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• xiii • Introduction (A Treasury of Modern Fantasy) • essay by Terry Carr and Martin H. Greenberg [as by Terry Carr and Martin Harry Greenberg]
• 1 • The Rats in the Walls • (1924) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 19 • The Woman of the Wood • (1926) • novelette by A. Merritt
• 45 • Trouble with Water • (1939) • short story by H. L. Gold
• 63 • Thirteen O'Clock • [Thirteen O'Clock (C. M. Kornbluth) • 1] • (1941) • novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• 85 • The Coming of the White Worm • [Hyperborea] • (1941) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 97 • Yesterday Was Monday • (1941) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 113 • They Bite • (1943) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• 123 • Call Him Demon • (1946) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• 145 • Daemon • (1946) • novelette by C. L. Moore
• 165 • The Black Ferris • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 173 • Displaced Person • (1948) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 177 • Our Fair City • (1949) • short story by Robert A. Heinlein
• 193 • Come and Go Mad • (1949) • novelette by Fredric Brown
• 227 • There Shall Be No Darkness • (1950) • novella by James Blish
• 259 • The Loom of Darkness • [Dying Earth] • (1950) • short story by Jack Vance (variant of Liane the Wayfarer)
• 269 • The Rag Thing • (1951) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim
• 275 • Sail On! Sail On! • (1952) • short story by Philip José Farmer
• 285 • One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts • (1955) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 295 • That Hell-Bound Train • (1958) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 307 • Nine Yards of Other Cloth • [John the Balladeer] • (1958) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 323 • The Montavarde Camera • (1959) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 335 • Man Overboard • (1960) • novelette by John Collier
• 355 • My Dear Emily • (1962) • short story by Joanna Russ
• 375 • Descending • (1964) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 387 • Four Ghosts in Hamlet • (1965) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
• 417 • Divine Madness • (1966) • short story by Roger Zelazny
• 425 • Narrow Valley • (1966) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 437 • Timothy • [Anita] • (1966) • short story by Keith Roberts
• 449 • Longtooth • (1970) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• 479 • Through a Glass—Darkly • (1970) • novelette by Zenna Henderson
• 501 • Piper at the Gates of Dawn • [The White Bird of Kinship] • (1976) • novella by Richard Cowper
• 547 • Jeffty Is Five • (1977) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 565 • Within the Walls of Tyre • (1978) • novelette by Michael Bishop