Faeries (anthology)

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Country United States Publication date 1991 Pages 374 pp. Originally published 1991 Genre Fantasy Cover artist J. K. Potter		Language English Media type Print (Paperback) ISBN 0-451-45061-2 Author Martin H. Greenberg Publisher New American Library
Series Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy Works by Martin H. Greenberg Cosmic Knights, Supermen, Intergalactic Empires

Faeries is an anthology of themed fantasy and science fiction short stories on the subject of fairies edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh as the twelfth and last volume in their Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy series. It was first published in paperback by Roc/New American Library in 1991. It was reprinted in trade paperback by Barnes & Nobel Books in 2000. The book has also been translated into Italian.

The book collects eighteen novellas, novelettes and short stories by various fantasy and science fiction authors, with an introduction by Asimov.

"Fairyland" (Isaac Asimov)

"How the Fairies Came to Ireland" (Herminie Templeton)

"The Manor of Roses" (Thomas Burnett Swann)

"The Fairy Prince" (H. C. Bailey)

"The Ugly Unicorn" (Jessica Amanda Salmonson)

"The Brownie of the Black Hags" (James Hogg)

"The Dream of Akinosuké" (Lafcadio Hearn)

"Elfinland" (Johann Ludwig Tieck)

"Darby O'Gill and the Good People" (Herminie Templeton)

"No-Man's-Land" (John Buchan)

"The Prism" (Mary E. Wilkins)