| Section One: Two Archetypal Stories |
| "The Mortal Immortal: A Tale" by Mary W. Shelley |
| "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe |
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| Section Two: Fantasy |
| Dark Fantasy |
| "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell |
| "No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman" by Charles Dickens |
| "The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House" by Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| "The Body Snatcher" by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| "The Damned Thing" by Ambrose Bierce |
| "The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs |
| "The Colour Out of Space" by H. P. Lovecraft |
| "The Three Marked Pennies" by M. E. Counselman |
| "Catnip" by Robert Bloch |
| "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson |
| "To Serve Man" by Damon Knight |
| "The Third Level" by Jack Finney |
| "The Howling Man" by C. B. Lovehill |
| "Duel" by Richard Matheson |
| "The Raft" by Stephen King |
| "Nightcrawlers" by Robert R. McCammon |
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| High Fantasy |
| "The Gray Wolf" by George MacDonald |
| "The People of the Pit" by A. Merritt |
| "Friend Island" by Francis Stevens |
| "The City of Singing Flame" by Clark Ashton Smith |
| "The Tower of the Elephant" by Robert E. Howard |
| "Smoke Ghost" by Fritz Leiber, Jr. |
| "The Strange Drug of Doctor Caber" by Lord Dunsany |
| "The Anything Box" by Zenna Henderson |
| "The Drowned Giant" by J. G. Ballard |
| "Red as Blood" by Tanith Lee |
| "The Malaysian Mer" by Jane Yolen |
| "Troll Bridge" by Neil Gaiman |
| "Thirteen Phantasms" by James P. Blaylock |
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| Section Three: Science Fiction |
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| "The Diamond Lens" by Fitz-James O'Brien |
| "The Clock That Went Backward" by Edward Page Mitchell |
| "An Express of the Future" by Jules Verne |
| "The Star" by H. G. Wells |
| "The Ray of Displacement" by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford |
| A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| "The Eggs from Lake Tanganyika by Curt Siodmak |
| "The Fate of the Poseidonia" by Clare Winter Harris |
| "The Conquest of Gola" by Leslie F. Stone |
| "Shambleau" by C. L. Moore |
| "Robot Nemesis" by E. E. "Doc" Smith |
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| "A Martian Odyssey" by Stanley G. Weinbaum |
| "Robbie" by Isaac Asimov |
| "Jay Score" by Eric Frank Russell |
| "The Weapon Shop" by A. E. van Vogt |
| "Arena" by Fredric Brown |
| "Thunder and Roses" by Theodore Sturgeon |
| "That Only a Mother" by Judith Merril |
| "The Enchantress of Venus" by Leight Brackett |
| "The Long Watch" by Robert A. Heinlein |
| "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury |
| "Invasion" by Frank Belknap |
| "The Harpers of Titan" by Edmond Hamilton |
| "The Sentinel" by Arthur C. Clarke |
| "Pictures Don't Lie" by Katherine MacLean |
| The Lovers by Philip José Farmer |
| "Mousetrap" by Andre Norton |
| "Fondly Fahrenheit" by Alfred Bester |
| "Exiles of Tomorrow" by Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| "Dust Rag" by Hal Clement |
| "Or All the Sea With Oysters" by Avram Davidson |
| "The Store of the Worlds" by Robert Sheckley |
| "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut |
| "Without a Thought" by Fred Saberhagen |
| "The Fiend" by Frederik Pohl |
| "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" by Philip K. Dick |
| "Driftglass" by Samuel R. Delany |
| "The Jigsaw Man" by Larry Niven |
| "The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" by James Tiptree, Jr. |
| "Seed Stock" by Frank Herbert |
| "Roommates" by Harry Harrison |
| "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ |
| "The Undercity" by Dean Koontz |
| "Opening Fire" by Barry Malzberg |
| "The Engine at Heartspring's Center" by Rogert Zelazny |
| "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card |
| "Melancholy Elephants" by Spider Robinson |
| "Burning Chrome" by William Gibson |
| "Blood Music" by Greg Bear |
| "Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler |
| "The Plague Star" by George R. R. Martin |
| "Remaking History" by Kim Stanley Robinson |
| "The Purchase of Earth" by Jack Williamson |
