Description:

• Walk Like a Mountain • [John the Balladeer] • (1955) • shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman
• Scylla's Daughter • [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] • (1961) • novella by Fritz Leiber
• Paper Dragons • [Land of Dreams] • (1985) • novelette by James P. Blaylock
• The Golem • (1955) • shortstory by Avram Davidson
• Flowers of Edo • (1987) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Bears Discover Fire • (1990) • shortstory by Terry Bisson
• The Changeling's Tale • (1994) • shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• Missolonghi 1824 • (1990) • shortstory by John Crowley
• Blunderbore • (1990) • shortstory by Esther M. Friesner
• Into Gold • (1986) • novelette by Tanith Lee
• Space-Time for Springers • [Gummitch the Cat] • (1958) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• Beauty and the Opéra or The Phanton Beast • (1996) • novelette by Suzy McKee Charnas
• The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule • [Griaule] • (1984) • novelette by Lucius Shepard
• A Cabin on the Coast • (1984) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• The Sleep of Trees • (1980) • shortstory by Jane Yolen
• Trouble with Water • (1939) • shortstory by H. L. Gold
• The Gnarly Man • (1939) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
• Death and the Executioner • [Lord of Light] • (1967) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
• The Manor of Roses • [John & Stephen] • (1966) • novella by Thomas Burnett Swann
• The Overworld • [Dying Earth] • (1965) • novelette by Jack Vance
• Extempore • (1956) • shortstory by Damon Knight
• God's Hooks! • (1982) • shortstory by Howard Waldrop
• Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight • (1987) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Tale of Hauk • (1977) • novelette by Poul Anderson
• A Gift of the People • (1988) • shortstory by Robert Sampson
• Configuration of the North Shore • (1969) • shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
• Two Sadnesses • (1973) • shortstory by George Alec Effinger
• Manatee Gal, Won't You Come Out Tonight • [Jack Limekiller] • (1977) • novelette by Avram Davidson (variant of Manatee Gal Ain't You Coming Out Tonight)
• The Signaller • [Pavane] • (1966) • novelette by Keith Roberts
• The Troll • (1935) • shortstory by T. H. White
• Death and the Lady • (1992) • novelette by Judith Tarr
• Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros • (1995) • novelette by Peter S. Beagle
• Preface (Modern Classics of Fantasy) • (1997) • essay by Gardner Dozois
• Recommended Reading (Modern Classics of Fantasy) • essay by Gardner Dozois