IN EXTREME FANTASY ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN

Here 24 of the finest fantasy writers take an idea, and see just how far they can push it. many of these tales are off the wall, some are enough to make your head spin.

The stories are arranged in order of 'weirdness', from the opening 'Senator Bilbo' - when a radical descendant of the famous hobbit tries to introduce immigration control - through to 'The Dark One', a rite of passage story where you discover you are being tested to become the successor to Satan.

Find out what happens

• When a cartoon character becomes aware of his readers
• In a world of darkness where any concept of light means death
• For a man who decides to live all ages at once
• When an occult experiment to recreate the Crucifixion goes wrong

Contents:

• Copyright acknowledgments
• Beyond the Impossible by Mike Ashley
• Senator Bilbo by Andy Duncan
• Sandmagic by Orson Scott Card
• Dream a Little Dream for Me... by Peter Crowther
• Lost Wax by Leah Bobet
• Save a Place in the Lifeboat for Me by Howard Waldrop
• I Am Bonaro by John Neindorff
• The Old House Under the Snow by Rhys Hughes
• Banquet of the Lords of Night by Liz Williams
• Charlie the Purple Giraffe was Acting Strangely by David D Levine
• Master Lao and the Flying Horror by Lawrence Person
• Using It and Losing it by Jonathan Lethen
• The All-at-Once Man by R A Lafferty
• Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani by William Hope Hodgson
• Boatman's Holiday by Jeffrey Ford
• The Detweiler Boy by Tom Reamy
• The Fence at the End of the World by Melissa Mia Hall
• Elric at the End of Time by Michael Moorcock
• Cup and Table by Tim Pratt
• I, Haruspex by Christopher Priest
• Radio Waves by Michael Swanwick
• Tower of Babylon by Ted Chiang
• Jack Neck and the Worry Bird by Paul Di Filippo
• The Dark One: A Mythograph by A A Attanasio
• A Ring of Green Fire by Sean McMullen