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• v • Preface (Dreams and Wonder: Stories from the Dawn of Modern Fantasy) • essay by Mike Ashley
• ix • Sources (Dreams and Wonders: Stories from the Dawn of Modern Fantasy) • essay by uncredited
• 1 • The New Paris • (1844) • short story by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. of Der neue Paris 1811)
• 13 • Sir Bertrand, A Fragment • (1974) • short story by John Aikin and Anna Letitia Barbauld (variant of On the Pleasure Derived from Objects of Terror; with Sir Bertrand, A Fragment 1773) [as by Anna Letitia Barbauld]
• 19 • The Mines of Falun • (1967) • novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Die Bergwerke zu Falun 1819)
• 45 • The Life of Dreams • (1834) • short story by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• 53 • Siope—A Fable • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1838) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 59 • The Lady of Shalott • (1909) • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
• 65 • The Death of Fafnir • [Volsungs] • short story by
  Eiríkr Magnússon^?Eirikr Magnusson
  and William Morris
• 73 • The Golden Key • (1867) • novelette by George MacDonald
• 101 • The Story of Willie and Fancy • (1882) • short story by Lucy Clifford [as by Lucy Lane Clifford]
• 117 • The Poor Lovers • (1892) • short story by E. Nesbit [as by Edith Nesbit]
• 123 • The Fountain of Gold • (1880) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• 131 • The Potion of Lao-Tsze • (1888) • short story by Richard Garnett
• 141 • Charon Makes a Discovery • [Associated Shades] • short story by John Kendrick Bangs
• 149 • The Adventure of the Snowing Globe • (1905) • short story by F. Anstey
• 165 • The Magic Mirror • (1906) • short story by Mr. Fairbridge [as by Charles Aken Fairbridge (in error)]
• 171 • The Riddle • (1903) • short story by Walter de la Mare
• 177 • The Piper at the Gates of Dawn • (1908) • short story by Kenneth Grahame
• 187 • Inside-Out: The Story of Bunder-Runder, the Jailbird • (1917) • short story by Laurence Housman (variant of Inside-Out)
• 195 • Tales of Two Thieves • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 205 •
  Celephaïs^?Celephais
  • [Dream Cycle] • (1922) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 213 • Under the Moons of Mars • [Barsoom] • novella by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• 239 • Through the Dragon Glass • (1917) • short story by A. Merritt
• 253 • The Door in the Wall • (1906) • short story by H. G. Wells