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• A Quest Must End • (1948) • novella by Theodore Goodridge Roberts
• A Sword for Arthur (excerpt) • (1995) • short fiction by Vera Chapman
• Cauldron of Light • (1999) • short story by Diana L. Paxson
• Dramatis Personae: A guide to Arthurian characters (The Chronicles of the Holy Grail) • (1995) • essay by Mike Ashley
• Dream Reader • [Merlin's Booke] • (1986) • novelette by Jane Yolen
• Infantasm • (1995) • novelette by Robert Holdstock
• Introduction (The Merlin Chronicles) • (1995) • essay by Mike Ashley
• King's Mage • (1995) • short story by Tanith Lee
• Merlin and Tom Thumb • (1995) • short story by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (variant of Tom Thumb 1863) [as by Dinah Maria Mulock]
• Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood • [Ottawa and the Valley] • (1990) • short story by Charles de Lint
• Merlin's Dark Mirror • (1995) • short story by Phyllis Ann Karr
• Midwinter • (1995) • short story by David Sutton
• Morte d'Espier • (1955) • short story by Maxey Brooke
• Namer of Beasts, Maker of Souls: The Romance of Sylvester and Nimuë • (1995) • novelette by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• Ogier the Dane • (1919) • short story by Madalen Edgar and William Morris
• The Castle of Kerglas • (1995) • short story by Émile Souvestre (trans. of Peronnik l'idiot 1844)
• The Corruption of Perfection • (2000) • novelette by Mike Ashley
• The Death of Nimuë • (1985) • short story by Esther M. Friesner
• The Dragon Line • (1988) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• The Horse Who Would Be King • (1992) • short story by Jennifer Roberson
• The Knight of Pale Countenance • (1995) • short story by Darrell Schweitzer
• The Pledged Word (excerpt from The Mists of Avalon) • [Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)] • (1995) • short fiction by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Purpose of Merlin • (1965) • short story by Colin R. Fry
• The Rite of Challenge (excerpt) • (1995) • short fiction by Peter Valentine Timlett
• The Seven Champions • (1906) • short story by E. M. Wilmot-Buxton
• The Sleeper and the Seer (excerpt from King of the World's Edge) • [Merlin's Godson] • (1995) • short fiction by H. Warner Munn
• The Temptations of Merlin • (1995) • novella by Peter Tremayne