My Favorite Fantasy Story

My Favorite Fantasy Story

Cover illustration of My Favorite Fantasy Story
Author	edited by Martin H. Greenberg
Cover artist	Les Edwards
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy short stories
Publisher	DAW Books
Publication date	2000
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	423 pp
ISBN	0-88677-905-7

My Favorite Fantasy Story is an anthology of fantasy short stories, edited by Martin H. Greenberg. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in August 2000, and reprinted by ibooks in July 2004.^[1]

The book collects eighteen "[a]ward-winning, career-changing, classic stories" by "masters" of the genre, "[p]ersonally selected by such modern-day greats as: Morgan Llywelyn, Terry Pratchett, Tanya Huff, Charles de Lint, George R. R. Martin, Katherine Kurtz, Marion Zimmer Bradley [and] Margaret Weis,"^[2] some of whom also authored some of the stories. Pieces included range in length from short stories to novelettes to one novel (Mopsa the Fairy), with the time span of their original publications ranging from 1837-1992.^[1]

Contents

• "Ghosts of Wind and Shadow" (Charles de Lint)
• "Mazirian the Magician" (Jack Vance)
• "Troll Bridge" (Terry Pratchett)
• "The Tale of Hauk" (Poul Anderson)
• "In Our Block" (R. A. Lafferty)
• "The Gnarly Man" (L. Sprague de Camp)
• "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" (M. R. James)
• "Homeland" (Barbara Kingsolver)
• "Stealing God" (Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald)
• "Shadowlands" (Elisabeth Waters)
• Mopsa the Fairy (Jean Ingelow)
• "Liane the Wayfarer" (Jack Vance)
• "The Spring" (Manly Wade Wellman)
• "That Hell-Bound Train" (Robert Bloch)
• "The Dancer from the Dance" (M. John Harrison)
• "More Spinned Against" (John Wyndham)
• "The Bagman's Story" (Charles Dickens)
• "Unicorn Variations" (Roger Zelazny)

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