Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 7 • Introduction: The Lure of Horror • (1983) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 13 • The Adventure of the German Student • [Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman] • (1824) • short story by Washington Irving
• 21 • El Verdugo • non-genre • (1900) • short story by
  Honoré de Balzac^?Honore de Balzac
  (trans. of El Verdugo 1830)
• 33 • The Story of the Greek Slave • short story by Frederick Marryat [as by Captain Marryat]
• 51 • The Iron Shroud • (1830) • short story by William Mudford
• 67 • Schalken the Painter • (1935) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 93 • The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 101 • The Doom of the Griffiths • (1858) • novelette by Mrs. Gaskell
• 135 • Circumstance • (1860) • short story by Harriet Prescott Spofford
• 147 • Torture by Hope • (1945) • short story by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. of La torture par l'espérance 1883)
• 155 • The Diamond Necklace • short fiction by Guy de Maupassant
• 165 • The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes • (1885) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• 187 • Markheim • (1885) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 205 • Sleepyhead • non-genre • short story by
  Антон Чехов^?Anton Chekhov
  (trans. of
  Спать хочется^?Spat khochetsya
  1888) [as by Anton Chekhov]
• 213 • His Unconquerable Enemy • (1889) • short story by W. C. Morrow
• 225 • The Gravedigger's Daughter • (1889) • short story by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
• 231 • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 243 • Vengeance • (1892) • short story by Lorimer Stoddard (variant of The Indian's Head)
• 253 • Désirée's Baby • non-genre • (1893) • short story by Kate Chopin
• 261 • The Squaw • (1893) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 275 • A Dreadful Night • (1894) • short story by Edwin L. Arnold
• 287 • The Dead Valley • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
• 297 • Pollock and the Porroh Man • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 315 • The Story of the Brazilian Cat • [Round the Fire • 7] • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle (variant of The Brazilian Cat 1898) [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 335 • The Dead Smile • (1899) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 357 • A Game of Chess • (1900) • short story by Robert Barr