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• v • Quanto dura un fiore • essay by Ernesto Franco
• xv • Prefazione alla prima edizione: Buenos Aires 1940 • (1981) • essay by Adolfo Bioy Casares (trans. of Prólogo (Antología de la literatura fantástica) 1940)
• xxv • Poscritto: Rincon Viejo, Pardo, 16 marzo 1965 • (1981) • essay by Adolfo Bioy Casares (trans. of Postdata (Antología de la literatura fantástica) 1965) [as by A. B. C.]
• xxix • Prefazione alla prima edizione italiana: Buenos Aires 1980 • (1981) • essay by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges
• 3 • Gli occhi colpevoli • (1981) • short story by Ah'med Ech Chiruani (trans. of Los ojos culpables 1955)
• 5 • Sennin • (1981) • short story by
  芥川龍之介^?Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  (trans. of
  仙人^?Sen'nin
  1916) [as by Akutagawa Ryunosuke]
• 11 • Sola con la sua anima • short story by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (trans. of A Woman Alone with Her Soul 1912)
• 13 • A forma di cesta • short story by John Aubrey (trans. of The Phantom Basket 1696)
• 15 • Enoch Soames • (1947) • novelette by Max Beerbohm (trans. of Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties 1916)
• 49 • Ombre suole vestire... • (1981) • novelette by
  José Bianco^?Jose Bianco
  (trans. of Sombras suele vestir 1941)
• 87 • Il calamaro sceglie il suo inchiostro • (2005) • short story by Adolfo Bioy Casares (trans. of El calamar opta por su tinta 1962)
• 103 • Chi è il re? • (1981) • short fiction by Léon Bloy (trans. of Le mendiant ingrat 1898)
• 104 • I piaceri di questo mondo • (1981) • short fiction by Léon Bloy (trans. of Le vieux de la montagne 1909)
• 105 • I prigionieri di Longjumeau • (1975) • short story by Léon Bloy (trans. of Les captifs de Longjumeau 1893)
• 111 • Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius • (1974) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of
  Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius^?Tloen, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
  1940)
• 129 • Odino • (1973) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges and Delia Ingenieros (trans. of Odin 1951)
• 131 • La scodella rovesciata • (1979) • short story by Martin Buber (trans. of El descuido 1955)
• 133 • L'opera e il poeta • (1973) • short story by Sir Richard Francis Burton (trans. of The Work and the Poet 1887) [as by Richard Francis Burton]
• 135 • Il destino è maldestro • short story by Arturo Cancela and Pilar de Lusarreta (trans. of El destino es chambón 1920)
• 151 • Lo specchio di vento e luna • (1981) • short fiction by Tsao Hsueh-Chin (trans. of El espejo de viento-y-luna 1940) [as by Cao Xueqin]
• 153 • Sogno infinito di Bao Ru • (1981) • short fiction by Tsao Hsueh-Chin (trans. of Sueño infinito de Pao Yu 1940) [as by Cao Xueqin]
• 155 • Un autentico fantasma • short story by Thomas Carlyle (trans. of An Actual Authentic Ghost 1834)
• 157 • Il sogno del re • [Alice] • (1947) • short fiction by Lewis Carroll (trans. of The Red King's Dream 1871)
• 159 • L'albero dell'orgoglio • short fiction by G. K. Chesterton (trans. of The Trees of Pride 1922) [as by Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
• 161 • La torre di Babele • short fiction by G. K. Chesterton (trans. of The Tower of Babel 1922) [as by Gilbert Keith Chesterton]
• 163 • Il gesto della morte • (1981) • short fiction by Jean Cocteau (trans. of Le jardinier et la Mort 1923)
• 165 • Casa occupata • (1974) • short story by
  Julio Cortázar^?Julio Cortazar
  (trans. of Casa tomada 1946)
• 173 • Essere polvere • short story by Santiago Dabove (trans. of Ser polvo 1933)
• 181 • Ghiottoneria mistica • (1981) • essay by Alexandra David-Neel (trans. of Parmi les mystiques et les magiciens du Tibet [1] 1929)
• 182 • La persecuzione del maestro • (1981) • essay by Alexandra David-Neel (trans. of Parmi les mystiques et les magiciens du Tibet [2] 1929)
• 183 • Una notte in una taverna • (1981) • short story by Lord Dunsany (trans. of A Night at an Inn 1916)
• 197 • Tantalia • short story by Macedonio Fernández (trans. of Tantalia 1940)
• 205 • Vivere per sempre • essay by J. G. Frazer (trans. of Eternal Life 1913) [as by James George Frazer]
• 207 • Un credente • short story by George Loring Frost (trans. of A Believer 1923)
• 209 • Una stabile dimora • short story by Elena Garro (trans. of Un hogar sólido 1957)
• 223 • Peggio dell'inferno • short story by
  Ramón Gómez de la Serna^?Ramon Gomez de la Serna
  (trans. of Peor que el Infierno 1940)
• 225 • Il sangue nel giardino • short story by
  Ramón Gómez de la Serna^?Ramon Gomez de la Serna
  (trans. of
  La sangre en el jardín^?La sangre en el jardin
  1940)
• 227 • I vincitori del giorno dopo • short story by Holloway Horn (trans. of The Old Man 1931)
• 233 • Finale per un racconto fantastico • (1973) • short story by I. A. Ireland (trans. of Climax for a Ghost Story 1919)
• 235 • La zampa della scimmia • (1960) • short story by W. W. Jacobs (trans. of The Monkey's Paw 1902) [as by William Wymark Jacobs]
