-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.- -- from Calvino's introduction to Fantastic Tales
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. This posthumously published anthology of 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 an introduction by Calvino. Fantastic Tales is a delight for the mind and a feast for the senses.
