Contains 72 tales from life on the edge of the twilight zone, with stories from Herman Hesse, Ursula LeGuin, Italo Calvino, Daphne du Maurier, Vladimir Nabokov and many more.
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In 'Black Water', Alberto Manguel has assembled an awe-inspiring array of world writers, with weird and wonderful stories from Jean Cocteau, Edgar Allan Poe, Italo Calvino, H.G. Wells, Vladimir Nabokov, Oscar Wilde, Franz Kafka, Ursula LeGuin and many, many more.
With seventy-two fantastic tales which evoke the darkness that lies beyond the real world, this mesmerizing collection will transport the reader to the very edge of the twilight zone, deep into the realms of horror and delight, of hauntings and time-warps, or dreams and the supernatural, of wonder and magic …
“The memory of our greatest stories is a form of imagination, and this 'Anthology of Fantastic Literature' is a treasure-house of memory.”
JORGE LUIS BORGES
“As an introduction to the delights of fiction about “the impossible seeping into the possible” 'Black Water' has not been surpassed.”
SUNDAY TIMES
“Evidently an editor both enthusiastic and meticulous … with a brilliant, strong, natural taste, which enables him to include stories from all over the world but, somehow, make a coherent volume with them. One almost hopes for a power cut, a high wind, a banging shutter and a flickering lamp.”
GUARDIAN
“An uncommonly satisfying collection … Especially welcome is the generous selection of fiction from Latin America, the current capital of the fantastic.”
NEW YORK TIMES
Also available in Flamingo: 'The Gates of Paradise: The Flamingo Anthology of Erotic Literature, In Another Part of the Forest: The Flamingo Anthology of Gay Literature' and 'News From a Foreign Country Came', Alberto Manguel’s prize-winning novel.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Jason Parkes
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Alberto Manguel's 967-page collection takes in 72 short stories that can be related to the Fantastic- from the classic horror of writers such as M R James, WW Jacobs' classic 'The Monkey's Paw' & a tale from one of the most significant writers of the 19th Century, Edgar Allen Poe (the rarely anthologised 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar'). Manguel has included a varied collection- from Jean Cocteau's minor-joy 'Death & the Gardener' to Borges' 'August 25, 1983' to Bruno Schulz's surreal 'Father's Last Escape' (I've never looked at a crab in the same way since!) Other highlights include Nabokov's 'The Visit to the Musuem' (though I'd have plumped more for his 'Terra Incognita')to Rashomon-author Ryunosuke Akutagawa's 'Autumn Mountain' to Kafka's horrific 'In a Penal Colony'.
Black Water is a great collection, a way of sampling a myriad of intrigueing writers & a work that has lead me to such books as 'A Russian Beauty', 'The Martian Chronicles' , 'The Call of Cthulu' & 'Labyrinths'. It's a great read- one that can be dipped into from time to time (best read last thing at night) & a work that should be reissued ASAP, as my copy is beginning to fall apart!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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It's not often that I could justify giving an anthology of 70+ stories five stars - after all, the chances of anyone liking ALL the tales here are pretty slim... And while it would be easy to pick faults with some of the selections, when looked at objectively this is a great book. The selection of stories mixes authors associated with speculative fiction with tales from more so-called literary writers. It's highly unlikely even the most well read potential purchaser will have more than half of these. Add to the stories themselves the editors short but precise introductions, and the preface of quotes about the supernatural, and you have a great volume fully deserving five stars.
I was lucky enough to pick this up second hand; why it is currently out of print is beyond me.
I was lucky enough to pick this up second hand; why it is currently out of print is beyond me.
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