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The ''Fantastique'' is often linked to a particular ambiance, a sort of tension in the face of the [[impossible]]. There is often a good deal of fear involved, either because the characters are afraid or because the author wants to provoke fright in the reader. However, fear is not an essential component of ''fantastique''. The ''Fantastique'' is often linked to a particular ambiance, a sort of tension in the face of the [[impossible]]. There is often a good deal of fear involved, either because the characters are afraid or because the author wants to provoke fright in the reader. However, fear is not an essential component of ''fantastique''.
-== Liste of titles from the [[Marabout Fantastique]] collection==+== List of titles from the [[The Book of Fantasy]] collection==
-* 109. ''Tous les contes'' par [[Edgar Allan Poe]]+
-* 114. ''Les 25 meilleures histoires noires et fantastiques'' par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 142. ''[[Malpertuis]]'' par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 166. ''[[Les Derniers Contes de Canterbury]]'' par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 172. ''La Cave aux crapauds'' par [[Thomas Owen]]+
-* 182. ''[[Dracula]]'' par [[Bram Stoker]]+
-* 197. ''[[Le Carrousel des maléfices]]'' par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 203. ''[[Frankenstein ou le Prométhée moderne|Frankenstein]]'' par [[Mary Shelley]]+
-* 208. ''Les Contes noirs du golf'' par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 215. ''[[La Malvenue]]'' par [[Claude Seignolle]]+
-* 223. ''La Cité de l'indicible peur'' par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 230. ''Histoires maléfiques'' par [[Claude Seignolle]]+
-* 234. ''Sortilèges'' par [[Michel de Ghelderode]]+
-* 237. ''Les Contes du whisky'' par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 242. ''Cérémonial nocturne'' par [[Thomas Owen]]+
-* 244. ''Contes macabres'' par [[Claude Seignolle]]+
-* 247. ''[[Le Livre des fantômes]]'' par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 248. ''Les Mémoires du diable'' T.1 par [[F. Soulie]]+
-* 249. ''Les Mémoires du diable'' T.2 par [[F. Soulie]]+
-* 250. ''Hugues-le-loup'' par [[Erckmann-Chatrian]]+
-* 257. ''L'Aventure impersonnelle'' par [[Marcel Bealu]]+
-* 259. ''[[Harry Dickson]]'' T.1 par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 264. ''Aurélia et autres contes fantastiques'' par [[Gérard de Nerval]]+
-* 265. ''[[Harry Dickson]]'' T.2 par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 266. ''La Maison au mille étages'' par [[Jan Weiss]]+
-* 267. ''[[Le Moine]]'' par [[Matthew Gregory Lewis]]+
-* 269. ''[[Harry Dickson]]'' T.3 par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 270. ''Nouvelles du grand possible'' par [[Marcel Thiry]]+
-* 275. ''[[Harry Dickson]]'' T.4 par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 279. ''Melmoth, l'homme errant'' par [[Charles Robert Maturin]]+
-* 282. ''Les Récits cruels'' par [[Claude Seignolle]]+
-* 283. ''[[Harry Dickson]]'' T.5 par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 292. ''[[Harry Dickson]]'' T.6 par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 300. ''[[Harry Dickson]]'' T.7 par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 306. ''Le Musée des diables'' par [[Carlos Esteban Deive]]+
