(Introduction by Terry Carr - editor)
"The Petrified World" by Robert Sheckley
"The Scarlet Lady" by Keith Roberts
"They Loved Me in Utica" by Avram Davidson (original to this collection)
"The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges
"The Ship of Disaster" by B. J. Bayley
"Window Dressing" by Joanna Russ (original to this collection)
"By the Falls" by Harry Harrison
"The Night of the Nickel Beer" by Kris Neville
"A Quiet Kind of Madness" by David Redd
"A Museum Piece" by Roger Zelazny
"The Old Man of the Mountains" by Terry Carr
"En Passant" by Britt Schweitzer
"Backward, Turn Backward" by Wilmar H. Shiras (original to this collection)
"His Own Kind" by Thomas M. Disch (original to this collection)
"Perchance to Dream" by Katherine MacLean (original to this collection)
"Lazarus" by Leonid Andreyeff
"The Ugly Sea" by R. A. Lafferty
"The Movie People" by Robert Bloch

These stories are from 1960-1970, reprinted from a variety of sources: Magazine of F&SF, SF Impulse, New Worlds ,Galaxy, and Escapade. 5 stories are new/original: by Davidson, Russ, Shiras, Disch, MacLean.