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• ix • Introduction (Strange Dreams) • (1993) • essay by Stephen R. Donaldson
• 1 • The Aleph • (1970) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El Aleph 1945)
• 13 • Lady of the Skulls • (1993) • short story by Patricia A. McKillip
• 23 • As Above, So Below • (1980) • short story by John M. Ford
• 29 • Eumenides in the Fourth-Floor Lavatory • (1979) • novelette by Orson Scott Card
• 44 • Narrow Valley • (1966) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 57 • The Dreamstone • [Dreamstone (early versions)] • (1979) • short story by C. J. Cherryh
• 71 • The Storming of Annie Kinsale • (1984) • short story by Lucius Shepard
• 88 • Green Magic • (1963) • short story by Jack Vance
• 100 • The Mark of the Beast • (1890) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 112 • The Big Dream • (1984) • novelette by John Kessel
• 145 • The House of Compassionate Sharers • [Glaktik Komm] • (1977) • novelette by Michael Bishop
• 178 • The Fallen Country • [The Fallen Country / The Snow Dragon] • (1982) • novelette by S. P. Somtow [as by Somtow Sucharitkul]
• 196 • Strata • (1980) • novelette by Edward Bryant
• 226 • And Now the News ... • (1956) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 245 • The White Horse Child • (1979) • short story by Greg Bear
• 263 • Prince Shadowbow • (1985) • short story by Sheri S. Tepper
• 274 • The Girl Who Went to the Rich Neighborhood • (1990) • short story by Rachel Pollack (variant of The Girl Who Went to the Rich Neighbourhood 1984)
• 284 • Consequences • [Liavek] • (1988) • novella by Walter Jon Williams
• 340 • The Stone Fey • (1985) • novelette by Robin McKinley
• 365 • Close of Night • (1984) • short story by Daphne Castell
• 379 • Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands • (1987) • short story by Garry Kilworth
• 385 • Longtooth • (1970) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• 418 • My Rose and My Glove • (1984) • short story by Harvey Jacobs
• 428 • With the Original Cast • (1982) • novelette by Nancy Kress
• 454 • In the Penal Colony • (1948) • novelette by Franz Kafka (trans. of In der Strafkolonie 1919)
• 478 • Jeffty Is Five • (1977) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 497 • Air Raid • (1977) • short story by John Varley
• 510 • The Dancer from the Dance • [Viriconium] • (1985) • short story by M. John Harrison