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• 9 • Introduction (The Book of Fantasy) • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin (variant of Things Not Actually Present: On the Book of Fantasy and J. L. Borges)
• 13 • Sennin • (1951) • short story by
  芥川龍之介^?Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  (trans. of
  仙人^?Sen'nin
  1916) [as by
  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa^?Ryunosuke Akutagawa
  ]
• 16 • A Woman Alone with Her Soul • (1912) • short story by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• 17 • Ben-Tobith • (1976) • short story by
  Леонид Андреев^?Leonid Andreyev
  (trans. of
  Бен-Товит^?Ben-Tovit
  1905) [as by Leonid Andreyev]
• 20 • The Phantom Basket • (1696) • short story by John Aubrey
• 21 • The Drowned Giant • (1964) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• 28 • Enoch Soames • (1916) • novelette by Max Beerbohm (variant of Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties)
• 48 • The Tail of the Sphinx • [Fantastic Fables] • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 49 • The Squid in Its Own Ink • (1976) • short story by Adolfo Bioy Casares (trans. of El calamar opta por su tinta 1962)
• 57 • Guilty Eyes • (1976) • short story by Ah'med Ech Chiruani (trans. of Los ojos culpables 1955)
• 58 • Anything You Want! ... • short fiction by Léon Bloy (trans. of Tout ce que tu voudras !... 1894)
• 61 • Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius • (1961) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of
  Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius^?Tloen, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
  1940)
• 73 • Odin • (1971) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges and Delia Ingenieros (trans. of Odin 1951)
• 73 • The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind • (1953) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 77 • The Man Who Collected the First of September 1973 • (1973) • short story by Tor Åge Bringsvaerd (trans. of Mannen som samlet på første September 1972)
• 81 • The Careless Rabbi • (1956) • short story by Martin Buber (trans. of Die umgestürzte Schüssel 1949)
• 81 • The Tale and the Poet • short fiction by Sir Richard Francis Burton [as by Sir Richard Burton]
• 82 • Fate Is a Fool • short story by Arturo Cancela and Pilar de Lusarreta (trans. of El destino es chambón 1920)
• 92 • An Actual Authentic Ghost • (1834) • short story by Thomas Carlyle
• 92 • The Red King's Dream • [Alice] • (1871) • short fiction by Lewis Carroll
• 94 • The Tree of Pride • (1922) • short fiction by G. K. Chesterton (variant of The Trees of Pride)
• 95 • The Tower of Babel • (1922) • short story by G. K. Chesterton
• 95 • The Dream of the Butterfly • (1926) • short fiction by
  莊子^?Chuang Tzu
  Zhuangzi
  Zhuāngzǐ
  Chuang-tzu
  (trans. of
  蝴蝶的夢想^?Húdié de mèngxiǎng
  unknown) [as by Chuang Tzu]
• 96 • The Look of Death • (1923) • short story by Jean Cocteau (trans. of Le jardinier et la Mort)
• 96 • House Taken Over • (1967) • short story by
  Julio Cortázar^?Julio Cortazar
  (trans. of Casa tomada 1946)
• 100 • Being Dust • (1961) • short story by Santiago Dabove (trans. of Ser polvo 1933)
• 104 • A Parable of Gluttony • (1931) • short story by Alexandra David-Neel
• 105 • The Persecution of the Master • (1931) • short fiction by Alexandra David-Neel
• 106 • The Idle City • (1909) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 110 • Tantalia • (1984) • short story by Macedonio Fernández (trans. of Tantalia 1940)
• 114 • Eternal Life • (1913) • essay by J. G. Frazer
• 115 • A Secure Home • short fiction by Elena Garro (trans. of Un hogar sólido 1957)
• 123 • The Man Who Did Not Believe in Miracles • (1915) • short fiction by Herbert Allen Giles [as by Herbert A. Giles]
• 124 • Earth's Holocaust • (1844) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 137 • Ending for a Ghost Story • short fiction by I. A. Ireland (variant of Climax for a Ghost Story 1919)
• 138 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 145 • What Is a Ghost? • (1921) • short fiction by James Joyce
• 146 • May Goulding • (1921) • short fiction by James Joyce
• 147 • The Wizard Passed Over • (1970) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El brujo postergado 1933) [as by Don Juan Manuel]
