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• 7 • Foreword (Extraordinary Tales) • essay by Anthony Kerrigan
• 16 • Note on the Original Texts (Extraordinary Tales) • essay by Anthony Kerrigan [as by uncredited]
• 17 • Preliminary Note (Extraordinary Tales) • essay by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Noticia preliminar (Cuentos breves y extraordinarios) 1955)
• 21 • The Death Sentence • [西遊記 / Monkey] • short story by uncredited [as by Wu Ch'êng-ên]
• 22 • The Secret Redeemer • short story by uncredited (trans. of El redentor secreto 1872)
• 23 • The Annihilation of the Ogres • short story by Lal Behari Day (trans. of El aniquilación de los ogros 1883)
• 24 • The Story of Cecilia • short story by Cicero (trans. of Historia de Cecilia 1955)
• 25 • The Encounter • short story by uncredited (trans. of El encuentro 1955)
• 28 • Hard to Please • short fiction by Ibn Abd Rabbih (trans. of Difícil de contentar 1955) [as by Ibn And Rabbith]
• 29 • Scattered Themes from the Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne • (1866) • essay by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 31 • The Dream of Chuang Tzu • (1889) • short story by
  莊子^?Chuang Tzu
  Zhuangzi
  Zhuāngzǐ
  Chuang-tzu
  (trans. of
  蝴蝶的夢想^?Húdié de mèngxiǎng
  unknown) [as by Herbert Allen Giles]
• 32 • The Hidden Deer • short fiction by
  列子^?Lièzĭ
  Liezi
  Lieh-Tzu
  Lieh Tzu
  (trans. of
  得鹿梦^?Dé lù mèng
  unknown) [as by Liehtse]
• 34 • The Brahmins and the Lion • short story by uncredited (trans. of [The Foolish Scholars Bring a Lion Back to Life] unknown)
• 36 • A Golem • short story by uncredited (trans. of Un golem 1955)
• 37 • The Return of the Master • short story by Alexandra David-Neel
• 39 • In Fear of Wrath • short story by Ah'med el Qalyubi (trans. of Temor de la cólera 1955)
• 40 • Andromeda • (1917) • essay by Samuel Butler
• 41 • The Dream • (1910) • short story by O. Henry
• 45 • The King's Promise • short fiction by uncredited
• 47 • The Captive's Oath • short fiction by uncredited
• 48 • Nosce Te Ipsum • (1917) • essay by Fergus Nicholson
• 49 • The Intuitive One • non-genre • short story by Alfonso Reyes (trans. of El intuitivo 1944)
• 50 • How I Found the Superman • (1908) • short story by G. K. Chesterton
• 55 • The King's Awakening • (1903) • essay by H. Desvignes Doolittle
• 56 • Death of a Chief • essay by León Rivera (trans. of Muerte de un jefe 1967)
• 57 • The Announcement • (1901) • short story by George D. Brown
• 58 • The Explanation • (1887) • short story by Edwin Broster
• 59 • An Alexandrian Myth • short story by Adrienne Bordenave (trans. of Un mito de Alejandro 1955)
• 60 • The Work and the Poet • (1887) • short fiction by Sir Richard Francis Burton [as by R. F. Burton]
• 61 • Eugenics • non-genre • short story by William Drummond of Hawthornden (trans. of Eugenics (Latin) 1619) [as by Drummond]
• 62 • The Mendicant of Naples • non-genre • short story by Max Jacob (trans. of La mendiante de Naples 1917)
• 63 • A God Abandons Alexandria • essay by Plutarch (trans. of Un dios abandona a Alejandría 1955)
• 64 • The Female Disciple • (1889) • short fiction by
  莊子^?Chuang Tzu
  Zhuangzi
  Zhuāngzǐ
  Chuang-tzu
  [as by Herbert Allen Giles]
• 65 • The Ninth Slave • essay by Edward Gibbon [as by Gibbon]
• 66 • A Victor • essay by Diego de Saavedra Fajardo (trans. of Idea de un príncipe político cristiano, representada en cien empresas (Un vencedor) 1640) [as by Saavedra Fajardo]
• 67 • The Dangerous Wonder-Worker • (1925) • essay by M. R. Werner
• 68 • The Castle • short story by Denis Diderot (trans. of El castillo 1955) [as by Diderot]
• 69 • The Statue • essay by Plutarch (trans. of La estatua 1955)
• 70 • The Warning • (1885) • short fiction by Sir Richard Francis Burton [as by R. F. Burton]
• 71 • The Prowess of Villena • short story by Menéndez y Pelayo (trans. of Las facultades de Villena 1955)
• 72 • The Shadow of the Moves, I • (1929) • short story by Edwin Morgan
• 73 • The Shadow of the Moves, II • short story by Jorge Luis Borges [as by Celestino Palomeque]
• 74 • The Culpable Eyes • short story by Ah'med Ech Chiruani (trans. of Los ojos culpables 1955)
• 75 • The Prophet, the Bird, and the Net • short fiction by Ah'med et Tortuchi
• 76 • The Celestial Deer • (1928) • short story by G. Willoughby-Meade (variant of The Celestial Stag)
• 77 • The Cook • non-genre • short story by Max Jacob (trans. of Encore Fantômas 1917)
• 78 • Polemicists • short fiction by
  Luis L. Antuñano^?Luis L. Antunano
• 79 • Perplexities of the Coward • short story by Ah'med el Ibelichi (trans. of Perplejidades del cobarde 1955)
