This is the kind of assortment that can hook a reader on short fantasy. Thirty-two good stories--some previously anthologized, some hot off the press ("Beauty and the Opera" by Suzy McKee Charnas appeared in July 1996), and a few once considered classic,
Lost MonstersThea watched their torch-bearing captors recede into the distance and leave them to the cave's darkness. Her brother Icarus whispered "forgive me - I wanted to come to the Country of the Beasts, not to the Cave of the Minotaur".Then they hear
1 • Introduction to Avram Davidson's "The Spoor of the Unicorn" • (1982) • essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois3 • The Spoor of the Unicorn • [Adventures in Unhistory] • (1982) • essay by Avram Davidson29 • The Silken-Swift • (1953) •
