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• v • Preface (Fantasy: The Literature of the Marvelous) • essay by Leo P. Kelley
• 1 • Hickory, Dickory, Kerouac • (1958) • short story by Richard Gehman
• 4 • Inflexible Logic • (1940) • short story by Russell Maloney
• 11 • Or All the Seas with Oysters • (1958) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 20 • The Flower Kid Cashes In • (1969) • short story by George Malko
• 27 • The Soul Cages • (1828) • short story by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker]
• 38 • Dreaming Is a Private Thing • (1955) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 52 • Roads of Destiny • (1903) • novelette by O. Henry
• 70 • The Test • (1954) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 87 • The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be • (1967) • short story by Gahan Wilson
• 98 • Evening Primrose • (1940) • short story by John Collier
• 109 • The Manuscript of Dr. Arness • (1966) • short story by Gahan Wilson
• 114 • The Ancestor • (1957) • short story by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
• 127 • Afternoon with a Dead Bus • (1971) • short story by David Gerrold
• 133 • A Miracle of Rare Device • (1962) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 146 • The Wall • (1965) • short story by Josephine Saxton
• 152 • "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman • (1965) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 163 • Housing Problem • (1944) • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• 176 • The Cheaters • (1947) • novelette by Robert Bloch
• 193 • The Graveyard Reader • (1958) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 204 • The Academy • (1965) • short story by David Ely
• 212 • Carcinoma Angels • (1967) • short story by Norman Spinrad
• 220 • Something in Wood • (1948) • short story by August Derleth
• 232 • O'Grady's Girl • (1965) • short story by Leo P. Kelley
• 242 • The Legend of Fin M'Coul • short story by William Carleton (variant of A Legend of Knockmany 1841)
• 252 • Day at the Beach • (1959) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 261 • The Doll-House • (1967) • short story by James Cross
• 276 • Lord Randy, My Son • (1967) • short story by Joe L. Hensley
• 287 • Auto-da-Fé • (1967) • short story by Roger Zelazny
• 293 • Of Missing Persons • (1955) • short story by Jack Finney