# Fantastic Tales

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino/fantastic-tales/9780141190129

![Fantastic Tales](https://quivercdn.com/covers/penguin-classics/italo-calvino/fantastic-tales_978-01-4119-012-9.jpg?v=2026-04-23%2012%3A45%3A56)

- Book: [Fantastic Tales](https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino/fantastic-tales) ([Fantastic Tales.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino/fantastic-tales.md))
- Authors: [Italo Calvino](https://www.bookquiver.com/italo-calvino)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4119-012-9
- Pages: 608
- Published: 2009-05-28
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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's chilling ghost story 'The Signal-Man', and relatively unknown works from celebrated writers including Honoré 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.