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