An anthology chosen to showcase actual genre magazine fantasy stories, as opposed to those from books or places. As well as being A Treasury Of Modern Fantasy, it has been republished as Masters Of Fantasy for some reason, too, although there are a few treasures/treasury type fantasy anthologies, so maybe not a bad idea.
Hence, in the few page intro editorialising is done about the fantasy magazines in question up to this point in time in the eighties.
It is a pretty good selection, at 3.53. As you can see, fantasy here does include the horror variety, given that the anthology leads off with Lovecraft himself.
Masters of Fantasy : The Rats in the Walls - H. P. Lovecraft
Masters of Fantasy : The Woman of the Wood - A. Merritt
Masters of Fantasy : Trouble with Water - Horace L. Gold
Masters of Fantasy : Thirteen O'Clock - C. M. Kornbluth
Masters of Fantasy : The Coming of the White Worm - Clark Ashton Smith
Masters of Fantasy : Yesterday Was Monday - Theodore Sturgeon
Masters of Fantasy : They Bite - Anthony Boucher
Masters of Fantasy : Call Him Demon - Henry Kuttner
Masters of Fantasy : Daemon - C. L. Moore
Masters of Fantasy : The Black Ferris - Ray Bradbury
Masters of Fantasy : Displaced Person - Eric Frank Russell
Masters of Fantasy : Our Fair City - Robert A. Heinlein
Masters of Fantasy : Come and Go Mad - Fredric Brown
Masters of Fantasy : There Shall Be No Darkness - James Blish
Masters of Fantasy : Liane the Wayfarer - Jack Vance
Masters of Fantasy : The Rag Thing - Donald A. Wollheim
Masters of Fantasy : Sail On! Sail On! - Philip José Farmer
Masters of Fantasy : One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts - Shirley Jackson
Masters of Fantasy : That Hell-Bound Train - Robert Bloch
Masters of Fantasy : Nine Yards of Other Cloth - Manly Wade Wellman
Masters of Fantasy : The Montavarde Camera - Avram Davidson
Masters of Fantasy : Man Overboard - John Collier
Masters of Fantasy : My Dear Emily - Joanna Russ
Masters of Fantasy : Descending - Thomas M. Disch
Masters of Fantasy : Four Ghosts in Hamlet - Fritz Leiber
Masters of Fantasy : Divine Madness - Roger Zelazny
Masters of Fantasy : Narrow Valley - R. A. Lafferty
Masters of Fantasy : Timothy - Keith Roberts
Masters of Fantasy : Through a Glass—Darkly - Zenna Henderson
Masters of Fantasy : Jeffty Is Five - Harlan Ellison
Masters of Fantasy : Within the Walls of Tyre - Michael Bishop
Cat not up to Roman god stuff and rodents.
4 out of 5
Forest slayage.
3.5 out of 5
Gnome sweetener.
4.5 out of 5
Grandpa's magic gangster racket.
4 out of 5
A fancy sword is needed to get rid of a polar bear heart-eating monstrosity, once human.
3 out of 5
Lost day.
2 out of 5
Mummy double act not handy.
4 out of 5
Wrong Uncle.
3.5 out of 5
Captain's plan doesn't Pan out.
4 out of 5
Skeleton ride.
3.5 out of 5
Devil exile.
3.5 out of 5
Whirlwind collection.
3 out of 5
Choose your bright shining delusion.
3.5 out of 5
Werewolf symphony.
4 out of 5
Witchy Lith.
3 out of 5
Cold material.
3.5 out of 5
Angel radio.
4 out of 5
Bad tips.
3 out of 5
Time-stop devil of a deal indecision.
4 out of 5
Silver John doesn't fancy being measured for a shroud by an evil fiddler. His new girlfriend certainly has something to say about it, too.
4 out of 5
Need the right light.
3 out of 5
Sea serpent snacks.
3.5 out of 5
Vamped.
3.5 out of 5
Definitely too long a way down this escalator.
3 out of 5
Dead on act.
3.5 out of 5
Definitely sorry.
2.5 out of 5
Ditch illusion psychic projection projectile fun.
3.5 out of 5
Scarecrow animation gallivantin' cancellation.
3.5 out of 5
Time glasses.
3.5 out of 5
Parents eventual terminal lack of patience with kid with the brilliant new old stuff.
5 out of 5
Stone boy Santa shock.
3.5 out of 5
4 out of 5
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