# Fantastic Tales : Visionary and Everyday

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- Authors: [Italo Calvino](https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2015-08-04

## Description

" The true theme of the nineteenth-century fantastic tale is the reality of what we see: to believe or not to believe in phantasmagoric apparitions, to glimpse another world, enchanted or infernal, behind everyday appearances." -- from Calvino's introduction to Fantastic Tales Vampires, ghosts, and other horrors abound in this collection of nineteenth-century fantastic literature, selected and edited by Italo Calvino, a twentieth-century master of the speculative. This posthumously published anthology of enchanting, uncanny, terrifying, and immortally entertaining short stories includes E. T. A. Hoffmann's " The Sandman," Nikolai Gogol's " The Nose," Edgar Allan Poe's " The Tell-Tale Heart," Robert Louis Stevenson's " The Bottle Imp," and many more, each with an introduction by Calvino. Fantastic Tales is a delight for the mind and a feast for the senses.

## Editions

### Fantastic Tales : Visionary and Everyday

- Publisher: Mariner Books
- ISBN: 978-05-4415-209-0
- Pages: 608
- Published: 2015-08-04
- Language: en_US