
Isaac Asimov presents the best fantasy of the 19th century
Contains: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - novelette by Washington Irving Federigo - short story by Prosper Mérimée (trans. of Federigo 1829) [Dr. Heidegger's Experiment](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455515W) - Nathaniel Hawthorne The Overcoat - novelette by Николай Гоголь (trans. of Шинель) [as by Nikolai Gogol] A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas - novella by Charles Dickens (variant of A Christmas Carol) The Snow Queen - juvenile - novelette by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of Snedronningen 1845) Hands Off - short story by Edward Everett Hale How Much Land Does a Man Need - short story by Лев Толстой (trans. of Много ли человеку земли нужно) [as by Leo Tolstoi] The Canterville Ghost - novelette by Oscar Wilde Lot No. 249 - novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle The Bottle Imp - novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson The Christmas Shadrach - short story by Frank R. Stockton Black Heart and White Heart - novella by H. Rider Haggard The Man Who Could Work Miracles - short story by H. G. Wells
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