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• ix • Introduction (Mistresses of the Dark: 25 Macabre Tales by Master Storytellers) • essay by Stefan Dziemianowicz and Denise Little and Robert Weinberg
• 1 • Death by Landscape • (1989) • short story by Margaret Atwood
• 20 • The July Ghost • (1982) • short story by A. S. Byatt
• 37 • The Bloody Chamber • (1979) • novelette by Angela Carter
• 78 • Don't Look Now • (1970) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
• 127 • Fleur • (1986) • short story by Louise Erdrich
• 141 • Up North • (1981) • short story by Mavis Gallant
• 147 • Letter from His Father • (1983) • short story by Nadine Gordimer
• 164 • The Pond • (1976) • short story by Patricia Highsmith
• 182 • The Bullet Catcher • (1990) • short story by A. M. Homes
• 201 • The Summer People • (1950) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 216 • Ovando • (1989) • short story by Jamaica Kincaid
• 225 • Poor Little Saturday • (1956) • short story by Madeleine L'Engle
• 242 • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas • (1973) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 260 • Another Halloween • (1994) • short story by Alison Lurie
• 271 • The Parallel World • (1988) • short story by Valerie Martin
• 278 • Number 10 • (1976) • short story by Edna O'Brien
• 286 • The River • non-genre • (1953) • short story by Flannery O'Connor
• 304 • The Virgin in the Rose-Bower; or, The Tragedy of Glen Mawr Manor • [Xavier Kilgarvan] • (1984) • novella by Joyce Carol Oates
• 471 • The Dreadful Day of Judgment • (1982) • short story by Ruth Rendell
• 483 • A Spiritualist • (1927) • short story by Jean Rhys
• 486 • The Dummy • (1963) • short story by Susan Sontag
• 495 • The Girl I Left Behind Me • (1957) • short story by Muriel Spark
• 500 • Spirit of the House • (1980) • short story by Fay Weldon
• 515 • Clytie • (1941) • short story by Eudora Welty
• 529 • About the Authors (Mistresses of the Dark: 25 Macabre Tales by Master Storytellers) • essay by uncredited