Scared? You will be! Feel your nerves jangle and chills run up and down your spine thanks to the hair-raising genius of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, E. F. Benson, H. P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Stephen Crane, Charles Dickens, Robert B
Contentsxiii • Preface (Magicats!) • essay by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann1 • Space-Time for Springers • [Gummitch the Cat] • (1958) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber15 • The Game of Rat and Dragon • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1955)
Contents ix • Introduction: Summation: 1986 • essay by Gardner Dozois1 • R & R • (1986) • novella by Lucius Shepard67 • Hatrack River • [The Alvin Maker Saga] • (1986) • novelette by Orson Scott Card91 • Strangers on Paradise • (
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