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• 7 • Prólogo (Antología de la literatura fantástica) • (1940) • essay by Adolfo Bioy Casares
• 15 • Postdata (Antología de la literatura fantástica) • (1965) • essay by Adolfo Bioy Casares [as by A. B. C.]
• 19 • Sennin • (1965) • short story by
  芥川龍之介^?Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  (trans. of
  仙人^?Sen'nin
  1916) [as by Ryunosuke Akutagawa]
• 24 • Los ojos culpables • (1955) • short story by Ah'med Ech Chiruani
• 25 • Sola y su alma • (1940) • short story by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (trans. of A Woman Alone with Her Soul 1912)
• 25 • En forma de canasta • (1940) • short story by John Aubrey (trans. of The Phantom Basket 1696)
• 26 • Enoch Soames • (1940) • novelette by Max Beerbohm (trans. of Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties 1916)
• 55 • Sombras suele vestir • (1941) • novelette by José Bianco
• 94 • El calamar opta por su tinta • (1962) • short story by Adolfo Bioy Casares
• 107 • ¿Quién es el Rey? • (1940) • short fiction by Léon Bloy (trans. of Le mendiant ingrat 1898)
• 108 • Los goces de este mundo • (1940) • short fiction by Léon Bloy (trans. of Le vieux de la montagne 1909)
• 108 • Los cautivos de Longjumeau • (1965) • short story by Léon Bloy (trans. of Les captifs de Longjumeau 1893)
• 112 •
  Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius^?Tloen, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
  • (1940) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges
• 130 • Odin • (1951) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges and Delia Ingenieros
• 130 • El descuido • (1955) • short story by Martin Buber
• 131 • La obra y el poeta • (1955) • short story by Sir Richard Francis Burton (trans. of The Work and the Poet 1887) [as by R. F. Burton]
• 132 • El destino es chambón • (1920) • short story by Arturo Cancela and Pilar de Lusarreta
• 148 • Un auténtico fantasma • (1940) • short story by Thomas Carlyle (trans. of An Actual Authentic Ghost 1834)
• 148 • El sueño del rey • [Alice] • (1940) • short fiction by Lewis Carroll (trans. of The Red King's Dream 1871)
• 149 • El gesto de la Muerte • (1955) • short story by Jean Cocteau (trans. of Le jardinier et la Mort 1923)
• 150 • Casa tomada • (1946) • short story by
  Julio Cortázar^?Julio Cortazar
• 156 • El árbol del orgullo • (1940) • novelette by G. K. Chesterton (trans. of The Trees of Pride 1922)
• 157 • La pagoda de Babel • (1940) • short story by G. K. Chesterton (trans. of The Tower of Babel 1922)
• 158 • Sueño de la mariposa • (1940) • short story by
  莊子^?Chuang Tzu
  Zhuangzi
  Zhuāngzǐ
  Chuang-tzu
  (trans. of
  蝴蝶的夢想^?Húdié de mèngxiǎng
  unknown) [as by Chuang Tzu]
• 158 • Ser polvo • (1933) • short story by Santiago Dabove
• 165 • Glotonería mística • (1940) • essay by Alexandra David-Neel (trans. of Parmi les mystiques et les magiciens du Tibet [1] 1929)
• 166 • La persecución del Maestro • (1940) • essay by Alexandra David-Neel (trans. of Parmi les mystiques et les magiciens du Tibet [2] 1929)
• 166 • Una noche en una taberna • (1940) • short fiction by Lord Dunsany (trans. of A Night at an Inn 1916)
• 179 • Tantalia • (1940) • short story by Macedonio Fernández
• 186 • Vivir para siempre • (1940) • essay by J. G. Frazer (trans. of Eternal Life 1913) [as by James George Frazer]
• 187 • Un creyente • (1940) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of A Believer 1923) [as by George Loring Frost]
• 187 • Un hogar sólido • (1957) • short story by Elena Garro
• 200 • El negador de milagros • (1940) • short story by Herbert Allen Giles (trans. of The Man Who Did Not Believe in Miracles 1915) [as by Giles]
• 201 • Peor que el Infierno • (1940) • short story by Ramón Gómez de la Serna
• 202 • La sangre en el jardín • (1940) • short story by Ramón Gómez de la Serna
• 202 • Los ganadores de mañana • (1934) • short story by Holloway Horn (trans. of The Old Man 1931)
• 207 • Final para un cuento fantástico • (1940) • short story by I. A. Ireland (trans. of Climax for a Ghost Story 1919)
• 208 • La pata de mono • (1940) • short story by W. W. Jacobs (trans. of The Monkey's Paw 1902)
• 219 • Definición del fantasma • (1940) • short fiction by James Joyce (trans. of What Is a Ghost? 1921)
• 219 • May Goulding • (1940) • short fiction by James Joyce (trans. of May Goulding 1921)
