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• ix • Introduction (Happy Endings) • (1974) • essay by Damon Knight
• 1 • The Greatest Man in the World • (1931) • short story by James Thurber
• 10 • The Way Up to Heaven • non-genre • (1954) • short story by Roald Dahl
• 25 • The Purist • (1935) • poem by Ogden Nash
• 26 • Father's in the Basement • (1972) • short story by Philip José Farmer
• 35 • Miss Thompson • non-genre • (1921) • novelette by W. Somerset Maugham
• 82 • The Damnedest Thing • (1956) • short story by Garson Kanin
• 91 • De Mortuis • non-genre • (1942) • short story by John Collier
• 100 • Tobermory • (1909) • short story by Saki
• 109 • Undertaker Song • non-genre • (1934) • short story by Damon Runyon
• 123 • The Idol of the Flies • (1942) • short story by Jane Rice
• 149 • The Red-Headed Murderess • (1958) • short story by Robert Branson
• 158 • The Language of Flowers • (1968) • short story by Hugh Atkinson
• 175 • Ashes to Ashes • (1934) • short story by Nunnally Johnson
• 191 • A Letter • (1929) • short story by
  Исаак Бабель^?Isaak Babel
  (trans. of
  Письмо^?Pis'mo
  1923) [as by Isaac Babel]
• 197 • Winter • (1969) • short story by Kit Reed