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• 9 • Introduction (The Fantasy Hall of Fame) • (1983) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 13 • The Masque of the Red Death • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Mask of the Red Death 1842)
• 21 • An Inhabitant of Carcosa • (1886) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 26 • The Sword of Welleran • (1908) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 42 • The Woman of the Wood • (1926) • novelette by A. Merritt
• 76 • The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan • [Hyperborea] • (1932) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 86 • The Valley of the Worm • [James Allison] • (1934) • novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 110 • Black God's Kiss • [Jirel of Joiry] • (1934) • novelette by C. L. Moore
• 143 • The Silver Key • [Randolph Carter] • (1929) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 157 • Nothing in the Rules • (1939) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 191 • A Gnome There Was • (1950) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• 221 • Snulbug • (1941) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• 239 • The Words of Guru • (1941) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• 248 • Homecoming • [The Elliott Family] • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Homecoming 1946)
• 263 • Mazirian the Magician • [Dying Earth] • (1950) • short story by Jack Vance
• 282 • O Ugly Bird! • [John the Balladeer] • (1951) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 296 • The Silken-Swift • (1953) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 318 • The Golem • (1955) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 325 • That Hell-Bound Train • (1958) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 341 • Kings in Darkness • [The Elric Saga] • (1962) • novelette by James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock [as by Michael Moorcock]
• 375 • Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes • (1967) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 399 • Gonna Roll the Bones • (1967) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
• 424 • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas • [Omelas] • (1973) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin