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Anthology Title:
The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy • [The Mammoth Book of ...] • (1999) • anthology by Mike Ashley
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- xiii • Introduction: The Second Most Serious Page in This Book • essay by Mike Ashley
- 1 • Neander-Tale • (1980) • short story by James P. Hogan
- 8 • Uncle Henry Passes • (1999) • short story by Esther M. Friesner [as by Esther Friesner]
- 23 • A Dealing with Demons • [Ebenezum] • (1981) • novelette by Craig Shaw Gardner
- 52 • The Case of Jack the Clipper or A Fimbulwinter's Tale • (1997) • short story by David Langford
- 60 • The Shoemaker and the Elvis • (1997) • short story by Lawrence Schimel
- 71 • Dances with Elves • (1995) • short story by Cynthia Ward
- 76 • A Hedge Against Alchemy • [Kedrigern] • (1981) • short story by John Morressy
- 92 • A Slow Day in Hell • (1997) • short story by Julia S. Mandala
- 100 • How I Got Three Zip Codes • (1999) • short story by Gene Wolfe
- 106 • The Failure of Hope & Wandel • non-genre • (1874) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
- 110 • The Birthday Gift • (1992) • short story by Elisabeth Waters
- 119 • Captain Honario Harpplayer, R. N. • (1963) • short story by Harry Harrison
- 131 • The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything • (1984) • short story by George Alec Effinger
- 149 • History Book: A Thog the Mighty Text • (1994) • novelette by John Grant
- 173 • Elijah P. Jopp and the Dragon • (1898) • short story by Archibald Marshall
- 184 • The Dragon Doctor's Apprentice • (1999) • novelette by Charles Partington
- 224 • Rules of Engagement • (1995) • short story by Molly Brown
- 230 • The Triumph of Vice • (1867) • short story by W. S. Gilbert (variant of The Triumph of Vice: A Fairy Tale)
- 244 • The Top 50 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord • (1999) • essay by Peter Anspach
- 250 • How to Be Fantastic • (1995) • short fiction by Elizabeth Counihan
- 256 • Hershey's Kisses • (1992) • short story by Ron Goulart
- 277 • Escape from the Planet of the Bears • (1999) • short story by Tom Holt
- 295 • Quest • (1999) • short story by Sue Anderson
- 305 • The Hills Behind Hollywood High • (1983) • novelette by Avram Davidson and Grania Davis
- 328 • The Affliction of Baron Humpfelhimmel • (1901) • short story by John Kendrick Bangs
- 337 • The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds • (1984) • short story by Neil Gaiman
- 349 • The Man Who Hated Cadillacs • (1999) • novelette by E. K. Grant
- 372 • The Ultimate • (1999) • novelette by Seamus Cullen
- 401 • The Star of the Farmyard • (1992) • short story by Terry Jones
- 408 • Diamonds – Black and White • (1932) • short story by Anthony Armstrong (1897-1976)
- 424 • Malocchio • (1999) • short story by Eliot Fintushel
- 439 • The Metrognome • (1979) • novelette by Alan Dean Foster
- 461 • The Eye of Tandyla • [Pusadian] • (1951) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
- 489 • The Outpost Undiscovered by Tourists: A Tale of Three Kings and a Star for this Sacred Season • (1982) • short story by Harlan Ellison (variant of The Outpost Undiscovered by Tourists)