A gripping, chilling collection of 47 stories and six poems, dating back to Shelley and Stevenson, but also including modern masters.

    Serling was a serious admirer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, and he scoured every magazine and collection available to find stories suitable for his series. This anthology showcases almost every original story that had been adapted into an episode. The result is a masterful collection of 30 classic tales by Richard Matheson (who also wrote the warmly nostalgic introduction), Charles Beaumont, Ray Bradbury, Damon Knight, Lewis Padgett, Jerome Bixby, and Manly Wade Wellman, among others. Fans of The Twilight Zone will enjoy revisiting their favorite episodes in literary form, but even if you've never seen the show, you'll enjoy this fine anthology. --Stanley WiaterCONTENTSPreface · Carol Serling · prIntroduction · Richard Matheson · inOne for the Angels · Anne Serling-Sutton·Perchance to Dream Charles BeaumontDisappearing Act · Richard Matheson Time Enough at Last · Lynn A. Venable · What You Need · Lewis Padgett · Third from the Sun · Richard Matheson · Elegy · Charles Beaumont · Brothers Beyond the Void · Paul W. Fairman · The Howling Man [as by C. B. Lovehill] · Charles Beaumont · It’s a Good Life · Jerome Bixby · The Valley Was Still · Manly Wade Wellman · The Jungle · Charles Beaumont ·To Serve Man · Damon Knight ·Little Girl Lost · Richard Matheson · Four O’Clock · Price Day · I Sing the Body Electric! [“The Beautiful One Is Here”] · Ray Bradbury · The Changing of the Guard · Anne Serling-Sutton · In His Image [“The Man Who Made Himself”] · Charles BeaumontMute · Richard Matheson ·Death Ship · Richard Matheson · The Devil, You Say? · Charles Beaumont ·Blind Alley · Malcolm Jameson · Song for a Lady · Charles Beaumont ·Steel · Richard Matheson · Nightmare at 20,000 Feet · Richard Matheson ·The Old Man · Henry Slesar · The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross · Henry Slesar · The Beautiful People · Charles Beaumont · Long Distance Call [“Sorry, Right Number”] · Richard Matheson · An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce

    The text also contains 11 complete works such as Oroonoko, Jane Eyre, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, The Awakening and Caryl Churchill's play, Top Girls.

    Now, for the very first time, five magical adventures are together in one volume.The story begins in Harold and the Purple Crayon. One evening, Harold decides to go on a walk. With his purple crayon, he draws the moon, then a path, then a field, then a forest.Harold's Fairy Tale is complete with a flying carpet, and a good fairy—all drawn by Harold, of course.When Harold decides to visit Mars in Harold's Trip to the Sky, he draws himself a rocket ship and returns home just in time for breakfast.Of course, Harold's Circus isn't like any other circus in the world because Harold has drawn all the characters and then some.And then there's Harold's ABC, a charming introduction to the alphabet.The ingenious and imaginative concept behind these stories will intrigue children and keep them completely absorbed as page by page unfolds the dramatic and clever adventures of Harold and the purple crayon.

    The greatly anticipated fourth edition of the anthology was published in the Spring of 1996 and the number of poets included was expanded by more than fifty per cent. The twenty-five poets new to this edition - - twelve women and thirteen men - are from Canada, the UK, the United States, and the Commonwealth. The list of new poets include Nobel Prize winner Dereck Walcott; well-known American poets Sharon Olds, Louise Gluck, Denise Levertov, Galway Kinnell, Robert Hass, Robert Bly, John Ashbery, Philip Levine, and Rita Dove; Irish poet Eavan Boland; Scottish poet Carol Ann Duffy; and Canadians Patrick Lane, Sharon Thesen, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Don McKay, Daphne Marlatt, Gary Geddes, Bronwen Wallace, Robert Kroetsch, Lorna Crozier, Tim Lilburn, Roo Borson, and bpNichol. The book provides in-depth selections from the work of each poet, and where possible, places the poems in the significant context of the poets' own views on poetics. In addition, there are useful biographies and comments on the poets in the form of headnotes that appear at the beginning of each poet's work.

    It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Sasha Solokov's A School for Fools; the complete text of Yuri Olesha's 1927 masterpiece Envy; and poetry by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam.

    Volume VII considers such world-famous modern Western philosophers as Fichte, Schelling, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Schopenhauer Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche. Volume VIII, on British empiricism, the idealist movement in Great Britain, idealism in America, the pragmatist movement, and the revolt against idealism, covers such thinkers as Bentham, Herbert Spencer, T. H. Green, Bradley, Bosanquet, Royce, C. S. Peirce, William James, G. E. Moore, John Dewey, and Bertrand Russell. Volume IX presents the prominent French philosophical thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with full attention to the themes of human freedom and man in society - including Maine de Biran, Comte, Henri Bergson, Garrigou-Lagrange, and Sartre.These individual volumes have been hailed as "objective, yet critical. . . significant. . . clear-sighted. . . intelligent. . . unrivalled." Now available as a three-in-one paperback, it will be welcomed by new and seasoned students and scholars of modern philosophy as a reference work that no library should be without.

