Table of Contents

Introduction; The Demon Pope (1888); The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth (1908); Through the Dragon Glass (1917); The Nameless City (1921); The Wind in the Portico (1928); The Tower of the Elephant (1933); Xeethra (1934); Jirel Meets Magic (1935); The Bleak Shore (1940); Homecoming (1947); See You Later (1949); Liane the Wayfarer (1950); The Desrick on Yandro (1952); The Silken-Swift (1953); Operation Afreet (1956); The Singular Events which Occured in the Hovel on the Alley off of Eye Street (1962); The Sudden Wings (1962); Same Time, Same Place (1963); Timothy (1966); The Kings of the Sea (1968); Not Long Before the End (1969); The Wager Lost by Winning (1970); Lila the Werewolf (1974); Johanna (1978); The Erl-King (1979); Beyond the Dead Reef (1983); Subworld (1983); Bite-Me-Not or Fleur de Fur (1984); The Night of White Bhairab (1984); Thorn (1986); Troll Bridge (1992); Select Bibliography; Sources; Source Acknowledgements

About the Author

Tom Shippey holds the Walter J. Ong Chair of Humanities at St Louis University, Missouri, specializing in Medieval Literature, Old English Arthurian and Romance Literature, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. He has written and edited numerous books, including J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (2001).

Reviews

"All the writers here know their craft, and the best of them know much more than that."--The New York Times"As Tom Shippey puts it, in his unfailingly intelligent and interesting introduction to The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories, 'the rule is that sorcerers always lose.' Tom Shippey has chosen well, and his choice of stories accurately reflects the themes and moods of the genre as a whole."--Times Literary Supplement