The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women

The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women is an anthology edited by A. Susan Williams and Richard Glyn Jones, with an introduction by Joanna Russ.

"Follows on from Classic Fantasy; contains 38 stories written from 1941 to the present." Classic Fantasy was published as The Lifted Veil.

Editions

• 1991: Penguin (Viking), New York.

Contents

• Sources and Acknowledgements;
• Introduction by Joanna Russ;
• Editors' Note.
• "The Demon Lover" by Elizabeth Bowen;
• "The Tooth" by Shirley Jackson;
• "The Lake of the Gone Forever" by Leigh Brackett;
• "The Old Man" by Daphne du Maurier;
• "My Flannel Knickers" by Leonara Carrington;
• "The Anything Box" by Zenna Henderson;
• "Miss Pinkerton's Apocalypse" by Muriel Spark;
• "A Bright Green Field" by Anna Kavan;
• "The Ship who Sang" by Anne McCaffrey;
• "Marmalade Wine" by Joan Aiken;
• "The Fall of Frency Steiner" by Hilary Bailey;
• "Cynosure" by Kit Reed;
• "The Wall" by Josephine Saxton;
• "The Foot" by Christine Brooke-Rose;
• "Baby, You were Great" by Kate Wilhelm;
• "The Second Inquisition" by Joanna Russ;
• "Murder, 1986" by P. D. James;
• "The Milk of Paradise" by James Tiptree, Jr.;
• "When It Happens" by Margaret Atwood;
• "Angel, All Innocence" by Fay Weldon;
• "Night-Side" by Joyce Carol Oates;
• "Fireflood" by Vonda N. McIntyre;
• "Wives" by Lisa Tuttle;
• "Red as Blood" by Tanith Lee;
• "Sur" by Ursula K. Le Guin;
• "Peter and the Wolf" by Angela Carter;
• "The Pits beneath the World" by Mary Gentle;
• "Two Sheep" by Janet Frame;
• "Relics" by Zoe Fairbairns;
• "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" by Octavia E. Butler;
• "(Learning about) Machine Sex" by Candas Jane Dorsey;
• "Prodigal Pudding" by Suniti Namjoshi;
• "Boobs" by Suzy McKee Charnas;
• "If the Word was to the Wise" by Carol Emshwiller;
• "Trial by Teaspoon" by Lynda Rajan;
• "In the Green Shade of a Bee-Loud Glade" by L. A. Hall;
• "Death in the Egg" by Ann Oakley;
• "Kay and Phil" by Lucy Sussex; and
• Notes on the Authors.