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• xiii • Introduction: In Search of Masterpieces • (1985) • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 1 • Fiends and Creatures • (1985) • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 3 • Dracula's Guest • [Dracula] • (1914) • shortstory by Bram Stoker
• 14 • The Professor's Teddy Bear • (1948) • shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon (variant of The Professor's Teddy-Bear)
• 24 • Bubnoff and the Devil • (1975) • shortstory by Ivan Turgenev (trans. of Похождения подпоручика Бубнова 1916)
• 31 • The Quest for Blank Claveringi • (1967) • shortstory by Patricia Highsmith
• 44 • The Erl-King • (1979) • poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. of Der Erlkönig 1782)
• 46 • The Bottle Imp • (1891) • novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 71 • A Malady of Magicks • (1978) • shortstory by Craig Shaw Gardner
• 86 • Lan Lung • (1980) • novelette by M. Lucie Chin
• 106 • The Dragon Over Hackensack • (1985) • poem by Richard L. Wexelblat
• 107 • The Transformation • (1830) • shortstory by Mary Shelley [as by Mary W. Shelley ]
• 122 • The Faceless Thing • (1963) • shortstory by Edward D. Hoch
• 127 • Lovers and Other Monsters • (1985) • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 129 • The Anchor • (1947) • shortstory by Jack Snow
• 134 • When the Clock Strikes • (1980) • shortstory by Tanith Lee
• 149 • Oshidori • (1904) • shortstory by Lafcadio Hearn
• 151 • Carmilla • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by Sheridan LeFanu ]
• 214 • Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory • (1979) • novelette by Orson Scott Card (variant of Eumenides in the Fourth-Floor Lavatory)
• 229 • Lenore • (1773) • poem by Gottfried August Bürger
• 237 • The Black Wedding • (1958) • shortstory by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• 245 • Hop-Frog • (1849) • shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Hop-Frog: Or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs)
• 254 • Sardonicus • (1961) • novelette by Ray Russell
• 286 • Graveyard Shift • (1960) • shortstory by Richard Matheson
• 291 • Wake Not the Dead • (1823) • novelette by Ludwig Tieck [as by Johann Ludwig Tieck ]
• 314 • Night and Silence • (1922) • shortstory by Maurice Level
• 319 • Acts of God and Other Horrors • (1985) • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 321 • Flies • (1953) • shortstory by Isaac Asimov
• 328 • The Night Wire • (1926) • shortstory by H. F. Arnold
• 335 • Last Respects • (1975) • shortstory by Dick Baldwin
• 340 • The Pool of the Stone God • (1923) • shortstory by A. Merritt
• 344 • A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor • (1955) • poem by Ogden Nash
• 348 • The Tree • (1955) • shortstory by Dylan Thomas
• 355 • Stroke of Mercy • (1981) • novelette by Parke Godwin
• 374 • Lazarus • (1906) • shortstory by Leonid Andreyev (variant of Eleazar)
• 391 • The Beast Within • (1985) • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 393 • The Waxwork • (1931) • shortstory by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X ]
• 404 • The Silent Couple • (1826) • shortstory by Pierre Courtois
• 408 • Moon-Face • (1902) • shortstory by Jack London
• 413 • Death in the School-Room • (1841) • shortstory by Walt Whitman
• 419 • The Upturned Face • (1900) • shortstory by Stephen Crane
• 423 • One Summer Night • (1906) • shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
• 425 • The Easter Egg • (1930) • shortstory by Saki [as by H. H. Munro ]
• 429 • The House in Goblin Wood • (1947) • novelette by John Dickson Carr
• 448 • The Vengeance of Nitocris • (1928) • shortstory by Tennessee Williams
• 459 • The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew • (1911) • shortstory by Damon Runyon
• 472 • His Unconquerable Enemy • (1889) • shortstory by W. C. Morrow
• 481 • Rizpah • (1895) • poem by Lord Alfred Tennyson
• 486 • The Question • (1962) • shortstory by Stanley Ellin (variant of The Question My Son Asked)
• 495 • Ghosts and Miscellaneous Nightmares • (1985) • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 497 • The Flayed Hand • (1875) • shortstory by Guy de Maupassant (variant of La Main Écorchée)
• 502 • The Hospice • (1975) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 533 • The Christmas Banquet • (1843) • shortstory by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 549 • The Hungry House • (1951) • novelette by Robert Bloch
• 566 • The Demon of the Gibbet • (0000) • poem by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 568 • The Owl • (0000) • shortfiction by Anatole Le Braz
• 575 • No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince • (1895) • shortstory by Ralph Adams Cram
• 588 • The Music of Erich Zann • (1922) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
• 596 • Riddles in the Dark • (1937) • shortstory by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 609 • Afterword: Is Terror a Dying Art? • (1985) • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 615 • Miscellaneous Notes (Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural) • (1985) • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 619 • Selected Bibliography (Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural) • (1985) • essay by Marvin Kaye

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