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• xi • Preface (Man Unwept: Visions from the Inner Eye) • essay by Stanley J. Cook and Stephen V. Whaley
• [2] •  The Sacrament of the Last Supper • interior artwork by Salvador Dali
• 1 • Part 1: Man and Technology: The Birth of Gods • essay by Stanley J. Cook and Stephen V. Whaley
• 8 • The Second Coming • (1920) • poem by W. B. Yeats [as by William Butler Yeats]
• 9 • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream • (1967) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 26 • Excerpt from Book III of Gulliver's Travels • short fiction by Jonathan Swift
• 38 • The Machine Stops • (1909) • novelette by E. M. Forster
• 72 • Twilight • [Twilight • 1] • (1966) • novelette by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by John W. Campbell]
• 96 •  The Shriek • interior artwork by Edvard Munch (variant of cover art for Skrik (painting) 1893)
• 97 • Part 2: Man Against Society: Rebellion and Escape • essay by Stanley J. Cook and Stephen V. Whaley
• 103 • Addict • (1966) • poem by Anne Sexton
• 105 • Rhinoceros • (1960) • short fiction by Eugène Ionesco
• 121 • The Happy Man • (1963) • novelette by Gerald W. Page
• 148 • A World Ends • short story by Wolfgang Hildesheimer
• 155 • A Rose for Ecclesiastes • (1963) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 196 •  Signs • interior artwork by Robert Rauschenberg
• 197 • Part 3: Man Against Man: The Roots of Violence • essay by Stanley J. Cook and Stephen V. Whaley
• 202 • A Touch of Peace • poem by S. Vickory
• 204 • The Hunter Gracchus • [Der Jäger Gracchus] • (1933) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of Der Jäger Gracchus 1931)
• 210 • Arena • (1944) • novelette by Fredric Brown
• 239 • The Illustrated Man • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 252 • The Big Flash • (1969) • novelette by Norman Spinrad
• 276 •  [untitled] • interior artwork by uncredited
• 277 • Part 4: Man and His Children: Generations of Change • essay by Stanley J. Cook and Stephen V. Whaley
• 283 • Infant Sorrow • (1794) • poem by William Blake
• 284 • The Rocking-Horse Winner • (1926) • short story by D. H. Lawrence
• 300 • Thus I Refute Beelzy • (1940) • short story by John Collier
• 306 • Absalom • (1946) • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• 322 • Nine Lives • (1969) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin