The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasy  

"The Dedalus lists, offers its readers a new genre, literary fantasy. It is the genre of distorted reality; in which magic realism, surrealism, the occult, decadence, the grotesque and the fantastic merge; a European genre especially suited to the 1990s. Literary fantasy is reflected in every aspect of the Dedalus list, from contemporary fiction to its classic programme, but above all in its anthologies. Dedalus began its series of European literary fantasy anthologies with British Fantasy: the nineteenth century - editor Brian Stableford (1991) and Austrian Fantasy: the Meyrink Years 1890-1930 - editor Mike Mitchell (1992) and continues the series with Polish Wiesiek Powaga and Portuguese Fantasy - editors Eugenio Lisboa and Helder Macedo in 1994 with French Christine Donougher; Belgian Richard Huijing; and Germany Fantasy: the Romantics and Maurice Raraty following in 1995. In making his selection for The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasy Richard Huijing has given a wide definition to what literary fantasy is so as to be able to include the most important Dutch writers of the last hundred years."--preface to The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasy (1994)