New Worlds Of Fantasy Volume 3: Edited by Terry Carr

In this volume: Farrell And Lila The Werewolf, Peter S. Beagle: Farrell, a musician living in NYC, keeps falling for women who have serious issues. His latest live-in girlfriend, Lila, is a werewolf, as he discovers after she moves in with him. Adam Had Three Brothers, R.A. Lafferty: Adam had three brothers: Etienne, Yancy and Req. This story is about the descendants of Req, or as they’re better known, the Wrecks. Big Sam, Avram Davidson; Longtooth, Edgar Pangborn: A strange, Sasquatch-like figure haunts a remote farm where a young woman lives with her much older husband. The Inner Circles, Fritz Leiber; Von Goom's Gambit, Victor Contoski: A chess genius devisses and opening whose mere pattern on the board causes convulsions, insanity or death in his opponents. Through a Glass Darkly, Zenna Henderson; The Stainless Steel Leech, Roger Zelazny: After mankind becomes extinct and the world remains populated only by robots, a freak robot who lives as a fugitive by sucking the power from other robots befriends the last remaining human vampire. Sleeping Beauty, Terry Carr: A dark version of the popular tale... The Plot Is The Thing, Robert Bloch: Peggy, an insomniac who lives alone likes to watch old horror films on the television, then - she is taken away to hospital to meet Dr. Crane... Funes The Memorious, Jorge Luis Borges: After falling off his horse and receiving a bad head injury, Funes acquires the amazing talent - or curse - of remembering absolutely everything.Say Goodbye To The Wind, J.G. Ballard; A Message From Charity, William M. Lee: Peter Wood, a teenage boy sick with fever develops a telepathic contact with Charity Payne, a Puritan girl from 1700s America,. who also has the same type of fever. Cover art by Kenneth Smith.