From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to
subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century
fantastic literature is collected here by Italo Calvino. These
mysterious and macabre tales include Hoffmann's nightmarish "The
Sandman", Poe's terrifying "The Tell-Tale Heart" and Dickens'
chilling ghost story "The Signal-Man", and relatively unknown works
from celebrated writers including Honore de Balzac, Henry James,
Sir Walter Scott, Guy de Maupassant and Robert Louis Stevenson,
alongside lesser-known contributors. Each story comes with a
fascinating introduction by Calvino.