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• 11 • Foreword (World of Wonder) • (1951) • essay by Edith R. Mirrielees
• 15 • The Nature of Imaginative Literature • (1951) • essay by Fletcher Pratt
• 22 • He Walked Around the Horses • [Paratime Police] • (1948) • novelette by H. Beam Piper
• 45 • Roads of Destiny • (1903) • novelette by O. Henry
• 68 • The Red Queen's Race • (1949) • novelette by Isaac Asimov
• 95 • Child's Play • [Child's Play (William Tenn) • 1] • (1947) • novelette by William Tenn
• 125 • The Finest Story in the World • (1891) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• 154 • Etaoin Shrdlu • (1942) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 178 • Mistake Inside • (1948) • novelette by James Blish
• 200 • Private—Keep Out • (1949) • short story by Philip MacDonald (variant of Private - Keep Out!)
• 218 • They • (1941) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• 235 • Metamorphosis • [Gregor Samsa • 1] • (1946) • novella by Franz Kafka (trans. of Die Verwandlung 1915)
• 284 • Back There in the Grass • (1911) • short story by Gouverneur Morris
• 300 • The Mark of the Beast • (1890) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 314 • Museum Piece • (1947) • short story by Esther Carlson
• 321 • The Blue Giraffe • (1939) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 347 • That Only a Mother • (1948) • short story by Judith Merril
• 358 • Operation RSVP • (1951) • short story by H. Beam Piper (variant of Operation R.S.V.P.)
• 369 • Conquerors' Isle • (1946) • short story by Nelson S. Bond [as by Nelson Bond]
• 385 • Giant Killer • (1945) • novelette by A. Bertram Chandler
• 435 • The Million-Year Picnic • [The Martian Chronicles] • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Million Year Picnic 1946)