• 149 • Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk • (1948) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of
  Josefine, die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse^?Josefine, die Saengerin oder Das Volk der Maeuse
  1924)
• 160 • Before the Law • (1948) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of Vor dem Gesetz 1915)
• 162 • The Return of Imray • (1891) • short story by Rudyard Kipling (variant of The Recrudescence of Imray)
• 170 • The Horses of Abdera • short fiction by Leopoldo Lugones (trans. of Los caballos de Abdera 1906)
• 175 • The Ceremony • (1897) • short story by Arthur Machen
• 177 • The Riddle • (1903) • short story by Walter de la Mare
• 180 • Who Knows? • (1910) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Qui sait ? 1890)
• 190 • The Shadow of the Players • short story by Edwin Morgan
• 190 • The Cat • short story by H. A. Murena (trans. of El gato 1965)
• 192 • The Story of the Foxes • short story by Niu Chiao (trans. of Historia de zorros 1955)
• 193 • The Atonement • short fiction by Silvina Ocampo (trans. of La expiación 1961)
• 202 • The Man Who Belonged to Me • (1906) • short fiction by Giovanni Papini
• 208 • Rani • short story by Carlos Peralta (trans. of Rani 1965)
• 213 • The Blind Spot • (1945) • short story by Barry Perowne
• 222 • The Wolf • (1965) • short fiction by Petronius (trans. of Satirion [LXII] 1669)
• 224 • The Bust • short fiction by Manuel Peyrou (trans. of El busto 1940)
• 229 • The Cask of Amontillado • [Fortunato] • (1846) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 234 • The Tiger of Chao-Ch'Eng • (1880) • short fiction by
  蒲松龄^?Pú Sōnglíng
  Pu Songlin
  Pu Sung-ling
  (trans. of
  趙城虎^?Zhàochéng hǔ
  1766) [as by P'u Sung Ling]
• 236 • How We Arrived at the Island of Tools • [Gargantua et Pantagruel] • short fiction by
  François Rabelais^?Francois Rabelais
  (trans. of Comment nous descendismes en l'isle des ferremens 1564)
• 237 • The Music on the Hill • (1911) • short story by Saki
• 241 • Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched • (1922) • short story by May Sinclair
• 256 • The Cloth Which Weaves Itself • (1900) • short fiction by W. W. Skeat
• 257 • Universal History • (1937) • short fiction by Olaf Stapledon
• 257 • A Theologian in Death • (1971) • essay by Emanuel Swedenborg
• 259 • The Encounter • short fiction by unknown
• 260 • The Three Hermits • (1907) • short story by
  Лев Толстой^?Lev Tolstoy
  (trans. of
  Три старца^?Tri startsa
  1886) [as by Leo Tolstoy]
• 265 • Macario • (1966) • novelette by B. Traven (trans. of Macario 1950)
• 291 • The Infinite Dream of Pao-Yu • short fiction by Tsao Hsueh-Chin
• 292 • The Mirror to Wind-and-Moon • short fiction by Tsao Hsueh-Chin
• 294 • The Desire to Be a Man • (1927) • short fiction by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. of Le désir d'être un homme 1882) [as by Villiers de l'Isle Adam]
• 300 • Memnon, or Human Wisdom • (1794) • short story by Voltaire (trans. of Memnon: Histoire Orientale 1747)
• 304 • The Man Who Liked Dickens • non-genre • (1933) • short story by Evelyn Waugh
• 315 • Pomegranate Seed • (1931) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 336 • Lukundoo • (1925) • short story by Edward Lucas White
• 346 • The Donguys • short fiction by Juan Rodolfo Wilcock (trans. of Los donguis 1956)
• 353 • Lord Arthur Savile's Crime • (1887) • novelette by Oscar Wilde
• 376 • The Sorcerer of the White Lotus Lodge • (1921) • short story by Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930) (trans. of Die Sekte vom Weißen Lotos 1914)
• 377 • The Celestial Stag • (1928) • short story by G. Willoughby-Meade
• 377 • Saved by the Book • (1928) • short story by G. Willoughby-Meade
• 378 • The Reanimated Englishman • short fiction by Mary Shelley (variant of Roger Dodsworth: The Reanimated Englishman 1863) [as by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley]
• 379 • The Sentence • short fiction by
  吳承恩^?Wu Ch'êng-ên
  Wu Cheng-en
  [as by Wu Ch'Eng En]
• 380 • The Sorcerers • (1893) • short story by W. B. Yeats [as by William Butler Yeats]
• 382 • Fragment • (1988) • short story by José Zorrilla (trans. of El espectador 1844)
• 383 • Sources and Acknowledgements • (1988) • essay by uncredited