Old science fiction and fantasy anthologies don't get much attention, at least from me. I picked this up because it has a short story by Avram Davidson that I seen before. Fantasy in 1971 was quite different from today - the influence of Tolkien in these stories is mostly absent, and these are fantasies in the traditional sense of having elements are are not pretended to be the result of scientific development. This made the anthology more interesting to me. There is an early Peter Beagle, a Fritz Leiber story totally not in the swords and sorcery mode, an early Zalazny, Borges (which makes perfect sense), and so on. My favorite is a longish story by Edgar Pangborn set in my stomping ground of Maine - not a common locale for fantasy. All the stories are good. ( )