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The original Black Water was hailed by the Washington Post as "a celebration of nightmarish imagination." Now master anthologist Alberto Manguel assembles 70 more hypnotic tales from such writers as Julian Barnes, Joseph Conrad, V.S. Naipaul, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E.B. White, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Elizabeth Bowen.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword - Alberto Manguel
• The Child Who Believed - Grace Amundson - 1950
• It's a Good Life - Jerome Bixby - 1953
• The Door - E. B. White - 1939
• Mysterious Kôr - Elizabeth Bowen - 1945
• Nights at Serampore - Mircea Eliade - 1970
• The Dead Fiddler - Isaac Bashevis Singer - 1966
• The Phoenix - Sylvia Townsend Warner - 1940
• The Spider - Hanns Heinz Ewers - 1915
• Changeling - Dorothy K. Haynes - 1978
• The July Ghost - Antonia S. Byatt - 1982
• Poor Girl - Elizabeth Taylor - 1955
• Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched - 1922
• The Complete Gentleman - Amos Tutuola - 1952
• The Professor and the Mermaid - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - 1962
• The Sausage - Friedrich Dürrenmatt - 1989
• A Woman Seldom Found - William Sansom - 1956
• Mummy to the Rescue - Angus Wilson - 1950
• Aghwee the Sky Monster - Kenzaburõ Õe - 1977
• Berkeley or Mariana of the Universe - Liliana Heker - 1986
• The Saint - Antonia White - 1931
• The Ghost of Firozsha Baag - Rohinton Mistry - 1986
• The Miracle of Ash Wednesday - Yevgeny Zamyatin - 1968
• Heartburn - Hortense Calisher - 1951
• The Accident - Ann Bridge - 1936
• The Old Woman - Joyce Marshall - 1960
• A Short Trip Home - F. Scott Fitzgerald - 1927
• The Brute - Joseph Conrad - 1906
• Mr. Sleepwalker - Ethel Wilson - 1961
• A Self-Possessed Woman - Julian Barnes - 1975
• The Woman Who Talked to Horses - Leon Rooke - 1984
• The White Rooster - William Goyen - 1947
• The Labrenas - Tommaso Landolfi - 1986
• The Dead Fish - Boris Vian - 1965
• Major Aranda's Hand - Alfonso Reyes - 1973
• Giving Birth - Margaret Atwood - 1977
• The Jewbird - Bernard Malamud - 1963
• The Misanthrope - John D. Beresford - 1918
• Bartleby - Herman Melville - 1853
• Private--Keep Out! - Philip MacDonald - 1949
• Dreams - Timothy Findley - 1988
• Mr. Dombey, the Zombie - Geoffrey Drayton - 1951
• Why I Changed into a Nightingale - Wolfgang Hildesheimer - 1986
• The Troll - T. H. White - 1935
• Two Words - Isabel Allende - 1991
• Ch'ien-niang - Chen Xuanyou - 1990
• The Visiting Star - Robert Aickman - 1966
• Ratanbabu and the Man - Satyajit Ray - 1987
• How It Happened - Arthur Conan Doyle - 1913
• Same Time, Same Place - Mervyn Peake - 1963
• The Enigma of Arrival - V. S. Naipaul - 1986
• Faithful Peter - Lion Feuchtwanger - 1945
• The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship - Gabriel García Márquez - 1972
• The House-Hunters - Peter Green - 1963
• The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman - 1892
• Eckhardt at a Window - Eric McCormack - 1987
• The Lefthanders - Günter Grass - 1989
• Mr. Arcularis - Conrad Aiken - 1922
• The Times My Father Died - Yehuda Amichai - 1984
• The Haunted House - Luigi Pirandello - 1939
• The Finder - Elizabeth Spencer - 1971
• Desire - James Stephens - 1920
• The Miraculous Revenge - George Bernard Shaw - 1951
• Room of Blood - Brett Balon - 1984
• The Shadow - Ben Hecht - 1926
• The Nine Billion Names of God - Arthur C. Clarke - 1953

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