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• ix • Introduction: The Enduring Myth • essay by Mike Ashley
• 3 • The First Pendragon • short story by Sir James Knowles (variant of The Prophecies of Merlin, and the Birth of Arthur 1860)
• 12 • The Winning of Kinghood • [King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table] • novelette by Howard Pyle
• 38 • The Winning of the Kingdom • short story by Geoffrey of Monmouth
• 46 • The Knight with the Two Swords • (1976) • novelette by John Steinbeck
• 67 • The Winning of a Sword • [King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table] • (1992) • novelette by Howard Pyle
• 97 • The Treason of Morgan le Fay • short story by Rev. George W. Cox and Eustace Jones [as by George Cox]
• 111 • The Winning of Olwen • [Culhwch and Olwen] • novelette by uncredited (trans. of Kulhwch ac Olwen unknown) [as by Lady Charlotte Guest]
• 144 • The Temptation of Launcelot • short story by Peter Valentine Timlett
• 160 • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight • [The Arthurian Trilogy] • short fiction by Rosemary Sutcliff
• 176 • The Quest of the Saracen Beast • (1950) • short story by Theodore Goodridge Roberts
• 192 • Sir Marrok the Wolf • novella by Allen French
• 250 • The Marriage of Sir Gawayne • [The Wedding of Sir Gawain] • short story by Maude Ebbutt
• 263 • The Carle of Carlisle • novelette by Ron Tiner
• 289 • Sir Lanval • (1913) • short story by A. R. Hope Moncrieff
• 297 • Sir Percivale of Wales • (1953) • short fiction by Roger Lancelyn Green
• 309 • John, the Knight of the Lion • (1992) • novelette by H. Shück
• 353 • The Romance of Tristan and Iseult • (1913) • novella by Hilaire Belloc
• 415 • The Dog's Story • (1996) • novelette by Eleanor Arnason
• 449 • The Quest of the Holy Grail • short story by Leonora Lang (variant of The Quest of the Holy Graal 1902) [as by Andrew Lang and Leonora Lang]
• 468 • Madoc the Door Ward • short story by Douglas Carmichael
• 482 • Guinevere and Lancelot • (1909) • short story by Arthur Machen
• 491 • The Pretender • (1997) • short story by Stephen Dedman
• 506 • The Passing of Arthur • [Idylls of the King • 13] • (1952) • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
• 519 • The Lady of Belec • (1989) • short story by Phyllis Ann Karr
• 529 • Raven's Meat • short story by Fay Sampson
• 546 • The Quiet Monk • (1988) • short story by Jane Yolen
• 558 • Afterword: The Isle of Avalon • short story by Phil Carradice