The Dedalus Book of Spanish Fantasy

contentsIntroduction 7Bernardo Atxaga An Exposition of Canon Lizardi's Letter 11Max Aub The Raincoat 27Gustavo Adolfo Becquer The Kiss 39Juan Benet Fables 9, 10 and 10a 53Juan Benet The Catalyst 59Pere Calders The Desert 67Noel Claraso Beyond Death 73Isabel del Rio No one 91Isabel del Rio The Key 99Isabel del Rio Countdown 103Pilar Diaz-Mas The Little Girl Who Had No Wings 107Rafael Dieste Concerning the Death of Bieito 115Wenceslao Fernandez Florez How My Six Cats Died 119Anxel Fole How the Tailor Bieito Returned to Hell 127Pere Gimferrer A Face 133Juan Goytisolo The Stork-men 135Alberto Insua The Shooting Gallery 143Julio Llamazares The Yellow Rain 149Javier Marias Gualta 157Eduardo Mendoza No News from Gurb 165Jose Maria Merino The Companion 179Jose Maria Merino The Lost Traveller 187Juan Jose Millis The One Where She Tells Him A Story 201Quirn Month Family Life 207Quim Monzo Gregor 219Carlos Edmundo de Ory The Preacher 225Emilia Pardo Bazin The Woman Who Came Back To Life 231Joan Perucho The Holocanth 237Merce Rodoreda My Cristina 241Alfonso Sastre From Exile 251Ramon J. Sender Cervantes' Chickens 263Jose Angel Valente The Condemned Man 305Ramon del Valle-Inclan My Sister Antonia 307Enrique Vila-Matas In Search of the Electrifying Double Act 325Alonso Zamora Vicente A Poor Man 341