Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature - ed. Alberto Manguel

Written by ed. Alberto Manguel
Read by Sandra Scott
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Bitrate: 32 Kbps
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Total # of Tracks: 76
Total Play time: 38:57:03

Anthology #029
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From Goodreads:

This huge anthology offers a kaleidoscope of brilliant writing from the Magi of the imagination. Alberto Manguel has selected 72 fantastic tales from life on the edge of the twilight zone, with stories from Marguerite Yourcenar, Herman Hesse, Italo Calvino, Vladimir Nabokov, and many, many more. This is a collection of irresistible masterpieces, many of which have never before appeared in the English language.
Fantastic literature, Manguel writes in his introduction, makes use of our everyday world as a facade through which the undefinable appears, hinting at the half-forgotten dreams of our imagination. Unlike tales of fantasy, fantastic literature deals with what can be best defined as the impossible seeping into the possible, what Wallace Stevens calls black water breaking into reality. Fantastic literature never really explains everything, it thrives on surprise, on the unexpected logic that is born from its own rules.

Stories in this collection:

01) Foreword by Alberto Manguel
02) House Taken Over by Julio Cortázar
03) How Love Came To Professor Guildea by Robert S. Hichens
04) Climax For A Ghost Story by I. A. Ireland
05) The Mysteries of the Joy Rio by Tennessee Williams
06) Pomegranate Seed by Edith Wharton
07) Venetian Masks by Adolfo Bioy Casares
08) The Wish House by Rudyard Kipling
09) The Playground by Ray Bradbury
10) Importance by Manuel Mujica Láinez
11) Enoch Soames by Max Beerbohm
12) A Visitor From Down Under by L. P. Hartley
13) Laura by Saki
14) An Injustice Revealed by Anonymous
15) A Little Place Off the Edgware Road by Graham Greene
16) From “A School Story” by M. R. James
17) The Signalman by Charles Dickens
18) The Tall Woman by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
19) A Scent of Mimosa by Francis King
20) Death and the Gardener by Jean Cocteau
21) Lord Mountdrago by W. Somerset Maugham
22) The Sick Gentleman’s Last Visit by Giovanni Papini
23) Insomnia by Virgilio Piñera
24) The Storm by Jules Verne
25) A Dream by Edward William Lane
26) The Facts In the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe
27) Split Second by Daphne du Maurier
28) August 25, 1983 by Jorge Luis Borges
29) How Wang-Fo Was Saved by Marguerite Yourcenar
30) From “Peter and Rosa” by Isak Dinesen
31) Tattoo by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki
32) John Duffy’s Brother by Flann O’Brien
33) Lady Into Fox by David Garnett
34) Father’s Last Escape by Bruno Schulz
35) A Man by the Name of Ziegler by Hermann Hesse
36) The Argentine Ant by Italo Calvino
37) The Lady on the Grey by John Collier
38) The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
39) Of a Promise Kept by Lafcadio Hearn
40) The Wizard Postponed by Juan Manuel
41) The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs
42) The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
43) The Rocking-Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence
44) Certain Distant Suns by Joanne Greenburg
45) The Third Bank of the River by João Guimarães Rosa
46) Home by Hilaire Belloc
47) The Door In the Wall by H. G. Wells
48) The Friends by Silvina Ocampo
49) Et In Sempiternum Pereant by Charles Williams
50) The Captives of Longjumeau by Léon Bloy
51) The Visit To the Museum by Vladimir Nabakov
52) “Autumn Mountain” by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
53) The Sight by Brian Moore
54) Clorinda by André Pieyre De Mandiargues
55) The Pagan Rabbi by Cynthia Ozick
56) The Fisherman and His Soul by Oscar Wilde
57) The Bureau D’echange De Maux by Lord Dunsany
58) The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
59) In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
60) A Dog In Durer’s Etching “The Knight, Death and the Devil” by Marco Denevi
61) The Large Ant by Howard Fast
62) The Lemmings by Alex Comfort
63) The Grey Ones by J. B. Priestley
64) The Feather Pillow by Horacio Quiroga
65) Seaton’s Aunt by Walter De La Mare
66) The Friends of the Friends by Henry James
67) The Travelling Companion by Hans Christian Andersen
68) The Curfew Tolls by Stephen Vincent Benet
69) The State of Grace by Marcel Ayme
70) The Story of A Panic by E. M. Forster
71) An Invitation To the Hunt by George Hitchcock
72) From the “American Notebooks” by Nathaniel Hawthorne
73) The Dream by O. Henry