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Essays discuss the major works of science fiction authors from Poe to Niven, and includes bibliographies for each writer.

Table of Contents:

• xi - Introduction (Science Fiction Writers) - essay by Everett F. Bleiler
• 3 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - essay by Brian W. Aldiss
• 11 - Edgar Allan Poe - essay by Everett F. Bleiler
• 19 - H. Rider Haggard - essay by John Scarborough
• 25 - H. G. Wells - essay by Brian W. Aldiss
• 31 - M. P. Shiel - essay by Everett F. Bleiler
• 39 - Garrett P. Serviss - essay by James L. Campbell, Sr.
• 45 - Arthur Conan Doyle - essay by James L. Campbell, Sr.
• 53 - Luis Philip Senarens - essay by Everett F. Bleiler
• 59 - Edgar Rice Burroughs - essay by Everett F. Bleiler
• 65 - A. Merritt - essay by Everett F. Bleiler
• 75 - John Taine - essay by James L. Campbell, Sr.
• 83 - S. Fowler Wright - essay by Everett F. Bleiler
• 91 - Olaf Stapledon - essay by James L. Campbell, Sr.
• 101 - Aldous Huxley - essay by John R. Pfeiffer
• 111 - Murray Leinster - essay by John Clute
• 119 - David H. Keller - essay by Brian Stableford
• 125 - E. E. Smith - essay by John Clute
• 131 - H. P. Lovecraft - essay by Colin Wilson
• 139 - Clark Ashton Smith - essay by Brian Stableford
• 145 - Stanley G. Weinbaum - essay by Brian Stableford
• 151 - John W. Campbell, Jr. - essay by Everett F. Bleiler
• 161 - C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner - essay by Frederick Shroyer
• 171 - Ray Bradbury - essay by Willis E. McNelly
• 179 - L. Sprague de Camp - essay by Brian Stableford
• 185 - Robert A. Heinlein - essay by Peter Nicholls
• 197 - Eric Frank Russell - essay by Malcolm Edwards
• 203 - Theodore Sturgeon - essay by Brian Stableford
• 209 - A. E. van Vogt - essay by Colin Wilson
• 219 - John Wyndham - essay by John Scarborough
• 225 - Jack Williamson - essay by Robert E. Myers
• 233 - George Orwell - essay by Charles L. Elkins
• 243 - C. S. Lewis - essay by John Clute
• 251 - Brian W. Aldiss - essay by Willis E. McNelly
• 259 - Poul Anderson - essay by Roald D. Tweet
• 267 - Isaac Asimov - essay by L. David Allen
• 277 - J. G. Ballard - essay by Brian Stableford
• 283 - Alfred Bester - essay by Willis E. McNelly
• 291 - James Blish - essay by John Clute
• 297 - John Brunner - essay by John R. Pfeiffer
• 305 - Algis Budrys - essay by Peter Nicholls
• 313 - Arthur C. Clarke - essay by David N. Samuelson
• 321 - Hal Clement - essay by Chris Morgan
• 329 - Samuel R. Delany - essay by Douglas Barbour
• 337 - Philip K. Dick - essay by Brian Stableford
• 345 - Gordon R. Dickson - essay by John Clute
• 351 - Thomas M. Disch - essay by Brian Stableford
• 357 - Harlan Ellison - essay by George E. Slusser
• 369 - Philip José Farmer - essay by Roald D. Tweet
• 377 - Frank Herbert - essay by Willis E. McNelly
• 387 - Fred Hoyle - essay by John Clute
• 393 - Damon Knight - essay by Gardner Dozois
• 401 - C. M. Kornbluth - essay by Malcolm Edwards
• 409 - Ursula K. Le Guin - essay by David N. Samuelson
• 419 - Fritz Leiber - essay by Brian Stableford
• 425 - Richard Matheson - essay by Peter Nicholls
• 433 - Judith Merril - essay by Chris Morgan
• 441 - Walter M. Miller, Jr. - essay by John B. Ower
• 449 - Michael Moorcock - essay by Peter Nicholls
• 459 - Larry Niven - essay by John Carr and Richard Finholt
• 467 - Chad Oliver - essay by L. David Allen
• 475 - Frederik Pohl - essay by David N. Samuelson
• 483 - Joanna Russ - essay by Marilyn J. Holt
• 491 - Margaret St. Clair - essay by John Clute
• 497 - Robert Sheckley - essay by Chris Morgan
• 505 - Robert Silverberg - essay by Malcolm Edwards
• 513 - Clifford D. Simak - essay by Roald D. Tweet
• 519 - Cordwainer Smith - essay by Chris Morgan
• 525 - William Tenn - essay by Malcolm Edwards
• 531 - James Tiptree, Jr. - essay by Susan Wood
• 543 - Jack Vance - essay by Malcolm Edwards
• 551 - Kurt Vonnegut - essay by Charles L. Elkins
• 563 - Roger Zelazny - essay by Peter Nicholls
• 573 - Jules Verne - essay by Everett F. Bleiler
• 583 - Karel Capek - essay by John Clute
• 591 - Stanislaw Lem - essay by John Scarborough

