The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy

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101 contents entries

1. "The Tower of the Elephant"
2. Non-REH Content
3. "Foreword" by Jack Williamson
4. "Preface" by Garyn G. Roberts
5. SECTION ONE: TWO ARCHETYPAL STORIES
6. "Enduring Traditions of Mary Shelley and Edgal Allan Poe" by Garyn G. Roberts
7. "The Mortal Immortal" by Mary W. Shelley
8. "he Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe
9. SECTION TWO: FANTASY Stories of the Fantastique, Tales of the Quest
10. "Dark Fantasy: Edgar Allan Poe, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, and Stephen King—and Traditions Before, Between, and Since" by Garyn G. Roberts
11. "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
12. "The Old Nurse’s Story" by Elizabeth Gaskel
13. "No. 1 Branch Line, the Signalman" by Charles Dickens
14. "The Ghost in the Cap’n Brown House" by Harriet Beecher Stowe
15. "The Body Snatcher" by Robert Louis Stevenson
16. "The Damned Thing" by Ambrose Bierce
17. "Dracula’s Guest" by Bram Stoker
18. "The Monkey’s Paw" by W. W. Jacobs
19. "The Colour Out of Space" by H. P. Lovecraft
20. "The Three Marked Pennies" by M. E. Counselman
21. "Catnip" by Robert Bloch
22. "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
23. "To Serve Man" by Damon Knight
24. "The Third Level" by Jack Finney
25. "The Howling Man" by Charles Beaumont
26. "Duel" by Richard Matheson
27. "The Raft" by Stephen King
28. "Nightcrawlers" by Robert R. McCammon
29. "High Fantasy: Ancestors and Disciples of Robert E. Howard and J. R. R. Tolkien" by Garyn G. Roberts
30. "The Gray Wolf" by George MacDonald
31. "The People of the Pit" by A. Merritt
32. "Friend Island" by Francis Stevens
33. "The City of the Singing Flame" by Clark Ashton Smith
34. "Riddles in the Dark" [Chapter 5 of The Hobbit] by J. R. R. Tolkien
35. "Smoke Ghost" by Fritz Leiber
36. "The Strange Drug of Doctor Caber" by Lord Dunsany
37. "Anything Box" by Zenna Henderson
38. "The Drowned Giant" by J. G. Ballard
39. "Red as Blood" by Tanith Lee
40. "The Malaysian Mer" by Jane Yolen
41. "Troll Bridge" by Neil Gaiman
42. "Thirteen Phantasms" by James P. Blaylock
43. SECTION THREE: SCIENCE FICTION
44. "Jules Verne, Herbert George Wells, Hugo Gernsback, and the Early Days of Modern Scientifiction" by Garyn G. Roberts
45. "The Diamond Lens" by Fitz-James O’Brien
46. "The Clock that Went Backwards" by Edward Page Mitchell
47. "An Express of the Future" by Jules Verne
48. "The Star" by H. G. Wells
49. "The Ray of Displacement" by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
50. "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burroughs
51. "The Eggs from Lake Tanganyika" by Curt Siodmak
52. "The Fate of the Poseidonia" by Clare Winger Harris
53. "The Conquest of Gola" by Leslie F. Stone
54. "Robot Nemesis" by E. E. “Doc” Smith
55. "A Martian Odyssey" by Stanley G. Weinbaum
56. "Robbie" by Isaac Asimov
57. "Jay Score" by Eric Frank Russell
58. "The Weapon Shop" by A. E. van Vogt
59. "Arena" by Fredric Brown
60. "Thunder and Roses" by Theodore Sturgeon
61. "That Only a Mother" by Judith Merril
62. "Enchantress of Venus" by Leigh Brackett
63. "The Long Watch" by Robert A. Heinlein
64. "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury
65. "Invasion" by Frank Belknap Long
66. "The Harpers of Titan" by Edmond Hamilton
67. "The Sentinel" by Arthur C. Clarke
68. "Pictures Don’t Lie" by Katherine MacLean
69. "The Lovers" by Philip José Farmer
70. "Mousetrap" by Andre Norton
71. "Fondly Fahrenheit" by Alfred Bester
72. "Exiles of Tomorrow" by Marion Zimmer Bradley
73. "Dust Rag" by Hal Clement
74. "Or All the Seas with Oysters" by Avram Davidson
75. "The Store of the Worlds" by Robert Sheckley
76. "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut
77. "Without a Thought" by Fred Saberhagen
78. "The Fiend" by Frederik Pohl
79. "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick
80. "Driftglass" by Samuel R. Delany
81. "The Jigsaw Man" by Larry Niven
82. "The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" by James Tiptree, Jr.
83. "Seed Stock" by Frank Herbert
84. "Roommates" by Harry Harrison
85. "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ
86. "The Undercity" by Dean R. Koontz
87. "Opening Fire" by Barry N. Malzberg
88. "The Engine at Heartspring’s Center" by Roger Zelazny
89. "Ender’s Game" by Orson Scott Card
90. "Melancholy Elephants" by Spider Robinson
91. "Burning Chrome" by William Gibson
92. "Blood Music" by Greg Bear
93. "Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler
94. "The Plague Star" by George R. R. Martin
95. "Remaking History" by Kim Stanley Robinson
96. "The Purchase of Earth" by Jack Williamson
97. SECTION FOUR: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
98. "How Science Fiction Got Its Name" by Sam Moskowitz
99. SECTION FIVE: LISTS AND BIBLIOGRAPHIES
100. Fantasy and Science Fiction Film and Television
101. Fantasy and Science Fiction Radio Series

Contributors

Jack Williamson

Foreword author

Garyn G. Roberts

Preface author

Kim Stanley Robinson

Essayist

Frank R. Paul

Cover artist