• 251 • Definizione di un fantasma • (1960) • short fiction by James Joyce (trans. of What Is a Ghost? 1921)
• 252 • May Goulding • (1960) • short fiction by James Joyce (trans. of May Goulding 1921)
• 253 • Il mago rimandato • (1961) • short story by Don Juan Manuel (trans. of El brujo postergado 1933)
• 257 • Giuseppina la cantante: ossia Il popolo dei topi • (1980) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of
  Josefine, die Sängerin oder Das Volk der Mäuse^?Josefine, die Saengerin oder Das Volk der Maeuse
  1924)
• 275 • Davanti alla legge • (1980) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of Vor dem Gesetz 1915)
• 277 • La più bella storia del mondo • (1967) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling (trans. of The Finest Story in the World 1891)
• 311 • Storia di Abdula, il mendicante cieco • [Arabian Nights, Single Stories] • (1981) • short story by uncredited (trans. of Historia de Abdula, el mendio ciego 1940)
• 317 • Il cervo nascosto • (1973) • short story by
  列子^?Lièzĭ
  Liezi
  Lieh-Tzu
  Lieh Tzu
  (trans. of
  得鹿梦^?Dé lù mèng
  unknown) [as by Liezi]
• 319 • La tortura della speranza • (1981) • short story by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. of La torture par l'espérance 1883)
• 327 • I cavalli di Abdera • short story by Leopoldo Lugones (trans. of Los caballos de Abdera 1906)
• 335 • L'uomo che non credeva ai miracoli • short story by Herbert Allen Giles (trans. of The Man Who Did Not Believe in Miracles 1915) [as by Leopoldo Lugones (in error)]
• 337 • Chissà? • (1993) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Qui sait ? 1890)
• 351 • L'ombra delle mosse • (1973) • short story by Edwin Morgan (I) (trans. of The Shadow of the Moves, I 1929)
• 353 • Il gatto • short story by H. A. Murena (trans. of El gato 1965) [as by Hèctor Alvarez Murena]
• 357 • Storia di volpi • (1973) • short story by Niu Chiao (trans. of Historia de zorros 1955) [as by Niu Sengru]
• 359 • L'espiazione • short story by Silvina Ocampo (trans. of La expiación 1961)
• 373 • Dov'è segnata la croce • (1962) • short story by Eugene O'Neill (trans. of Where the Cross is Made 1918)
• 395 • L'ultima visita del gentiluomo malato • (1906) • short story by Giovanni Papini
• 401 • Rani • short story by Carlos Peralta (trans. of Rani 1965)
• 409 • Punto morto • short story by Barry Perowne (trans. of The Blind Spot 1945)
• 423 • Il lupo • (1968) • short story by Petronius (trans. of Satyricon [LXII] 1669) [as by Gaio Petronio]
• 425 • Il busto • (1981) • short story by Manuel Peyrou (trans. of El busto 1940)
• 433 • Testimonianza sul caso del signor Valdemar • (1983) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (trans. of The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar 1845)
• 443 • Come discendemmo nell'isola di ferraglia • [Gargantua et Pantagruel] • (1953) • short fiction by
  François Rabelais^?Francois Rabelais
  (trans. of Comment nous descendismes en l'isle des ferremens 1564)
• 447 • L'incontro: racconto della dinastia Tang • (1973) • short story by uncredited (trans. of El encuentro 1955)
• 451 • Sredni Vashtar • non-genre • (1950) • short story by Saki (trans. of Sredni Vashtar 1910)
• 457 • Dove il suo fuoco non si spegnerà mai • (1981) • novelette by May Sinclair (trans. of Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched 1922)
• 469 • Il fazzoletto che si tesse da solo • (1981) • short fiction by W. W. Skeat (trans. of The Cloth Which Weaves Itself 1900) [as by Walter William Skeat]
• 471 • Storie universali • (1981) • short fiction by Olaf Stapledon (trans. of Universal History 1937)
• 473 • Un teologo nella morte • (1961) • essay by Emanuel Swedenborg (trans. of
  Arcana Cœlestia (excerpt)^?Arcana Coelestia (excerpt)
  1749)
• 475 • Storia di due che sognarono • (1961) • essay by Gustav Weil (trans. of
  Geschichte des Abbassidenchalifats in Ägypten (excerpt)^?Geschichte des Abbassidenchalifats in Aegypten (excerpt)
  1862)
• 477 • Il fu signor Elvesham • (1966) • short story by H. G. Wells (trans. of The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham 1896) [as by Herbert George Wells]
• 499 • I donghi • (1974) • short story by J. Rodolfo Wilcock [as by Juan Rodolfo Wilcock]
• 511 • La setta del Loto Bianco • (1973) • short story by Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930) (trans. of
  Die Sekte vom weißen Lotos^?Die Sekte vom Weissen Lotos
  1914)
• 513 • I cervi celestiali • short story by G. Willoughby-Meade (trans. of The Celestial Stag 1928)
• 514 • Il libro protettore • (1973) • short story by G. Willoughby-Meade (trans. of Saved by the Book 1928)
• 517 • La sentenza • [西遊記 / Monkey] • (1971) • short story by uncredited (trans. of The Death Sentence) [as by Wu Zheng'en]
• 521 • Il sogno della farfalla • short story by
  莊子^?Chuang Tzu
  Zhuangzi
  Zhuāngzǐ
  Chuang-tzu
  (trans. of
  蝴蝶的夢想^?Húdié de mèngxiǎng
  unknown) [as by Zhuangzi]
• 523 • Frammento • short story by José Zorrilla (trans. of El espectador 1844)
• 525 • Notizie sulle traduzioni (Antologia della letteratura fantastica: nuova edizione) • essay by uncredited