The Checklist of Fantastic Literature is a bibliography of English science fiction, fantasy and weird books compiled and edited by Everett F. Bleiler with a preface by Melvin Korshak and a cover by Hannes Bok.

With a print run of 1,933 copies, it was the first book from Shasta Publishers. The bibliography is nearly complete and lists over 5,000 titles published prior to 1949. The books are listed by author and indexed by title. Willy Ley described it as "indispensable to librarians, book dealers, and especially antiquarians."

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Trends in Modern Science-Fiction - (1949) - essay by Melvin Korshak
• Preface - (1949) - essay by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
• Mars Is Heaven! - (1948) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• Ex Machina - (1948) - novelette by Lewis Padgett
• The Strange Case of John Kingman - (1948) - shortstory by Murray Leinster
• Doughnut Jockey - (1948) - shortstory by Erik Fennel
• Thang - (1948) - shortstory by Martin Gardner
• Period Piece - (1948) - shortstory by J. J. Coupling
• Knock - (1948) - shortstory by Fredric Brown
• Genius - (1948) - novelette by Poul Anderson
• And the Moon Be Still as Bright - (1948) - novelette by Ray Bradbury
• No Connection - (1948) - shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• In Hiding - (1948) - novelette by Wilmar H. Shiras
• Happy Ending - (1948) - novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore

Table of Contents:

