Fantastic Imaginings: A Journey through 3500 Years of Imaginative Writing, Comprising Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction Compiled and Edited by Stefan Rudnicki. Introduction by Harlan Ellison®

Written by Dante Alighieri, Isaac Asimov, Edward Bellamy, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Ben Bova, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Orson Scott Card, Lewis Carroll, Robert W. Chambers, Arthur C. Clarke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Stephen Crane, John Crowley, Guy de Maupassant, W.E.B. Du Bois, Harlan Ellison®, Elliot Engel, Euripides, E.M. Forster, Nicolai Gogol, Queen Hatshepsut, Homer, Oskar Kokoschka, R.A. Lafferty, Ursula K. Le Guin, Fritz Leiber, Anne McCaffrey, Sir Thomas More, William Morris, Ovid, Gareth Owen, Barry Pain, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Rimbaud, Christina Rossetti, Stefan Rudnicki, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Lewis Shiner, John Shirley, Robert Silverberg, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sam M. Steward, Frank R. Stockton, Bram Stoker, Jonathan Swift, Walt Whitman, and William B. Yeats.

Narrated by David Birney, Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, Danny Campbell, Christopher Cazenove, Gabrielle de Cuir, Harlan Ellison®, Arte Johnson, Roz Landor, John Lee, Don Leslie, Enn Reitel, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki, Bahni Turpin, Simon Vance, Mirron Willis, Michael York, and Judy Young.

Part # Title Author Narrator INTRODUCTION Lofty Ambitions Harlan Ellison Harlan Ellison PART 1: THE MYTHS WE LIVE BY A Youth in Apparel that Glittered Stephen Crane Stefan Rudnicki After the Myths Went Home Robert Silverberg Stefan Rudnicki Novelty John Crowley Harlan Ellison Pan and the Firebird Sam M. Steward Stefan Rudnicki Murderer, The Hope of All Women Oskar Kokoschka Cast The Touch of Pan Algernon Blackwood Stefan Rudnicki The Lost Thyrsis by Oliver Onions Roz Landor The Bacchae (excerpt - I Am Dionysus) Euripides Cast Part 2: MYTHS THAT BITE A Noiseless Patient Spider Walt Whitman Stefan Rudnicki Mystery Train Lewis Shiner John Rubinstein Continued on the Next Rock R.A. Lafferty Stefan Rudnicki Diary of a God Barry Pain Enn Reitel The Repairer of Reputations (excerpt) Robert W. Chambers Stefan Rudnicki The Yellow Sign Robert W. Chambers Stefan Rudnicki An Inhabitant of Carcosa Ambrose Bierce Danny Campbell The Horla Guy de Maupassant Arte Johnson Part 3: SHOCKING FUTURES Samuel Taylor Kubla Khan Coleridge Stefan Rudnicki City Come A-Walkin' (excerpt) John Shirley Don Leslie A Pail of Air Fritz Leiber Stefan Rudnicki The Machine Stops (excerpt) E.M. Forster Roz Landor Looking Backward and Equality (excerpts) Edward Bellamy David Birney Gulliver's Travels (excerpt) Jonathan Swift Scott Brick Utopia (excerpt) Sir Thomas More Christopher Cazenove Monument to Amun Queen Hatshepsut Judy Young PART 4: TRAVELING FOOLS La Bateau Ivre Arthur Rimbaud Stefan Rudnicki Inspiration Ben Bova Stefan Rudnicki The Bones Do Lie Anne McCaffrey Stefan Rudnicki A Princess of Mars Edgar Rice (excerpt) Burroughs John Rubinstein The Great Stone of Sardis (excerpt) Frank R. Stockton David Birney Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (excerpt) Lewis Carroll Michael York Diary of a Madman (excerpt) Nicolai Gogol Stefan Rudnicki The Inferno (excerpt) Dante Alighieri Stefan Rudnicki The Odyssey of Homer (excerpt) Homer David Birney PART 5: TRANSFORMERS The Stolen Child William B. Yeats Stefan Rudnicki The Porcelain Salamander Orson Scott Card Gabrielle de Cuir Let's Get Together Isaac Asimov Arte Johnson Dracula (excerpt) Bram Stoker Simon Vance Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde Robert Louis (excerpt) Stevenson John Lee Goblin Market Christina Rossetti Gabrielle de Cuir Frankenstein (excerpt) Mary Shelley Stefan Rudnicki The Laidly Worm of (Traditional English Spindleston Heugh Fairy Tale) Judy Young A Midsummer Night's Dream (excerpt) William Shakespeare Cast The Ballad of Tam Lin (Celtic ballad) Stefan Rudnicki Metamophosis (excerpt) Ovid Cassandra Campbell PART 6: REST IN PIECES Hearse Song The Conquerer Worm Edgar Allan Poe Stefan Rudnicki The New Testament: Revelations (excerpt) Stefan Rudnicki The Colloquy of Monos & Stefan Rudnicki and Una Edgar Allan Poe Gabrielle de Cuir From the Crypts of Memory Clark Ashton Smith Danny Campbell The Comet W.E.B. Du Bois Mirron Willis Sand (excerpt) Stefan Rudnicki Cast Transience Arthur C. Clarke Bahni Turpin The Illusionist Gareth Owen Stefan Rudnicki Unchosen Love Ursula K. Le Guin Stefan Rudnicki In Lonely Lands Harlan Ellison Harlan Ellison News from Nowhere (excerpt) William Morris Stefan Rudnicki PART 7: COMMENTARIES The Special and General Joys of Science Fiction Ben Bova Stefan Rudnicki Edgar Allan Poe 1809- 1849 Elliot Engel Gabrielle de Cuir Adolescence and Adulthood in Science Fiction Orson Scott Card Stefan Rudnicki