Black Water: The Flamingo Anthology Of Fantastic Literature by Hilaire Belloc, Bruno Schulz, João Guimarães Rosa, L.P. Hartley, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Graham Greene, Alex Comfort, Robert Smythe Hichens, Vladimir Nabokov, M.R. James, Julio Cortázar, Francis King, Charles Dickens, Adolfo Bioy Casares, I.A. Ireland, Juan Manuel, Jean Cocteau, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Charles Williams, Jules Verne, Howard Fast, Flann O'Brien, Giovanni Papini, Silvina Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges, Léon Bloy, Virgilio Piñera, Brian Moore, George Hitchcock, Hermann Hesse, Joanne Greenburg, Daphne du Maurier, David Garnett, Marcel Aymé, Edith Wharton, Tennessee Williams, Max Beerbohm, Saki, Marguerite Yourcenar, E.M. Forster, Cynthia Ozick, Horacio Quiroga, Italo Calvino, Ray Bradbury, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Alberto Manguel, Marco Denevi

967 pages first pub 1984 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror short stories adventurous mysterious medium-paced
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This huge anthology offers a kaleidoscope of brilliant writing from the Magi of the imagination. Alberto Manguel has selected 72 fantastic tales from life on the edge of the twilight zone, with stories from Marguerite Yourcenar, Herman Hesse, Ital...

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Moods

adventurous 100%
informative 100%
inspiring 100%
mysterious 100%
reflective 100%

Pace

medium 100%

Strong character development?

Yes: 100%

Loveable characters?

Yes: 100%

Diverse cast of characters?

Yes: 100%

Flaws of characters a main focus?

Yes: 100%

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