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The Dedalus lists, offers its readers a new genre, literary
fantasy. It is the genre of distorted reality; in which magic
realism, surrealism, the occult, decadence, the grotesque and
the fantastic merge; a European genre especially suited to the
1990s.

Literary fantasy is reflected in every aspect of the Dedalus list,
from contemporary fiction to its classic programme, but above
all in its anthologies. Dedalus began its series of European
literary fantasy anthologies with British Fantasy: the nineteenth
century - editor Brian Stableford (1991) and Austrian Fantasy:
the Meyrink Yers 1890-1930 - editor Mike Mitchell (1992) and
continues the series with Polish Wiesiek
Powaga and Portuguese Fantasy - editors Eugenio Lisboa and
Helder Macedo in 1994 with French Christine
Donougher; Belgian Richard Huijing; and
Germany Fantasy: the Romantics and Maurice
Raraty following in 1995.

In making his selection for The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasy
Richard Huijing has given a wide definition to what literary
fantasy is so as as to be able to include the most important
Dutch writers of the last hundred years.

Edited and translated by

Richard Huijing

With a project as large as this one, many individuals have contributed suggestions, ideas and criticism. They know who they are and
I hereby offer them all my heartfelt thanks.