Introduction / by Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt -- That the machine may progress eternally / by Carrie Ryan, inspired by E.M. Forster's "The machine stops" -- The king of Elfland's daughter / by Charles Vess -- Losing her divinity / by Garth Nix, inspired by Rudyard Kipling's "The man who would be king" -- The sleeper and the spindle / by Neil Gaiman, inspired by "Sleeping Beauty" -- King Lung's golden hours / by Charles Vess -- The cold corner / by Tim Pratt, inspired by Henry James's "The jolly corner" -- Millcara / by Holly Black, inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla -- Figures of earth / by Charles Vess -- When first we were gods / by Rick Yancey, inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The birth-mark" -- Sirocco / by Margaret Stohl, inspired by Horace Walpole's The castle of Otranto -- The shaving of shagpat / by Charles Vess -- Awakened / by Melissa Marr, inspired by Kate Chopin's The awakening -- New Chicago / by Kelley Armstrong, inspired by W.W. Jacobs's "The monkey's paw" -- The wood beyond the world / by Charles Vess -- The soul collector / by Kami Garcia, inspired by the Brothers Grimm's "Rumpelstiltskin" -- Without faith, without law, without joy / by Saladin Ahmed, inspired by Sir Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene -- Goblin market / by Charles Vess -- Uncaged / by Gene Wolf, inspired by William B. Seabrook's "The caged white werewolf of the Saraban."