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• xiii • Introduction: Worlds of Wonder, Worlds of Difference (Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder) • (1989) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• 3 • Green Is the Color • [Liavek] • (1987) • novella by John M. Ford
• 58 • Wooden Tony • (1892) • short story by Lucy Clifford
• 71 • Lest Levitation Come Upon Us • (1982) • novelette by Suzette Haden Elgin
• 93 • Prince Bull: A Fairy Tale • (1855) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 99 • The Triumph of Vice: A Fairy Tale • (1867) • short story by W. S. Gilbert
• 111 • Turandina • short story by
  Фёдор Сологуб^?Fyodor Sologub
  (trans. of
  Турандина^?Turandina
  1912) [as by Fyodor Sologub]
• 122 • The Princess and the Frog • (1981) • short story by Robin McKinley
• 139 • Darkness Box • (1963) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 148 • Jack and the Beanstalk • (1959) • short story by Osbert Sitwell
• 156 • Peter Pan • juvenile • [Peter Pan] • (1902) • short fiction by J. M. Barrie
• 164 • The Thrush's Nest • juvenile • [Peter Pan] • (1902) • short fiction by J. M. Barrie
• 171 • Lock-out Time • juvenile • [Peter Pan] • (1902) • short fiction by J. M. Barrie
• 180 • The Mouse Festival • short story by Johannes Bobrowski (trans. of Mäusefest 1965)
• 183 • A Proper Santa Claus • (1973) • short story by Anne McCaffrey
• 192 • Inside Out • (1987) • novelette by Rudy Rucker
• 213 • The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut • (1876) • short story by Mark Twain
• 229 • The Woman Who Thought She Could Read • (1959) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 238 • The Third Level • (1950) • short story by Jack Finney
• 245 • The Griffin and the Minor Canon • (1885) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 259 • The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles • (1951) • short story by Margaret St. Clair
• 264 • The Dragons • (1965) • short story by Murilo Rubião (trans. of Os dragões unknown)
• 269 • On the Downhill Side • (1972) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 284 • The Parrot • (1966) • short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer (trans. of Der popugay 1965)
• 300 • The Gray Wolf • (1864) • short story by George MacDonald
• 306 • The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath • (1982) • novelette by Patricia A. McKillip
• 325 • The Last of the Dragons • juvenile • (1987) • short story by E. Nesbit [as by Edith Nesbit]
• 332 • Lila the Werewolf • [Sam Farrell] • (1969) • novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• 353 • The Drowned Giant • (1964) • short story by J. G. Ballard
• 367 • The Enchanted Buffalo • juvenile • [Animal Fairy Tales • 5] • (1905) • short story by L. Frank Baum
• 375 • Narrow Valley • (1966) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 389 • Beyond the Dead Reef • [Quintana Roo] • (1983) • short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 406 • The King's Bride: A Fairy Tale After Nature • (1963) • novella by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Die Königsbraut 1819)
• 451 • Under the Garden • (1963) • novella by Graham Greene
• 503 • The Things That Are Gods • [Traveller in Black] • (1979) • novelette by John Brunner
• 540 • The King of Nodland and His Dwarf • (1852) • novelette by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 571 • The Seventeen Virgins • [Dying Earth] • (1974) • novelette by Jack Vance
• 596 • The Bagful of Dreams • [Dying Earth] • (1977) • novelette by Jack Vance
• 623 • The Hollow Land • (1856) • novelette by William Morris