CONTENTS:
"How Nefer-ka-ptah Found The Book of Thoth" - from the Egyptian Papyri, retold by Brian Brown
"The Descent of Ishtar to the Netherworld" - from the Sumerian Epic Angalta Kigalshe in a new version by (Lin Carter)
"Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou" - from Galland's Les Mille et Une Nuit in an old English version
"The Talisman of Oromanes" - from the mock-Persian Tales of the Genii, supposedly translated by Sir Charles Morell
"Wars of the Giants of Albion" - from the Welsh Historia Regum Britanniae by Geoffrey of Monmouth, in a new version by Wayland Smith
"Forty Singing Seamen" - a modern English ballad on an old legend by Alfred Noyes
"The Shadowy Lord of Mommur" - from the French romance Huon of Bordeaux, translated by Sir John Bourchier, retold by Robert Steele
"Olivier's Brag" - a modern treatment of a Carolingian legend by Anatole France, translated by Alfred Allinson
"The White Bull" - from the romances of Voltaire
"The Yellow Dwarf" - from the French Contes Nouvelles ou les Fees, by Madame d'Aulnoy
"Arcalaus the Enchanter" and "The Isle of Wonders" - from the Portuguese Amadis of Gaul, translated by Robert Southey
"The Palace of Illusions" - from Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto, translated by Richard Hodgens