    Butler82 • Blued Moon • (1984) • novelette by Connie Willis113 • A Message to the King of Brobdingnag • (1984) • novelette by Richard Cowper135 • The Affair • (1984) • shortstory by Robert Silverberg153 • Press Enter [] • (1984) • novella by John Varley207 • New Rose Hotel • (1984) • shortstory by William Gibson219 • The Map • [Solar Cycle] • (1984) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe232 • Interlocking Pieces • (1984) • shortstory by Molly Gloss239 • Trojan Horse • (1984) • novelette by Michael Swanwick269 • Bad Medicine • (1984) • novelette by Jack Dann291 • At the Embassy Club • (1984) • shortstory by Elizabeth A. Lynn301 • Pursuit of Excellence • (1984) • novelette by Rena Yount319 • The Kindly Isle • (1984) • shortstory by Frederik Pohl341 • Rock On • (1984) • shortstory by Pat Cadigan350 • Sunken Gardens • [Shaper/Mechanist] • (1984) • shortstory by Bruce Sterling365 • Trinity • (1984) • novella by Nancy Kress409 • The Trouble With the Cotton People • (1984) • shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin420 • Twilight Time • (1984) • novelette by Lewis Shiner440 • Black Coral • (1984) • novelette by Lucius Shepard466 • Friend • (1984) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel484 • Foreign Skins • (1984) • novelette by Tanith Lee511 • Company in the Wings • (1983) • shortstory by R. A. Lafferty524 • A Cabin on the Coast • (1984) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe536 • The Lucky Strike • (1984) • novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson569 • Honorable Mentions: 1984 • essay by Gardner Dozois

    A collection of traditional tales from around the world each of whose main character is female.Contents:The woman in the moon (Chippewa, North America) A mother's yarn (Saami, Lappland) The nagging husband (Tallinn, Estonia) Gulnara the Tartar warrior (Tartar, border region of west Siberia and Mongolia) Caterina the Wise (Sicily, Italy) Oona and the giant Cuchulain (Ireland) Aina-kizz and the black-bearded Bai (Soviet Central Asia) A pottle o' brains (Lincolnshire, England) The maid who chose a husband (Ghana) Three strong women (Japan) The wonderful pearl (Vietnam) The squire's bride (Norway)The Aztec sun goddess (Aztec)

    Contents:Idris' Pig (1964)The Gardener (1949)Child of Void (1949)Hathor's Pets (1950)The Pillows (1950)The Listening Child (1950)Brightness Falls from the Air (1951)The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles (1951)The Causes (1952)An Egg a Month from All Over (1952)Prott (1953)New Ritual (1953)Brenda (1954)Short in the Chest (1954)Horrer Howce (1956)The Wines of Earth (1957)The Invested Libido (1958)The Nuse Man (1960)An Old-Fashioned Bird Christmas (1961)Wryneck, Draw Me (1980)

    

    

    For over forty years Andre Norton has been telling unique fantasy and science fiction stories that have enchanted millions of readers. Now a whole generation of writers, all of whom have been inspired by Andre Norton, is giving gifts to the giver, in a collection of original fantasy stories written especially for this volume. Read on and enjoy these delightful stories.Contents: Introduction: Andre Norton: Beyond the Siege Perilous (Moonsinger's Friends) • essay by Susan Shwartz; Cover art: Moonsinger's Friends by Victoria Poyser Sea Wrack (1985) [Lythande] / novelette by Marion Zimmer Bradley Lior and the Sea (1985) / novelette by Diane Duane The Pale Girl, the Dark Mage, and the Green Sea (1985) / short story by Tanith Lee The Forest (1985) / novelette by Poul Anderson The Shadow Har (1985)t / short story by Sandra Miesel The Woman Who Loved Reindeer (1985) / novelette by Meredith Ann Pierce The Price of Lightning (1985) / novelette by Jayge Carr Bright-Eyed Black Pony (1985) / short story by Nancy Springer A Flock of Geese (1985) / short story by Anne McCaffrey Of Law and Magic (1985) / novelette by C. J. Cherryh Team Venture (1985) / novelette by Jo Clayton Sky Sister (1985) [Shanna of Sharteyn] / short story by Diana L. Paxson Defender of the Faith (1985) / short story by Judith Tarr Catalyst (1985) [Deryni Universe] / short story by Katherine Kurtz The Foxwife (1984) / short story by Jane Yolen An Open Letter to Andre Norton (Moonsinger's Friends) • essay by Joan D. Vinge.

