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• xiii • Introduction (The Vintage Book of Amnesia) • essay by Jonathan Lethem
• 3 • Dream Science (excerpt) • (1990) • short fiction by Thomas Palmer
• 21 • The Night Face Up • (1967) • short story by
  Julio Cortázar^?Julio Cortazar
  (trans. of La noche boca arriba 1956)
• 30 • Other People (excerpt) • (1981) • short fiction by Martin Amis
• 40 • Nightmare • (1997) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 56 • Memories of Amnesia (excerpt) • (1988) • short fiction by Lawrence Shainberg
• 71 • Warm • (1953) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 81 • Soul Walker • (1985) • short story by Brian Fawcett
• 93 • Cowboys Don't Cry (excerpt) • (1969) • short fiction by L. J. Davis
• 103 • The Second Coming (excerpt) • (1980) • short fiction by Walker Percy
• 119 • Funes, His Memory • (1998) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Funes el memorioso 1942)
• 127 • The Black Curtain (excerpt) • (1941) • short fiction by Cornell Woolrich
• 141 • The Third Policeman (excerpt) • (1967) • short fiction by Flann O'Brien
• 156 • Five Fucks • (1996) • novelette by Jonathan Lethem
• 176 • Forgetting Elena (excerpt) • (1973) • short fiction by Edmund White
• 184 • Sarah Canary (excerpt) • (1991) • short fiction by Karen Joy Fowler
• 196 • The Last Hippie • (1992) • essay by Oliver Sacks
• 227 • Notes Toward a History of the Seventies (excerpt) • short fiction by Geoffrey O'Brien
• 237 • Ticket to Ride (excerpt) • (1996) • short fiction by Dennis Potter
• 248 • The Fall of the Roman Empire, the 1881 Indian Uprising, Hitler's Invasion of Poland, and the Realm of Raging Winds • non-genre • (1993) • short story by
  村上春樹^?Haruki Murakami
  (trans. of
  ローマ帝国の崩壊・一八八一年のインディアン蜂起・ヒットラーのポーランド侵入・そして強風世界^?Rōma Teikoku no Hōkai — Ichi Hachi Hachi Ichi Nen no Indian Hōki — Hittorā no Pōrando Shinnyū — Soshite Kyōfū Sekai
  1986) [as by Haruki Murakami]
• 253 • Geoffrey Sonnabend's Obliscence: Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter, An Encapsulation • (1991) • short story by Thomas P. Kelley [as by Valentine Worth]
• 261 • I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon • (1985) • short story by Philip K. Dick (variant of Frozen Journey 1980)
• 280 • The Zebra-Struck • (1970) • novelette by Anna Kavan
• 296 • The Squirrel Cage • (1966) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 311 • Louse (excerpt) • (1998) • short fiction by David Grand
• 321 • Game • (1965) • short story by Donald Barthelme
• 327 • The Affirmation (excerpt) • (1981) • short fiction by Christopher Priest
• 339 • Kleinzeit (excerpt) • (1984) • short fiction by Russell Hoban
• 343 • Days Between Stations (excerpt) • (1985) • short fiction by Steve Erickson
• 355 • "That in Aleppo Once..." • (1943) • short story by Vladimir Nabokov
• 364 • The Deadly Percheron (excerpt) • (1946) • short fiction by John Franklin Bardin
• 385 • Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose • (1998) • short story by Kelly Link
• 401 • An Incomplete Annotated Bibliography of Amnesia Fiction • essay by Jonathan Lethem
• 405 • Contributors (The Vintage Book of Amnesia) • essay by Jonathan Lethem