Introduction / by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer --
Ten rounds with grandfather clock / Maurice Richardson --
The circular valley / Paul Bowlew --
Signs and symbols / Vladimir Nabokov --
The Zahir / Jorge Luis Borges --
Liane the wayfarer/ Jack Vance --
Poolwana's orchid / Edgar Mittelholzer --
The man who sold rope to gnoles / Margaret St. Clair --
O ugly bird! / Manly Wade Wellman --
The gopherwood box / Abraham Sutzkever --
My life in the bush of ghosts (excerpt) / Amos Tutuola --
A very old man with enormous wings / Gabriel García Márquez --
The anything box / Zenna Henderson --
Lean times in Lankhmar / Fritz Leiber --
The dreaming city / Michael Moorcock --
Cronopios and Famas / Julio Cortázar --
Kaya-Kalp (metamorphosis) / Intizar Husain --
The last dragon in the world / Tove Janson --
The drowned giant / J. G. Ballard --
The monster / Satu Waltari --
Narrow valley / R. A. Lafferty --
The sinister apartment / Mikhail Bulgakov --
The origin of the birds / Italo Calvino --
The prey / Bilge Karasu --
The topless tower / Silvina Ocampo --
The barbarian / Joanna Russ --
the youngest doll / Rosario Ferre --
The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin --
Ark of bones / Henry Dumas --
Winged creatures / Sylvia Townsend Warner --
Linnaeus forgets / Fred Chappell --
The erl-king / Angela Carter --
The great night of the trains / Sara Gallardo --
The tale of dragons and dreamers / Samuel R. Delany --
The white horse child / Greg Bear --
The dreamstone / C. J. Cherryh --
Five letters from an Eastern empire / Alasdair Gray --
The ice dragon / George. R. R. Martin --
One time / Leslie Marmon Silko --
Sister light, sister dark / Jane Yolen --
The luck in the head / M. John Harrison --
Warlock at the wheel / Diana Wynne Jones --
Mrs. Todd's shortcut / Stephen King --
On the dark side of the station where the train never stops / Pat Murphy --
After the hurricane / Edgardo Sanabria Santaliz --
The girl who went to the rich neighborhood / Rachel Pollack --
The bystander / Leena Krohn --
Wild boys: variations on a theme / Karen Joy Fowler --
The mole king / Marie Hermanson --
What the tapster saw / Ben Okri --
The fool / David Drake --
The flying creatures of Fra Angelico / Antonio Tabucchi --
A Mexican fairy tale / Leonora Carrington --
The boy in the tree / Elizabeth Hand --
TV people / Haruki Murakami --
Alice in Prague or the curious room / Angela Carter --
Moon songs / Carol Emshwiller --
The life and adventures of shed number XII / Victor Pelevin --
The fellowship of the dragon / Patricia McKillip --
Troll bridge / Terry Pratchett --
Longing for blood / Vilma Kadleckova --
A brief visit to Bonnyville / D. F. Lewis --
Travels with the Snow Queen / Kelly Link --
The neurosis of containment / Rikki Ducornet --
The darktree wheel / Rhys Hughes --
Foetus / Shelley Jackson --
Tan-Tan and dry bone / Nalo Hopkinson --
Where does the town go at night? / Tanith Lee --
State secrets of Aphasia / Stepan Chapman --
The window / Tatyana Tolstaya --
The wight of words / Jeffery Ford --
All the water in the world / Han Song --
The kite of stars / Dean Francis Alfar --
The malady of ghostly cities / Nathan Ballingrud --
End of the line / Aimee Bender --
I left my heart in Skaftafell / Victor LaValle --
The grassdreaming tree / Sheree Reneé Thomas --
La peau verte / Caitlín R. Kiernana --
A hard truth about waste management / Sumanth Prabhaker --
Bufo Rex / Erik Amundsen --
The arrest of the Great Mimille / Manuela Draeger --
For life / Marta Kisiel --
The spring of Dongke Temple / Qitongren --
The wordeaters / Rochita Loenen-Ruiz --
Creature / Ramsey Shehadeh --
Beyond the sea gate of the scholar-pirates of Sarsköe / Garth Nix --
The bear dresser's secret / Richard Bowes --
Table with ocean / Alberto Chimal --
The jinn / Musharraf Ali Farooqi.