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• xiii • The Introduction: Magic Casements • essay by Lin Carter
• 2 • The History of Babouc the Scythian • (unknown) • short story by Voltaire (trans. of Le Monde comme il va 1748)
• 17 • The Palace of Subterranean Fire • (1786) • short story by William Beckford
• 26 • The Witch Woman • (1895) • short story by George MacDonald
• 40 • The Folk of the Mountain Door • (1914) • short story by William Morris
• 54 • A Night-Piece on Ambremerine (excerpt) • [Zimiamvian Trilogy] • (1935) • short fiction by E. R. Eddison
• 74 • Dr. Meliboë the Enchanter (excerpt) • (1948) • short fiction by Fletcher Pratt
• 86 • The Two Best Thieves in Lankhmar • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1968) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 103 • Shadow: A Parable • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1893) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Shadow: A Fable 1835)
• 106 • Silence: A Fable • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1903) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Siope—A Fable 1838)
• 110 • Fables from the Edge of Night • (1930) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 117 • The Tomb of the God • [Annals of the Jinns • 5] • (1934) • short story by R. H. Barlow
• 122 • Merlyn Vs. Madame Mim (excerpt) • (1939) • short fiction by T. H. White
• 137 • The Owl and the Ape • [Pusadian] • (1951) • short story by L. Sprague de Camp
• 152 • The Twelve Wizards of Ong • short story by Lin Carter
• 185 • Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time (excerpt) • (1950) • short fiction by C. S. Lewis
• 197 • The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm (excerpt) • (1954) • short fiction by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 209 • The Story of the Blessing of el-Ahrairah (excerpt) • (1973) • short fiction by Richard Adams
• 213 • More Magic Casements: Suggestions for Further Reading • essay by Lin Carter