The Year's finest fantasy

✍ Scribed by Terry Carr (ed.)

• Publisher: Berkley Books; Berkley Pub. Corp., Distributd by Putnam
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: en-GB
• Weight: 405 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 039912327X

✦ Synopsis

Epub (my conversion)

This is the first in this annual series. This is a collection of outstanding stories that brings you the best from the strange, wonderful, and unpossible world of fantasy. Selected and edited by famed anthologist Terry Carr, the masterful and surprising stories in this collection are a tribute to the popularity and seriousness of the field of fantasy. They come from the acknowledged “greats” and from unexpected sources as well - sources as diverse as The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and Woody Allen. But, all have this in common: they assault the imagination, expand the limits of the possible, and penetrate beneath the orderly surface of things to the swirling mysteries that lie at the heart of existence. They are fantasy at its finest.

Contains:

Jeffty Is Five by Harlan Ellison
The Bagful of Dreams by Jack Vance
The Cat from Hell by Stephen King
Black as the Pit, from Pole to Pole by Steven Utley and Howard Waldrop
The Kugelmass Episode by Woody Allen
Manatee Gal Ain't You Coming Out Tonight by Avram Davidson
Getting Back to Before It Began by Raylyn Moore
Descent of Man by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Probability Storm by Julian Reid
Growing Boys by Robert Aickman

✦ Subjects

Fiction