In the first decade of the twentieth century, Julian Hawthorne collected his favorite weird stories from writers around the world and organized them, mostly geographically. The anthologies are Weird Fiction -- some of the stories are mystery; some would do well published as modern horror, or SF, or fantasy; all of them exquisite and of interest to modern genre readers. "Real Magic" was published as the Real Life volume. Where other volumnes organize themselves geographically, this one is thematic -- and little if any of it is fiction. It features Weird Tales of Reality from writers who include Andrew Lang, M. Robert-Houdin, Arthur Train, P.H. Woodward, David P. Abbott, and Hereward Carrington. (Jacketless library hardcover.)