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• ix • Introduction (The Monster-Maker and Other Science Fiction Classics) • essay by Michael Kelahan
• 1 • The Mortal Immortal • (1833) • short story by Mary Shelley
• 13 • A Tale of the Ragged Mountains • (1844) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 22 • The Diamond Lens • (1858) • novelette by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 43 • Doctor Ox's Experiment • (1874) • novella by Jules Verne (trans. of Une fantaisie du Docteur Ox 1872)
• 89 • The Monster-Maker • (1887) • short story by W. C. Morrow (variant of The Surgeon's Experiment)
• 104 • The Los Amigos Fiasco • (1968) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 111 • The Sixth Sense, or Another World • (1896) • novelette by
  J. H. Rosny aîné^?J. H. Rosny aine
  (trans. of Un autre monde 1895) [as by J. H. Rosny]
• 119 • The Crystal Egg • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 133 • Moxon's Master • (1910) • short story by Ambrose Bierce (variant of A Night at Moxon's 1899)
• 142 • The Shadow and the Flash • (1903) • short story by Jack London
• 155 • The Ray of Displacement • (1903) • short story by Harriet Prescott Spofford
• 168 • From Pole to Pole: An Account of a Journey Through the Axis of the Earth; Collated from the Diaries of the Late Professor Haffkin and His Niece, Mrs. Arthur Princeps • (1904) • novelette by George Griffith
• 189 • Space • (1911) • novelette by John Buchan
• 203 • At the Earth's Core • [Pellucidar • 1] • (1922) • novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• 304 • The Moon Pool • [Walter Goodwin] • (1918) • novella by A. Merritt
• 341 • Unseen, Unfeared • short story by Francis Stevens (variant of Unseen—Unfeared 1919)
• 355 • In the Penal Colony • (1948) • novelette by Franz Kafka (trans. of In der Strafkolonie 1919)
• 377 • The Thing from Outside • (1923) • short story by George Allan England (variant of The Thing from — "Outside")
• 394 • The Colour Out of Space • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1927) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft