Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Sources of the Fantastic -- Myth -- Genesis (King James Version) -- The Blackfoot Genesis (1892) -- The Eye of the Giant (Togoland) -- How I Brought Death into the World (Yoruba, 1953) -- The Myth of Actaeon (A.D. 2-8) -- The Myth of Narcissus -- The Myth of Philomela -- Folktale -- The Ghost Wife (Pawnee, 1889) -- The Magic Swan Geese (1855-64) -- Why Tortoise's Shell Is Not Smooth (Ibo, 1959) -- How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox (1880) -- Paul Bunyan on the Columbia (1924) -- Fairy Tale -- Little Red-cap (1812-15) -- The Sleeping Beauty -- Hansel and Grethel -- The Tinderbox (1835) -- The Tale of Cosmo (1858) -- Leaf by Niggle (1964) -- The Diversity of Fantastic Literature -- The Continuum of the Fantastic -- The Diversity of Fantastic Literature -- The Fantastic and Literary History -- The Fantastic and Genre Criticism -- Fantasy -- Our Ideas of Time (1711) -- Ritter Gluck (1809) -- The Oval Portrait (1842) -- The Garden of Live Flowers (1872) -- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1939) -- The Royal Banquet (1961) -- Horror Fiction -- The Sandman (1816) -- The Black Cat (1843) -- The Picture in the House (1924) -- Ghost Stories -- The Hand (1861) -- The Moonlit Road (1894) -- Lost Hearts (1904) -- Heroic Fantasy -- Golden Wings (1856) -- The Sword of Welleran (1908) -- The Five Black Swans (1973) -- Science Fiction -- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) -- The Birthmark (1846) -- The Star (1897) -- Epicac (1950) -- The Third Level (1952) -- The Star (1955) -- Modern Fantasy -- The judgment (1913) -- A Common Confusion (1931 -- written between 1917 and 1922) -- Cockroaches (1934) -- Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (1939) -- Axolotl (1951) -- Pastoral (1954) -- All at One Point (1965).

There Is No Such Place as America (1969) -- The Piano Player (1963) -- Homage to the San Francisco YMCA (1971) -- The Marker (1963) -- The Zebra Storyteller (1971) -- Bibliography -- General Theoretical Studies -- Specialized Studies -- Supplementary Readings -- Index -- Footnotes.