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• ix • Introduction (The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction) • (1952) • essay by Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas
• 3 • Huge Beast • (1950) • short story by Cleve Cartmill
• 12 • John the Revelator • (1951) • short story by Oliver La Farge
• 27 • Elephas Frumenti • [Gavagan's Bar] • (1950) • short story by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
• 33 • The Gift of God • [Gavagan's Bar] • (1950) • short story by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
• 40 • The Friendly Demon • (1726) • short story by Daniel Defoe
• 45 • Old Man Henderson • (1951) • short story by Kris Neville
• 58 • The Threepenny Piece • (1913) • short story by James Stephens
• 68 • No-Sided Professor • [Dr. Stanislav Slapernarski • 1] • (1947) • short story by Martin Gardner
• 82 • The Listening Child • (1950) • short story by Margaret St. Clair [as by Idris Seabright]
• 94 • Dress of White Silk • (1951) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 100 • The Mathematical Voodoo • [C. P. Ransom • 2] • (1951) • short story by H. Nearing, Jr.
• 120 • Hub • (1951) • short story by Philip MacDonald
• 126 • Built Up Logically • (1949) • short story by Howard Schoenfeld
• 139 • The Rat That Could Speak • (1860) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 145 • Narapoia • [Dr. Manly J. Departure] • (1948) • short story by Alan Nelson
• 153 • Postpaid to Paradise • [Murchison Morks] • (1940) • short story by Robert Arthur
• 170 • In the Days of Our Fathers • (1949) • short story by Winona McClintic
• 178 • Barney • (1951) • short story by Will Stanton
• 181 • The Collector • (1951) • novelette by Gerald Heard [as by H. F. Heard]
• 214 • Fearsome Fable • (1951) • short story by Bruce Elliott