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• xi • Another Introduction (The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy) • essay by Mike Ashley
• 1 • Happy Valley • (1973) • short story by Connie Booth and John Cleese
• 13 • Attack of the Charlie Chaplins • (1997) • short story by Garry Kilworth
• 24 • Mother Duck Strikes Again • (2001) • short fiction by Craig Shaw Gardner
• 35 • The Blackbird • (1959) • short story by Jack Sharkey
• 52 • Pale Assassin • novelette by James Bibby
• 76 • The Strawhouse Pavilion • (1970) • short story by Ron Goulart (variant of The Strawhouse Pavillion)
• 90 • Dragonet • short story by Esther M. Friesner [as by Esther Friesner]
• 96 • The Diplodocus • (1908) • short story by Porter Emerson Browne
• 110 • Nothing in the Rules • [Squaredeal Sam McGhee] • (1943) • short story by Nelson S. Bond [as by Nelson Bond]
• 124 • Bad Day on Mount Olympus • short story by Marilyn Todd
• 137 • How Much Would You Pay? • (2001) • short story by Craig Shaw Gardner
• 147 • Nasty • (1959) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 149 • Rope Trick • (1959) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 150 • The Ring of Hans Carvel • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 152 • Fair-Weather Fiend • [Kedrigern] • (1991) • novelette by John Morressy
• 175 • The Byrds • short story by Michael G. Coney [as by Michael Coney]
• 190 • Polly Put the Mockers on • novelette by Stan Nicholls
• 211 • Ferdie • (1907) • short story by F. Anstey
• 234 • The Queen's Triplets • (1892) • short story by Israel Zangwill
• 247 • Crispin the Turnspit • (1930) • short story by Anthony Armstrong (1897-1976)
• 258 • Touched by a Salesman • short story by Tom Holt
• 277 • Math Takes a Holiday • novelette by Paul Di Filippo
• 304 • Broadway Barbarian • short story by Cherith Baldry
• 315 • The Winds of Fate • novelette by Tony Rath
• 337 • Not Ours to See • (1997) • short story by David Langford
• 344 • The Caliber of the Sword • (1999) • short story by Larry Lawrence
• 353 • Gunsel and Gretel • novelette by Esther M. Friesner [as by Esther Friesner]
• 391 • Frog • short story by Tina Rath
• 398 • The Swords and the Stones • short story by E. K. Grant
• 413 • A Case of Four Fingers • novelette by John Grant
• 435 • The Absolute and Utter Impossibility of the Facts in the Case of the Vanishing of Henning Vok • (1991) • short story by Jack Adrian
• 443 • Milord Sir Smiht, the English Wizard • [Doctor Eszterhazy] • (1975) • novelette by Avram Davidson
• 473 • "Put Back That Universe!" • [Smedley Faversham] • (2000) • short story by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
• 490 • You'll Never Walk Alone • novelette by Scott Edelman