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•  Scary Stories • (2006) • interior artwork by Barry Moser
• 5 • Introduction (Scary Stories) • (2006) • essay by Peter Glassman
• 9 • Kittens • (1966) • short story by Dean R. Koontz [as by Dean Koontz]
• 16 • The Magic Shop • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 27 • Miriam • (1945) • short story by Truman Capote
• 40 • The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 46 • Genesis and Catastrophe • non-genre • (1959) • short story by Roald Dahl (variant of A Fine Son)
• 54 • The Squaw • (1893) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 67 • Here There Be Tygers • (1968) • short story by Stephen King
• 73 • Man Overboard! • (1899) • short story by Winston S. Churchill (variant of "Man Overboard!") [as by Winston Churchill]
• 78 • The Lottery • (1948) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 88 • The Bus-Conductor • (1906) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 98 • Thanksgiving • (1993) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• 111 • Excerpt from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow • short fiction by Washington Irving
• 117 • The Terrible Old Man • (1921) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 121 • John Charrington's Wedding • (1891) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 130 • The Furnished Room • (1904) • short story by O. Henry
• 138 • The Man Upstairs • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 152 • The Music on the Hill • (1911) • short story by Saki
• 159 • The Boarded Window • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 165 • Fingers on the Back of the Neck • juvenile • (1996) • short story by Margaret Mahy
• 177 • The Cremation of Sam McGee • (1907) • poem by Robert W. Service
• 183 • Credits (Scary Stories) • (2006) • essay by uncredited