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• vii • Introduction (The Master's Choice) • essay by Alfred Hitchcock
• 3 • She Fell Among Thieves • (1964) • short story by Robert Edmond Alter
• 16 • The Hills Beyond Furcy • (1966) • short story by Robert G. Anderson
• 27 • A Gun Is a Nervous Thing • (1955) • novelette by Charlotte Armstrong
• 75 • See How They Run • (1973) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 87 • Nothing Short of Highway Robbery • (1977) • short story by Lawrence Block
• 99 • Puppet Show • (1962) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 109 • De Mortuis • non-genre • (1942) • short story by John Collier
• 117 • Snowball • (1959) • short story by Ursula Curtiss
• 127 • Here, Daemos! • (1942) • short story by August Derleth
• 136 • The Cookie Lady • (1953) • short story by Philip K. Dick
• 145 • The Wager • (1978) • short story by Robert L. Fish
• 155 • Scream in a Soundproof Room • (1955) • short story by Michael Gilbert (I)
• 162 • Return of Verge Likens • (1950) • short story by Davis Grubb
• 170 • The Fair Chance • (1925) • short story by James Hay, Jr.
• 183 • Paste a Smile on a Wall • (1974) • short story by John Keefauver
• 189 • The Alarming Letters from Scottsdale • (1973) • short story by Warner Law
• 203 • My Last Book • (1951) • short story by Clayre Lipman and Michel Lipman
• 210 • Homicidal Hiccup • (1948) • short story by John D. MacDonald
• 218 • Gone Girl • non-genre • (1953) • novelette by Ross Macdonald
• 251 • The Interceptor • (1972) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 262 • Doctor's Dilemma • (1975) • short story by Harold Q. Masur
• 278 • Mother by Protest • (1953) • novelette by Richard Matheson
• 317 • Coincidence • (1974) • short story by William F. Nolan
• 324 • The Same Old Grind • non-genre • (1978) • short story by Bill Pronzini
• 330 • Twenty-Two Cents a Day • (1966) • short story by Jack Ritchie
• 341 • Evil Star • (1976) • short story by Ray Russell
• 348 • A Woman's Help • (1961) • short story by Henry Slesar