"The Treasury of the Fantastic presents a collection of fantastic literature from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries unmatched in its scope and inclusiveness. Dragons, ghosts, dreams and nightmares, fairies, curses and enchantments, the inexplicable and unknown. The Treasury defines the achievement of fantastic literature from its modern origins in Romanticism to its early development as a genre, displaying the range of exemplary works produced as supernatural tales, wonder tales, fairy tales, weird tales, Gothic literature, ghost stories, children's fantasy, nonsense poems, and, all too often, as stories or poems that, thought indefinable, remain unforgettable classics."--BOOK JACKET.