CONTENTS:
• Introduction (Strange Dreams) • (1993) • essay by Stephen R. Donaldson
• The Aleph • (1970) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El Aleph 1945)
• Lady of the Skulls • (1993) • short story by Patricia A. McKillip
• As Above, So Below • (1980) • short story by John M. Ford
• Eumenides in the Fourth-Floor Lavatory • (1979) • novelette by Orson Scott Card
• Narrow Valley • (1966) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• The Dreamstone • [Dreamstone (early versions)] • (1979) • short story by C. J. Cherryh
• The Storming of Annie Kinsale • (1984) • short story by Lucius Shepard
• Green Magic • (1963) • short story by Jack Vance
• The Mark of the Beast • (1890) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• The Big Dream • (1984) • novelette by John Kessel
• The House of Compassionate Sharers • [Glaktik Komm] • (1977) • novelette by Michael Bishop
• The Fallen Country • [The Fallen Country / The Snow Dragon] • (1982) • novelette by S. P. Somtow [as by Somtow Sucharitkul]
• Strata • (1980) • novelette by Edward Bryant
• And Now the News ... • (1956) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• The White Horse Child • (1979) • short story by Greg Bear
• Prince Shadowbow • (1985) • short story by Sheri S. Tepper
• The Girl Who Went to the Rich Neighborhood • (1990) • short story by Rachel Pollack (variant of The Girl Who Went to the Rich Neighbourhood 1984)
• Consequences • [Liavek] • (1988) • novella by Walter Jon Williams
• The Stone Fey • (1985) • novelette by Robin McKinley
• Close of Night • (1984) • short story by Daphne Castell
• Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands • (1987) • short story by Garry Kilworth
• Longtooth • (1970) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn
• My Rose and My Glove • (1984) • short story by Harvey Jacobs
• With the Original Cast • (1982) • novelette by Nancy Kress
• In the Penal Colony • (1948) • novelette by Franz Kafka (trans. of In der Strafkolonie 1919)
• Jeffty Is Five • (1977) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• Air Raid • (1977) • short story by John Varley
• The Dancer from the Dance • [Viriconium] • (1985) • short story by M. John Harrison