''Curses'' is an
anthology
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of
themed fantasy and
science fiction short stories on the subject of
curses edited by
Isaac Asimov
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Martin H. Greenberg and
Charles G. Waugh
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as the eleventh volume in their
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy
''Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy'' is a series of twelve themed paperback fantasy and science fiction anthologies edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh, a companion set to the ten volume ''Isaac Asimov's Wonde ...
series. It was first published in paperback by
Signet/New American Library in September 1989.
The book collects seventeen novellas, novelettes and short stories by various fantasy and science fiction authors, with an introduction by Asimov.
Contents
*"Introduction: Malevolence" (
Isaac Asimov
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*"The Curse" (
Arthur C. Clarke
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He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film '' 2001: A Spac ...
)
*"Julia Cahill's Curse" (
George Moore)
*"The Red Swimmer" (
Robert Bloch
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)
*"The Doom of the Griffiths" (
Elizabeth Gaskell
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)
*"You Know Willie" (
Theodore R. Cogswell
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During the Spanish Civil War, Cogswell served as an ambulance driver for the Republicans as part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
His ear ...
)
*"Trouble with Water" (
Horace L. Gold
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)
*"Mad Monkton" (
Wilkie Collins)
*"Long Chromachy of the Crows" (
Seumas MacManus
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Biography
Born James McManus on 31 December 1867 in Mountcharles, County ...
)
*"The Little Black Train" (
Manly Wade Wellman)
*"The Curse of the Catafalques" (
F. Anstey
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)
*"A Séance in Summer" (
Mario Martin, Jr.)
*"Transformations" (
Christopher Fahy)
*"In Dark New England Days" (
Sarah Orne Jewett)
*"The Messenger" (
Robert W. Chambers)
*"Or the Grasses Grow" (
Avram Davidson)
*"The Dollar" (
Morgan Robertson
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Early life
Robertson was the son of Andrew Robertson, a ship captain on the ...
)
*"A Hunger in the Blood" (
Talmage Powell)
Notes
{{Reflist
1989 anthologies
Fantasy anthologies
Science fiction anthologies
Martin H. Greenberg anthologies
Signet Books books