-* 309. ''[[Harry Dickson]]'' T.8 par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 314. ''L'Oreille de la chouette'' par [[Erckmann-Chatrian]]+
-* 320. ''[[Avatar (nouvelle)|Avatar]]'' par [[Théophile Gautier]]+
-* 322. ''Les Drames de la mort'' par [[Paul Féval]]+
-* 324. ''La Guerre des salamandres'' par [[Karel Čapek]]+
-* 334. ''L'Araignée'' par [[Hanns Heinz Ewers]]+
-* 337. ''[[Elle (roman)|She]]'' par [[Henry Rider Haggard]]+
-* 347. ''La Nuit des mutants'' par [[Jean Sadyn]]+
-* 354. ''Aux portes de l'épouvante'' par [[Robert Bloch]] et [[Ray Bradbury]]+
-* 358. ''[[Harry Dickson]]'' T.9 par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 363. ''Les Épées de l'effroi'' par [[Vernon Lee]]+
-* 364. ''[[L'Étrange Cas du docteur Jekyll et de M. Hyde]]'' par [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]+
-* 367. ''Soleil des loups'' par [[André Pieyre de Mandiargues]]+
-* 368. ''Le Meneur de loups'' par [[Alexandre Dumas]]+
-* 369. ''Le Démon de février'' par [[Gérard Prévot]]+
-* 371. ''[[Harry Dickson]]'' T.10 par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 374. ''Les Escales de la haute nuit'' par [[Marcel Brion]]+
-* 385. ''L'Élixir de longue vie'' par [[Honoré de Balzac]]+
-* 387. ''[[Le Golem (Meyrink)|Le Golem]] par [[Gustav Meyrink]]+
-* 389. ''[[Harry Dickson]]'' T.12 par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 392. ''Le Pentagramme'' par [[Vladimir Colin]]+
-* 393. ''Le Fantôme de Canterville'' par [[Oscar Wilde]]+
-* 394. ''La Truie'' par [[Thomas Owen]]+
-* 396. ''Le Charretier de la mort'' par [[Selma Lagerlöf]]+
-* 398. ''L'Homme vert'' par [[Kingsley Amis]]+
-* 400. ''Han'' par [[Jean Paul Raemdonck]] (prix Jean Ray 1972)+
-* 402. ''Mémoires de l'ombre'' par [[Marcel Béalu]]+
-* 404. ''[[L'Autre Côté (roman)|L'Autre Côté]]'' par [[Alfred Kubin]] (sans les illustrations)+
-* 406. ''Le Dernier Démon'' par [[Isaac Bashevis Singer]]+
-* 408. ''Le Chevalier Ténèbre'' par [[Paul Féval]]+
-* 412. ''[[Le Tour d'écrou]]'' par [[Henry James]]+
-* 416. ''[[Harry Dickson]]'' T.13 par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 419. ''Histoires vénéneuses'' par [[Claude Seignolle]]+
-* 422. ''La Nuit aveuglante'' par [[André de Richaud]]+
-* 425. ''Parlez-moi d'horreur'' par [[Robert Bloch]]+
-* 428. ''Le Tambour d'angoisse'' par [[B. R. Bruss]]+
-* 433. ''Myrtis'' par [[Daniel Mallinus]] (prix Jean Ray 1973)+
-* 437. ''[[Harry Dickson]]'' T.14 par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 441. ''Celui qui venait de partout'' par [[Gérard Prévot]]+
-* 445. ''[[Le Roi au masque d'or]]'' par [[Marcel Schwob]]+
-* 448. ''Pitié pour les ombres'' par [[Thomas Owen]]+
-* 451. ''[[La Nuit de Walpurgis (Meyrink)|La Nuit de Walpurgis]]'' par [[Gustav Meyrink]]+
-* 454. ''La Vieille Fille blanche'' par [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]+
-* 456. ''[[Harry Dickson]]'' T.15 par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 459. ''Tribulat Bonhomet'' par [[Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam|Villiers de l'Isle-Adam]]+
-* 462. ''La Colère végétale'' par [[Monique Watteau]]+
-* 464. ''Contes fantastiques complets'' par [[Guy de Maupassant]]+
-* 465. ''Contes sorciers'' par [[Claude Seignolle]]+
-* 469. ''Cimetière de l'effroi'' par [[Donald Wandrei]]+
-* 472. ''Nous avons tous peur'' par [[B. R. Bruss]]+
-* 474. ''Le Temps mort'' par [[René Belletto]] (prix Jean Ray 1974)+
-* 476. ''La Maison des sorcières'' par Evangeline Walton+
