Brink, Andre Philippus, The Novel: Language and Narrative from Cervantes to Calvino, New York University Press, 1998.

This work is a history of narration in the novel from Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha (often considered the first novel) through Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.

Calvino, Italo, ed.,Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday, Pantheon Books, 1997.

This collection of international short stories of the fantastic, or supernatural, has an introduction by Calvino, and includes such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hans Christian Anderson, and many others.

Grimm, Jacob, Grimm's Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Stories, Doubleday, 1977.

This is a modern translation by Ralph Manheim of the German folk tales originally collected by the Brothers Grimm.

Hague, Michael, The Book of Dragons, Morrow Junior Books, 1995.

This collection of short stories about dragons includes "The Dragon and the Enchanted...