Introduction / by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer -- Ten rounds with grandfather clock / Maurice Richardson -- The circular valley / Paul Bowlew -- Signs and symbols / Vladimir Nabokov -- The Zahir / Jorge Luis Borges -- Liane the wayfarer/ Jack Vance -- Poolwana's orchid / Edgar Mittelholzer -- The man who sold rope to gnoles / Margaret St. Clair -- O ugly bird! / Manly Wade Wellman -- The gopherwood box / Abraham Sutzkever -- My life in the bush of ghosts (excerpt) / Amos Tutuola -- A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez -- The anything box / Zenna Henderson -- Lean times in Lankhmar / Fritz Leiber -- The dreaming city / Michael Moorcock -- Cronopios and Famas / Julio Cortázar -- Kaya-Kalp (metamorphosis) / Intizar Husain -- The last dragon in the world / Tove Janson -- The drowned giant / J. G. Ballard -- The monster / Satu Waltari -- Narrow valley / R. A. Lafferty -- The sinister apartment / Mikhail Bulgakov -- The origin of the birds / Italo Calvino -- The prey / Bilge Karasu -- The topless tower / Silvina Ocampo -- The barbarian / Joanna Russ -- the youngest doll / Rosario Ferre -- The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Ark of bones / Henry Dumas -- Winged creatures / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Linnaeus forgets / Fred Chappell -- The erl-king / Angela Carter -- The great night of the trains / Sara Gallardo -- The tale of dragons and dreamers / Samuel R. Delany -- The white horse child / Greg Bear -- The dreamstone / C. J. Cherryh -- Five letters from an Eastern empire / Alasdair Gray -- The ice dragon / George. R. R. Martin -- One time / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Sister light, sister dark / Jane Yolen -- The luck in the head / M. John Harrison -- Warlock at the wheel / Diana Wynne Jones -- Mrs. Todd's shortcut / Stephen King -- On the dark side of the station where the train never stops / Pat Murphy -- After the hurricane / Edgardo Sanabria Santaliz -- The girl who went to the rich neighborhood / Rachel Pollack -- The bystander / Leena Krohn --

Wild boys: variations on a theme / Karen Joy Fowler -- The mole king / Marie Hermanson -- What the tapster saw / Ben Okri -- The fool / David Drake -- The flying creatures of Fra Angelico / Antonio Tabucchi -- A Mexican fairy tale / Leonora Carrington -- The boy in the tree / Elizabeth Hand -- TV people / Haruki Murakami -- Alice in Prague or the curious room / Angela Carter -- Moon songs / Carol Emshwiller -- The life and adventures of shed number XII / Victor Pelevin -- The fellowship of the dragon / Patricia McKillip -- Troll bridge / Terry Pratchett -- Longing for blood / Vilma Kadleckova -- A brief visit to Bonnyville / D. F. Lewis -- Travels with the Snow Queen / Kelly Link -- The neurosis of containment / Rikki Ducornet -- The darktree wheel / Rhys Hughes -- Foetus / Shelley Jackson -- Tan-Tan and dry bone / Nalo Hopkinson -- Where does the town go at night? / Tanith Lee -- Pop art / Joe Hill -- State secrets of Aphasia / Stepan Chapman -- The window / Tatyana Tolstaya -- The wight of words / Jeffery Ford -- All the water in the world / Han Song -- The kite of stars / Dean Francis Alfar -- Mogo / Alberto Chimal -- The malady of ghostly cities / Nathan Ballingrud -- End of the line / Aimee Bender -- I left my heart in Skaftafell / Victor LaValle -- The grassdreaming tree / Sheree Reneé Thomas -- La peau verte / Caitlín R. Kiernana -- A hard truth about waste management / Sumanth Prabhaker -- Bufo Rex / Erik Amundsen -- The arrest of the Great Mimille / Manuela Draeger -- Aunts / Karin Tidbeck -- For life / Marta Kisiel -- The spring of Dongke Temple / Qitongren -- The wordeaters / Rochita Loenen-Ruiz -- Creature / Ramsey Shehadeh -- Beyond the sea gate of the scholar-pirates of Sarsköe / Garth Nix -- The bear dresser's secret / Richard Bowes -- Table with ocean / Alberto Chimal -- The jinn / Musharraf Ali Farooqi.