    Butler 38 • The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule • [Griaule] • (1984) • novelette by Lucius Shepard 69 • Press Enter [] • (1984) • novella by John Varley 136 • New Rose Hotel • (1984) • shortstory by William Gibson 149 • The Greening of Bed-Stuy • [The Years of the City] • (1984) • novelette by Frederik Pohl 213 • The Lucky Strike • (1984) • novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson 252 • Morning Child • (1984) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois [as by Gardner R. Dozois ] 260 • The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything • (1984) • shortstory by George Alec Effinger 278 • A Cabin on the Coast • (1984) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe 292 • Dogs' Lives • (1984) • novelette by Michael Bishop 313 • The Eichmann Variations • (1984) • shortstory by George Zebrowski 323 • Love Song to Lucy • (1983) • poem by Helen Ehrlich 324 • Lucy Answers Back • (1983) • poem by Helen Ehrlich 325 • Saul's Death • (1983) • poem by Joe Haldeman 328 • Science Fiction Films of 1984 • essay by Bill Warren 355 • SFWA, the Guild • essay by Norman Spinrad

    Aickman --The bird / T. Burke --A thing about machines / R. Serling --A woman seldom found / W. Sansom --The squaw / B. Stoker --The cloth of madness / S. Quinn --The sea raiders / H.G. Wells --The Dunwich horror / H.P. Lovecraft --Dad / J. Blackburn --The cold embrace / Miss Braddon --Royal jelly / R. Dahl --The boarded window / A. Bierce. Earth to earth / R. Graves --A warning to the curious / M.R. James --The night of the tiger / S. King --The interruption / W.W. Jacobs --Back from the grave / R. Silverberg --The derelict / W.H. Hodgson --Vendetta / G. de Maupassant --Edifice complex / R. Bloch --The red lodge / H.R. Wakefield --Mary Postgate / R. Kipling --The cradle demon / R. Chetwynd-Hayes --The horror of Abbot's Grange / F. Cowles. Sredni Vashtar / Saki --The wall / R. Haining --An account of some strange disturbances in Aungier Street / J.S. Le Fanu --The whining / R. Campbell --Verenice / E.A. Poe --The finless death / R.E. Vernede --And the dead spake / E.F. Benson.

    Each has had at least one book published, and all were born since 1940. Never before have the works of such a number of men and women who have so influenced and will continue to influence contemporary American poetry been collected in a single anthology. These younger poets have won an impressive array of awards, including Lamont prizes, Devins awards, Walt Whitman awards, Yale Younger Poet awards--more than thirty such awards, in fact. They represent the finest talents in America, and their work is diverse, rich, and exciting.

    A compendium of stories from the author's previous books, with several tales from each of sixteen countries.Czechoslovakia (The wood fairy ; The twelve months) ; Denmark (Ee-aw! ; The wonderful pot) ; England (Jack and the beanstalk ; Tom Thumb ; Dick Whittington and his cat) ; France (Puss in boots ; The sleeping beauty in the wood ; The twelve dancing princesses) ; Germany (Rumpelstiltskin ; Hansel and Gretel ; The Bremen town musicians) ; Greece (Constantes and the dragon ; The fairy wife) ; India (The blind man, the deaf man, and the donkey ; The valiant chattee-maker) ; Ireland (The bee, the harp, the mouse, and the bum-clock ; Billy Beg and the bull) ; Italy (Cenerentola ; Bastianelo) ;Japan (The Tongue-cut sparrow ; The white hare and the crocodiles) ; Norway (Why the sea is salt ; The three Billy goats gruf) ; Poland (About the hedgehog who became prince ; The jolly tailor who became king) ; Russia (Snegourka, the snow maiden ; The flying ship) ; Scotland (The page boy and the silver goblet ; The Brownie o' Ferne-Den) ; Spain (Four brothers who were both wise and foolish ; Juan Cigarron) ; Sweden (The old woman and the tramp ; Lars, my lad).

    Sensuous and fabulous language turn conventional images of women inside out; Marchessault challenges us to remake our patterns of language in a way that explodes the stereotypes of the past and ecstatically explores the contours of a feminist vision for the future. Anglophone readers will find a new magic, new revelations, a new name of women's experience in the work of this Quebecoise word-spinner.

    Earth is a target for evil alien villains and only the Sentinel and Mizzo stand in their way in five cliff-hanging episodes...Can you survive on an Alien Planet? This exciting new game challenges you the reader to survive in appallingly hostile conditions after your space capsule has crash-landed on the notorious planet Abthaze....Plain Magic: is a special fantasy feature story about a kind of magic that is quiet but effective, even against the fiercest dragon....Aliens and Planets: can you match the aliens to their planets in this tricky and challenging game?Krail's World: space explorer meets more than he bargained for when he crash-lands on an alien planet in this thought-provoking story.Planetfall is illustrated throughout in full colour and black and white, all the material used is new and it is hoped to follow it down to Earth with Planetfall Two.