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•  First World Fantasy Awards • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 9 • Introduction (First World Fantasy Awards) • essay by Gahan Wilson
• 11 •  Map of Providence • interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• 15 • The Convention • essay by Kirby McCauley
• 17 • About the Fantasy Awards • essay by David G. Hartwell
• 19 • The Awards • essay by Gahan Wilson
• 21 • The Bat Is My Brother • (1944) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 36 • Beetles • (1938) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 46 • Acceptance Speech • essay by Robert Bloch
• 53 • About Robert Bloch • essay by uncredited
• 55 • The Forgotten Beasts of Eld (excerpt) • short fiction by Patricia A. McKillip
• 63 • An Essay • essay by Robert Aickman
• 66 • Pages from a Young Girl's Journal • (1973) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 97 • The Events at Poroth Farm • (1972) • novella by T. E. D. Klein
• 137 • A Father's Tale • [Brigadier Ffellowes] • (1974) • novelette by Sterling E. Lanier
• 168 • Sticks • [Cthulhu Mythos short fiction] • (1974) • novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• 187 • Come Into My Parlor • (1949) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 198 • Fearful Rock • [Sgt. Jaeger] • (1939) • novella by Manly Wade Wellman
• 253 • About Manly Wade Wellman • essay by uncredited
• 254 • The Ballantines • essay by uncredited
• 256 • Lee Brown Coye // An Appreciation • (1974) • essay by Gahan Wilson (variant of Lee Brown Coye: An Appreciation)
• 260 • The Bait • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1973) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 263 • The Vampire in America • (1973) • essay by Manly Wade Wellman
• 268 • The Shortest Way • (1974) • short story by David Drake
• 277 • From "Chips and Shavings" • (1963) • essay by Lee Brown Coye
• 279 • The Soft Wall • (1974) • short story by Dennis Etchison
• 290 • Toward a Greater Appreciation of H. P. Lovecraft: The Analytical Approach • (1973) • essay by Dirk W. Mosig [as by Professor Dirk W. Mosig]
• 302 • Cradle Song for an Abandoned Werewolf • (1973) • poem by H. Warner Munn
• 302 • The Abandoned Boudoir • (1974) • poem by Joseph Payne Brennan
• 303 • Guillotine • (1970) • poem by Walter Shedlofsky
• 304 • The Farmhouse • (1971) • short story by David A. Riley