-* 479. ''Aycha'' par [[Henry Rider Haggard]]+
-* 484. ''La Nuit du nord'' par [[Gérard Prévot]]+
-* 486. ''Lucifer et l'Enfant'' par [[Ethel Mannin]]+
-* 488. ''[[Harry Dickson]]'' T.16 par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 490. ''Les Pourvoyeurs'' par [[Kurt Steiner]]+
-* 495. ''Le Pantacle de l'ange déchu'' par [[Charles-Gustave Burg]]+
-* 500. ''Bestiaire fantastique'' par [[Jean Ray (écrivain)|Jean Ray]]+
-* 504. ''Le Peuple blanc'' par [[Arthur Machen]]+
-* 511. ''Le Fantôme dans le miroir'' par [[Patricia Squires]]+
-* 515. ''Le Rat Kavar'' par [[Thomas Owen]]+
-* 519. ''La Femme de Putiphar'' par [[Gaston Compère]] (prix Jean Ray 1975)+
-* 520. ''Toby Jugg, le possédé'' par [[Dennis Wheatley]]+
-* 538. ''Le Gnome rouge'' par [[Frank Belknap Long]]+
-* 543. ''Quatre histoires de zombi'' (ouvrage collectif)+
-* 548. ''Huit histoires de Cthulhu'' (ouvrage collectif)+
-* 553. ''Le Spectre large'' par [[Gérard Prévot]]+
-* 558. ''L'Envers du masque'' par [[Kurt Steiner]]+
-* 560. ''Appelez-moi un exorciste'' par [[Jerome Bixby]]+
-* 564. ''[[Le Portrait de Dorian Gray]]'' par [[Oscar Wilde]]+
-* 567. ''[[Le Docteur Lerne, sous-dieu|Le Docteur Lerne]]'' par [[Maurice Renard (écrivain)|Maurice Renard]]+
-* 574. ''La Baronne trépassée'' par [[Ponson du Terrail]]+
-* 578. ''Le Chemin des abîmes'' par [[Michel Treignier]] (prix Jean Ray 1976)+
-* 589. ''[[Le Roi en jaune|Le roi de jaune vêtu]]'' par [[Robert Chambers]]+
-* 596. ''[[Confession du pécheur justifié]]'' par [[James Hogg]]+
-* 597. ''Le Joyau des sept étoiles'' par [[Bram Stoker]]+
-* 621. ''La Mante au fil des jours'' par [[Christine Renard]]+
-* 625. ''Celui qui pourrissait'' par [[Jean Pierre Bours]] (prix Jean Ray 1977)+
-* 628. ''Le Bourg envoûté'' par [[B. R. Bruss]]+
-* 631. ''Derrière le mur blanc'' par [[Eddy Bertin]]+
-* 634. ''Le Druide noir'' par [[Frank Belknap Long]]+
-* 636. ''L'Œil et le Doigt'' par [[Donald Wandrei]]+
-* 639. ''Kâ le terrifiant et autres nouvelles insolites'' (ouvrage collectif)+
-* 712. ''Le Pacte noir'' (ouvrage collectif)+
-* 713. ''Fureur noire'' (ouvrage collectif)+
-* 901. ''Contes fantastiques'' T.1 : ''Fantaisies à la manière de Callot - Contes nocturnes'' par [[Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann]]+
-* 902. ''Contes fantastiques'' T.2 : ''Contes des frères Sérapion (1)'' par [[Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann]]+
-* 903. ''Contes fantastiques'' T.3 : ''Contes des frères Sérapion (2) par'' [[Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann|Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann]]+
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 +* Introduction. [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] (begins page 9)
 +* "Sennin". [[Ryunosuke Akutagawa]], ''[[The Three Treasures]]'', 1951 (begins page 13)
 +** This is a reworking of a Japanese [[Zen]] [[koan]]; the koan can be found in the collection ''[[Zen Flesh, Zen Bones]]''.
 +* "[[A Woman Alone with Her Soul|A Woman Alone with Her Soul]]". [[Thomas Bailey Aldrich]], 1912 <!-- this is possibly by Jorge Luís Borges --> (begins page 16)
 +* "Ben-Tobith". [[Leonid Andreyev]], from his ''[[The Crushed Flower and Other Stories]]''[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5779] (begins page 17)
 +* "The Phantom Basket". [[John Aubrey]], ''Miscellanies''[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4254], 1696 (begins page 20)
