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• i • Introduction (Happily Ever After) • essay by Bill Willingham
• ii • A Night in the Lonesome November • short fiction by Bill Willingham
• 1 • The Seven Stage a Comeback • (2000) • poem by Gregory Maguire
• 15 • And in Their Glad Rags • short fiction by Genevieve Valentine
• 31 • The Sawing Boys • (1994) • short story by Howard Waldrop
• 45 • Bear It Away • (2000) • short story by Michael Cadnum
• 51 • Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower • [The Raven King] • (2000) • novella by Susanna Clarke
• 79 • The Black Fairy's Curse • (1997) • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• 83 • My Life as a Bird • [Newford] • (1996) • novelette by Charles de Lint
• 103 • The Night Market • (2004) • short story by Holly Black
• 115 • The Rose in Twelve Petals • (2002) • short story by Theodora Goss
• 129 • The Red Path • [Fairy Tale Princesses] • (2009) • short story by Jim C. Hines
• 141 • Blood & Water • [Fairy Tales of Arilland] • (2008) • novelette by Alethea Kontis
• 155 • Hansel's Eyes • (2000) • short story by Garth Nix
• 163 • He Died That Day, in Thirty Years • (2002) • novelette by Wil McCarthy
• 185 • Snow in Summer • (2000) • short story by Jane Yolen
• 191 • The Rose Garden • (2004) • novelette by Michelle West
• 213 • The Little Magic Shop • (1987) • short story by Bruce Sterling
• 223 • Black Feather • (2007) • short story by K. Tempest Bradford
• 235 • Fifi's Tail • short fiction by Alan Rodgers (variant of Fifi's Tale 1999)
• 255 • The Faery Handbag • (2004) • novelette by Kelly Link
• 271 • Ashputtle • (1994) • novelette by Peter Straub
• 285 • The Emperor's New (and Improved) Clothes • (1999) • short story by Leslie What
• 293 • Pinocchio's Diary • novelette by Robert J. Howe
• 331 • Little Red • (1993) • short story by Wendy Wheeler
• 341 • The Troll Bridge • (1993) • short fiction by Neil Gaiman (variant of Troll-Bridge)
• 349 • The Price • (1999) • short story by Patricia Briggs
• 363 • Ailoura • (2002) • novelette by Paul Di Filippo
• 387 • The Farmer's Cat • (2005) • short story by Jeff VanderMeer
• 393 • The Root of the Matter • (1993) • novelette by Gregory Frost
• 413 • Like a Red, Red Rose • (1993) • novelette by Susan Wade
• 429 • Chasing America • (2006) • novelette by Josh Rountree
• 447 • Stalking Beans • (1993) • short story by Nancy Kress
• 455 • Big Hair • (2000) • short story by Esther M. Friesner [as by Esther Friesner]
• 465 • The Return of the Dark Children • (2002) • short fiction by Robert Coover