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• ii •  The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition: Volume 2: 1943-1944 (frontispiece) • (1946) • interior artwork by Leydenfrost (variant of The Million Year Picnic) [as by Alexander Leydenfrost]
• xiii • Disputed Passage: Bradbury's Stories, 1943—1944 • essay by Jonathan R. Eller
• xxix • Bradbury Chronology (The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition: Volume 2: 1943-1944) • essay by Jonathan R. Eller
• 1 • The Sea Shell • (1944) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 7 • Everything Instead of Something • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of Doodad 1943)
• 18 • The Ducker • [Johnny Choir] • (1943) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 27 • The Shape of Things • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of Tomorrow's Child)
• 40 • The Night • [Dandelion Wine] • (1946) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 47 • Perchance to Dream • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 59 • Referent • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 66 • The Calculator • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of Jonah of the Jove-Run 1947)
• 79 • The Emissary • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 86 • And Watch the Fountains • [Probability Zero] • (1943) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 89 • The Million Year Picnic • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1946) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 98 • The Man Upstairs • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 111 • Reunion • (1944) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 118 • Autopsy • novelette by Ray Bradbury (variant of Killer, Come Back to Me! 1944)
• 132 • The Long Night • (1944) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 146 • Lazarus Come Forth • (1944) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 157 • There Was an Old Woman • (1944) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 169 • The Trunk Lady • (1944) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 185 • Jack-in-the-Box • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 199 • Where Everything Ends • (2009) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 211 • Bang! You're Dead! • [Johnny Choir] • (1944) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 221 •
  Enter—The Douser^?Enter-The Douser
  • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of Half-Pint Homicide 1944)
• 229 • Rocket Skin • (1946) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 241 • Forgotten Man • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of It Burns Me Up! 1944)
• 249 • The Jar • (1944) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 261 • Chronological Catalog (1943 — 1944) • essay by Jonathan R. Eller
• 272 • Summary of Bradbury's Unpublished Fiction (The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition: Volume 2: 1943-1944) • essay by Jonathan R. Eller
• 281 • Annotations (The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition: Volume 2: 1943-1944) • essay by Jonathan R. Eller
• 311 • Textual Commentary (The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition: Volume 2: 1943-1944) • essay by Jonathan R. Eller
• 328 • Editorial Symbols and Abbreviations (The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition: Volume 2: 1943-1944) • essay by Jonathan R. Eller
• 336 • Textual Apparatus (The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition: Volume 2: 1943-1944) • essay by Jonathan R. Eller
• 495 • Line-End Hyphenations in the Edition Text (The Collected Stories of Ray Bradbury: A Critical Edition: Volume 2: 1943-1944) • essay by Jonathan R. Eller