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• The Gentle Cockatrice • (1904) • short fiction by Laurence Housman
• The Book of Maggie Owen • (1973) • short fiction by Maggie Owen
• The Graveyard Reader • (1958) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• The Purple Moccasin • (1973) • short fiction by MacKinlay Kantor
• A White Heron • (1886) • short story by Sarah Orne Jewett
• Visitors • juvenile • non-genre • (1925) • short story by Walter de la Mare
• The Ruum • [Ruum] • (1953) • short story by Arthur Porges
• The Bee-Man of Orn • (1887) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• The Gay Goshawk • (1973) • short story by Dorothy K. Haynes
• The Wild Goat's Kid • (1925) • short story by Liam O'Flaherty
• The Star Beast • (1965) • short story by Nicholas Stuart Gray
• The Happy Prince • (1888) • short story by Oscar Wilde
• Lobo • (1973) • short fiction by Ernest Thompson Seton (variant of Lobo the King of Currumpaw 1898)
• The Water Woman and Her Lover • (1971) • short story by Ralph Prince
• The Loaded Dog • non-genre • (1901) • short story by Henry Lawson
• A Piece of Pie • non-genre • (1931) • short story by Damon Runyon
• The Story of Jorkel Hayforks • (1973) • short fiction by George Mackay Brown
• The Invisible Boy • (1973) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of Invisible Boy 1945)
•  Authors' Choice 2 • (1973) • interior artwork by Krystyna Turska