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•  Famous Tales of the Fantastic • (1965) • interior artwork by Edward Pagram
• 9 • Invisible Boy • (1945) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 20 • The King Is Dead, Long Live the King • (1928) • short story by Mary Coleridge
• 29 • The Speckled Band • non-genre • [Sherlock Holmes] • (1965) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle (variant of The Adventure of the Speckled Band 1892) [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 56 • Comrade Pigeon • (1964) • short story by Romain Gary (trans. of Citoyen pigeon 1962)
• 62 • The Crossways • (1961) • short story by L. P. Hartley [as by Leslie Poles Hartley]
• 71 • The Roll-Call of the Reef • (1931) • short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch]
• 89 • The Ballroom • (1956) • short story by William Sansom
• 98 • The Bottle Imp • (1891) • novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 128 • The Magic Shop • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells