Over 400,000 words. More than 1,000 pages, including nine novellas, unpublished teleplays, rare, never before collected short stories, and a small volume's worth of introductions and commentary.

Contents: ONE: A FOUR-COLOR FANBOY Only Kids Are Afraid of the Dark The Fortress And Death His Legacy

TWO: BREAKING THROUGH The Hero The Exit to San Breta The Second Kind of Loneliness With Morning Comes Mistfall

THREE: THE LIGHT OF DISTANT STARS A Song for Lya This Tower of Ashes And Seven Times Never Kill Man The Stone City Bitterblooms The Way of Cross and Dragon

FOUR: SWORDS OF TURTLE CASTLE The Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr The Ice Dragon In the Lost Lands

FIVE: HYBRIDS AND HORRORS Meathouse Man Remembering Melody Sandkings Nightflyers The Monkey Treatment The Pear-Shaped Man

FIVE: A TASTE OF TUF A Beast for Norn (original version) Guardians

SIX: HURRAH FOR HOLLYWOOD The Road Less Travelled (Twilight Zone teleplay) DOORWAYS pilot/ first draft (unproduced teleplay)

SEVEN: WILD CARDS Shell Games The Journal of Xavier Desmond

EIGHT: THE HEART IN CONFLICT Bat Durston, the Bard, and Me (speech) Under Siege The Skin Trade Unsound Variations The Glass Flower The Hedge Knight Portraits of His Children