Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 1 • Introduction or Some Notes on Becoming an Anthologist • essay by Joan Kahn
• 3 • The Sixth Capsule; or, Proof by Circumstantial Evidence • (1926) • essay by Edmund Pearson
• 14 • Fool's Mate • (1951) • short story by Stanley Ellin
• 29 • The Axeman Wore Wings • (1952) • essay by Robert Tallant
• 50 • Stone from the Stars • (1961) • novelette by
  Валентина Журавлёва^?Valentina Zhuravlyova
  (trans. of
  Звездный камень^?Zvezdnyy kamen'
  1960) [as by Valentina Zhuravleva]
• 63 • The Queen of Spades • (1958) • short story by
  Александр Пушкин^?Alexander Pushkin
  (trans. of
  Пиковая дама^?Pikovaya dama
  1834) [as by Alexander Pushkin]
• 88 • Billy: The Seal Mission • (1946) • essay by Stewart Alsop and Thomas Braden
• 109 • A Watcher by the Dead • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 120 • Tea Party • (1965) • short story by Harold Pinter
• 124 • Death Draws a Triangle • (1934) • essay by Edward Hale Bierstadt
• 156 • The Net • (1940) • short story by Robert M. Coates
• 165 • Prisoner of the Sand • (1939) • essay by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• 202 • The End of the Party • (1932) • short story by Graham Greene
• 211 • The Last Inhabitant of the Tuileries • (1962) • essay by André Castelot
• 218 • Jesting Pilot • (1947) • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• 231 • Shattering the Myth of John Wilkes Booth's Escape • (1924) • essay by William G. Shepherd
• 255 • A Piece of Steak • non-genre • (1909) • short story by Jack London
• 272 • The Game of Murder • (1960) • short story by Gerd Gaiser (trans. of Das Mörderspiel 1955)
• 278 • On the Killing of Eratosthenes the Seducer • (1946) • essay by Kathleen Freeman
• 289 • The Adventure of the Clapham Cook • short story by Agatha Christie (variant of The Adventures of the Clapham Cook 1923)
• 302 • The Last Night of the World • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 306 • "They" • (1904) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• 326 • The Chair • (1950) • essay by John Bartlow Martin
• 360 • Old Fags • (1917) • novelette by Stacy Aumonier
• 380 • "... Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields" • (1929) • short story by William B. Seabrook
• 390 • How the Brigadier Lost His Ear • non-genre • [The Adventures of Etienne Gerard • 1] • (1902) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 409 • Dry September • (1931) • short story by William Faulkner
• 421 • Rattenbury and Stoner • non-genre • (1935) • essay by F. Tennyson Jesse
• 454 • Sing a Song of Sixpence • (1928) • short story by John Buchan
• 467 • The Murder in Le Mans • (1934) • essay by Janet Flanner
• 474 • Sleeping Beauty • non-genre • (1938) • short story by John Collier
• 490 • The Shadow of the Shark • (1921) • short story by G. K. Chesterton
• 509 • A Small Buried Treasure • (1960) • essay by John Fischer
• 515 • The Horla • [Le Horla • 3] • (1925) • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• 539 • Scrawns • non-genre • (1932) • short story by Dorothy L. Sayers
• 553 • Biographical Notes (The Edge of the Chair) • essay by Onica Friend