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• 9 • Introduction (Strange Beasts and Unnatural Monsters) • essay by Philip Van Doren Stern
• 17 • The Nature of the Evidence • (1923) • short story by May Sinclair
• 27 • Slime • (1953) • novelette by Joseph Payne Brennan
• 49 • The Garden of Paris • (1965) • short story by Eric C. Williams [as by Eric Williams]
• 66 • Doomsday Deferred • (1949) • short story by Murray Leinster [as by Will F. Jenkins]
• 76 • The Cocoon • (1946) • short story by John B. L. Goodwin
• 91 •
  Æpyornis Island^?Aepyornis Island
  • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 102 • The Terror of Blue John Gap • (1910) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 117 • The Birds • (1952) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
• 150 • The Judge's House • (1891) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 167 • The Kill • (1931) • short story by Peter Fleming
• 177 • Mrs. Amworth • (1922) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 191 • Skeleton • (1945) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 205 • The Elephant Man • (1923) • essay by Sir Frederick Treves [as by Frederick Treves]