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• xi • Introduction (The Best of Dreams of Decadence) • essay by Angela Kessler
• xi • Dreams of Decadence • (1995) • poem by Warren Lapine
• 3 • Passionato • (1996) • short story by Sharon Lee
• 16 • All Things Being Not Quite Equal • (1997) • short story by Diana Pharaoh Francis
• 32 • Mona Lisa • (1997) • short story by Warren Lapine
• 40 • Presumed Icarus • (2000) • short story by Tippi N. Blevins
• 55 • After the Fire • (2000) • short story by Robin Simonds Fitch
• 64 • His Essential Nature • (1997) • short story by Laura Anne Gilman
• 87 • Drink the Darkness • (1999) • short story by Siobhan Burke
• 103 • Colour Vision • (1998) • novelette by Steven Patten [as by Steve Patten]
• 133 • The Blood Like Wine • (2001) • short story by Sarah A. Hoyt
• 150 • Borrowed Light • (2000) • poem by Emily Gaskin
• 152 • Love Letters • (2000) • poem by Barbara Johnson-Haddad
• 153 • Understudy • (1998) • poem by S. L. Robinson
• 154 • Ravens • (2000) • poem by Carrie Pavlin
• 155 • Summertime • (2001) • poem by Antonia MItchell
• 157 • Note Found on My Door, Friday • (2000) • poem by Jeff Copenhagen
• 158 • Lying in the Shade • (2000) • poem by Elizabeth Fuller
• 159 • Murava • (2000) • poem by Anne Sheldon
• 162 • Azeman • (2000) • poem by Anne Sheldon
• 164 • Gifts • (1997) • poem by Jude Lupinetti
• 165 • Searchers in the Long Dark • (2001) • poem by Wendy Rathbone
• 167 • Lifestyles of the Undead • (1996) • poem by Angela Kessler
• 168 • Immortality • (2000) • poem by Lida Broadhurst
• 169 • She Dreams in Color • (2000) • poem by Ann K. Schwader
• 170 • Pomegranate Winter • (2000) • poem by Ann K. Schwader
• 171 • Supplication • (2000) • poem by Dawn R. Cotter
• 173 • How to Write a Poem • (2000) • poem by Lawrence Schimel
• 174 • Good News • (2000) • poem by Karen R. Porter
• 175 • The Romantic Age • (1996) • poem by Mike Allen
• 176 • Vampire Standards • (2000) • poem by Uncle River
• 178 • In Black • (2000) • poem by Laurel Robertson
• 179 • To See You Again • (1997) • poem by Laurel Robertson
• 181 • Soliloquy • (2000) • short story by Alexandra Elizabeth Honigsberg
• 187 • Deathlovers • (1997) • short story by Angelique de Terre
• 196 • Vermilia • (1999) • short story by Tanith Lee
• 211 • In the Market for Souls • (2000) • short story by Mike Watt
• 224 • Irish Blood • (1997) • short story by Lyda Morehouse
• 227 • The Note Beside the Body • (2000) • short story by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• 232 • Feeding the Mouth That Bites Us • (1998) • short story by L. Jagi Lamplighter
• 249 • Emptiness • (1999) • short story by Brian Stableford (trans. of Le Vide)
• 267 • Home Visitor • (1998) • short story by Ann K. Schwader
• 276 • A Dance with Darkness • (2000) • short story by Josepha Sherman
• 295 • The Sun Knows My Name • (1999) • short story by Vickie T. Shouse
• 308 • Under the Tangible Myrrh of the Resonant Stars • (1995) • short story by Charlee Jacob
• 326 • Contributors' Biographies (The Best of Dreams of Decadence) • essay by uncredited