«The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything» © 1984 by George Alec Effinger. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1984. Reprinted by permission of the author.
«The Outpost Undiscovered by Tourists» © 1981 by The Kilimanjaro Corporation. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Januaiy 1982. Reprinted by arrangement with, and permission of, the author and the author's agent, Richard Curtis Associates, Inc., New York. All rights reserved.
«Malocchio» © 1999 by Eliot Fintushel. Original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author's agent, Linn Prentis.
«The Metrognome» © 1990 by Thranx, Inc. First published in The Metrognome and Other Stories (New York: Del Rey Books, 1990). Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agent, the Virginia Kidd Agency.
«Uncle Henry Passes» © 1999 by Esther Friesner. Original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.
«The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds» © 1984 by Neil Gaiman. First published in Knave. Reprinted in Angels and Visitations (Minneapolis: DreamHaven Books, 1993). Reprinted by permission of the author.
«A Dealing with Demons» © 1981 by Craig Shaw Gardner. First published in Flashing Swords! #5: Demons and Daggers (New York: Dell Books, 1981). Reprinted by permission of the author.
«The Triumph of Vice» by W. S. Gilbert, first published in The Savage Club Papers (London: 1867). Copyright expired in 1962.
«Hershey's Kisses» © 1991 by Ron Goulart. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1992. Reprinted by permission of the author.
«The Man Who Hated Cadillacs» © 1999 by E. K. Grant. Original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.
«History Book» © 1994, 1999 by John Grant. First published in a limited-edition chapbook as History Book — A Thog the Mighty Text (1994) and then, revised, in sections in The Rotting Land (1994) as by Joe Dever and John Grant. Further extensive revisions by the author for this publication.
«Captain Flonario Harpplayer, R.N.» © 1963 by Harry Harrison. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, March 1963. Reprinted by permission of the author.
«Neander-Tale» © 1980 by James P. Hogan. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1980. Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agent, Spectrum Literary Agency.
«Escape from the Planet of the Bears» © 1999 by Tom Holt. Original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.