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• 11 • this changed everything • (2001) • poem by Gerald Blair
• 17 • Foreword (The American Fantasy Tradition) • essay by Brian M. Thomsen
• 21 • Introduction: An Approach to an American Fantasy Tradition • essay by Brian M. Thomsen
• 29 • Rip Van Winkle • (1819) • short story by Washington Irving
• 41 • Feathertop: A Moralized Legend • (1852) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 54 • Uncle Remus (excerpts) • (1880) • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 61 • The Saga of Pecos Bill • (1923) • short story by Edward O'Reilly
• 66 • Rosy's Journey • (1886) • short story by Louisa May Alcott
• 73 • The Yellow Sign • [King in Yellow (Chambers)] • (1895) • novelette by Robert W. Chambers
• 86 • The Shadow Over Innsmouth • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1936) • novella by H. P. Lovecraft
• 129 • O Ugly Bird! • [John the Balladeer] • (1951) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 140 • The Fool • (1987) • novelette by David Drake
• 165 • Narrow Valley • (1966) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 175 • Jackalope • [Amos Malone • 4] • (1989) • novelette by Alan Dean Foster
• 187 • The Lottery • (1948) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 194 • Children of the Corn • (1977) • novelette by Stephen King
• 214 • Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight • (1987) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 237 • The Jolly Corner • (1908) • novelette by Henry James
• 260 • A Ghost Story • (1875) • short story by Mark Twain
• 265 • The Other Lodgers • [Some Haunted Houses] • (1907) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 267 • Ma'ame Pelagie • (1893) • short story by Kate Chopin (variant of Ma'ame Pélagie)
• 273 • The Devil and Daniel Webster • (1936) • short story by Stephen Vincent Benét
• 283 • The Valley Was Still • (1939) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 293 • The Howling Man • (1959) • short story by Charles Beaumont
• 304 • Twenty-Three • (1995) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 313 • We Are the Dead • (1937) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• 317 • Where the Summer Ends • (1980) • novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• 337 • Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa • (1980) • short story by W. P. Kinsella
• 347 • Hatrack River • [The Alvin Maker Saga] • (1986) • novelette by Orson Scott Card
• 366 • The Hero of the Night • (1988) • short story by Bradley Denton
• 376 • The Whimper of Whipped Dogs • (1973) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 391 • The Griffin and the Minor Canon • (1992) • short story by Frank R. Stockton [as by Frank Stockton]
• 401 • The Enchanted Buffalo • juvenile • [Animal Fairy Tales • 5] • (1905) • short story by L. Frank Baum
• 407 • The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
• 419 • The Moving Finger • (1901) • short story by Edith Wharton
• 430 • Slow Sculpture • (1970) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 445 • The Coin Collector • (1960) • short story by Jack Finney (variant of The Other Wife)
• 455 • Prey • (1969) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 464 • The Geezenstacks • (1943) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 471 • Paladin of the Lost Hour • (1985) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• 487 • The Black Ferris • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 493 • Bed & Breakfast • (1996) • novelette by Gene Wolfe
• 509 • Dead Run • (1985) • short story by Greg Bear
• 527 • Her Pilgrim Soul • (1990) • novelette by Alan Brennert
• 556 • Mrs. Todd's Shortcut • [Castle Rock] • (1984) • novelette by Stephen King
• 574 • Among the Handlers or, The Mark 16 Hands-On Assembly of Jesus Risen, Formerly Snake-O-Rama • (1996) • novelette by Michael Bishop
• 603 • Select Critical Bibliography (The American Fantasy Tradition) • essay by Brian M. Thomsen