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• vii • Introduction (Top Fantasy) • essay by Josh Pachter
• 1 • The Man Who Walked on Air • (1953) • short story by Michael Avallone
• 12 • Report on an Unidentified Space Station • (1982) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• 18 • The Ship of Disaster • (1965) • short story by Barrington J. Bayley
• 33 • Collaborating • (1978) • short story by Michael Bishop
• 51 • The Man Who Collected Poe • (1951) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 65 • The Fog Horn • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 73 • The Day of the Butterflies • (1976) • short story by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• 84 • The Depths • (1982) • novelette by Ramsey Campbell
• 104 • Touchstone • (1964) • short story by Terry Carr
• 117 • Let Us Quickly Hasten to the Gate of Ivory • (1970) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 134 • Trouble with Water • (1939) • short story by H. L. Gold [as by Horace L. Gold]
• 154 • Harpist • (1982) • short story by Joe L. Hensley
• 168 • Blue Vase of Ghosts • (1983) • novelette by Tanith Lee
• 188 • The Wife's Story • (1982) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 193 • The House of Cthulhu • [Cthulhu Mythos short fiction] • (1973) • short story by Brian Lumley
• 206 • The Real Shape of the Coast • (1971) • short story by John Lutz
• 217 • The Smallest Dragonboy • [Dragonriders of Pern short fiction] • (1973) • short story by Anne McCaffrey
• 230 • Caves in Cliffs • short story by Josh Pachter
• 239 • The Broken Hoop • (1982) • short story by Pamela Sargent
• 253 • Dancers in the Time-Flux • (1983) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 270 • Amends: A Tale of the Sun Kings • [Book of the Isle] • (1983) • short story by Nancy Springer
• 281 • Sing a Last Song of Valdese • [Kane] • (1976) • short story by Karl Edward Wagner
• 292 • The Father of the Bride • (1982) • short story by Connie Willis
• 301 • Kevin Malone • (1980) • short story by Gene Wolfe