The Book of Fantasy is the English translation of , an anthology of approximately 81 fantastic short stories, fragments, excerpts, and poems edited by Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Silvina Ocampo. It was first published in Argentina in 1940, and revised in 1965 and 1976. Anthony Kerrigan had previously translated a similar work by the same editors, Cuentos breves y extraordinarios (1955) as Extraordinary Tales, published by Herder & Herder in 1971. The 1988 Viking Penguin edition for English-speaking countries includes a foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin. According to Le Guin's introduction, the idea and inspiration for this volume came into being "one night in 1937 in Buenos Aires, when Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Silvina Ocampo fell to talking - so Casares tells us - 'about fantastic literature. ..simply a compilation of stories from fantastic literature which seemed to us to be the best.'" Contents Pagination is given per the Penguin edition. Introduction. Ursula K. Le Guin (begins page 9) "Sennin". Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Three Treasures, 1951 (begins page 13) This is a reworking of a Japanese Zen koan; the koan can be found in the collection Zen Flesh, Zen Bones. "A Woman Alone with Her Soul". Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1912 (begins page 16) "Ben-Tobith". Leonid Andreyev, from his The Crushed Flower and Other Stories (begins page 17) "The Phantom Basket". John Aubrey, Miscellanies, 1696 (begins page 20) "The Drowned Giant". J. G. Ballard, The Terminal Beach, London: Gollancz, 1964 (begins page 21) "Enoch Soames". Max Beerbohm, The Century May ’16 (begins page 28) "The Tail of the Sphinx". Ambrose Bierce, San Francisco Examiner January 14, 1893. Later included in Bierce's Fantastic Fables "The Squid in Its Own Ink". From El Lado de La Sombra, 1962, Adolfo Bioy Casares; translated by Alexandra Potts (begins page 49) "Guilty Eyes". Ah‘med Ech Chiruani (no information besides the name is given about Chiruani) begins page 57) "Anything You Want!..." from Histoires Désobligeantes ("Disagreeable tales"), 1894, Léon Bloy; translated by Moira Banks, (begins page 58) "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius". 1941, Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths, New Directions, 1962 (begins page 61) "Odin". Jorge Luis Borges & Delia Ingenieros, (begins page 73) "The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind" Ray Bradbury, Epoch Win ’53. Also in Bradbury's The Golden Apples of the Sun (begins page 73) "The Man Who Collected the First of September, 1973". Tor Åge Bringsvaerd; translated by Oddrun