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• 1 • Introduction (The Dark Descent) • (1987) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• 13 • The Swords • (1969) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 35 • The Roaches • (1965) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 44 • Bright Segment • (1955) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 64 • Dread • (1984) • novelette by Clive Barker
• 94 • The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 109 • The Monkey • (1980) • novelette by Stephen King
• 139 • Within the Walls of Tyre • (1978) • novelette by Michael Bishop
• 161 • The Rats in the Walls • (1924) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 176 • Schalken the Painter • (1935) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 192 • The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
• 205 • A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
• 213 • How Love Came to Professor Guildea • (1897) • novella by Robert Hichens
• 248 • Born of Man and Woman • (1950) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 251 • My Dear Emily • (1962) • short story by Joanna Russ
• 268 • You Can Go Now • (1980) • short story by Dennis Etchison
• 278 • The Rocking-Horse Winner • (1926) • short story by D. H. Lawrence
• 290 • Three Days • (1984) • novelette by Tanith Lee
• 314 • Good Country People • non-genre • (1955) • short fiction by Flannery O'Connor
• 330 • Mackintosh Willy • (1979) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 343 • The Jolly Corner • (1908) • novelette by Henry James