bloodchild" by Octavia
Butler
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"The Plague Star" by George
R. R. Martin
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"Remaking History" by Kim
Stanley Robinson
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"The Purchase of Earth" by
Jack Williamson
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SECTION FOUR: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
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"How Science Fiction Got Its Name" by Sam
Moskowitz
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SECTION FIVE: LISTS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES
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Fantasy and Science Fiction Film and Television
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Fantasy and Science Fiction Radio Series
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Edited by Garyn G. Roberts
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Garyn G. Roberts provides background
information on SF, fantasy, and dark fantasy/horror in general, with story
introductions discussing the authors’ contributions to the field.
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