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Table of Contents:

• Book Monster - (1984) - poem
• Lincoy's Journey - (1981) - short story
• The Romance of Tcheska and Provetsko - (1984) - short story
• Stomping Grounds of the Gods - (1976) - short story
• Eagle-Worm - (1980) - short story
• A Child of Earth and Hell - (1982) - novelette
• Three Dirty Men - short story
• Seller of Stones - short story
• Threats - short story
• Nights in the City - short story
• The Old Woman Who Dragged Her Husband's Corpse - short story
• Atrocities - short story
• Body Rot - short story
• Remembering Allan - short story
• Parenting - short story
• Tycoon and Lady Death - short story
• The Womb and the Grave - short story
• Meditations and Confessions Regarding My Disturbing Ability - short story
• Samurai Fugue - (1986) - short story
• The Harmonious Battle - (1982) - short story
• Time-Slit Through a Rice Paper Window - (1984) - short story
• Story of a Castle Page - short story

Buried in the world of his own imagination, painter Anthony Shriek finds his dormant emotions awakened by the arrival of a bizarre and alluring woman whose presence turns his paintings into gateways to another world.

Lu Khen was in love with the madwoman who lived in the forest. But the Powers had decreed that an ordinary mortal could never marry one blessed with the gift of madness. To win it for himself, Lu Khen set out for the crumbling tombs of the Lost Dynasty, a period of demonic rule so horrifying that it had been erased from the history books.

There he would find the power to win the love he sought... or perish!

Kendo is a thing of the spirit, or so Erin Wyler thought of the ancient art of Japanese sword fighting--until the day in the fencing hall when her bamboo sword was transformed into a supernatural steel blade and her sparring partner became a loathsome demon. Suddenly kendo had become a thing of madness.

This collection of 24 entertaining and haunting 19th-and 20th-century tales from the U.S., Britain, and Latin America reclaims a literary tradition that has long been overlooked. Using such techniques as magic realism, allegory, and surrealism, the authors re-imagine the cliches of supernatural fiction, focusing on female characters and treating traditional themes in inventive and provocative ways. Among the authors included are Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Luisa Valenzuela, Leonora Carrington, Barbara Burford, and Joanna Russ.

Table of Contents:

• Preface - (1989) - essay by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• Introduction - (1989) - essay by Rosemary Jackson
• Proem: The Immortal - (1908) - poem by Ellen Glasgow
• The Long Chamber - (1914) - shortstory by Olivia Howard Dunbar
• A Ghost Story - (1858) - shortstory by Ada Trevanion
• Luella Miller - (1902) - shortstory by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• What Did Miss Darrington See? - (1870) - shortstory by Emma B. Cobb
• La Femme Noir - (1850) - shortstory by Mrs. S. C. Hall
• A Friend in Need - (1981) - shortstory by Lisa Tuttle
• Attachment - (1974) - shortstory by Phyllis Eisenstein
• Dreaming the Sky Down - (1987) - shortstory by Barbara Burford
• The Sixth Canvasser - (1916) - shortstory by Inez Haynes Gillmore
• An Unborn Visitant - (1932) - shortstory by Vita Sackville-West
• Tamar - (1932) - shortstory by Lady Eleanor Smith
• There and Here - (1897) - shortstory by Alice Brown
• The Substitute - (1914) - shortstory by Georgia Wood Pangborn
• The Teacher - (1976) - shortstory by Luisa Valenzuela
• The Ghost - (1978) - shortstory by Anne Sexton
• Three Dreams in a Desert - (1890) - shortstory by Olive Schreiner
• The Fall - (1967) - shortstory by Armonia Somers (trans. of El derrumbamiento 1953)
• Pandora Pandaemonia - (1989) - shortfiction by Jules Faye
• The Doll - (1896) - shortstory by Vernon Lee
• The Debutante - (1939) - shortfiction by Leonora Carrington
• The Readjustment - (1908) - shortstory by Mary Hunter Austin
• Clay-Shuttered Doors - (1926) - shortstory by Helen R. Hull
• Since I Died - (1873) - shortstory by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
• The Little Dirty Girl - (1982) - novelette by Joanna Russ
• Envoi: For Emily D. - (1989) - poem by uncredited
• Recommended Reading - (1989) - essay by uncredited

Taking the challenge of the great fantasy heroes such as Elric and Conan that only men can be the sword-weilding masters of the worlds of fantasy, this is an original collection of new stories of warrior-women in combat against dragons and demons, devils and despots.

