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• xi • Preface (The Phoenix Tree) • essay by Robert H. Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorski
• xii • Metamorphoses (excerpt) • short fiction by Ovid
• xiii • Introduction (The Phoenix Tree) • essay by Robert H. Boyer and Kenneth J. Zahorski
• 3 • The Banished King • (1887) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 15 • Ixion in Heaven • (1833) • novelette by Benjamin Disraeli
• 45 • The Moon-Slave • (1901) • short story by Barry Pain
• 54 • The Rose and the Cup • (1916) • short story by Kenneth Morris
• 73 • The Mistress of Kaer-Mor • short story by Evangeline Walton
• 88 • The Twilight of the Gods • (1888) • short story by Richard Garnett
• 111 • The Shield-Maiden • (1909) • short story by Verner Von Heidenstam
• 124 • The Valley of the Beasts • (1921) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson [as by Algernon Blackwood]
• 149 • Witches' Hollow • (1962) • short story by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
• 167 • The Goose Girl • (1947) • novelette by Eric Linklater
• 199 • Niña Sol • (1963) • short story by Felix Marti-Ibanez
• 220 • The Bride of the Man-Horse • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 228 • The Circular Ruins • (1962) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Las ruinas circulares 1940)
• 237 • The Story of El-ahrairah and the Black Rabbit of Inlé • (1980) • short story by Richard Adams
• 254 • The Thread • short story by Vera Chapman
• 269 • Night Rider on a Pale Horse • short story by Galad Elflandsson