 +* "The Drowned Giant". [[J. G. Ballard]], ''[[The Terminal Beach]]'', London: Gollancz, 1964 (begins page 21)
 +* "[[Enoch Soames]]". [[Max Beerbohm]], ''[[The Century Magazine|The Century]]'' May ’16 (begins page 28)
 +* "The Tail of the Sphinx". [[Ambrose Bierce]], ''[[San Francisco Examiner]]'' January 14, 1893. Later included in Bierce's ''[[Fantastic Fables]]''[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/374] (begins page 48)
 +* "The Squid in Its Own Ink". From ''[[El Lado de La Sombra]]'', 1962, Adolfo Bioy Casares; translated by [[Alexandra Potts]] (begins page 49)
 +* "Guilty Eyes". [[Ah‘med Ech Chiruani]] (no information besides the name is given about Chiruani. He is probably a pseudonym for one of the editors) (begins page 57)
 +* "Anything You Want!..." from ''[[Histoires Désobligeantes]]'' ("Disagreeable tales"), 1894, [[Léon Bloy]]; translated by Moira Banks, (begins page 58)
 +* "[[Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius]]". 1941, [[Jorge Luís Borges]], ''[[Labyrinths]]'', New Directions, 1962 (begins page 61)
 +* "Odin". Jorge Luís Borges & [[Delia Ingenieros]], (begins page 73)
 +* "The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind"[http://raybradbury.ru/library/story/53/1/0/print/]. [[Ray Bradbury]], ''[[Epoch Win]]'' ’53. Also in Bradbury's ''[[The Golden Apples of the Sun]]'' (begins page 73)
 +* "The Man Who Collected the First of September, 1973". [[Tor Åge Bringsvaerd]]; translated by [[Oddrun Grønvik]], 1973 (begins page 77)
 +* "The Careless Rabbi". [[Martin Buber]]; translated by [[Olga Marx]], ''[[Tales of the Hasidin]]'', vol. 1, 1956 (begins page 81)
 +* "[[wikisource:The Tale and the Poet|The Tale of the Poet]]". [[Sir Richard Burton]] (begins page 81)
 +* "Fate Is a Fool". [[Arturo Cancela]], [[Pilar de Lusarreta]]; translated by [[Lucia Alvarez de Toledo]] & [[Alexandra Potts]] (begins page 82)
 +* "An Actual Authentic Ghost". From ''[[Sartor Resartus]]''[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1051], [[Thomas Carlyle]], 1834 (begins page 92)
 +* "The Red King’s Dream". From ''[[Through the Looking Glass]]'', [[Lewis Carroll]], London: Macmillan, 1871 (begins page 92)
 +* "[[wikisource:The Trees of Pride/I|The Tree of Pride]]". [[G. K. Chesterton]], ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Much]]'', Cassell, 1922 (begins page 94)
 +* "[[wikisource:The Man Who Knew Too Much/Chapter IV|The Tower of Babel]]". G. K. Chesterton, ''The Man Who Knew Too Much'', Cassell, 1922 (begins page 95)
 +* "[[Zhuangzi#The butterfly dream|The Dream of the Butterfly]] or “Chuang Chu and the Butterfly”". [[Chuang Tzu]]; translated by [[Herbert A. Giles]], 1926 (begins page 95)
 +* "The Look of Death". From ''[[Le Grand Ecart]]'', [[Jean Cocteau]], 1923 (begins page 96)
 +* "[[House Taken Over]]". [[Julio Cortázar]], ''[[End of Game and Other Stories]]'', Random House, 1967 (begins page 96)
 +* "Being Dust". [[Santiago Dabove]], ''La Muerta y su Traje'', 1961 (begins page 100)
 +* "A Parable of Gluttony". From ''[[With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet]]'', [[Alexandra David-Neel]], 1931 (begins page 104)
 +* "The Persecution of the Master". From ''With Mystics and Magicians in Tibet'', Alexandra David-Neel, 1931 (begins page 105)
 +* "[[wikisource:A Dreamer's Tales#THE IDLE CITY|The Idle City]]". [[Lord Dunsany]], ''[[Saturday Review]]'' (UK) April 10 ’09 (begins page 106)
