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Contents:
- The Child Who Believed by Grace Amundson
- It’s a Good Life by Jerome Bixby
- The Door by E.B. White
- Mysterious Kôr by Elizabeth Bowen
- Nights at Serampore by Mircea Eliade
- The Dead Fiddler by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The Phoenix by Sylvia Townsend Warner
- The Spider by Hanns Heinz Ewers
- Changeling by Dorothy K. Haynes
- The July Ghost by Antonia S. Byatt
- Poor Girl by Elizabeth Taylor
- Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched by May Sinclair
- The Complete Gentleman (from The Palm-Wine Drinkard) by Amos Tutuola
- The Professor and the Mermaid by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- The Sausage by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- A Woman Seldom Found by William Sansom
- Mummy to the Rescue by Angus Wilson
- Aghwee the Sky Monsterby Kenzaburé
- Berkeley or Mariana of the Universe by Liliana Heker
- The Saint by Antonia White
- The Ghost of Firozsha Baag by Rohinton Mistry
- The Miracle of Ash Wednesday by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Heartburn by Hortense Calisher
- The Accident by Ann Bridge
- The Old Woman by Joyce Marshall
- A Short Trip Home by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Brute by Joseph Conrad
- Mr. Sleepwalker by Ethel Wilson
- A Self-Possessed Woman by Julian Barnes
- The Woman Who Talked to Horses by Leon Rooke
- The White Rooster by William Goyen
- The Labrenas by Tommaso Landolfi
- The Dead Fish by Boris Vian
- Major Aranda’s Hand by Alfonso Reyes
- Giving Birth by Margaret Atwood
- The Jewbird by Bernard Malamud
- The Misanthrope by J.D. Beresford
- Bartleby by Herman Melville
- Private—Keep Out! by Philip MacDonald
- Dreams by Timothy Findley
- Mr. Dombey, the Zombie by Geoffrey Drayton
- Why I Changed into a Nightingale by Wolfgang Hildesheimer
- The Troll by T.H. White
- Two Words by Isabel Allende
- Ch’ien-niang by Chen Xuanyou
- The Visiting Star by Robert Aickman
- Ratanbabu and the Man by Satyajit Ray
- How It Happened by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Same Time, Same Place by Mervyn Peake
- The Enigma of Arrival (from The Enigma of Arrival) by V.S. Naipaul
- Faithful Peter by Lion Feuchtwanger
- The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship by Gabriel García Márquez
- The House-Hunters by Peter Green
- The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Eckhardt at a Window by Eric McCormack
- The Lefthanders by Günter Grass
- Mr. Arcularis by Conrad Aiken
- The Times My Father Died by Yehuda Amichai
- The Haunted House by Luigi Pirandello
- The Finder by Elizabeth Spencer
- Desire by James Stephens
- The Miraculous Revenge by George Bernard Shaw
- Room of Blood by Brett Balon
- The Shadow by Ben Hecht
- The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke
Original title: Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic
Alternative titles: White Fire: Further Fantastic Literature
Original languages:
Various
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Horror
Fiction→ Science Fiction
Fiction→ Fantasy→ Literary Fantasy
The following works are contained within this one:
Bartleby (1853) [Novelette]
Author: Herman Melville
Yellow Wallpaper, the (1892) [Short Story]
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Spider, the (1908) [Short Story]
Author: Hanns Heinz Ewers
How It Happened (1913) [Short Story]
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Misanthrope, the (1918) [Short Story]
Author: John D. Beresford
Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched (1922) [Short Story]
Author: May Sinclair
Mr. Arcularis (1922) [Short Story]
Author: Conrad Aiken
Miracle of Ash Wednesday, the (1926) [Short Story]
Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin
Short Trip Home, a (1927) [Short Story]
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Troll, the (1935) [Short Story]
Author: T.H. White
Accident, the (1936) [Short Story]
Author: Ann Bridge
Door, the (1939) [Short Story]
Author: E.B. White
Phoenix, the (1940) [Short Story]
Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sausage, the (1943) [Short Story]
Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Mysterious Kôr (1944) [Short Story]
Author: Elizabeth Bowen
Shadow, the (1945) [Short Story]
Author: Ben Hecht
Faithful Peter (1945) [Short Story]
Author: Lion Feuchtwanger
White Rooster, the (1947) [Short Story]
Author: William Goyen
Private—Keep Out! (1949) [Short Story]
Author: Philip MacDonald
Mummy to the Rescue (1950) [Short Story]
Author: Angus Wilson
Child Who Believed, the (1950) [Short Story]
Author: Grace Amundson
Heartburn (1951) [Short Story]
Author: Hortense Calisher
Mr. Dombey, the Zombie (1951) [Short Story]
Author: Geoffrey Drayton
Why I Changed into a Nightingale (1952) [Short Story]
Author: Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Nine Billion Names of God, the (1953) [Short Story]
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
It's a Good Life (1953) [Short Story]
Author: Jerome Bixby
Saint, the (1954) [Short Story]
Author: Antonia White
Major Aranda's Hand (1955) [Short Story]
Author: Alfonso Reyes
Poor Girl (1955) [Short Story]
Author: Elizabeth Taylor
Woman Seldom Found, a (1956) [Short Story]
Author: William Sansom
Lefthanders, the (1958) [Short Story]
Author: Günter Grass
Old Woman, the (1960) [Short Story]
Author: Joyce Marshall
Professor and the Mermaid, the (1961) [Short Story]
Author: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Mr. Sleepwalker (1961) [Short Story]
Author: Ethel Wilson
Jewbird, the (1963) [Short Story]
Author: Bernard Malamud
House-Hunters, the (1963) [Short Story]
Author: Peter Green
Aghwee the Sky Monster (1964) [Short Story]
Author: Kenzaburo Oe
Visiting Star, the (1966) [Short Story]
Author: Robert Aickman
Dead Fiddler, the (1966) [Short Story]
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
Self-Possessed Woman, a (1975) [Short Story]
Author: Julian Barnes
Giving Birth (1977) [Short Story]
Author: Margaret Atwood
Changeling (1978) [Short Story]
Author: Dorothy K. Haynes
July Ghost, the (1982) [Short Story]
Author: A. S. Byatt
Room of Blood (1984) [Short Story]
Author: Brett Balon
Woman Who Talked to Horses, the (1984) [Short Story]
Author: Leon Rooke
Berkeley or Mariana of the Universe (1986) [Short Story]
Author: Liliana Heker
Ghost of Firozsha Baag, the (1986) [Short Story]
Author: Rohinton Mistry
Eckhardt at a Window (1987) [Short Story]
Author: Eric P. McCormack
Dreams (1988) [Short Story]
Author: Timothy Findley
Two Words (1989) [Short Story]
Author: Isabel Allende
This work contains excerpts from the following works :
Palm-Wine Drinkard, the (1952) [Novel]
Author: Amos Tutuola
Enigma of Arrival, the (1987) [Novel]
Author: V.S. Naipaul
Notes:
- Also published as "White Fire: Further Fantastic Literature".
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