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• 13 • Preface (Phantasmagoria: Tales of Fantasy and the Supernatural) • essay by Jane Mobley
• 19 • The Wondrous Fair: Magical Fantasy • essay by Jane Mobley
• 36 • Arthur and the Gorlagon • short story by Anonymous and Jane Mobley
• 54 • The Golden Key • (1867) • novelette by George MacDonald
• 83 • The Fortress Unvanquishable Save for Sacnoth • short story by Lord Dunsany (variant of The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth 1908) [as by Edward J. M. D. Plunkett, Lord Dunsany]
• 100 • The Silken Swift... • short story by Theodore Sturgeon (variant of The Silken-Swift 1953)
• 121 • The Dark Isle • (1939) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 147 • The Rejected Sorcerer • (1960) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El brujo postergado 1933)
• 150 • According to Tradition • (1965) • short story by Nicholas Stuart Gray
• 165 • The Gifts of Asti • (1948) • short story by Andre Norton
• 181 • The Rule of Names • [Earthsea Cycle] • (1964) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 192 • Winged Creatures • novelette by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• 214 • Sia (excerpt) • short fiction by Peter S. Beagle
• 223 • The Passing Strange: Supernatural Fiction • essay by Jane Mobley
• 236 • An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street • (1931) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 259 • Confession • (1921) • short story by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson [as by Algernon Blackwood]
• 279 • The Beckoning Fair One • (1911) • novella by Oliver Onions
• 348 • Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad • (1944) • novelette by M. R. James (variant of "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" 1904)
• 369 • Come Lady Death • (1963) • short story by Peter S. Beagle
• 387 • Three Miles Up • (1951) • short story by Elizabeth Jane Howard
• 407 • Benson Watts is Dead and in Virginia • (1973) • novelette by Doris Betts