A universal history of iniquity. Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the 1954 edition -- Cruel redeemer Lazarus Morell -- Improbable impostor Tom Castro -- Widow Ching : pirate -- Monk Eastman, purveyor of iniquities -- Disinterested killer Bill Harrigan -- Uncivil teacher of court etiquette Kôtsuké no Suké -- Hakim, the masked dyer of Merv -- Man on pink corner -- Et cetera -- Index of sources.

Fictions. Garden of forking paths. Foreword -- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis tertius -- Approach to Al-Mu'tasim -- Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote -- Circular ruins -- Lottery in Babylon -- A survey of the works of Herbert Quain -- Library of Babel -- Garden of forking paths -- Artifices. Foreword -- Funes, his memory -- Shape of the sword -- Theme of the traitor and the hero -- Death and the compass -- Secret miracle -- Three versions of Judas -- End -- Cult of the phoenix -- South.

Aleph. Immortal -- Dead man -- Theologians -- Story of the warrior and the captive maiden -- A biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874) -- Emma Zunz -- House of Asterion -- Other death -- Deutsches requiem -- Averroës' search -- Zahir -- Writing of the god -- Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, murdered in his labyrinth -- Two kings and the two labyrinths -- Wait -- Man on the threshold -- Aleph -- Afterword.

The maker. Foreword: for Leopoldo Lugones -- Maker -- Dreamtigers -- A dialog about a dialog -- Toenails -- Covered mirrors -- Argumentum ornithologicum -- Captive -- Mountebank -- Delia Elena San Marco -- A dialog between dead men -- Plot -- A problem -- Yellow rose -- Witness -- Martín Fierro -- Mutations -- Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote -- Paradiso, XXXI, 108 -- Parable of the palace -- Everything and nothing -- Ragnarök -- Inferno, I, 32 -- Borges and I -- Museum. On exactitude in science -- In memoriam, J.F.K. -- Afterword.

In praise of darkness. Foreword -- Ethnographer -- Pedro Salvadores -- Legend -- A prayer -- His end and his beginning.

Brodie's report. Foreword -- Interloper -- Unworthy -- Story from Rosendo Juárez -- Encounter -- Juan Muraña -- Elderly lady -- Duel -- Other duel -- Guayaquil -- Gospel according to Mark -- Brodie's report.

Book of sand. Other -- Ulrikke -- Congress -- There are more things -- Sect of the thirty -- Night of the gifts -- Mirror and the mask -- "Undr" -- A weary man's utopia -- Bribe -- Avelino Arredondo -- Disk -- Book of sand -- Afterword.

Shakespeare's memory. August 25, 1983 -- Blue tigers -- Rose of Paracelsus -- Shakespeare's memory -- A note on the translation -- Acknowledgments -- Notes to the fictions.