Italo Calvino 
Fantastic Tales 
Visionary And Everyday

From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century fantastic literature is collected here by Italo Calvino. These mysterious and macabre tales include Hoffmann’s nightmarish ‚The Sandman‘, Poe’s terrifying ‚The Tell-Tale Heart‘ and Dickens’s chilling ghost story ‚The Signal-Man‘, and relatively unknown works from celebrated writers including Honor de Balzac, Henry James, Sir Walter Scott, Guy de Maupassant and Robert Louis Stevenson, alongside lesser-known contributors. Each story comes with a fascinating introduction by Calvino.