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• ix • Introduction (Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction) • essay by Douglas A. Anderson
• 3 • Tegnér's Drapa • (1849) • poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• 7 • The Aunt and Amabel • (1909) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 17 • The Snow Queen • juvenile • (1844) • novelette by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of Snedronningen 1845)
• 45 • The Magic Mirror • (1858) • short story by George MacDonald
• 63 • Undine • (2002) • novella by
  Baron Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué^?Baron Friedrich de La Motte Fouque
  (trans. of
  Undine: Eine Erzählung^?Undine: Eine Erzaehlung
  1811) [as by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué]
• 129 • Letters from Hell: Letter III • short story by Valdemar Thisted
• 135 • Fastosus and Avaro • (1863) • short story by John Macgowan
• 147 • The Tapestried Chamber; or, The Lady in the Sacque • (1910) • short story by Sir Walter Scott (variant of The Tapestried Chamber 1828)
• 161 • The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton • (1836) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 173 • The Child and the Giant • (1988) • short story by Owen Barfield
• 183 • A King's Lesson • (1886) • short story by William Morris
• 191 • The Waif Woman • (1914) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 207 • First Whisper of The Wind in the Willows (excerpt) • (1908) • short fiction by Kenneth Grahame
• 239 • The Wish House • (1924) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 257 • Et in Sempiternum Pereant • (1935) • short story by Charles Williams
• 269 • The Dragon's Visit • (1937) • poem by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 275 • The Coloured Lands • (1925) • short story by G. K. Chesterton
• 283 • The Man Who Lived Backwards • (1938) • short story by Charles F. Hall
• 301 • The Wood That Time Forgot: The Enchanted Wood • (2008) • short story by Roger Lancelyn Green
• 313 • The Dream Dust Factory • (1947) • short story by William Lindsay Gresham