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