• Sort of Introduction - (1950) - essay by Vincent Starrett
• Preface - (1950) - essay by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
• Private Eye - (1949) - novelette by Lewis Padgett
• Doomsday Deferred - (1949) - shortstory by Will F. Jenkins
• The Hurkle Is a Happy Beast - (1949) - shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
• Eternity Lost - (1949) - novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• Easter Eggs - (1949) - novelette by Robert S. Carr
• Opening Doors - (1949) - novelette by Wilmar H. Shiras
• Five Years in the Marmalade - (1949) - shortstory by Robert W. Krepps
• Dwellers in Silence - (1948) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• Mouse - (1949) - shortstory by Fredric Brown
• Refuge for Tonight - (1949) - novelette by Robert Moore Williams
• The Life-Work of Professor Muntz - (1949) - shortstory by Murray Leinster
• Flaw - (1949) - shortstory by John D. MacDonald
• The Man - (1949) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• About the Authors - (1950) - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1951) - essay by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
• The Santa Claus Planet - (1951) - novelette by Frank M. Robinson
• The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out - (1950) - shortstory by Reginald Bretnor
• The Mindworm - (1950) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
• The Star Ducks - (1950) - shortstory by Bill Brown
• Not to Be Opened- - (1950) - novelette by Roger Flint Young
• Process - (1950) - shortstory by A. E. van Vogt
• Forget-Me-Not - (1950) - novelette by William F. Temple
• Contagion - (1950) - novelette by Katherine MacLean
• Trespass! - (1950) - shortstory by Poul Anderson and Gordon R. Dickson
• Oddy and Id - (1950) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
• To Serve Man - (1950) - shortstory by Damon Knight
• Summer Wear - (1950) - shortstory by L. Sprague de Camp
• Born of Man and Woman - (1950) - shortstory by Richard Matheson
• The Fox and the Forest - (1950) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• The Last Martian - (1950) - shortstory by Fredric Brown
• The New Reality - (1950) - novelette by Charles L. Harness
• Two Face - (1950) - shortstory by Frank Belknap Long
• Coming Attraction - (1950) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1952) - essay by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
• The Other Side - (1951) - shortstory by Walter Kubilius
• Of Time and Third Avenue - (1951) - shortstory by Alfred Bester
• The Marching Morons - (1951) - novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• A Peculiar People - (1951) - shortstory by Betsy Curtis
• Extending the Holdings - (1951) - shortstory by David Grinnell
• The Tourist Trade - (1951) - shortstory by Wilson Tucker
• The Two Shadows - (1951) - novelette by William F. Temple
• Balance - (1951) - shortstory by John Christopher
• Brightness Falls from the Air - (1951) - shortstory by Idris Seabright
• Witch War - (1951) - shortstory by Richard Matheson
• At No Extra Cost - (1951) - shortstory by Peter Phillips
• Nine-Finger Jack - (1951) - shortstory by Anthony Boucher
• Appointment in Tomorrow - (1951) - novelette by Fritz Leiber
• The Rats - (1951) - shortstory by Arthur Porges
• Men of the Ten Books - (1951) - shortstory by Jack Vance
• Generation of Noah - (1951) - shortstory by William Tenn
• Dark Interlude - (1951) - shortstory by Fredric Brown and Mack Reynolds
• The Pedestrian - (1951) - shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• About the Authors (The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1952) - (1952) - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Editors' Preface - (1953) - essay by T. E. Dikty and Everett F. Bleiler
• Trematode, a Critique of Modern Science-Fiction - (1953) - essay by Alfred Bester
• The Fly - (1952) - shortstory by Arthur Porges
• Ararat - (1952) - novelette by Zenna Henderson
• Counter-Transference - (1952) - novelette by William F. Temple
• The Conqueror - (1952) - shortstory by Mark Clifton
• Machine - (1952) - shortstory by John Jakes
• The Middle of the Week After Next - (1952) - shortstory by Murray Leinster
• The Dreamer - (1952) - shortstory by Alfred Coppel
• The Moon Is Green - (1952) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• I Am Nothing - (1952) - shortstory by Eric Frank Russell
• Command Performance - (1952) - novelette by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• Survival - (1952) - novelette by John Wyndham
• Game for Blondes - (1952) - shortstory by John D. MacDonald
• The Girls from Earth - (1952) - novelette by Frank M. Robinson
• Lover, When You're Near Me - (1952) - novelette by Richard Matheson
• Fast Falls the Eventide - (1952) - shortstory by Eric Frank Russell
• About the Authors (The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1953) - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Editors' Preface - essay by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
• Icon of the Imagination - essay by Fritz Leiber
• DP! - (1953) - shortstory by Jack Vance
• The Big Holiday - (1953) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• The Collectors - (1953) - shortstory by G. Gordon Dewey and Max Dancey
• One in Three Hundred - (1953) - novelette by J. T. McIntosh
• Wonder Child - (1953) - novelette by Joseph Shallit
• Crucifixus Etiam - (1953) - shortstory by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• The Model of a Judge - (1953) - shortstory by William Morrison
• The Last Day - (1953) - shortstory by Richard Matheson
• Time Is the Traitor - (1953) - novelette by Alfred Bester
• Lot - (1953) - novelette by Ward Moore
• Yankee Exodus - (1953) - shortstory by Ruth M. Goldsmith
• What Thin Partitions - (1953) - novelette by Mark Clifton and Alex Apostolides
• A Bad Day for Sales - (1953) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• About the Authors - essay by uncredited
• Index, the Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1949- - essay by uncredited

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1952) - essay by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
• Izzard and the Membrane - (1951) - novella by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• ...And Then There Were None - (1951) - novella by Eric Frank Russell
• Flight to Forever - (1950) - novella by Poul Anderson
• The Hunting Season - (1951) - novella by Frank M. Robinson
• Seeker of the Sphinx - (1951) - novella by Arthur C. Clarke (variant of The Road to the Sea)

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1953) - (1953) - essay by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
• Firewater - (1952) - novella by William Tenn
• Category Phoenix - (1952) - novella by Lyle G. Boyd and William C. Boyd [as by Boyd Ellanby]
• Surface Tension - [Pantropy] - (1952) - novelette by James Blish
• The Gadget Had a Ghost - (1952) - novelette by Murray Leinster
• Conditionally Human - (1952) - novella by Walter M. Miller, Jr.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Year's Best Science Fiction Novels: 1954) - essay by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty
• The Enormous Room - (1953) - novella by H. L. Gold and Robert W. Krepps
• Assignment in Aldebaran - (1953) - novella by Kendell Foster Crossen (variant of Assignment to Aldebaran)
• The Oceans Are Wide - (1954) - novella by Frank M. Robinson
• The Sentimentalists - (1953) - novelette by Murray Leinster
• Second Variety - [Claws - 1] - (1953) - novelette by Philip K. Dick