This is a collection page for Size Fantasy-appropriate works, both books and short stories, published prior to mid-20th century. My concern is that there’s a ton of vintage, Golden Age work that could be lost to time because 1) there’s new stuff coming out all the time, and 2) no one knows how to find this stuff.
This is going to be my personal record of links to stories, so you can read Size Fantasy before it was even a thing. Some of these are really fantastic and deserve renewed attention.
Giant People
- “Married to a Giantess,” Walker Parke, Humorous Readings and Recitations, 1889
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments, by Andrew Lang, 1898
“The Story of the Fisherman” and “The Third Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor” - In the Days of Giants, Abby Farwell Brown, 1902
- The Heroes of Asgard: Tales from Scandinavian Mythology, Annie Keary and Eliza Keary, 1906
- Tales of Giants from Brazil, Elsie Spicer Eells, 1918
- A Book of Giants: Tales of Very Tall Men of Myth, Legend, History, and Science, Henry Wysham Lanier, 1922
- “The Voice from the Inner World,” A. Hyatt Verill, Amazing Stories, v2 n4, July 1927
- “Nightmare Island,” Douglas Drew, Astounding Stories, v18 n2, October 1936
- “The Sea Witch,” Nictzin Dyalhis, Weird Tales, v30 n6, December 1937
- “Revolt of the Robots,” Arthur R. Tofte, Fantastic Adventures, v1 n1, May 1939
- “The Kid from Mars,” Oscar J. Friend, Startling Stories, v4 n2, September 1940
- “It All Came True in the Woods,” Manly Wade Wellman, Weird Tales, v35 n10, July 1941
- “The Barrier,” Anthony Boucher, Astounding Science Fiction, v30 n1, September 1942
- “Return to Lilliput,” William Brengle, Fantastic Adventures, v5 n5, May 1943
- “Spawn of the Glacier,” Leroy Yerxa, Fantastic Adventures, v5 n10, December 1943
- “A Matter of Length,” Ross Rocklynne, Astounding Science Fiction, v36 n5, January 1946
- “Cult of the Witch Queen,” Richard S. Shaver, Amazing Stories, v20 n4, July 1946
- “The Sea People,” Richard S. Shaver; Amazing Stories, v20 n5, August 1946
- “The Return of Sathanas,” Richard S. Shaver, Amazing Stories, v20 n8, November 1946
- “Titans’ Battle,” Heinrich Hauser, Amazing Stories, v21 n3, March 1947
- “Witch of the Andes,” Richard S. Shaver, Fantastic Adventures, v9 n6, June 1947
- “Isle of Women,” Allison V. Harding, Weird Tales, v40 n5, July 1948
- “Queen of the Panther World,” Berkeley Livingston, Fantastic Adventures, v10 n7, July 1948
- “M’Bong-Ah,” Rog Phillips, Amazing Stories, v23 n2, February 1949
- “Queen of the Ice Men,” S.M. Tenneshaw, Fantastic Adventures, v11 n11, November 1949
- “A Man Named Mars,” A.R. Steber, Other Worlds #7, v2 n3, October 1950
- “Invasion from the Deep,” Paul W. Fairman, Fantastic Adventures, v13 n5, June 1951
- “The Incubi of Parallel X,” Theodore Sturgeon, Planet Stories, v5 n9, September 1951
- “A World He Never Made,” Edwin Benson, Amazing Stories, v25 n9, September 1951
- “Of Stegner’s Folly,” Richard S. Shaver, Worlds of If, March 1952
- “Woman’s World,” Ted Taine, Fantastic Adventures, v15 n3, March 1953
- “A World to Die For,” Sam Carson, Fantastic Universe, v2 n1, July 1954
- “Giants in the Earth,” James Blish, Science Fiction Stories, v6 n4, January 1956
- “The Goddess of World 21,” Henry Slezar, Fantastic, v6 n2, March 1957
- “Cosmic Casanova,” Arthur C. Clarke, Venture, v2 n3, May 1958
- “Planet of the Angry Giants,” Dirk Clinton, Super-Science Fiction, v3 n5, August 1959
- “Solution Tomorrow,” Charles W. Runyon, Fantastic, v8 n9, September 1959
- “The Adventures of Hasan of Basrah” (the 604th night), translated by J.C. Mardrus and Powys Mathers, The Book of the Thousand and One Nights, 1964
Tiny People
- Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, Jonathan Swift, 1726
- Prince Vance: The Story of a Prince with a Court in His Box, Eleanor Putnam and Arlo Bates, 1888
- “The Star of Dead Love,” Will H. Gray, Amazing Stories, v2 n2, May 1927
- “The Midget from the Island,” H.G. Winter, Astounding Stories, v7 n2, August 1931
- “Romance Across the Ages,” Willard E. Hawkins, Thrilling Wonder Stories, v17 n1, July 1940
- “The Powerful Pipsqueak,” Ross Rocklynne, Amazing Stories, v17 n9, September 1943
- “I Remember Lemuria,” Richard S. Shaver, Amazing Stories, v19 n1, March 1945
- “Invasion of the Micro Men,” Richard S. Shaver, Amazing Stories, v20 n1, February 1946
- “The Naked Goddess,” S.J. Byrne, Other Worlds #22, v4 n7, October 1952
- “Lunar Lilliput,” William F. Temple, Spaceway, v4 n3, October 1969
- “Six Inches” (1970), Charles Bukowski, Erections, Ejaculations and General Tales of Ordinary Madness, 1972
Aborigen 
Good lord, that “Six Inches” was extraordinarily difficult to finish. There are eighteen different ways I’d have written that differently.
Thank you for compiling these works! You do good things.
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Thank you! I kept seeing these stories flash by and I’m like, “No, people should know about these. More people than me.”
Yeah, Bukowski would write a very specific kind of Size story, wouldn’t he.
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I don’t know if it’s available online, but the translations of J.C. Mardrus (Arabic->French) and Edward Mathers (French->English) of One Thousand and One Nights contains at least one tale featuring giants, including one in which a giant princess receives intimate comfort from the protagonist. Mardrus’s translation is widely considered to include his own additions to the collection of Arabic folktales. I read somewhere that the giant princess scene was “no doubt influenced by Swift and the Maids of Brobdingnag.”
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That’s true, I forgot all about that. And recently I was reading some folklore about some Middle Eastern hero who fell in love with a giantess princess, and he has to break into an underground fortress to see her again. Wonder if I can find that.
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I’m unable to locate that translation in Gutenberg. I found a Spanish translation of Mardrus, but in three volumes of tales it doesn’t seem to mention a giant princess.
The Library of Congress seems to be working on an Arabic > French > banned Japanese copy, but don’t hold your breath.
https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=98838163&searchType=1&permalink=y
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As I recall, the giant king decides that the protagonist must be some kind of talking bird and gives him to his daughter. In the Mathers (re-)translation, she calls him her “cock,” which eventually lends itself to a double-meaning, which might not have made it into the Spanish translation. I also seem to recall it might be Night #804.
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I’ve just found something a lot like that, in a 1964 edition, at the end of the Giant People list.
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That’s it! Night #604! Rest from your labours, O Scholar! My long-sought quarry is brought to earth.
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