INTRODUCTION / Ann and Jeff VanderMeer -- QUEEN’S SON / Bettina von Arnim -- HANS-MY-HEDGEHOG / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm -- STORY OF THE HARD NUT / E. T. A. Hoffmann -- RIP VAN WINKLE / Washington Irving -- LUCK OF THE BEAN-ROWS / Charles Nodier -- TRANSFORMATION / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -- NEST OF NIGHTINGALES / Théophile Gautier -- FAIRYTALE ABOUT A DEAD BODY, BELONGING TO NO ONE KNOWS WHOM / Vladimir Odoevsky -- STORY OF THE GOBLINS WHO STOLE A SEXTON / Charles Dickens -- NOSE / Nikolai Gogol -- FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR / Edgar Allan Poe -- STORY OF JEON UNCHI / Anonymous -- FEATHERTOP: A MORALIZED LEGEND / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- MASTER ZACHARIUS / Jules Verne -- FROST-KING: OR, THE POWER OF LOVE / Louisa May Alcott -- TARTARUS OF MAIDS / Herman Melville -- MAGIC MIRROR / George MacDonald -- DIAMOND LENS / Fitz-James O’Brien -- GOBLIN MARKET / Christina Rossetti -- WILL-O’-THE-WISPS ARE IN TOWN / Hans Christian Andersen -- LEGEND OF THE PALE MAIDEN / Aleksis Kivi -- LOOKING-GLASS HOUSE / Lewis Carroll -- FURNICA, OR THE QUEEN OF THE ANTS / Carmen Sylva -- STORY OF IVÁN THE FOOL / Leo Tolstoy -- GOOPHERED GRAPEVINE / Charles W. Chestnutt -- BEE-MAN OF ORN / Frank R. Stockton -- REMARKABLE ROCKET / Oscar Wilde -- ENSOULED VIOLIN / H. P. Blavatskaya -- DEATH OF ODJIGH / Marcel Schwob -- TERRESTRIAL FIRE / Marcel Schwob -- KINGDOM OF CARDS / Rabindranath Tagore -- OTHER SIDE: A BRETON LEGEND / Count Eric Stanlislaus Stenbock -- FULNESS OF LIFE / Edith Wharton -- PRINCE ALBERIC AND THE SNAKE LADY / Vernon Lee -- LITTLE ROOM / Madeline Yale Wynne -- PLATTNER STORY / H. G. Wells -- PRINCESS BALADINA—HER ADVENTURE / Willa Cather -- RELUCTANT DRAGON / Kenneth Grahame -- IKTOMI TALES / Zitkala-Ša -- MARIONETTES / Louis Fréchette -- DANCE OF THE COMETS: AN ASTRAL PANTOMIME IN TWO ACTS / Paul Scheerbart -- WHITE PEOPLE / Arthur Machen -- BLAMOL / Gustav Meyrink -- GOBLINS: A LOGGING CAMP STORY / Louis Fréchette -- SOWBREAD / Grazia Deledda -- ANGRY STREET / G. K. Chesterton -- AUNT AND AMABEL / E. Nesbit -- SACRIFICE / Aleksey Remizov -- PRINCESS STEEL / W. E. B. Du Bois -- HUMP / Fernán Caballero -- CELESTIAL OMNIBUS / E. M. Forster -- LEGEND OF THE ICE BABIES / E. Pauline Johnson -- LAST REDOUBT / William Hope Hodgson -- JACK PUMPKINHEAD AND THE SAWHORSE / L. Frank Baum -- PLANT MEN / Edgar Rice Burroughs -- STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER STAR / Hermann Hesse -- METAMORPHOSIS / Franz Kafka -- HOARD OF THE GIBBELINS / Lord Dunsany -- THROUGH THE DRAGON GLASS / A. Merritt -- DAVID BLAIZE AND THE BLUE DOOR / E. F. Benson -- BIG BESTIARY OF MODERN LITERATURE / Franz Blei -- ALLIGATOR WAR / Horacio Quiroga -- FRIEND ISLAND / Francis Stevens -- MAGIC COMES TO A COMMITTEE / Stella Benson -- GRAMOPHONE OF THE AGES / Yefim Zozulya -- JOIWIND / David Lindsay -- SOUND IN THE MOUNTAIN / Maurice Renard -- SENNIN / Ryūnosuke Akutagawa -- KOSHTRA PIVRARCHA / E. R. Eddison -- AT THE BORDER / Der Nister -- MARVELOUS EXPLOITS OF PAUL BUNYAN / W. B. Laughead -- TALKATIVE DOMOVOI / Aleksandr Grin -- RATCATCHER / Aleksandr Grin -- SHADOW KINGDOM / Robert E. Howard -- MAN TRAVELING WITH THE BROCADE PORTRAIT / Edogawa Ranpo -- A VISIT TO THE MUSEUM / Vladimir Nabokov -- WATER SPRITE’S TALE / Karel Čapek -- CAPITAL OF CAT COUNTRY / Lao She -- COYOTE STORIES / Mourning Dove -- UNCLE MONDAY / Zora Neale Hurston -- ROSE-COLD, MOON SKATER / María Teresa León -- A NIGHT OF THE HIGH SEASON / Bruno Schulz -- INFLUENCE OF THE SUN / Fernand Dumont -- TOWN OF CATS / Hagiwara Sakutarō -- DEBUTANTE / Leonora Carrington -- JEWELS IN THE FOREST / Fritz Leiber -- EVENING PRIMROSE / John Collier -- COMING OF THE WHITE WORM / Clark Ashton Smith -- MAN WHO COULD WALK THROUGH WALLS / Marcel Aymé -- LEAF BY NIGGLE / J. R. R. Tolkien