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• vii • Introduction (The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Second Series) • essay by Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas
• 3 • Budding Explorer • (1952) • short story by Ralph Robin
• 17 • The Shout • (1929) • novelette by Robert Graves
• 44 • The Tooth • (1952) • short story by G. Gordon Dewey
• 69 • Ugly Sister • (1935) • short story by Jan Struther
• 80 • The Black Ball • [Gavagan's Bar] • (1952) • short story by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
• 93 • The Hole in the Moon • (1952) • short story by Margaret St. Clair [as by Idris Seabright]
• 101 • The Third Level • (1950) • short story by Jack Finney
• 108 • The Cheery Soul • (1942) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
• 123 • Ransom • (1952) • short story by H. B. Fyfe
• 134 • The Earlier Service • (1935) • short story by Margaret Irwin
• 155 • The Hyperspherical Basketball • [C. P. Ransom • 4] • (1951) • short story by H. Nearing, Jr.
• 179 • The Desrick on Yandro • [John the Balladeer] • (1952) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 197 • Come On, Wagon! • (1951) • short story by Zenna Henderson
• 210 • Jizzle • (1949) • short story by John Wyndham
• 227 • Stair Trick • (1952) • short story by Mildred Clingerman
• 235 • The Soothsayer • (1952) • short story by Kem Bennett
• 246 • Hobson's Choice • (1952) • short story by Alfred Bester
• 268 • Letters to the Editor • (1950) • short story by Ron Goulart