Foreword / by Jack Williamson
Preface : Parameters, or, Amazing Stories versus Weird Tales, Atounding Stories versus Unknown Worlds / by Garyn G. Roberts
Introduction: stories for the Millennium: science fiction and fantasy as contemporary mythology.
Section one: Two archetypal stories. Enduring traditons of Mary Shelley and Edgar Allen Poe. Enduring Traditions of Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe / by Garyn G. Roberts
The Mortal Immortal: A Tale (1833) / by Mary Shelley
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) / by Edgar Allan Poe.
Section two: Fantasy. Stories of the Fantastique, Tales of the Quest: Dark Fantasy: Edgar Allan Poe, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, and Stephen King
and Traditions Before, Between, and Since / by Garyn G. Roberts.
Young Goodman Brown (1835) / by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Old Nurse's Story (1852) / by Mrs. Gaskell
No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman (1866) / by Charles Dickens
The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House (1870) / by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Body Snatcher (1884) / by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Damned Thing (1893) / by Ambrose Bierce
Dracula's Guest [Dracula] (1914) / by Bram Stoker
The Monkey's Paw (1902) / by W.W. Jacobs
The Colour Out of Space [Cthulhu Mythos] (1927) / by H.P. Lovecraft
The Three Marked Pennies (1934) / by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
Catnip (1948) / by Robert Bloch
The Lottery (1948) / by Shirley Jackson
To Serve Man (1950) / by Damon Knight
The Third Level (1950) / by Jack Finney
The Howling Man (1959) / by Charles Beaumont
Duel (1971) / by Richard Matheson
The Raft (1982) / by Stephen King
Nightcrawlers (1984) / by Robert R. McCammon.
Section two: Fantasy. High Fantasy: Ancestors and Desciples of Robert E. Howard and J.R.R. Tolkien / by Garyn G. Roberts.
The Gray Wolf (1871) / by George Macdonald
The People of the Pit (1918) / by A. Merritt
Friend Island (1918) / by Francis Stevens
The City of Singing Flame (1931) / by Clark Ashton Smith
The Tower of the Elephant (1933) / by Robert E. Howard
Riddles in the Dark (1937) / by J.R.R. Tolkien
Smoke Ghost (1941) / by Fritz Leiber
The Strange Drug of Doctor Caber (1948) / by Lord Dunsany
The Anything Box (1956) / by Zenna Henderson
The Drowned Giant (1964) / by J.G. Ballard
Red as Blood (1979) / by Tanith Lee
Troll Bridge (1993) / by Neil Gaiman
Thirteen Phantasms (1996) / by James P. Blaylock.
Section three: Science fiction. Jules Verne, Herbert George Wells, Hugo Gernsback, and the Early Days of Modern Scientifiction / by Garyn G. Roberts.
The Diamond Lens (1858) / by Fitz-James O'Brien
The Clock That Went Backward (1881) / by Edward Page Mitchell
An Express of the Future (1895) / by Jules Verne
The Star (1897) / by H.G. Wells
The Ray of Displacement (1903) / by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
A Princess of Mars (1912) / by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Eggs from Lake Tanganyika (1926) / by Curt Siodmak
The Fate of the Poseidonia (1927) / by Clare Winger Harris
The Conquest of Gola (1931) / by Leslie F. Stone
Shambleau (1933) / by C.L. Moore
Robot Nemesis (1934) / by Edward E. Smith
A Martian Odyssey (1934) / by Stanley G. Weinbaum
Robbie (1940) / by Isaac Asimov
Jay Score (1941) / by Eric Frank Russell
The Weapons Shop (1942) / by A.E. van Vogt
Arena (1944) / by Fredric Brown
Thunder and Roses (1947) / by Theodore Sturgeon.
That Only a Mother (1948) / by Judith Merril
Enchantress of Venus (1949) / by Leigh Brackett
The Long Watch (1949) / by Robert A. Heinlein
There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) / by Ray Bradbury
Invasion (1950) / by Frank Belknap Long
The Harpers of Titan (1950) / by Edmond Hamilton
The Sentinel (1951) / by Arthur C. Clarke
Pictures Don't Lie (1951) / by Katherine MacLean
The Lovers (1952) / by Philip José Farmer
Mousetrap (1954) / by Andre Norton
Fondly Fahrenheit (1954) / by Alfred Bester
Exiles of Tomorrow (1955) / by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Dust Rag (1956) / by Hal Clement
Or All the Seas With Oysters (1958) / by Avram Davidson
The Store of the Worlds (1959) / by Robert Sheckley
Harrison Bergeron (1961) / by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Without a Thought (1963) / by Fred Saberhagen
The Fiend (1964) / by Frederik Pohl
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (1966) / by Philip K. Dick
Driftglass (1967) / by Samuel R. Delany
The Jigsaw Man (1967) / by Larry Niven
The Last Flight of Dr. Ain (1969) / by James Tiptree, Jr.
Seed Stock (1970) / by Frank Herbert
Roommates (1971) / by Harry Harrison
When It Changed (1972) / by Joanna Russ
The Undercity (1973) / by Dean R. Koontz
Opening Fire (1973) / by Barry N. Malzberg
The Engine at Heartspring's Center (1974) / by Roger Zelazny
Ender's Game (1977) / by Orson Scott Card
Melancholy Elephants (1982) / by Spider Robinson
Burning Chrome (1982) / by William Gibson
Blood Music (1983) / by Greg Bear
Bloodchild (1984) / by Octavia E. Butler
The Plague Star (1985) / by George R.R. Martin
Remaking History (1988) / by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Purchase of Earth (1998) / by Jack Williamson.
