Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature is a classic anthology of fantastic and uncanny fiction edited by the Argentine Canadian writer and anthologist Alberto Manguel, first published in 1983. It gathers dozens of tales that move beyond the borders of realism, by classic and modern writers from around the world, including Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Henry James, Julio Cortázar and many lesser-known authors, offering a wide-ranging survey of ghost stories, fables and strange, dreamlike fiction.
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- Margaret Atwood: “These are Manguel’s classic anthologies of fantastic stories, many from writers from beyond the English-speaking world.”