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• vii • Preface (Chilling and Killing) • essay by Jacques Barzun
• xi • Introduction (Chilling and Killing) • essay by Joan Kahn
• 1 • What Was It? • (1859) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 15 • The Raspberry Patch • (1968) • short story by Berton Roueché
• 22 • The Man Hunt • (1928) • essay by Milton MacKaye
• 38 • Another Solution • (1951) • short story by Gilbert Highet
• 43 • Miss Hinch • (1911) • novelette by Henry Sydnor Harrison
• 63 • The Withered Arm • (1888) • novelette by Thomas Hardy
• 93 • The Old Shell Collector • (1970) • novelette by H. R. F. Keating
• 116 • The Man Who Murdered Papa Désiré • (1929) • essay by Lassiter Wren
• 153 • Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty • (1922) • short story by Stacy Aumonier
• 169 • A Record of Escape • (1930) • essay by Alfred Morain
• 184 • The Invaders • (1951) • short story by Robie Macauley
• 194 • Bird of Prey • (1941) • short story by John Collier
• 203 • The Confession of Charles Linkworth • (1912) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 219 • The Broadway Central Tragedy • (1913) • essay by Alfred Henry Lewis
• 254 • The Escape • (1928) • short story by E. H. Lacon Watson
• 267 • The Doll • (1968) • short story by Francis King
• 296 • The Woman's Ghost Story • (1907) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 306 • The Trial of Jane's Aunt • essay by Albert Borowitz
• 332 • Biographical Notes (Chilling and Killing) • essay by Laura Benford