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• iv • Preface (Playboy's Stories of the Sinister & Strange) • essay by Editors of Playboy
• 1 • The Mannichon Solution • (1967) • novelette by Irwin Shaw
• 41 • The Dark Music • (1956) • short story by Charles Beaumont
• 57 • Somewhere Not Far from Here • (1965) • short story by Gerald Kersh
• 78 • The Investor • (1962) • short story by Bruce Jay Friedman
• 90 • Ripples • (1967) • short story by Ray Russell
• 93 • The Dispatcher • (1967) • novelette by Gerald Green
• 120 • Wise Child • (1967) • short story by John Wyndham (variant of It's a Wise Child 1962)
• 137 • Welcome to the Monkey House • (1968) • short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• 160 • Room 312 • (1967) • short story by G. L. Tassone
• 177 • The Golden Frog • (1963) • novelette by Ken W. Purdy
• 200 • The Annex • (1968) • short story by John D. MacDonald