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• ix • Introduction (Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction) • essay by Douglas A. Anderson
• 3 • Tegner's Drapa • (1849) • poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• 7 • The Aunt and Amabel • (1909) • shortfiction by E. Nesbit
• 17 • The Snow Queen • (1844) • novelette by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of Snedronningen 1845)
• 45 • The Magic Mirror • (1858) • shortstory by George MacDonald
• 63 • Undine • (1818) • novella by Baron Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué (trans. of Undine: Eine Erzählung 1811) [as byFriedrich De La Motte Fouque]
• 129 • Letters from Hell: Letter III • (1887) • shortstory by Valdemar Thisted
• 135 • Fastosus and Avaro • (1863) • shortstory by John Macgowan
• 147 • The Tapestried Chamber; or, The Lady in the Sacque • (1910) • shortstory by Sir Walter Scott (variant of The Tapestried Chamber 1828)
• 161 • The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton • (1836) • shortstory by Charles Dickens
• 173 • The Child and the Giant • (1988) • shortstory by Owen Barfield
• 183 • A King's Lesson • (1886) • shortstory by William Morris
• 191 • The Waif Woman • (1914) • shortstory by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 207 • First Whisper of The Wind in the Willows (excerpt) • (1908) • shortfiction by Kenneth Grahame
• 239 • The Wish House • (1924) • shortstory by Rudyard Kipling
• 257 • Et in Sempiternum Pereant • (1935) • shortstory by Charles Williams
• 269 • The Dragon's Visit • (1937) • poem by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 275 • The Coloured Lands • (1925) • shortstory by G. K. Chesterton
• 283 • The Man Who Lived Backwards • (1938) • shortstory by Charles F. Hall
• 301 • The Wood That Time Forgot: The Enchanted Wood • (2008) • shortstory by Roger Lancelyn Green
• 313 • The Dream Dust Factory • (1947) • shortstory by William Lindsay Gresham