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• 1 • Introduction: Over the Hills and Far Away • essay by Lin Carter
• 10 • The Ogre • (1961) • short story by unknown
• 30 • The High History of the Sword Gram • short story by unknown
• 54 • Manawyddan Son of the Boundless • (1930) • short story by Kenneth Morris
• 64 • Puck's Song • (1905) • poem by Rudyard Kipling
• 67 • Barrow-Wight • short story by unknown
• 73 • Fingal at the Siege of Carric-Thura • poem by James Macpherson
• 83 • The Sword of Avalon (excerpt from Le Morte d'Arthur) • short fiction by Sir Thomas Malory
• 98 • Tom O'Bedlam's Song • poem by Anonymous
• 102 • The Last Giant of the Elder Age • short story by unknown
• 112 • The Lost Words of Power • poem by unknown
• 125 • Wonderful Things Beyond Cathay • (1895) • short story by unknown
• 135 • Prospero Evokes the Air Spirits (excerpt from The Tempest) • poem by William Shakespeare
• 138 • The Lords of Faerie (excerpt from The Faerie Queen) • (1953) • poem by Edmund Spenser
• 144 • Tales of the Wisdom of the Ancients • (1959) • short story by unknown
• 160 • The Magical Palace of Darkness (excerpt from Palmerin of England) • [Amadis de Gaula] • (1567) • short story by Francisco de Moraes
• 178 • Rustum Against the City of Demons • short story by Firdausi
• 197 • "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" • (1855) • poem by Robert Browning
• 203 • The Princess of Babylon • (1768) • novella by Voltaire (trans. of La princesse de Babylone)
• 275 • The Horns of Elfland • (1920) • poem by Lord Alfred Tennyson