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• The Story of Alwina • [Islandia] • (1981) • novelette by Austin Tappan Wright
• 1 • Introduction (Tales Before Tolkien) • (2002) • essay by Douglas A. Anderson
• 5 • The Elves • (1827) • novelette by Ludwig Tieck (trans. of Die Elfen 1812)
• 27 • The Golden Key • (1867) • novelette by George MacDonald
• 59 • Puss-Cat Mew • (1869) • novelette by Lord Brabourne [as by E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen]
• 111 • The Griffin and the Minor Canon • (1885) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 129 • The Demon Pope • (1888) • short story by Richard Garnett
• 141 • The Story of Sigurd • [Volsungs] • (2003) • short story by Andrew Lang and William Morris [as by Andrew Lang]
• 151 • The Folk of the Mountain Door • (1914) • short story by William Morris
• 167 • Black Heart and White Heart: A Zulu Idyll • (1896) • novella by H. Rider Haggard (variant of Black Heart and White Heart)
• 229 • The Dragon Tamers • [The Seven Dragons • 6] • (1899) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 245 • The Far Islands • (1899) • novelette by John Buchan
• 269 • The Drawn Arrow • (1923) • short story by Clemence Housman
• 283 • The Enchanted Buffalo • juvenile • [Animal Fairy Tales • 5] • (1905) • short story by L. Frank Baum
• 293 • Chu-Bu and Sheemish • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 299 • The Baumoff Explosive • (1919) • short story by William Hope Hodgson
• 319 • The Regent of the North • (1915) • short story by Kenneth Morris
• 333 • The Coming of the Terror • (1917) • short story by Arthur Machen
• 381 • The Elf-Trap • (1919) • novelette by Francis Stevens
• 409 • The Thin Queen of Elfhame • [Biography of the Life of Manuel] • (1922) • short story by James Branch Cabell
• 417 • The Woman of the Wood • (1926) • novelette by A. Merritt
• 451 • Golithos the Ogre (Excerpt) • (1927) • short fiction by E. A. Wyke-Smith
• 465 • A Christmas Play • (2003) • short fiction by David Lindsay
• 507 • Author's Note and Recommended Reading (Tales Before Tolkien) • (2002) • essay by Douglas A. Anderson