Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Introduction: Over the Hills and Far Away • (1969) • essay by Lin Carter
• The Ogre • (1961) • short story by unknown
• The High History of the Sword Gram • [Volsungs] • (1870) • short story by unknown
• Manawyddan Son of the Boundless • (1930) • short story by Kenneth Morris
• Puck's Song • (1905) • poem by Rudyard Kipling
• Barrow-Wight • juvenile • (1890) • short story by Sabine Baring-Gould [as by S. Baring-Gould]
• Fingal at the Siege of Carric-Thura • (1969) • poem by James Macpherson
• The Sword of Avalon (excerpt from Le Morte d'Arthur) • (1969) • short fiction by Sir Thomas Malory
• Tom O'Bedlam's Song • (1969) • poem by Anonymous
• The Last Giant of the Elder Age • (1886) • short story by unknown (variant of Ilya of Murom the Peasant Hero, and Hero Svyatogor)
• The Lost Words of Power • (1969) • poem by unknown
• Wonderful Things Beyond Cathay • (1895) • short story by unknown
• Prospero Evokes the Air Spirits (excerpt from The Tempest) • (1969) • poem by William Shakespeare
• The Lords of Faerie (excerpt from The Faerie Queen) • (1953) • short fiction by Edmund Spenser
• Tales of the Wisdom of the Ancients • (1959) • short story by unknown
• The Magical Palace of Darkness (excerpt from Palmerin of England) • [Amadis de Gaula] • (1807) • short story by Francisco de Moraes
• Rustum Against the City of Demons • (1969) • short story by Firdausi
• Childe Rolande to the Dark Tower Came • (1855) • poem by Robert Browning
• The Princess of Babylon (abridged) • (1885) • novella by Voltaire
• The Horns of Elfland • (1909) • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred Lord Tennyson]