Table of Contents:

• Amazons - (1978) - poem by Melanie Kaye
• Introduction: Our Amazon Heritage - essay by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• The Dreamstone - shortstory by C. J. Cherryh
• Wolves of Nakesht - shortstory by Janrae Frank
• Woman of the White Waste - shortstory by T. J. Morgan
• The Death of Augusta - poem by Emily Brontë and Joanna Russ
• Morrien's Bitch - shortstory by Janet Fox
• Agbewe's Sword - (1979) - novelette by Charles R. Saunders
• Jane Saint's Travails (Part One) - shortstory by Josephine Saxton
• The Sorrows of Witches - shortstory by Margaret St. Clair
• Falcon Blood - shortstory by Andre Norton
• The Rape Patrol - shortstory by Michele Belling
• Bones for Dulath - shortstory by Megan Lindholm
• Northern Chess - shortstory by Tanith Lee
• The Woman Who Loved the Moon - novelette by Elizabeth A. Lynn
• Additional Reading - essay by Jessica Amanda Salmonson and Susan Wood

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Art, History, and Amazons - essay by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• For a Daughter - novelette by F. M. Busby
• The Battle Crow's Daughter - shortstory by Gillian Fitzgerald
• Southern Lights - novelette by Tanith Lee
• Zroya's Trizub - shortstory by Gordon Derevanchuk
• The Robber Girl - shortstory by Phyllis Ann Karr
• Lady of the Forest End - shortstory by Gaèl Baudino
• The Ivory Comb - shortstory by Eleanor Arnason
• The Borders of Sabazel - shortstory by Lillian Stewart Carl
• Who Courts a Reluctant Maiden - shortstory by Ardath Mayhar
• The Soul Slayer - shortstory by Lee Killough
• Nightwork - shortstory by Jo Clayton
• In the Lost Lands - shortstory by George R. R. Martin

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• The Curse of the Smalls and the Stars - novella by Fritz Leiber
• Sister Light, Sister Dark - short story by Jane Yolen
• Tales Told to a Toymaker - short story by Phyllis Ann Karr
• Prophecy of the Dragon - novelette by Charles E. Karpuk
• Before the Seas Came - short story by F. M. Busby
• Thunder Mother - short story by Alan Dean Foster
• Dancers in the Time-Flux - short story by Robert Silverberg
• Sword Blades and Poppy Seed - short story by Joanna Russ
• The Nun and the Demon - short story by Grania Davis
• Vovko - short story by Gordon Derevanchuk
• The Monkey's Bride - novelette by Michael Bishop

Table of Contents:

• Masterpieces of Heroic Fantasy: An Introduction - essay by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• The Inn at the World's End - short story by Keith Roberts
• Voices - novelette by Michael Bishop
• Lazarus - short story by Ellen Kushner
• La Strega - short story by Richard A. Russo
• Honor - short story by Jody Scott
• The Lingering Minstrel - short story by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• The Head of Shemesh the Eshurian - novelette by Avram Davidson
• The Lion of Elirhom's Anger - short story by Michael Nicholas Richard
• Eammon's Banshee - short story by Gillian Fitzgerald
• The Slaughter of the Gods - short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• Cohen the Clam-Killer - short story by Steven Bryan Bieler
• The Word-Woman of Dza - short story by Grania Davis
• Masquerade of a Dead Sword - short story by Thomas Ligotti

In a dimension next to ours, the samurai are mighty warriors and one of the best is the woman Tomoe Gozen, though still young and rash. This is the story of how sorcery caused Tomoe Gozen to break faith with her bushido, and of what she did to regain her honor.

The story is about the woman warrior Tomoe Gozen and how she came to wield the wonderful sword called the Golden Naginata.

The female samurai warrior, Tomoe Gozen, helps a small village in its desperate fight against a powerful evil priest.