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• xi • Introduction (The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy) • (1996) • essay by Peter Haining
• 3 • Theatre of Cruelty • [Discworld] • (1993) • short story by Terry Pratchett
• 9 • How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 16 • Hell Hath No Fury • (1934) • short story by John Collier
• 24 • The Twonky • (1942) • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• 50 • A Great Deal of Power • (1953) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 65 • Doodad • (1943) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 82 • Not by Its Cover • (1968) • short story by Philip K. Dick
• 95 • The Rule of Names • [Earthsea Cycle] • (1964) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 111 • Mythological Beast • (1979) • novelette by Stephen R. Donaldson
• 134 • The Adventure of the Snowing Globe • (1905) • short story by F. Anstey
• 154 • Affairs in Poictesme (excerpt from Figures of Earth) • [Biography of the Life of Manuel] • (1996) • short fiction by James Branch Cabell
• 163 • The Ring of Hans Carvel • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 166 • The Bait • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1973) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 171 • A Good Knight's Work • (1941) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 199 • Poor Little Warrior! • (1958) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss
• 207 • The Odd Old Bird • [Doctor Eszterhazy] • (1988) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 223 • Young Zaphod Plays It Safe • [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] • (1986) • short story by Douglas Adams
• 238 • The Wild Asses of the Devil • (1915) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 252 • Ministering Angels • (1955) • short story by C. S. Lewis
• 266 • The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out • [Schimmelhorn] • (1950) • short story by Reginald Bretnor
• 284 • Captain Wyxtpthll's Flying Saucer • (1951) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of Trouble with the Natives)
• 300 • Playboy and the Slime God • (1961) • short story by Isaac Asimov (variant of What Is This Thing Called Love?)
• 317 • There's a Wolf in My Time Machine • [Svetz] • (1971) • short story by Larry Niven
• 338 • 2 B R 0 2 B • (1962) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.