• 80 • The Restitution of the Keys • essay by uncredited (trans. of La restitución de las llaves 1955)
• 81 • Trained Sepulchres • short story by Cicero (trans. of Sepulcros adiestrados 1955) [as by Marcus Tullius Cicero]
• 82 • The Silence of the Sirens • (1933) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of Das Schweigen der Sirenen 1931)
• 84 • The Blow • (1891) • short story by Andrew Lang
• 85 • The Pattern on the Carpet • (1955) • essay by Arthur Machen
• 86 • The Story of the Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos 1946) [as by R. F. Burton]
• 88 • The Confession • non-genre • short story by Manuel Peyrou (trans. of La confesión 1955)
• 89 • Another Version of Faust • essay by Fra Diavolo (trans. of Otra versión del Fausto 1911)
• 91 • The Treasure • short story by Marcial Tamayo (trans. of Hallazgo de un tesoro 1955) [as by Marcel Tamayo]
• 94 • The Greater Torment • short story by Emanuel Swedenborg (trans. of El mayor tormento 1955) [as by The False Swedenborg]
• 95 • Theology • short story by H. Garro (trans. of Teología 1918)
• 96 • The Magnet • (1946) • short story by Hesketh Pearson
• 98 • The Inextinguishable Race • short fiction by Silvina Ocampo (trans. of La raza inextinguible 1955)
• 101 • The Face of Death • short fiction by Jean Cocteau (trans. of Le jardinier et la Mort 1923)
• 102 • Faith, Half-Faith, and No Faith at All • (1895) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 105 • The Miracle • (1949) • short story by W. Somerset Maugham
• 106 • Two Co-eternals • short story by Johannes Cambrencis
• 107 • Social Success • non-genre • (1918) • short story by Logan Pearsall Smith
• 108 • The Train • short fiction by Santiago Dabove (trans. of El tren 1946)
• 111 • A Provocation Punished • short story by Ah'med el Qalyubi (trans. of Provocación castigada 1955)
• 112 • Tale • (1950) • short story by Paul Valéry (trans. of Supplice étrange)
• 113 • Prestigieux, Sans Doute • short story by Aguirre Acevedo (trans. of Prestigieux, Sans Doute 1955)
• 114 • The Ubiquitous One, I • short story by Moriz Winternitz
• 115 • The Ubiquitous One, II • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El ubicuo 1955) [as by Simon Pereyra]
• 116 • The Oversight • short story by Martin Buber (trans. of Die umgestürzte Schüssel 1949)
• 117 • The Sect of the White Lotus • short story by Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930) (trans. of Die Sekte vom Weißen Lotos 1914)
• 119 • Protection Through the Book • short story by G. Willoughby-Meade (variant of Saved by the Book 1928)
• 121 • The Meeting • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El encuentro 1955) [as by Louis Prolat]
• 122 • The Water on the Island • (1955) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 123 • On Exactitude in Science • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Del rigor en la ciencia 1946) [as by Suárez Miranda]
• 124 • The Dedicated Student • short fiction by Paul Adler and Michel Revon (trans. of [The Dedicated Student] 1926) [as by Adler-Revon]
• 125 • The Vicissitudes of Consolation • (1882) • short story by T. M. Chang
• 127 • The Truth About Sancho Panza • (1933) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of Die Wahrheit über Sancho Pansa 1931)
• 128 • Salvation • short fiction by Adolfo Bioy Casares (trans. of La salvación 1955)
• 129 • In Insomnia • short story by
  Virgilio Piñera^?Virgilio Pinera
  (trans. of En el insomnio 1946)
• 130 • Distracted • short story by Henri Michaux (trans. of Distraerse 1955)
• 131 • The Egyptian Temptation • (1836) • essay by Edward William Lane
• 133 • Retrospective • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Un retrospectivo 1955) [as by Clemente Sosa]
• 134 • The Accused • short story by Martin Buber (trans. of Eine Verhandlung 1949)
• 136 • The Spectator • short story by José Zorrilla (trans. of El espectador 1844)
• 137 • Perils of an Excess of Duty • short fiction by Nozhat el Djallas
• 138 • Conclusion for a Fantasy • (1919) • short fiction by I. A. Ireland (variant of Climax for a Ghost Story)
• 139 • Four Reflections • essay by Franz Kafka (trans. of [Betrachtungen über Sünde, Leid, Hoffnung und den wahren Weg] 1931)
• 140 • Story with Foxes • short story by Niu Chiao (trans. of Historia de zorros 1955)
• 142 • Just in Case • (1944) • essay by Bede [as by The Venerable Bede]
• 143 • Odin • short story by Jorge Luis Borges and Delia Ingenieros (trans. of Odin 1951)
• 144 • Aurea Mediocritas • short story by Tallemant des Réaux (trans. of Aurea Mediocritas 1955)