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•  The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People • interior artwork by Charles Vess
• 1 • Preface (The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People) • essay by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
• 3 • Introduction (The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People) • essay by Terri Windling
• 25 • Island Lake • novelette by E. Catherine Tobler
• 48 • The Puma's Daughter • novelette by Tanith Lee
• 87 • Map of Seventeen • novelette by Christopher Barzak
• 120 • The Selkie Speaks • short story by Delia Sherman
• 124 • Bear's Bride • short story by Johanna Sinisalo (trans. of Metsän tuttu 1991)
• 144 • The Abominable Child's Tale • novelette by Carol Emshwiller
• 175 • The Hikikomori • novelette by Hiromi Goto
• 203 • The Comeuppance of Creegus Maxin • short story by Gregory Frost
• 220 • Ganesha • short story by Jeffrey Ford
• 235 • The Elephant's Bride • short story by Jane Yolen
• 239 • The Children of Cadmus • short fiction by Ellen Kushner
• 258 • The White Doe: Three Poems • poem by Jeannine Hall Gailey
• 264 • Coyote and Valorosa • short story by Terra L. Gearhart-Serna
• 274 • One Thin Dime • short story by Stewart Moore
• 289 • The Monkey Bride • short story by Midori Snyder
• 303 • Pishaach • short fiction by Shweta Narayan
• 334 • The Salamander Fire • novelette by Marly Youmans
• 368 • The Margay's Children • [Dust Devil] • short fiction by Richard Bowes
• 388 • Thimbleriggery and Fledglings • short fiction by Steve Berman
• 414 • The Flock • novelette by Lucius Shepard
• 452 • The Children of the Shark God • short fiction by Peter S. Beagle
• 487 • Rosina • short fiction by Nan Fry