xi Introduction (A Treasury of Modern Fantasy) (1981) essay by Terry Carr and Martin H. Greenberg [as by Terry Carr and Martin Harry Greenberg]
1 The Rats in the Walls (1924)by H. P. Lovecraft
19 The Woman of the Wood (1926)by A. Merritt
45 Trouble with Water (1939) by H. L. Gold
63 Thirteen O'Clock [Thirteen O'Clock (C. M. Kornbluth) 1] (1941)by C. M. Kornbluth
85 The Coming of the White Worm [Hyperborea] (1941) by Clark Ashton Smith
97 Yesterday Was Monday (1941) by Theodore Sturgeon
113 They Bite (1943) by Anthony Boucher
123 Call Him Demon (1946)by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
145 Daemon (1946)by C. L. Moore
165 The Black Ferris (1948) by Ray Bradbury
173 Displaced Person (1948) by Eric Frank Russell
177 Our Fair City (1949) by Robert A. Heinlein
193 Come and Go Mad (1949)by Fredric Brown
227 There Shall Be No Darkness (1950) novella by James Blish
259 The Loom of Darkness [Dying Earth] (1950) by Jack Vance (variant of Liane the Wayfarer)
269 The Rag Thing (1951) by Donald A. Wollheim
275 Sail On! Sail On! (1952) by Philip José Farmer
285 One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts (1955) by Shirley Jackson
295 That Hell-Bound Train (1958) by Robert Bloch
307 Nine Yards of Other Cloth [John the Balladeer] (1958) by Manly Wade Wellman
323 The Montavarde Camera (1959) by Avram Davidson
335 Man Overboard (1960)by John Collier
355 My Dear Emily (1962) by Joanna Russ
375 Descending (1964) by Thomas M. Disch
387 Four Ghosts in Hamlet (1965)by Fritz Leiber
417 Divine Madness (1966) by Roger Zelazny
425 Narrow Valley (1966) by R. A. Lafferty
437 Timothy [Anita] (1966) by Keith Roberts
449 Through a Glass-Darkly (1970)by Zenna Henderson
471 Jeffty Is Five (1977) by Harlan Ellison
489 Within the Walls of Tyre (1978)by Michael Bishop