Introduction : learning to resist the wolf / Nicholas Ruddick
"Oh God, here come the elves!" / Jane Yolen
Fantasy and the narrative transaction / Brian Attebery
Specular SF : postmodern allegory / Veronica Hollinger
Knowing about knowing : paradigms of knowledge in the postmodern fantastic / Peter Malekin
Im/maculate : some instances of gnostic science fiction / Reinhold Kramer
The reproduction of the body in space / Elisabeth Vonarburg
M.G. Lewis and later gothic fiction : the numinous dissipated / Robert F. Geary
The taming of the screw : Rohmer's filming of Kleist's "Die Marquise von O ..." / Mary Rhiel
Alain Robbe-Grillet and the fantastic / Tony Chadwick and Virginia Harger-Grinling
Caricature, parody, satire : narrative masks as subversion of the picaro in Patrick Süskind's Perfume / Edith Borchardt.

Reality, fiction and Wu in The man in the high castle / Jianjiong Zhu
Zelazny's black : the sidekick as second self / Carl B. Yoke
Suicide, murder, culture, and catastrophe : Joanna Russ's We who are about to ... / Patrick D. Murphy
Getting a kick out of chaos : "fortunate failure" in Greg Bear's future histories / Len Hatfield
Out of blue water : dream flight and narrative construction in the novels of Toni Morrison / Grace A. Epstein
Dominance and subversion : the horizontal sublime and erotic empowerment in the works of Kathy Acker / Greg Lewis Peters
The dawn patrol : sex, technology, and irony in Farmer and Ballard / Gary K. Wolfe
The making of Frankenstein's monster : post-golem, pre-robot / Norma Rowen
Westworld, Futureworld, and the world's obscenity / J.P. Telotte
The animal at the door : modern works of horror and the natural animal / Marian Scholtmeijer.