 +* "Tantalia". [[Macedonio Fernández]]; translated by [[Lucia Alvarez de Toledo]] & [[Alexandra Potts]] - (begins page 110)
 +* "Eternal Life"[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12261]. [[J. G. Frazer]] 1913; ''Balder the Beautiful, Volume I. A Study in Magic and Religion: the Golden Bough, Part VII., The Fire-Festivals of Europe and the Doctrine of the External Soul'' (begins page 114)
 +* "A Secure Home". [[Elena Garro]] (begins page 115)
 +* "The Man Who Did Not Believe in Miracles". From ''Confucianism and Its Rivals'', [[Herbert A. Giles]], 1915 (begins page 123)
 +* "[[Earth’s Holocaust]]"[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/haw5810.txt]. [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], ''[[Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine]]'' May, 1844 (begins page 124)
 +* "Ending for a Ghost Story". [[I. A. Ireland]], 1919 (begins page 137)
 +<!-- "'How eerie!' said the girl, advancing cautiously. And what a heavy door!' She touched it as she poke and it suddenly swung to with a click.<br> 'Good Lord!' said the man, 'I don't believe there's a handle inside. Why, you've locked us both in!'<br>'Not both of us. Only one of us,' said the girl, and before his eyes she passed straight through the door, and vanished." -->
 +* "[[The Monkey's Paw]]". [[W. W. Jacobs]], ''[[Harper’s Monthly]]'', September ’02 (begins page 37)
 +* "What Is a Ghost?". From ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]], [[James Joyce]] 1921 (begins page 145)
 +* "May Goulding". From ''Ulysses''. James Joyce, 1921 (begins page 146)
 +* "The Wizard Passed Over". [[Juan Manuel, Duke of Penafiel|Don Juan Manuel]], ''[[Libro de los ejemplos del conde Lucanor y de Patronio]]'', Allen Lane, 1970 (begins page 147)
 +* "[[Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk]]". March 1924, [[Franz Kafka]] (begins page 149)
 +* "[[Before the Law]]". Franz Kafka (begins page 160)
 +* "[[wikisource:The Return of Imray|The Return of Imray]]". [[Rudyard Kipling]], ''[[Mine Own People]]'' or ''[[Life's Handicap]]'', New York: Hurst & Co., 1891; EQMM Sep ’58 (begins page 162)
 +* "The Horses of Abdera". [[Leopoldo Lugones]]; ''[[Las Fuerzas Extranas]]'', Buenos Aires, 1906. (begins page 170)
 +* "The Ceremony". [[Arthur Machen]], ''Ornaments in Jade'', New York: A.A. Knopf, 1924 (begins page 175)
 +* "[[wikisource:The Riddle (Mare)|The Riddle]]". [[Walter de la Mare]], ''Monthly Review'' February ’03; ''The Riddle, and Other Stories'' (begins page 177)
 +* "[[Who Knows?]]". [[Guy de Maupassant]] April 6, 1890 (begins page 180)
 +* "The Shadow of the Players". From ''[[The Weekend Guide to Wales]]'', [[Edwin Morgan]] (begins page 190)
 +** Based on ''[[wikisource:The Mabinogion/The Dream of Rhonabwy|The Dream of Rhonabwy]]'' of the ''[[Mabinogion]]''
 +* "The Cat". [[H. A. Murena]] (begins page 910)
 +* "The Story of the Foxes". [[Niu Chiao]] (begins page 192)
 +* "The Atonement". [[Silvina Ocampo]], 1961 (begins page 193)
 +* "The Man Who Belonged to Me". [[Giovanni Papini]]; in ''[[Il Trangico Quoticliano]]'', 1906. (begins page 202)
 +* "Rani". [[Carlos Peralta]] (begins page 208)
 +* "The Blind Spot". [[Barry Perowne]], ''[[EQMM]]'' November ’45 (begins page 213)
 +* "The Wolf". From ''[[The Satyricon]]'', Rome, 60 CE. [[Petronius]] (begins page 222)
 +* "The Bust". [[Manuel Peyrou]] (begins page 224)
 +* "[[The Cask of Amontillado]]", [[Edgar Allan Poe]], ''[[Godey’s Lady’s Book]]'' November, 1846 (begins page 29)
