THE BEST FANTASY STORIES - from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction by Ferman, Edward L. (editor) (Lucius Shepard; J. G. Ballard; Parke Godwin; John Kessel; John Collier; Shirley Jackson; Jane Yolen; Sterling E. Lanier; Robert Aickman; Richard Matheson; Jack Vance; Kim Stanley Robinson; Walter S. Tevis; Joanna Russ) - 1985

London: Octopus Books, 1985. 792 pp. Gray boards decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine; gray endpapers; headband. Very light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings. Dj art by Steve Crisp. This anthology contains: The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule by Lucius Shepard; The Cloud Sculptors of Coral D by J. G. Ballard; The Fire When It Comes by Parke Godwin; Another Orphan by John Kessel; Man Overboard by John Collier; One Ordinary Day with Peanuts by Shirley Jackson; Sule Skerry by Jane Yolen; Ghost of a Crown by Sterling E. Lanier; Pages from a Young Girl's Journal by Robert Aickman; Born of Man and Woman by Richard Matheson; Green Magic by Jack Vance; Black Air by Kim Stanley Robinson; Far from Home by Walter S. Tevis; My Dear Emily by Joanna Russ; The Vanishing American by Charles Beaumont; The Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost by Russell Kirk; The Accountant by Robert Sheckley; My Boy Friend's Name is Jello by Avram Davidson; San Diego Lightfoot Sue by Tom Reamy; Sooner of Later or Never Never by Gary Jennings; Jeffty is Five by Harlan Ellison; The Third Level by Jack Finney; The Silken Swift by Theodore Sturgeon; The Manor of Roses by Thomas Burnett Swann; Please Stand By by Ron Goulart; Downtown by Thomas M. Disch; Yes We Have No Ritchard by Bruce Jay Friendman; The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet by Stephen King; That Hell Bound Train by Robert Bloch; Will You Wait by Alfred Bester; La Ronde by Damon Knight; Narrow Valley by R. J. Lafferty; Not Long Before the End by Larry Niven; $1.98 by Arthur Porges; The Tehama by Bob Leman; Narapoia by Alan Nelson; Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock; Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut; Four Ghosts in Hamlet by Fritz Leiber; and Gorilla Suit by John Shepley. That Hell-Bound Train by Robert Bloch won the Hugo Award for best short story in 1959; San Diego Lightfoot Sue by Tom Reamy won the Nebula Award for best novelette in 1975; Jeffty is Five by Harlan Ellison won the Nebula Award for best short story in 1977 and the Hugo Award for best short story in 1978; Another Orphan by John Kessel won the Nebula Award for best novella in 1982.. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Steve Crisp;. 8vo. Book.