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• xi • Introduction (Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment) • (1988) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• 3 • The Rule of Names • [Earthsea Cycle] • (1964) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 13 • The Magic Fishbone • (1868) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 23 • The Goddess on the Street Corner • (1953) • short story by Margaret St. Clair
• 31 • Feathertop: A Moralized Legend • (1852) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 49 • The Root and the Ring • (1954) • novelette by Wyman Guin
• 70 • The Green Magician • [Incomplete Enchanter • 5] • (1954) • novella by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
• 128 • Our Fair City • (1949) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• 149 • The Man Who Could Not See Devils • (1970) • short story by Joanna Russ
• 162 • A New Arabian Night's Entertainment • (1785) • short story by Horace Walpole
• 166 • The King and His Three Daughters • (1785) • short story by Horace Walpole
• 169 • The Dice-Box: A Fairy Tale • (1785) • short story by Horace Walpole
• 173 • The Peach in Brandy: A Milesian Tale • (1785) • short story by Horace Walpole
• 176 • Mi Li: A Chinese Fairy Tale • (1785) • short story by Horace Walpole
• 182 • A True Love Story • (1785) • short story by Horace Walpole
• 185 • The Bird's Nest • (1967) • short story by Horace Walpole
• 189 • Bird of Prey • (1941) • short story by John Collier
• 197 • The Detective of Dreams • (1980) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 214 • The Bee-Man of Orn • (1887) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 224 • The Red Hawk • (1983) • novelette by Elizabeth A. Lynn
• 252 • The Canvasser's Tale • (1876) • short story by Mark Twain
• 261 • The Silken-Swift ... • (1956) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon (variant of The Silken-Swift 1953)
• 280 • The New Mother • (1882) • short story by Lucy Clifford
• 291 • Mr. Lupescu • (1945) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• 296 • The King of the Cats • (1929) • short story by Stephen Vincent Benét
• 310 • Uncle Einar • [The Elliott Family] • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 318 • Space-Time for Springers • [Gummitch the Cat] • (1958) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 330 • Great Is Diana • (1958) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 339 • The Last of the Huggermuggers: A Giant Story • (1855) • novella by Christopher Pearse Cranch
• 368 • Tobermory • (1909) • short story by Saki
• 375 • The King of the Elves • (1953) • novelette by Philip K. Dick
• 397 • The Glass Dog • (1901) • short story by L. Frank Baum
• 405 • The Queen of Quok • (1901) • short story by L. Frank Baum
• 413 • The Magic Bonbons • (1901) • short story by L. Frank Baum
• 419 • The Dummy That Lived • (1901) • short story by L. Frank Baum
• 426 • The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers • [Neveryon] • (1979) • novelette by Samuel R. Delany
• 455 • from Phantasmion • (1988) • short story by Sara Coleridge
• 465 • The Sapphire Necklace • (1930) • short story by Kenneth Morris
• 473 • The Regent of the North • (1915) • short story by Kenneth Morris
• 483 • The Eyeless Dragons: A Chinese Story • (1915) • short story by Kenneth Morris
• 491 • Elric at the End of Time • [Tales from the End of Time • 5] • (1981) • novelette by Michael Moorcock
• 532 • Lindenborg Pool • (1856) • short story by William Morris
• 540 • The Moon Pool • [Walter Goodwin] • (1918) • novella by A. Merritt
• 580 • The Sword of Welleran • (1908) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 593 • Operation Afreet • [Operation Chaos] • (1956) • novelette by Poul Anderson