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• 4 • Introduction (World Fantasy Convention 1990) • essay by Robert Weinberg
• 5 • A Short Anything • essay by Raymond E. Feist
• 7 • Lyon Sprague de Camp • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 9 • F. Paul Wilson: The Man with the Math Teacher's Smile, or Ain't That the Fella Writes That Scary Stuff? • essay by Joe R. Lansdale
• 11 • David Mattingly • essay by Paul Chadwick (1957-)
• 17 • Susan Allison and the Mysteries of the Universe • essay by Dean R. Koontz
• 19 • Chips off the Old Bloch • essay by Julius Schwartz
• 21 • Julius Schwartz • essay by Robert Bloch
• 23 • Raymond E. Feist: An Appreciation • essay by Peter Schneider
• 25 • An H. P. Lovecraft Memoir • essay by Charles D. Hornig
• 26 • Sir Harold and the Gnome King • [Incomplete Enchanter] • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 26 •  Sir Harold and the Gnome King • interior artwork by Stephen Fabian
• 45 • The Last Rakosh • [Repairman Jack] • novella by F. Paul Wilson
• [1] •  A David Mattingly Color Portfolio • interior artwork by David B. Mattingly (variant of cover art for Back to the Stone Age) [as by David Mattingly]
• [3] •  A David Mattingly Color Portfolio [2] • (1983) • interior artwork by David B. Mattingly (variant of cover art for The Land of Laughs) [as by David Mattingly]
• [5] •  A David Mattingly Color Portfolio [3] • (1987) • interior artwork by David B. Mattingly (variant of cover art for The Wizard of 4th Street) [as by David Mattingly]
• [7] •  A David Mattingly Color Portfolio [4] • (1988) • interior artwork by David B. Mattingly (variant of cover art for The Little Helliad) [as by David Mattingly]
• 53 •  The Last Rakosh • interior artwork by Stan Bruns
• 57 • Great Holes Secretly Are Digged • short story by Katherine Ramsland
• 64 • Love's Eldritch Ichor • [Cthulhu Mythos] • novelette by Esther M. Friesner
• 64 •  Love's Eldritch Ichor • interior artwork by Phil Foglio
• 77 • Evil, Be My Good • short story by Philip José Farmer
• 85 • The Vendren Worm • short story by Brian McNaughton