 +* "The Tiger of Chao-ch’êng". From ''[[Liao Chai]]'', 1679, P’u Sung Ling. ''[[Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio]]'', De La Rue, 1880 (begins page 234)
 +* "How We Arrived at the Island of Tools". From ''[[Gargantua and Pantagruel]]''. [[François Rabelais]], 1564 (begins page 236)
 +* "[[wikisource:The Music on the Hill|The Music on the Hill]]". [[Saki]], ''[[The Chronicles of Clovis]]'', John Lane, 1911 (begins page 37)
 +* "Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched". [[May Sinclair]], ''[[The English Review]]'' Oct ’22 (begins page 241)
 +* "The Cloth Which Weaves Itself". From ''[[Malay Magic]]''. [[W. W. Skeat]], 1900 (begins page 256)
 +* "Universal History". From ''[[Star Maker]]'', [[Olaf Stapledon]], London: Methuen, 1937 (begins page 257)
 +* "[[A Theologian in Death]]". [[Emanuel Swedenborg]], ''[[Arcana coelestia]]'' (1794), Allen Lane, 1970 (begins page 257)
 +* "The Encounter". From the [[T’ang Dynasty]] (618-906 CE) (begins page 259)
 +* "The Three Hermits". [[Leo Tolstoy]], ''[[Twenty-Three Tales]]'' (begins page 260)
 +* "Macario". [[B. Traven]] ''[[The Night Visitor, and Other Stories]]'', 1966 (begins page 265)
 +* "The Infinite Dream of Pao-Yu". Ts’ao Chan (Hsueh Ch’in), ''[[The Dream of the Red Chamber]]'' (begins page 291)
 +* "The Mirror to Wind-and-Moon". [[Ts’ao Chan]] (Hsueh Ch’in), ''The Dream of the Red Chamber''(begins page 292)
 +* "The Desire to Be a Man". [[Villiers de l’Isle-Adam]] ''[[Contes cruels (Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam)|Contes Cruels]]'', 1883 (begins page 294)
 +* "Memnon, or Human Wisdom". [[Voltaire]], 1749; from ''Romances, Tales and Smaller Pieces of M. de Voltaire, Vol. 1'' 1794 (begins page 300)
 +* "The Man Who Liked Dickens". [[Evelyn Waugh]] ''[[Hearst’s International]]'' September ’33 (begins page 304)
 +* "Pomegranate Seed". [[Edith Wharton]], ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]'', April 25 ’31 (begins page 315)
 +* "Lukundoo" 1907 [[Edward Lucas White]], ''[[Weird Tales]]'', November ’25 (begins page 336)
 +* "The Donguys". [[Juan Rudolfo Wilcock]] (begins page 346)
 +* "[[wikisource:Lord Arthur Savile's Crime|Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime]]". [[Oscar Wilde]], ''[[Court and Society Review]]'', May 11, 1887 (begins page 353)
 +* "The Sorcerer of the White Lotus Lodge". [[Richard Wilhelm]]; translated by [[F. H. Martens]]; in ''Chinesische Volksmaerchen'', 1924 (begins page 376)
 +* "[[The Celestial Stag]]". G. Willoughby-Meade, ''[[Chinese Ghouls and Goblins]]'', Constable, 1928 (begins page 377)
 +* "[[Saved by the Book]]". [[G. Willoughby-Meade]], ''Chinese Ghouls and Goblins'', Constable, 1928 (begins page 377)
 +* "The Reanimated Englishman". [[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley]], ''[[Roger Dodsworth]]'', 1826 (begins page 378)
 +* "The Sentence" from ''[[Journey to the West|Monkey]]'', 16th century, [[Wu Ch’Eng En]]; translated by [[Arthur Waley]], 1921 (begins page 379)
 +* "The Sorcerers". [[William Butler Yeats]], ''[[The Celtic Twilight]]'', Lawrence & Bullen, 1893 (begins page 380)
 +* "Fragment" from ''[[Don Juan Tenorio]]'', 1844, [[José Zorrilla]] (begins page 382)
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The fantastique is a term for a literary and cinematic genre of fiction, the parent category of which is speculative fiction.

