Modern Classics of Fantasy

The book collects thirty-two novellas, novelettes and short stories by various fantasy authors originally published from the mid 1930s through the mid 1990s, together with a preface and bibliography of recommended reading by the editor.

• "Preface" (Gardner Dozois)
• "Trouble with Water" (H. L. Gold)
• "The Gnarly Man" (L. Sprague de Camp)
• "The Golem" (Avram Davidson)
• "Walk Like a Mountain" (Manly Wade Wellman)
• "Extempore" (Damon Knight)
• "Space-Time for Springers" (Fritz Leiber)
• "Scylla's Daughter" (Fritz Leiber)
• "The Overworld" (Jack Vance)
• "The Signaller" (Keith Roberts)
• "The Manor of Roses" (Thomas Burnett Swann)
• "Death and the Executioner" (Roger Zelazny)
• "Configuration of the North Shore" (R. A. Lafferty)
• "Two Sadnesses" (George Alec Effinger)
• "The Tale of Hauk" (Poul Anderson)
• "Manatee Gal, Won't You Come Out Tonight" (Avram Davidson)
• "The Troll" (T. H. White)
• "The Sleep of Trees" (Jane Yolen)
• "God's Hooks!" (Howard Waldrop)
• "The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule" (Lucius Shepard)
• "A Cabin on the Coast" (Gene Wolfe)
• "Paper Dragons" (James P. Blaylock)
• "Into Gold" (Tanith Lee)
• "Flowers of Edo" (Bruce Sterling)
• "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight" (Ursula K. Le Guin)
• "A Gift of the People" (Robert Sampson)
• "Missolonghi 1824" (John Crowley)
• "Bears Discover Fire" (Terry Bisson)
• "Blunderbore" (Esther M. Friesner)
• "Death and the Lady" (Judith Tarr)
• "The Changeling's Tale" (Michael Swanwick)
• "Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros" (Peter S. Beagle)
• "Beauty and the Opéra or The Phanton Beast" (Suzy McKee Charnas)
• "Recommended Reading" (Gardner Dozois)