The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women

Fantasy long has been a vehicle that women have used to express their creative diversity and free themselves from a male-dominated literary establishment. This collection contains 38 short stories written by women from 1941 to the present. Acclaimed fantasists, such as Anne McCaffrey, Ursula Le Guin, and Lisa Tuttle, are joined by new voices from four continents as well as writers better known for other fictions, such as Joyce Carol Oates, Fay Weldon, and P.D. James. They explore every aspect of the weird and the macabre, of emotion and eroticism, allowing readers to discover the range and complexity of well-written fantasy.

Contents:
Sources and Acknowledgements • uncredited essay
Introduction • essay by Joanna Russ
Editors' Note • essay by Richard Glyn Jones and A. Susan Williams
The Demon Lover • (1941) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
The Tooth • (1949) • short story by Shirley Jackson
The Lake of the Gone Forever • (1949) • novelette by Leigh Brackett
The Old Man • (1952) • short story by Daphne du Maurier
My Flannel Knickers • (1988) • short story by Leonora Carrington
The Anything Box • (1956) • short story by Zenna Henderson
Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse • (1958) • short story by Muriel Spark
A Bright Green Field • (1958) • short story by Anna Kavan
The Ship Who Sang (The Ship Who ... series) • (1961) • novelette by Anne McCaffrey
Marmalade Wine • (1958) • short story by Joan Aiken
The Fall of Frenchy Steiner • (1964) • novelette by Hilary Bailey
Cynosure • (1964) • short story by Kit Reed
The Wall • (1965) • short story by Josephine Saxton
The Foot • (1967) • short story by Christine Brooke-Rose
Baby, You Were Great • (1967) • short story by Kate Wilhelm (variant of Baby, You Were Great!)
The Second Inquisition (Alyx) • (1970) • novelette by Joanna Russ
Murder, 1986 • (1970) • novelette by P. D. James
The Milk of Paradise • (1972) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
When It Happens • non-genre • (1975) • short story by Margaret Atwood
Angel, All Innocence • (1977) • short story by Fay Weldon
Night-Side • (1977) • novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
Fireflood • (1979) • novelette by Vonda N. McIntyre
Wives • (1979) • short story by Lisa Tuttle
Red as Blood • (1979) • short story by Tanith Lee
Sur • (1982) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
Peter and the Wolf • (1982) • short story by Angela Carter
The Pits Beneath the World • (1983) • short story by Mary Gentle
Two Sheep • (1983) • short story by Janet Frame
Relics • (1985) • short story by Zoe Fairbairns
The Evening and the Morning and the Night • (1987) • novelette by Octavia E. Butler
(Learning About) Machine Sex • (1988) • short story by Candas Jane Dorsey
Prodigal Pudding • (1988) • short fiction by Suniti Namjoshi
Boobs • (1989) • short story by Suzy McKee Charnas
If the Word Was to the Wise • (1990) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
Trial by Teaspoon • (1992) • short story by Lynda Rajan
In the Green Shade of a Bee-Loud Glade • (1993) • short story by L. A. Hall
Death in the Egg • (1994) • short story by Ann Oakley
Kay and Phil • (1994) • novelette by Lucy Sussex (variant of Kay & Phil)