“The Closed Window” by А. С. Benson. First published in The Hill of Trouble, London: Isbister, 1903. Copyright expired in 1976.

“The Last Witch” © 2004 by James Bibby. First publication; original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

“The Walker Behind” © 1987 by Marion Zimmer Bradley. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, July 1987. Reprinted by permission of the agents for the author’s estate, Scovil Chickak Galen Literary Agency, Inc.

“Last Rites” © 1994 by Louise Cooper. Extracted from Star Ascendant, first published by HarperCollins, 1994 and in the USA by Tor Books, 1995.

“No. 252 Rue M. le Prince” by Ralph Adams Cram. First published in Black Spirits and White, Boston: Stone & Kimball, 1895. Copyright expired in 1951.

“The Eternal Altercation” © 2004 by Peter Crowther. First publication; original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

“In the Realm of Dragons” © 1997 by Esther M. Friesner. First published in Asimov’s Science Fiction, February 1998. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Infestation” © 2004 by Tom Holt. First publication; original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

“The Game of Magical Death” © 1987 by Doug Hornig. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1987. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Sage of Theare” © 1982 by Diana Wynne Jones. First published in Hecate’s Cauldron, edited by Susan M. Shwartz, New York: DAW Books, 1982. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author’s agents, Laura Cecil Literary Agency.

“The Rite Stuff” © 2004 by Michael Kurland. First publication; original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

“The Bones of the Earth” © 2001 by Ursula K. Le Guin. First published in Tales from Earthsea, New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2001 and in the UK by Orion Publishing, 2002. Reprinted by permission of the author’s agents, Virginia Kidd Agency.

“Forever” © 2004 by Tim Lebbon. First publication; original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

“Villaggio Sogno” © 2004 by Richard A. Lupoff. First publication; original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

“Master of Chaos” © 1964 by Michael Moorcock. First published in Fantastic Stories, May 1964. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Timekeeper” © 1989 by John Morressy. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1990. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Witch’s Bicycle” © 2002 by Tim Pratt. First published in Realms of Fantasy, August 2002. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“The Wizard of Ashes and Rain” © 2001 by David Sandner. First published in Weird Tales, Fall 2001. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Disillusioned” © 1995 by Lawrence Schimel and Mike Resnick. First published under the title “disillusions” in Adventures in Sword & Sorcery, Winter 1995. Reprinted by permission of the authors.

“To Become a Sorcerer” © 1991 by Darrell Schweitzer. First published in Weird Tales, Winter 1991/92. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Double Shadow” © 1933 by Clark Ashton Smith. First published in The Double Shadow anil Other Fantasies, Auburn: Auburn Journal, 1933. Reprinted by permission of Arkham House on behalf of the author’s estate.

“The Ten Things I Know about the Wizard” © 1983 by Steve Rasnic Tem. First published in Fantasy Book, May 1983. Reprinted by permission of the author.

“Seven Drops of Blood” © 1992 by Robert Weinberg. First published in Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences, edited by Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg and Edward E. Kramer, Atlanta: Unnameable Press, 1992. Reprinted by permission of the author.