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• xi • Foreword (Black Pockets and Other Dark Thoughts) • (2006) • essay by Howard Waldrop
• 5 • Jumper • (1988) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 15 • The Wish in the Fear • (1995) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 30 • Hell Just Over the Hill • (1996) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 38 • The Alternate • (2006) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 45 • Earth Around His Bones • (2006) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 48 • Fire of Spring • (1995) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 55 • First Love, First Fear • (1972) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 64 • Passing Nights • (1994) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 67 • Takes You Back • (2003) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 85 • I Walked with Fidel • (1992) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 96 • General Jaruzelski at the Zoo • (1987) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 102 • The Soft Terrible Music • (1996) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 114 • My First World • (2004) • novelette by George Zebrowski
• 153 • Interpose • (1973) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 160 • The Coming of Christ the Joker • (2003) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 178 • Nappy • (2004) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 191 • A Piano Full of Dead Spiders • (2005) • short story by George Zebrowski
• 206 • Black Pockets • (2006) • novella by George Zebrowski
• 261 • Lords of Imagination • (2006) • short story by George Zebrowski (variant of Lords of Information 1990)
• 267 • Afterword (Black Pockets) • (2006) • essay by George Zebrowski