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• xiii • Introduction: The Second Most Serious Page in This Book • (1999) • essay by Mike Ashley
• 1 • Neander-Tale • (1980) • shortstory by James P. Hogan
• 8 • Uncle Henry Passes • (1999) • shortstory by Esther M. Friesner [as byEsther Friesner]
• 23 • A Dealing with Demons • [The Ebenezum Trilogy] • (1981) • novelette by Craig Shaw Gardner
• 52 • The Case of Jack the Clipper or A Fimbulwinter's Tale • (1997) • shortstory by David Langford
• 60 • The Shoemaker and the Elvis • (1997) • shortstory by Lawrence Schimel
• 71 • Dances with Elves • (1995) • shortstory by Cynthia Ward
• 76 • A Hedge Against Alchemy • [Kedrigern] • (1981) • shortstory by John Morressy
• 92 • A Slow Day in Hell • (1997) • shortstory by Julia S. Mandala
• 100 • How I Got Three Zip Codes • (1999) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• 106 • The Failure of Hope & Wandel • (1874) • shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
• 110 • The Birthday Gift • (1992) • shortstory by Elisabeth Waters
• 119 • Captain Honario Harpplayer, R.N. • (1963) • shortstory by Harry Harrison
• 131 • The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything • (1984) • shortstory by George Alec Effinger
• 149 • History Book: A Thog the Mighty Text • (1994) • novelette by John Grant
• 173 • Elijah P. Jopp and the Dragon • (1898) • shortstory by Archibald Marshall
• 184 • The Dragon Doctor's Apprentice • (1999) • novelette by Charles Partington
• 224 • Rules of Engagement • (1995) • shortstory by Molly Brown
• 230 • The Triumph of Vice • (1867) • shortstory by W. S. Gilbert
• 244 • The Top 50 Things I'd Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord • (1999) • essay by Peter Anspach
• 250 • How to Be Fantastic • (1995) • shortfiction by Elizabeth Counihan
• 256 • Hershey's Kisses • (1992) • shortstory by Ron Goulart
• 277 • Escape from the Planet of the Bears • (1999) • shortstory by Tom Holt
• 295 • Quest • (1999) • shortstory by Sue Anderson
• 305 • The Hills Behind Hollywood High • (1983) • novelette by Avram Davidson and Grania Davis
• 328 • The Affliction of Baron Humpfelhimmel • (1901) • shortstory by John Kendrick Bangs
• 337 • The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds • (1984) • shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• 349 • The Man Who Hated Cadillacs • (1999) • novelette by E. K. Grant
• 372 • The Ultimate • (1999) • novelette by Seamus Cullen
• 401 • The Star of the Farmyard • (1992) • shortstory by Terry Jones
• 408 • Diamonds - Black and White • (1932) • shortstory by Anthony Armstrong
• 424 • Malocchio • (1999) • shortstory by Eliot Fintushel
• 439 • The Metrognome • (1979) • novelette by Alan Dean Foster
• 461 • The Eye of Tandyla • [Pusadian] • (1951) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• 489 • The Outpost Undiscovered by Tourists • (1982) • shortstory by Harlan Ellison