• 220 • El brujo postergado • short story by Don Juan Manuel
• 222 • Josefina la cantora o El pueblo de los ratones • (1940) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of
  Josefine, die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse^?Josefine, die Saengerin oder Das Volk der Maeuse
  1924)
• 237 • Ante la ley • (1940) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of Vor dem Gesetz 1915)
• 239 • "El cuento más hermoso del mundo" • (1940) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling (trans. of The Finest Story in the World 1891)
• 269 • Historia de Abdula, el mendio ciego • [Arabian Nights, Single Stories] • (1940) • short story by uncredited
• 273 • El ciervo escondido • (1955) • short story by
  列子^?Lièzĭ
  Liezi
  Lieh-Tzu
  Lieh Tzu
  (trans. of
  得鹿梦^?Dé lù mèng
  unknown) [as by Liehtse]
• 275 • La esperanza • (1940) • short story by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. of La torture par l'espérance 1883) [as by Villiers de l'Isle Adam]
• 279 • Los caballos de Abdera • (1906) • short story by Leopoldo Lugones
• 287 • ¿Quién sabe? • (1940) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Qui sait ? 1890)
• 297 • La sombra de las jugadas • (1955) • short story by Edwin Morgan (trans. of The Shadow of the Players 1988)
• 298 • El gato • (1965) • short story by H. A. Murena
• 301 • Historia de zorros • (1955) • short story by Niu Chiao
• 303 • La expiación • (1961) • short story by Silvina Ocampo
• 316 • Donde está marcada la cruz • (1940) • short story by Eugene O'Neill (trans. of Where the Cross is Made 1918)
• 337 • La última visita del caballero enfermo • (1940) • short story by Giovanni Papini (trans. of L'ultima visita del gentiluomo malato 1906)
• 341 • Rani • (1965) • short story by Carlos Peralta
• 349 • Punto muerto • (1965) • short story by Barry Perowne (trans. of The Blind Spot 1945)
• 362 • El lobo • (1940) • short story by Petronius (trans. of Satirion [LXII] 1669) [as by Petronio]
• 363 • El busto • (1940) • short story by Manuel Peyrou
• 371 • La verdad sobre el caso de M. Valdemar • (1940) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (trans. of The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar 1845)
• 379 • Cómo descendimos en la isla de las herramientas • [Gargantua et Pantagruel] • (1940) • short fiction by
  François Rabelais^?Francois Rabelais
  (trans. of Comment nous descendismes en l'isle des ferremens 1564)
• 380 • Sredni Vashtar • (1940) • short story by Saki (trans. of Sredni Vashtar 1910)
• 385 • Donde su fuego nunca se apaga • (1934) • short story by May Sinclair (trans. of Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched 1922)
• 397 • Historias universales • (1940) • short fiction by Olaf Stapledon (trans. of Universal History 1937)
• 397 • Un teólogo en la muerte • (1940) • essay by Emanuel Swedenborg (trans. of A Theologian in Death 1971) [as by Manuel Swedenborg]
• 399 • El encuentro • (1955) • short story by uncredited
• 401 • El espejo de viento-y-luna • (1940) • short story by Tsao Hsueh-Chin [as by Tsao Hsue-Kin]
• 403 • Sueño infinito de Pao Yu • (1940) • short story by Tsao Hsueh-Chin [as by Tsao Hsue-Kin]
• 404 •
  Historia de los dos que soñaron^?Historia de los dos que sonaron
  • (1940) • essay by Gustav Weil (trans. of
  Geschichte des Abbassidenchalifats in Ägypten (excerpt)^?Geschichte des Abbassidenchalifats in Aegypten (excerpt)
  1862)
• 405 • El caso del difunto mister Elvesham • (1940) • short story by H. G. Wells (trans. of The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham 1896)
• 417 • Los Donguis • (1965) • short story by Juan Rodolfo Wilcok
• 428 • La secta del Loto Blanco • (1940) • short story by Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930) (trans. of Die Sekte vom Weißen Lotos 1914)
• 429 • Los ciervos celestiales • (1965) • short story by G. Willoughby-Meade (trans. of The Celestial Stag 1928) [as by G. Willoughby Meade]
• 429 • La protección por el libro • (1965) • short story by G. Willoughby-Meade (trans. of Saved by the Book 1928) [as by G. Willoughby Meade]
• 430 • La sentencia • [西遊記 / Monkey] • (1955) • short story by uncredited (trans. of The Death Sentence 1971) [as by Wu Ch'êng-ên]
• 431 • Fragmento • (1844) • short fiction by José Zorrilla (variant of El espectador)