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• 5 • Introduzione (Storie di spade e magia) • (1988) • essay by Marion Zimmer Bradley (trans. of The Heroic Image of Women: Woman as Wizard and Warrior 1984)
• 13 • Il granato e la gloria • [Frostflower] • (1988) • short story by Phyllis Ann Karr (trans. of The Garnet and the Glory 1984)
• 35 • Teste mozzate • [Dread Empire] • (1988) • novelette by Glen Cook (trans. of Severed Heads 1984)
• 75 • Rubacuori • (1988) • short story by Stephen L. Burns (trans. of Taking Heart 1984)
• 93 • La creatura delle tenebre • (1988) • novelette by Emma Bull (trans. of The Rending Dark 1984)
• 121 • Le canzoni di Gimmile • [Dossouye] • (1988) • short story by Charles R. Saunders (trans. of Gimmile's Songs 1984)
• 141 • La valle del Troll • [Aynber] • (1988) • short story by Charles de Lint (trans. of The Valley of the Troll 1984)
• 159 • Imperatrix • (1988) • short story by Deborah J. Ross (trans. of Imperatrix 1984) [as by Deborah Wheeler]
• 175 • Sangue di magia • [Chronicles of the Cheysuli] • (1988) • short story by Jennifer Roberson (trans. of Blood of Sorcery 1984)
• 197 • Con quattro levrieri • (1988) • novelette by Pat Murphy (trans. of With Four Lean Hounds 1984)
• 223 • La casa nella foresta • (1988) • short story by Anodea Judith (trans. of House in the Forest 1984)
• 231 • La spada di Yraine • [Shanna of Sharteyn] • (1988) • short story by Diana L. Paxson (trans. of Sword of Yraine 1984)
• 251 • Daton e le cose morte • (1988) • short story by Michael Ward (trans. of Daton and the Dead Things 1984)
• 265 • Il cancello dei dannati • (1988) • short story by Janet Fox (trans. of Gate of the Damned 1984)
• 285 • Il figlio di Orco • (1988) • novelette by Robin Wayne Bailey (trans. of Child of Orcus 1984) [as by Robin W. Bailey]