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• 7 • Introduction (Modern Tales of Horror) • essay by Dashiell Hammett (variant of Introduction (Creeps by Night: Chills and Thrills) 1931)
• 13 • A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
• 31 • Green Thoughts • (1931) • short story by John Collier
• 63 • The Ghost of Alexander Perks, A.B. • (1931) • novelette by Robert Dean Frisbie
• 85 • The House • short story by André Maurois (trans. of La maison 1931)
• 89 • The Kill • (1931) • short story by Peter Fleming
• 111 • Ten O'Clock • (1931) • short story by Philip MacDonald
• 141 • The Spider • (1915) • novelette by Hanns Heinz Ewers (trans. of Die Spinne 1908)
• 185 • Breakdown • (1929) • short story by L. A. G. Strong
• 209 • The Witch's Vengeance • (1930) • short story by William B. Seabrook [as by W. B. Seabrook]
• 229 • Faith, Hope and Charity • (1930) • short story by Irvin S. Cobb
• 265 • Mr. Arcularis • (1931) • novelette by Conrad Aiken
• 301 • The Music of Erich Zann • [Erich Zann] • (1922) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 319 • The King of the Cats • (1929) • short story by Stephen Vincent Benét
• 347 • The Red Brain • (1927) • short story by Donald Wandrei
• 363 • The Phantom Bus • (1930) • short story by W. Elwyn Backus
• 377 • Beyond the Door • (1923) • short story by J. Paul Suter
• 407 • Perchance to Dream • (1930) • short story by Michael Joyce
• 429 • A Visitor from Egypt • (1930) • short story by Frank Belknap Long [as by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.]