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• xvii • The Widest Field • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 1 • The Abraham Lincoln Murder Case • (1982) • short story by Rick Norwood
• 2 • A Dozen of Everything • (1959) • short story by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• 6 • The Anatomy Lesson • (1981) • short story by Scott Russell Sanders [as by Scott Sanders]
• 11 • And I Only Am Escaped to Tell Thee • (1981) • short story by Roger Zelazny
• 14 • Angelica • (1979) • short story by Jane Yolen
• 18 • Apocryphal Fragment • (1962) • short story by Edward Wellen
• 20 • A Prophecy of Monsters • (1954) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith (variant of Monsters in the Night)
• 23 • At the Bureau • (1980) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 26 • Aunt Agatha • (1952) • short story by Doris Pitkin Buck
• 28 • The Boulevard of Broken Dreams • (1975) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 31 • But Not the Herald • (1965) • short story by Roger Zelazny
• 34 • Chained • (1982) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 39 • Chalk Talk • (1973) • short story by Edward Wellen
• 42 • Climacteric • (1960) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 43 • The Contest • (1980) • short story by Robert J. Sawyer
• 45 • Controlled Experiment • (1978) • short story by Rick Conley
• 47 • The Curse of Hooligan's Bar • (1984) • short story by Charles E. Fritch
• 52 • The Dark Ones • (1982) • short story by Richard Christian Matheson
• 54 • Dead Call • (1976) • short story by William F. Nolan
• 58 • Deadline • (1981) • short story by Mel Gilden
• 63 • Deal with the D.E.V.I.L. • (1981) • short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
• 66 • The Devil Finds Work • (1950) • short story by Mack Reynolds
• 70 • Devlin's Dream • (1977) • short story by George Clayton Johnson
• 74 • Displaced Person • (1948) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 77 • Echoes • (1983) • short story by Lawrence C. Connolly
• 80 • Ex Oblivione • [Dream Cycle] • (1921) • poem by H. P. Lovecraft
• 82 • Farewell Party • (1958) • short story by Richard Wilson
• 86 • Feeding Time • (1955) • short story by James E. Gunn [as by James Gunn]
• 92 • Final Version • (1982) • short story by John Morressy
• 97 • Five Minutes Early • (1982) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 99 • Freedom • (1982) • short story by Rick Norwood
• 100 • Garage Sale • (1982) • short story by Janet Fox
• 105 • Getting Back to Before It Began • (1977) • short story by Raylyn Moore
• 109 • The Giveaway • (1981) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 114 • Give Her Hell • (1963) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim
• 119 • God's Nose • (1964) • short story by Damon Knight
• 121 • The Good Husband • (1955) • short story by Evelyn E. Smith
• 124 • The Handler • (1960) • short story by Damon Knight
• 128 • The Haters • (1940) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim
• 131 • The House • (1932) • short story by André Maurois (trans. of La maison 1931)
• 133 • How Georges Duchamps Discovered a Plot to Take Over the World • (1971) • short story by Alexei Panshin
• 135 • The Human Angle • (1948) • short story by William Tenn
• 140 • The Importance of Being Important • (1963) • short story by Calvin Demmon [as by Calvin W. Demmon]
• 142 • Interview with a Gentleman Farmer • (1976) • short story by Bruce Boston
• 146 • Judgment Day • (1984) • short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
• 148 • Just One More • (1980) • short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 153 • The Lady and the Merman • (1976) • short story by Jane Yolen
• 156 • The Last Unicorns • (1959) • short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 158 • The Last Wizard • (1972) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 160 • Letters from Camp • (1982) • short story by Al Sarrantonio
• 164 • L Is for Loup-Garou • (1976) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 165 • Love Filter • short story by Gregg Chamberlain
• 167 • The Maiden's Sacrifice • (1968) • short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 170 • Malice Aforethought • (1952) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim
• 175 • The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles • (1951) • short story by Margaret St. Clair
• 180 • Miranda-Escobedo • (1976) • short story by James Sallis
• 183 • Mr. Wilde's Second Chance • (1966) • short story by Joanna Russ
• 186 • Mortimer Snodgrass Turtle • (1978) • short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II
• 189 • Mouse-Kitty • (1982) • short story by Rick Norwood
• 190 • Naturally • (1954) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 192 • Night Visions • (1979) • short story by Jack Dann
• 196 • Once Upon a Unicorn • (1973) • short story by F. M. Busby
• 201 • $1.98 • (1954) • short story by Arthur Porges
• 205 • Opening a Vein • (1980) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini
• 207 • The Other • (1966) • short story by Katherine MacLean
• 211 • The Other One • (1982) • short story by Rick Norwood
• 213 • The Other Train Phenomenon • (1982) • short story by Richard Bowker
• 217 • The Painters Are Coming Today • (1979) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 221 • Paranoid Fantasy #1 • (1975) • short story by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• 223 • Perchance to Dream • (1970) • short story by Katherine MacLean
• 226 • Personality Problem • (1983) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 228 • Pharaoh's Revenge • (1982) • short story by C. Bruce Hunter
• 230 • Pick-Up for Olympus • (1953) • short story by Edgar Pangborn
• 233 • The Poor • (1982) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 237 • Prayer War • (1981) • short story by Jonathan V. Post
• 238 • The Prophecy • (1968) • short story by Bill Pronzini
• 241 • The Rag Thing • (1951) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim
• 246 • The Recording • (1972) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 250 • Red Carpet Treatment • (1965) • short story by Robert Lipsyte
• 252 • The Sacrifice • (1982) • short story by Gardner Dozois
• 255 • Santa's Tenth Reindeer • (1984) • short story by Gordon Van Gelder
• 259 • The Second Short-Shortest Fantasy Story Ever Ever Published • (1984) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 260 • Sleep • (1982) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 264 • Some Days Are Like That • (1982) • short story by Bruce Balfour [as by Bruce J. Balfour]
• 266 • Temporarily at Liberty • (1951) • short story by Lawrence Goldman
• 270 • The Thing That Stared • (1959) • short story by Richard Wilson
• 273 • Thinking the Unthinkable • (1983) • short story by Wil Creveling
• 275 • The Third Wish • short story by Rick Norwood (variant of Omnia Triste 1972)
• 276 • Those Three Wishes • (1982) • short story by Judith Gorog
• 278 • Thus I Refute • (1972) • short story by Terry Carr
• 284 • The Toe • (1982) • short story by Phyllis Ann Karr
• 287 • Tommy's Christmas • (1983) • short story by John R. Little
• 290 • The Tower Bird • (1978) • short story by Jane Yolen
• 292 • Vernon's Dragon • (1982) • short story by John Gregory Betancourt
• 294 • Voodoo • (1954) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 296 • Weather Prediction • (1955) • short story by Evelyn E. Smith
• 300 • Who Rides with Santa Anna? • (1959) • short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 303 • Wisher Takes All • (1950) • short story by William F. Temple
• 305 • The World Where Wishes Worked • (1971) • short story by Stephen Goldin
• 308 • Your Soul Comes C.O.D. • (1952) • short story by Mack Reynolds