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• xi • Foreword: Spellbound • (2004) • essay by Mike Ashley
• 1 • Ten Things I Know About the Wizard • (1983) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 11 • Villaggio Sogno • (2004) • novelette by Richard A. Lupoff
• 38 • The Game of Magical Death • (1987) • short story by Doug Hornig
• 50 • The Infestation • (2004) • short story by Tom Holt
• 69 • The Witch's Bicycle • juvenile • (2002) • novelette by Tim Pratt
• 102 • The Sage of Theare • juvenile • [Chrestomanci] • (1982) • novelette by Diana Wynne Jones
• 128 • Timekeeper • (1990) • novelette by John Morressy
• 150 • The Double Shadow • [Poseidonis] • (1933) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 163 • The Rite Stuff • (2004) • novelette by Michael Kurland
• 195 • Master of Chaos • [The Elric Saga] • (1964) • short story by Michael Moorcock
• 210 • Seven Drops of Blood • [Sidney Taine] • (1992) • short story by Robert Weinberg
• 228 • To Become a Sorcerer • (1991) • novelette by Darrell Schweitzer
• 284 • No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
• 299 • The Bones of the Earth • [Earthsea Cycle] • (2001) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 316 • The Closed Window • (1903) • short story by A. C. Benson
• 327 • Disillusioned • (1995) • short story by Mike Resnick and Lawrence Schimel (variant of disIllusions)
• 336 • In the Realm of Dragons • (1998) • novelette by Esther M. Friesner
• 359 • Forever • [Noreela Short Fiction] • (2004) • novelette by Tim Lebbon
• 384 • The Wizard of Ashes and Rain • (2001) • short story by David Sandner
• 408 • The Walker Behind • [Lythande] • (1987) • short story by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• 425 • The Last Witch • (2004) • short story by James Bibby
• 442 • Last Rites • (2004) • short fiction by Louise Cooper
• 465 • The Eternal Altercation • (2004) • novelette by Peter Crowther