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• 9 • Introduction (The Golden Road) • essay by Damon Knight
• 13 • Are You Too Late or Was I Too Early? • (1951) • short story by John Collier
• 18 • Entire and Perfect Chrysolite • (1970) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 32 • Jenny with Wings • (1963) • short story by Kate Wilhelm
• 46 • The Truth About Pyecraft • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 57 • The Words of Guru • (1941) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• 65 • Postpaid to Paradise • [Murchison Morks] • (1940) • short story by Robert Arthur
• 79 • The White People • (1904) • novelette by Arthur Machen
• 118 • Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven • (1907) • novelette by Mark Twain
• 156 • Will You Wait? • (1959) • short story by Alfred Bester
• 164 • The King of the Cats • (1929) • short story by
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• 179 • The Word of Unbinding • [Earthsea Cycle] • (1964) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 186 • Magic, Inc. • (1940) • novella by Robert A. Heinlein
• 279 • Anything Box • (1956) • short story by Zenna Henderson (variant of The Anything Box)
• 293 • Artist Unknown • (1941) • short story by Heywood Broun
• 297 • The Silence • (1941) • short story by Venard McLaughlin
• 307 • The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath • [Randolph Carter] • (1943) • novella by H. P. Lovecraft
• 412 • The Weeblies • (1953) • short story by Algis Budrys
• 420 • Phantas • (1910) • short story by Oliver Onions
• 436 • Not Long Before the End • [Magic Goes Away] • (1969) • short story by Larry Niven