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• Introduction (Year's Best Fantasy 9) • (2009) • essay by Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell
• Shoggoths In Bloom • (2008) • novelette by Elizabeth Bear
• The Rabbi's Hobby • (2008) • novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• Running the Snake • (2008) • short story by Kage Baker
• The Illustrated Biography of Lord Grimm • (2008) • novelette by Daryl Gregory
• Reader's Guide • (2008) • short story by Lisa Goldstein
• The Salting and Canning of Benevolence D. • (2008) • novelette by Al Michaud
• Araminta, or, The Wreck of the Amphidrake • (2008) • short story by Naomi Novik
• A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antarctica • (2009) • short story by Catherynne M. Valente (variant of A Buyer's Guide to Maps of Antartica 2008)
• From the Clay of His Heart • (2008) • novelette by John Brown
• If Angels Fight • (2008) • novelette by Richard Bowes
• 26 Monkeys & the Abyss • (2009) • short story by Kij Johnson (variant of 26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss 2008)
• Philologos; or, A Murder in Bistrita • (2008) • short story by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald [as by Debra Doyle and James Macdonald]
• The Film-Makers of Mars • (2008) • short story by Geoff Ryman
• Childrun • [Gorlen Vizenfirth • 3] • (2008) • novelette by Marc Laidlaw
• Queen of the Sunlit Shore • (2008) • short story by Liz Williams
• Lady Witherspoon's Solution • (2008) • novelette by James Morrow
• Dearest Cecily • (2008) • short story by Kris Dikeman [as by Kristine Dikeman]
• Ringing the Changes in Okotoks, Alberta • (2008) • short fiction by Randy McCharles (variant of Ringing the Changes in Okotoks Alberta)
• Caverns of Mystery • (2008) • short story by Kage Baker
• Skin Deep • (2008) • novelette by Richard Parks
• King Pelles the Sure • (2008) • short story by Peter S. Beagle
• A Guided Tour in the Kingdom of the Dead • (2008) • short story by Richard Harland
• Avast, Abaft! • (2008) • short story by Howard Waldrop
• Gift from a Spring • (2008) • novelette by Delia Sherman
• The First Editions • (2008) • novelette by James Stoddard
• The Olverung • (2008) • short story by Stephen Woodworth
• Daltharee • (2008) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
• The Forest • (2008) • short story by Kim Wilkins