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The Book of Fantasy: A Review: Part 17

March 7, 2021

"The Sentence" by Wu Ch'eng En | "The Sorcerers" by William Butler Yeats | "Fragment" by José Zorrilla

The Book of Fantasy: A Review: Part 16

March 6, 2021

"Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" by Oscar Wilde | "The Sorcerer of the White Lotus Lodge" by Richard Wilhelm | "The Celestial Stag" by G. Willoughby-Meade | "Saved by the Book" by G. Willoughby-Meade | "The Reanimated Englishman" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Book of Fantasy: A Review: Part 15

March 4, 2021

"Pomegranate Seed" by Edith Wharton | "Lukundoo" by Edward Lucas White | "The Donguys" by Juan Rodolfo Wilcock

The Book of Fantasy: A Review: Part 14

February 19, 2021

"The Infinite Dream of Pao-Yu" and "The Mirror of Wind-to-Moon" by Ts'ao Chan | "The Desire to be a Man" by Comte P.H. Villiers de L'isle Adam | "Memnon, or Human Wisdom" by Voltaire | "The Man Who Liked Dickens" by Evelyn Waugh

The Book of Fantasy: A Review: Part 13

February 18, 2021

"The Encounter", a tale from the Tang Dynasty | "The Three Hermits" by Count Leo Tolstoy | "Macario" by B. Traven

The Book of Fantasy: A Review: Part 12

February 17, 2021

"The Music on the Hill" by Saki | "Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched" by May Sinclair | "The Cloth which Weaves Itself" by W. W. Skeat | "Universal History" by William Olaf Stapledon | "A Theologian in Death" by Emmanuel Swedenborg

The Book of Fantasy: A Review: Part 11

February 12, 2021

"The Bust" by Manuel Peyrou | "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe | "The Tiger of Chao-Ch'êng" by P'U Sung Ling | "How We Arrived at the Island of Tools" by François Rabelais

The Book of Fantasy: A Review: Part 10

February 10, 2021

"The Atonement" by Silvina Ocampo | "The Man Who Belonged to Me" by Giovanni Papini | "Rani" by Carlos Peralta | "The Blind Spot" by Barry Perowne | "The Wolf" by Caius Petronius Arbitrus

The Book of Fantasy: A Review: Part 9

February 7, 2021

"The Shadow of the Players" by Edwin Morgan | "The Cat" by H. A. Murena | "The Story of the Foxes" by Niu Chiao

The Book of Fantasy: A Review: Part 8

February 4, 2021

"The Return of Imray" by Rudyard Kipling | "The Horses of Abdera" by Leopoldo Lugones | "The Ceremony" by Arthur Machen | "The Riddle" by Walter de la Mare "Who Knows?" by Guy de Maupassant

The Book of Fantasy: A Review: Part 7

February 2, 2021

"What is a Ghost?" by James Joyce | "The Wizard Passed Over" by Infante Don Juan Manuel | "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk" and "Before the Law" by Franz Kafka

The Book of Fantasy: A Review: Part 6

January 31, 2021

"The Man Who Did Not Believe in Miracles" by Herbert A. Giles | "Earth's Holocaust" by Nathaniel Hawthorne | "Ending for a Ghost Story" by I. A. Ireland | "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs

The Book of Fantasy: A Review: Part 5

January 28, 2021

The Book of Fantasy: A Review: Part 4

January 27, 2021

"The Careless Rabbi" by Martin Buber | "The Tale and the Poet" by Sir Richard Burton | "Fate Is a Fool" by Arturo Cancela and Pilar de Lusarreta | "An Actual Authentic Ghost" by Thomas Carlyle | "The Red King's Dream" by Lewis Carroll | "The Tree of Pride" and "The Tower of Babel" by G. K. Chesterton | "The Dream of the Butterfly" by Chuang Tzu | "The Look of Death" by Jean Cocteau | "House Taken Over" by Julio Cortazar

The Book of Fantasy: A Review: Part 3

January 26, 2021

"The Tail of the Sphinx" by Ambrose Bierce | "The Squid in Its Own Ink" by Adolfo Bioy Casares | "Guilty Eyes" by Ah'med Ech Chiruani | "Anything You Want! ... " by Léon Bloy | "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges | "Odin" by Jorge Luis Borges and Delia Ingenieros | "The Golden Kite, The Silver Wind" by Ray Bradbury | "The Man Who Collected the First of September, 1973" by Tor Åge Bringsvaerd