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• v • Author Notes (Blood Muse) • essay by uncredited
• xiii • Introduction (Blood Muse) • essay by Esther M. Friesner
• 1 • Yrena • (1995) • short story by P. D. Cacek
• 14 • The Frieze of Life • short story by Benjamin Adams
• 25 • Gallery of Despair • (1995) • short story by Thomas S. Roche
• 33 • The Transliteration of Infanta • (1995) • short story by Colin Raff
• 45 • Idée Fixe • (1995) • short story by Alexandra Elizabeth Honigsberg
• 56 • Fleadh De Deux • (1995) • short story by Terry McGarry
• 66 • Breathtaking Music • (1995) • short story by Christie Golden
• 74 • Symphony for the Quiet Ones • (1995) • short story by Michael Scott Bricker
• 91 • Crimes of Fashion • (1995) • short story by Shira Daemon
• 104 • Bela • (1995) • short story by Chuck Rothman
• 111 • Exposure • (1995) • short story by Laura Anne Gilman
• 123 • Ars Brevis • (1995) • short story by Mark Kreighbaum
• 131 • The Age of Maturity • short story by Rebecca Maines [as by Pamela D. Hodgson]
• 142 • Bloodstone • (1995) • short story by Mary Rosenblum
• 158 • The Porosity of Souls • (1995) • short story by Terry Campbell
• 170 • Cut from the Herd • (1995) • short story by Gregory Nicoll
• 175 • All Flesh is Clay • (1995) • short story by Don D'Ammassa
• 187 • The Parasitorium • (1995) • short story by Del Stone, Jr.
• 209 • Pas du Mort • (1995) • short story by Lisa Lepovetsky
• 217 • Rhapsody • (1995) • short story by Lyn Nichols [as by Lyn D. Nichols]
• 229 • Vamping the Muse • (1995) • short story by Jane Yolen
• 232 • Thirteen Lines • (1995) • short story by Don Webb
• 240 • Sing Heavenly Muse • (1995) • short story by M. Turville Heitz [as by M. Turville-Heitz]
• 254 • Notes from the Bridge • (1995) • short story by Richard Parks
• 262 • Dramaturge • (1995) • short story by Susan Shwartz
• 290 • Nightweaver • short story by Lisa Silverthorne [as by L. S. Silverthorne]
• 294 • The Hand Inside • (1995) • short story by Adam-Troy Castro
• 295 • Blood and Limestone • short story by Richard Lee Byers
• 297 • Blind Faith • (1995) • short story by Susan L. Williams
• 303 • Preserver • (1995) • short story by Tim Waggoner
• 313 • Man of the Dead • (1995) • short story by Billie Sue Mosiman
• 326 • Beat Surrender • (1995) • short story by Cynthia Ward [as by Cynthia L. Ward]