The Secret History of Fantasy

<b>[STARRED REVIEW] <i>"There is a sense of frivolity and freedom that permits this anthology to "elude the mundane, and to achieve... beauty and exaltation."</i></b> <p> The secret is finally out. Fantasy is more than just sword-and-sorcery novels of epic adventures. Here are innovative tales where mythology, fairy tales, and archetypes are reimagined into a new style of storytelling. <p>Anthologist Peter S. Beagle knows fantasy. The author of the inventive fantasy novel <i>The Last Unicorn</i> and the introduction to <i>The Lord of the Rings</i> now introduces the gifted writers that returned to the classics and thoroughly redefined the genre: Gregory Maguire, Francesca Lia Block, Robert Holdstock, Patricia McKillip, and Steven Millhauser, and others who have lead the way to expanding imaginative frontiers. <p>From the depths of a dangerous English forest to the top of the Tower of Babel, on a caffeinated journey to the empire of ice cream, discover <i>The Secret History of Fantasy</i>.