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• xi • Introduction (The Mammoth Book of Fantasy) • (2001) • essay by Mike Ashley
• 1 • The Wall Around the World • (1953) • novelette by Theodore R. Cogswell
• 30 • Darkrose and Diamond • [Earthsea Cycle] • (1999) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 61 • The Valley of the Worm • [James Allison] • (1934) • novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 85 • The Golden Key • (1867) • novelette by George MacDonald
• 114 • The Hoard of the Gibbelins • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 119 • The Last Hieroglyph • [Zothique] • (1935) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 137 • The Sorcerer Pharesm • [Dying Earth] • (1966) • novelette by Jack Vance
• 163 • King Yvorian's Wager • (1989) • short story by Darrell Schweitzer
• 182 • The Howling Tower • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1941) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 198 • Kings in Darkness • [The Elric Saga] • (1962) • novelette by James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock
• 230 • The Bells of Shoredan • [Dilvish] • (1966) • short story by Roger Zelazny
• 249 • A Hero at the Gates • [Cyrion] • (1979) • short story by Tanith Lee
• 265 • Lady of the Skulls • (1993) • short story by Patricia A. McKillip
• 277 • The Sunlight on the Water • (2001) • short story by Louise Cooper
• 291 • Paladin of the Lost Hour • (1985) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 316 • Yesterday Was Monday • (1941) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 336 • Pixel Pixies • [Newford] • (1999) • novelette by Charles de Lint
• 363 • The Moon Pool • [Walter Goodwin] • (1918) • novella by A. Merritt
• 408 • The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule • [Griaule] • (1984) • novelette by Lucius Shepard
• 439 • Nets of Silver and Gold • (1984) • short story by James P. Blaylock
• 457 • The Fantasma of Q____ • (1998) • short story by Lisa Goldstein
• 471 • Audience • (1997) • short story by Jack Womack
• 484 • The Edge of the World • (1989) • short story by Michael Swanwick