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A review by sarah_stokes
Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature by Hilaire Belloc, Bruno Schulz, João Guimarães Rosa, L.P. Hartley, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Graham Greene, Don Juan Manuel, Alex Comfort, Robert Smythe Hichens, Vladimir Nabokov, M.R. James, Julio Cortázar, Francis King, Charles Dickens, Adolfo Bioy Casares, I.A. Ireland, Jean Cocteau, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Charles Williams, Jules Verne, Howard Fast, Flann O'Brien, Giovanni Papini, Silvina Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges, Léon Bloy, Virgilio Piñera, Brian Moore, George Hitchcock, Hermann Hesse, Joanne Greenburg, Daphne du Maurier, David Garnett, Marcel Aymé, Edith Wharton, Tennessee Williams, Max Beerbohm, Saki, Marguerite Yourcenar, E.M. Forster, Cynthia Ozick, Horacio Quiroga, Italo Calvino, Ray Bradbury, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Alberto Manguel, Marco Denevi
This generous anthology is jam-packed with fascinating, instructive work and was my introduction to many magical writers beyond the traditional English-speaking fare. Delighted to discover that a second volume was published back in 1990 - heading to pick up a copy now...