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Curated by Isaac Asimov, this anthology assembles a wide range of 19th‑century fantasy and supernatural tales, including Washington Irving’s *The Legend of Sleepy Hollow*, Nikolai Gogol’s *The Overcoat*, Charles Dickens’s *A Christmas Carol in Prose*, and Oscar Wilde’s *The Canterville Ghost*. The collection also features short stories and novelettes by Prosper Mérimée, H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others, offering readers a panoramic view of 19th‑century imaginative literature.
First publish date: 1982
Genre: Literary Fiction/Classic Literature
Authors: Isaac Asimov
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