Stefan R. Dziemianowicz notes (on Twitter) in response to this entry being posted there, that he's a fan of this book and her other work in the series. https://socialistjazz.blogspot.com/2023/06/ffb-bedtime-stories-edited-by-diana.html (includes brief review and jacket imagery) *The slightly less rough currently-posted TOC: * *9 **·** The Thing in the Forest · A. S. Byatt <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n01/n01335.htm#A178> · nv The New Yorker June 3 2002 <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k07/k07078.htm#A14>* *43 * Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n04/n04066.htm#A111> · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835 <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k06/k06875.htm#A13>, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion” <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n00/n00345.htm#A59>* *63 * Troll Bridge · Neil Gaiman <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n03/n03296.htm#A27> · ss Snow White, Blood Red ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Morrow AvoNova, 1993 <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/e00/e00297.htm#A8>* *79 * The Poacher * Ursula K. Le Guin <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n05/n05374.htm#A186> · ss Xanadu <https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?55617> ed. Jane Yolen & Martin H. Greenberg, Tor, 1993 (name given as "LeGuin" throughout text, except in **t**he acknowledgments)* *101 * The Sailor-Boy’s Tale · "Isak Dinesen <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n02/n02453.htm#A37>" (Karen Blixen, nee Dinesen) · ss Winter’s Tales by Isak Dinesen, Putnam, 1942* *117 * The Bottle Imp · Robert Louis Stevenson <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n08/n08648.htm#A14> · nv New York Herald February 8 1891-March 1 1891* *155 * The Industrious Tailor * William Maxwell (1908-2000) * ss apparently first published as part of a group of "Improvisations" in All the Days and Nights: Collected Stories (Knopf 1994)* *167 * The Dragon * Vladimir Nabokov <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n06/n06547.htm#A89>; translated by Dmitri Nabokov <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n06/n06547.htm#A73> · ss 1924; apparently first published in English in The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (Knopf 1995)* *177 * Night: A Nightmare * Guy de Maupassant <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n06/n06131.htm#A122> · ss (in translation: That Pig Morin and Other Stories, Knopf 1923; apparently translated by Ernest Boyd, as in the story's title page here, though the book's translations apparently initially credited to Storm Jameson) originally “La Nuit”, Gil Blas, June 14, 1887* *185 * Where the Tides Ebb and Flow · Lord Dunsany <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n02/n02633.htm#A156> · ss Saturday Review (UK) May 2 1908, as “The Terrible Dream”* *193 * The Night Face Up · Julio Cortázar <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n01/n01956.htm#A1>; translated by Paul Blackburn <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n00/n00806.htm#A131> · ss The New Yorker April 22 1967 <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k07/k07054.htm#A38>; dated 1956, the original text's year of publication in Final del juego ("End of the Game") by Mexican publisher Los Presentes, as <<La noche boca arriba>> (literally, "The night mouth above", but properly as translated, in context); in English, End of the Game and Other Stories (Cortázar <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n01/n01956.htm#A1>/Blackburn <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n00/n00806.htm#A131>) published by Random House, 1967* *207 * An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n00/n00760.htm#A118> · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890* *222 * The Country of the Blind · H. G. Wells <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n09/n09560.htm#A167> · nv The Strand Magazine April 1904 <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k09/k09977.htm#A8>* *253 * The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n04/n04596.htm#A95> · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #6, March 15 1820 <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k09/k09418.htm#A5>, as by Geoffrey Crayon <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n02/n02033.htm#A52>* *291 * The Curious Case of Benjamin Button · F. Scott Fitzgerald <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n03/n03037.htm#A233> · nv Collier’s May 27 1922 <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k02/k02820.htm#A7>* *325 * A Visit · Steven Millhauser <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n06/n06292.htm#A188> · ss The New Yorker August 25/September 1 1997 <http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/k07/k07075.htm#A55>* *343 * The Tiger's Bride <https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?78550> * Angela Carter * ss apparently first in The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, Gollancz, 1979* *369 * T <https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?39084>he Dancing Dwarf * Haruki Murakami * nv in Japanese in Shinchō ("New Tide") magazine January 1984; translated by Jay Rubin, apparently first published in English in The Elephant Vanishes, a collection, Knopf 1993* *397 * Acknowledgments * Anon.* *--index derived in large part from The FictionMags Index and ISFDB citations.* TM ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the FICTION_L list, click the following link: https://ccpllists.cuyahogalibrary.net/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=FICTION_L