From the Book - First edition.
Introduction / by Peter S. Beagle
Ancestor money / Maureen F. McHugh
Scarecrow / Gregory Maguire
Lady of the skulls / Patricia A. McKillip
We are Norsemen / T.C. Boyle
The Barnum Museum / Steven Millhauser
Mrs. Todd's shortcut / Stephen King
Bears discover fire / Terry Bisson
Bones / Francesca Lia Block
Snow, glass, apples / Neil Gaiman
Fruit and words / Aimee Bender
The empire of ice cream / Jeffrey Ford
The edge of the world / Michael Swanwick
Super goat man / Jonathan Lethem
John Uskglass and the cumbrian charcoal burner / Susanna Clarke
The book of Martha / Octavia E. Butler
The Vita Æterna Mirror Company / Yann Martel
Sleight of hand / Peter S. Beagle
Mythago wood / Robert Holdstock
26 monkeys, also the abyss / Kij Johnson - Appendix 1: The critics, the monsters, and the fantasists / Ursula LeGuin
Appendix 2: The making of the American fantasy genre / David G. Hartwell.