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• 1 • Preface (Friendly Aliens) • essay by John Robert Colombo
• 5 • A Haunted Island • (1899) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 18 • A Relic of the Pliocene • (1901) • short story by Jack London
• 27 • In Search of the Unknown • [Lost Species] • (1971) • novelette by Robert W. Chambers (variant of The Harbour Master 1899)
• 50 • The People of the Pit • (1918) • short story by A. Merritt
• 65 • Polaris • [Dream Cycle] • (1920) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 69 • The Thing from — "Outside" • (1923) • short story by George Allan England
• 85 • The Place of Pain • (1914) • short story by M. P. Shiel
• 94 • Devolution • (1936) • short story by Edmond Hamilton
• 108 • Arctic God • (1942) • novelette by John Russell Fearn
• 129 • The Thing That Walked on the Wind • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft contemporary)] • (1933) • short story by August Derleth
• 139 • The Tattooed Man • (1965) • short story by Vincent Starrett
• 149 • Forever to a Hudson Bay Blanket • (1972) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 165 • Swan Song • (1978) • short story by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• 175 • Whither Canadian Fantasy? • (1942) • essay by Donald A. Wollheim