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• xi • Makers of Worlds • (1971) • essay by Lin Carter
• 3 • Zulkaïs and Kalilah • [Vathek] • (1909) • novelette by William Beckford (trans. of Histoire de la Princesse Zulkaïs et du Prince Kalilah 1912)
• 58 • Silence: A Fable • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1903) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Siope—A Fable 1838)
• 64 • The Romance of Photogen and Nycteris • (1879) • novelette by George MacDonald (variant of The History of Photogen and Nycteris: A Day and Night Mährchen)
• 113 • The Sphinx • (1894) • poem by Oscar Wilde
• 128 • The Fall of Babbulkund • (1907) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 145 • The Green Meadow • (1918) • short story by Winifred V. Jackson and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Elizabeth Berkeley and H. P. Lovecraft]
• 154 • The Feast in the House of the Worm • (1970) • short story by Gary Myers (variant of The House of the Worm)
• 166 • Zingazar • (1971) • short story by Lin Carter
• 183 • A Wine of Wizardry • (1907) • poem by George Sterling
• 193 • The Garden of Fear • [James Allison] • (1934) • novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 213 • Jirel Meets Magic • [Jirel of Joiry] • (1935) • novelette by C. L. Moore
• 254 • Duar the Accursed • (1937) • novelette by Clifford Ball
• 279 • The Hashish-Eater • (1947) • poem by Clark Ashton Smith (variant of The Hashish-Eater: or, The Apocalypse of Evil 1922)
• 300 • The Party at Lady Cusp-Canine's • (1969) • short story by Mervyn Peake
• 313 • The Sword of Power (Excerpt from Khymyrium) • [Khymyrium] • (1971) • short fiction by Lin Carter