Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature  

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Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature (1984) is an anthology of fantastic literature by Alberto Manguel.

Review:

"The transparency of Borges' magisterium in Manguel's choice is heightened by the selection of Don Juan Manuel's "The Wizard Postponed." This fourteenth-century tale, which is a well-known favourite of Borges, is the only non-modern representative of fantastic literature in Black Water. This anomaly underlines the limited scope of the collection. This "anthology of fantastic literature" falls short of its claim. It is a good simple collection of modern short-stories representative of a very conspicuous fragment literature, much of which is easily accessible elsewhere."[1]

"Unlike tales of fantasy, fantastic literature deals with what can be best defined as the impossible seeping into the possible, what Wallace Stevens calls black water breaking into reality."[2]

TOC

• House Taken Over by Julio Cortázar
• How Love Came To Professor Guildea by Robert S. Hichens
• Climax For A Ghost Story by I. A. Ireland
• The Mysteries Of The Joy Rio by Tennessee Williams
• Pomegranate Seed by Edith Wharton
• Venetian Masks by Adolfo Bioy Casares
• The Wish House by Rudyard Kipling
• The Playground by Ray Bradbury
• Importance by Manuel Mujica Láinez
• Enoch Soames by Max Beerbohm
• A Visitor From Down Under by L.P. Hartley
• Laura by Saki
• An Injustice Revealed
• A Little Place Off The Edgware Road by Graham Greene
• From "A School Story" by M.R. James
• The Signalman by Charles Dickens
• The Tall Woman by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
• A Scent of Mimosa by Francis King
• Death And The Gardener by Jean Cocteau
• Lord Mountdrago by W. Somerset Maugham
• The Sick Gentleman's Last Visit by Giovanni Papini
• Insomnia by Virgilio Piñera
• The Storm by Jules Verne
• A Dream (From The Arabian Nights Entertainments)
• The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar by Edgar Allan Poe
• Split Second by Daphne Du Maurier
• August 25, 1983 by Jorge Luis Borges
• How Wang-Fo Was Saved by Marguerite Yourcenar
• From "Peter And Rosa" by Isak Dinesen
• Tattoo by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
• John Duffy's Brother by Flann O'Brien
• Lady Into Fox by David Garnett
• Father's Last Escape by Bruno Schulz
• A Man by The Name Of Ziegler by Hermann Hesse
• The Argentine Ant by Italo Calvino
• The Lady On The Grey by John Collier
• The Queen Of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
• Of A Promise Kept by Lafcadio Hearn
• The Wizard Postponed by Juan Manuel
• The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs
• The Bottle Imp by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence
• Certain Distant Suns by Joanne Greenburg
• The Third Bank Of The River by João Guimarães Rosa
• Home by Hilaire Belloc
• The Door In The Wall by H.G. Wells
• The Friends by Silvina Ocampo
• Et In Sempiternum Pereant by Charles Williams
• The Captives of Longjumeau by Léon Bloy
• The Visit To The Museum by Vladimir Nabokov
• Autumn Mountain by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
• The Sight by Brian Moore
• Clorinda by André Pieyre de Mandiargues
• The Pagan Rabbi by Cynthia Ozick
• The Fisherman And His Soul by Oscar Wilde
• The Bureau D'echange de Maux by Lord Dunsany
• The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K. Leguin
• In The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka
• A Dog In Durer's Etching "The Knight, Death And The Devil" by Marco Denevi
• The Large Ant by Howard Fast
• The Lemmings by Alex Comfort
• The Grey Ones by J.B. Priestley
• The Feather Pillow by Horacio Quiroga
• Seaton's Aunt by Walter De La Mare
• The Friends Of The Friends by Henry James
• The Travelling Companion by Hans Christian Andersen
• The Curfew Tolls by Stephen Vincent Benet
• The State Of Grace by Marcel Aymé
• The Story Of A Panic by E.M. Forster
• An Invitation To The Hunt by George Hitchcock
• From The "American Notebooks" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Dream by O. Henry