Magical Wishes

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Magical Wishes

Cover of first edition

Editors Isaac Asimov

Martin H. Greenberg

Charles G. Waugh

Cover artist Kinuko Kraft

Country United States

Language English

Series Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy

Genre Fantasy and science fiction

 Publisher Signet/New American Library

Publication date 1986

Media type Print (paperback)

Pages 350

ISBN 0-451-14575-5

Preceded by Mythical Beasties 

Followed by Devils 

Magical Wishes is an anthology of themed fantasy and science fiction short

stories on the subject of wishes edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H.
Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh as the seventh volume in their Isaac Asimov's
Magical Worlds of Fantasy series. It was first published in paperback
by Signet/New American Library in November 1986. The first British edition was
issued in trade paperback by Robinson in July 1987. [1]
The book collects sixteen novellas, novelettes and short stories by various fantasy
and science fiction authors, with an introduction by Asimov.

Contents[edit]
 "Introduction: Wishing Will Make It So" (Isaac Asimov)
 "The Monkey's Paw" (W. W. Jacobs)
 "Behind the News" (Jack Finney)
 "The Flight of the Umbrella" (Marvin Kaye)
 "Tween" (J. F. Bone)
 "The Boy Who Brought Love" (Edward D. Hoch)
 "The Vacation" (Ray Bradbury)
 "The Anything Box" (Zenna Henderson)
 "A Born Charmer" (Edward P. Hughes)
 "What If ..." (Isaac Asimov)
 "Millennium" (Fredric Brown)
 "Dreams Are Sacred" (Peter Phillips)
 "The Same to You Doubled" (Robert Sheckley)
 "Gifts" (Gordon R. Dickson)
 "I Wish I May, I Wish I Might" (Bill Pronzini)
  "Three Day Magic" (Charlotte Armstrong)
 "The Bottle Imp" (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Notes[edit]
1. ^ Magical Wishes title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database