The term entered the French language via Walter Scott who in "On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition" (1827), his assessment of the work of E. T. A. Hoffmann, uses the term fantastic to refer to a "mode of writing, in which the most wild and unbounded license is given to an irregular fancy", a sensibility Scott most readily perceives in the work of Hoffmann.

This essay was translated into French as "Sur Hoffmann et les compositions fantastiques" (1832) by François-Adolphe Loève-Veimars upon which the notion of the fantastique was further entrenched in French, but even before that Charles Nodier had written the critical piece "Du fantastique en littérature" (1830).

In 1863 the term fantastique with reference to Hoffmann appears in the Dictionnaire de la langue française by Littré.

In 1940 The Book of Fantasy, an anthology curated by Borges, Casares, and Ocampo, is released in Spanish.

Roger Caillois's defines the fantastique in Au cœur du fantastique (1965) as "always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality" (tr. Richard Howard).

The term was particularly popular in the 1960s and 1970s; with the magazine Midi Minuit Fantastique (1962-1970) and the book series Marabout Fantastique (1969 - 1977).

When Todorov publishes The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (1970), he sets somewhat of a standard in the historiography of the genre.

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Definition

What is distinctive about the fantastique is the intrusion of supernatural phenomena into an otherwise realist narrative. It evokes phenomena which are not only left unexplained but which are inexplicable from the reader's point of view. In this respect, the fantastique is somewhere between fantasy, where the supernatural is accepted and entirely reasonable in the imaginary world of a non-realist narrative, and magic realism, where apparently supernatural phenomena are explained and accepted as normal. Instead, characters in a work of fantastique are, just like the readers, unwilling to accept the supernatural events that occur. This refusal may be mixed with doubt, disbelief, fear, or some combination of those reactions.

Literary theorist Tzvetan Todorov contends that the fantastique is defined by its hesitation between accepting the supernatural as such and trying to rationally explain the phenomena it describes. In that case, the fantastique is nothing more than a transitional area on a spectrum from magic realism to fantasy.

Fantastique literature is often erroneously considered close to science fiction. However, there is an important difference between the two: science fiction is situated in a different time and place than the reader, and irrational seeming events are actually held to be rational in the framework of future or perhaps alien science and technology.

The Fantastique is often linked to a particular ambiance, a sort of tension in the face of the impossible. There is often a good deal of fear involved, either because the characters are afraid or because the author wants to provoke fright in the reader. However, fear is not an essential component of fantastique.

List of titles from the The Book of Fantasy collection

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