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• vii • Introduction (A Magic Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic) • essay by Margaret Weis
• 1 • What Good Is a Glass Dagger? • [Magic Goes Away] • (1972) • novelette by Larry Niven
• 41 • The Princess and the Bear • (1980) • novelette by Orson Scott Card
• 72 • The Summoning • (1991) • short story by Katherine Kurtz
• 85 • As Is • (1968) • novelette by Robert Silverberg
• 102 • The Alchemist and the Witch • (1991) • novelette by Christopher Stasheff
• 133 • Fiddler Fair • [Ithkar] • (1986) • novelette by Mercedes Lackey
• 151 • Wizard's World • (1967) • novella by Andre Norton
• 202 • Geroldo's Incredible Trick • (1995) • short story by Raymond E. Feist
• 211 • Willow • (1982) • novelette by C. J. Cherryh
• 232 • The Vacation • (1963) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 240 • Mazirian the Magician • [Dying Earth] • (1950) • short story by Jack Vance
• 257 • Bazaar of the Bizarre • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1963) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
• 282 • The Lady's Gifts • (1995) • short story by Melanie Rawn
• 295 • The Walker Behind • [Lythande] • (1987) • short story by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• 312 • Anything Box • (1956) • short story by Zenna Henderson (variant of The Anything Box)
• 327 • The White Horse Child • (1979) • short story by Greg Bear
• 347 • Armaja Das • (1976) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• 366 • ROVPD/CAVEE/EFI • (1995) • novelette by F. Paul Wilson
• 391 • The Word of Unbinding • [Earthsea Cycle] • (1964) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 398 • The Last Defender of Camelot • (1979) • novelette by Roger Zelazny