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• 7 • Introduction: Musings on Maine and the Roots of Modern Science Fiction and Fantasy • essay by Noreen Doyle
• 9 • Two Excerpts from "Ktaadn" • short story by Henry David Thoreau
• 13 • Longtooth • (1970) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• 48 • The Hermit Genius of Marshville • (1998) • short story by Tom Tolnay
• 60 • Bass Fishing with the Enemy • short story by Daniel Hatch
• 72 • Dreams of Virginia Dare • short story by John P. O'Grady
• 90 • Echo • (2005) • short story by Elizabeth Hand
• 99 • Mrs. Todd's Shortcut • [Castle Rock] • (1984) • novelette by Stephen King
• 124 • A Vision of Bangor, in the Twentieth Century • (1848) • short story by Edward Kent
• 135 • By the Lake • [Probability Zero] • (2002) • short story by Jeff Hecht
• 138 • Awskonomuk • short story by Gregory Feeley
• 157 • The County • short story by Melanie Tem
• 164 • And Dream Such Dreams • short story by Lee Allred
• 177 • Flash Point • (1974) • novelette by Gardner Dozois
• 196 • The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton • (1878) • short story by Mark Twain
• 215 • Trophy Seekins • short story by Lucy Suitor Holt
• 221 • The Autumn of Sorrows • short story by Scott Thomas
• 241 • Alternate Anxieties • (2007) • short story by Karen Jordan Allen
• 252 • The Chapter of the Hawk of Gold • (1997) • short story by Noreen Doyle
• 258 • The Bung-Hole Caper • short story by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton]
• 269 • Dance Band on the Titanic • (1978) • novelette by Jack L. Chalker
• 291 • When the Ice Goes Out • short story by Jessica Reisman
• 300 • Creation Story • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem