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• xi • Introduction (Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!) • essay by Otto Penzler
• 3 • Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields • (1929) • short story by William B. Seabrook (variant of "... Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields") [as by W. B. Seabrook]
• 13 • After Nightfall • (1970) • short story by David A. Riley
• 21 • Mission to Margal • (1993) • short story by Hugh B. Cave
• 45 • The Cairnwell Horror • (1990) • novelette by Chet Williamson
• 57 • Crawling Madness • (1935) • novelette by Arthur Leo Zagat
• 84 • Treading the Maze • (1981) • short story by Lisa Tuttle
• 92 • Red Angels • (1993) • novelette by Karen Haber
• 107 • Later • (1993) • short story by Michael Marshall Smith
• 112 • White Zombie • (1933) • short story by Vivian Meik
• 120 • Was It a Dream? • (1903) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La morte 1887)
• 124 • Bodies and Heads • (1989) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 135 • Death and Suffrage • (2002) • novelette by Dale Bailey
• 158 • The Graveyard Rats • (1936) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• 164 • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 171 • Feeding the Dead Inside • (2006) • short story by Yvonne Navarro
• 183 • Ballet Nègre • (1964) • short story by Charles Birkin
• 195 • Dead Right • (1993) • short story by Geoffrey A. Landis
• 202 • The Taking of Mr. Bill • (1993) • short story by Graham Masterton
• 210 • The Grave Gives Up • (1936) • novelette by D. L. Champion [as by Jack D'Arcy]
• 226 • Herbert West—Reanimator • [Herbert West: Reanimator Universe] • (1922) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft (variant of Herbert West: Reanimator)
• 245 • Pickman's Model • (1927) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 253 • Maternal Instinct • (2006) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 262 • Bringing the Family • [Tucker's Grove] • (1993) • short story by Kevin J. Anderson
• 272 • Mess Hall • (1989) • novelette by Richard Laymon
• 284 • Schalken the Painter • (1970) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 298 • While Zombies Walked • (1939) • novelette by Thorp McClusky
• 316 • April Flowers, November Harvest • (1993) • short story by Mary A. Turzillo
• 322 • The Old Man and the Dead • (1992) • novelette by Mort Castle
• 336 • Jumbee • (1926) • short story by Henry S. Whitehead
• 343 • Marbh Bheo • (1993) • short story by Peter Tremayne
• 354 • The Hollow Man • (1933) • short story by Thomas Burke
• 363 • They Bite • (1943) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• 371 • Come One, Come All • (1992) • short story by Gahan Wilson
• 382 • It Helps If You Sing • (1989) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 388 • The Ghouls • (1975) • novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• 402 • The Corpse-Master • [Jules de Grandin] • (1929) • novelette by Seabury Quinn
• 416 • The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 429 • Vengeance of the Living Dead • (1940) • novelette by Ralston Shields
• 445 • The Song the Zombie Sang • (1970) • short story by Harlan Ellison and Robert Silverberg
• 454 • Men Without Blood • (1935) • novelette by John H. Knox
• 471 • The Broken Fang • [Prof. Arnold Rhymer] • (1920) • novelette by Uel Key
• 495 • It • (1940) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 511 • League of the Grateful Dead • (1941) • novelette by Day Keene
• 537 • Love Child • (1982) • short story by Garry Kilworth
• 547 • Corpses on Parade • (1938) • novelette by Edith Jakobsson and Ejler Jakobsson [as by Edith Jacobson and Ejler Jacobson]
• 562 • Where There's a Will • (1980) • short story by Richard Christian Matheson and Richard Matheson [as by Christian Matheson and Richard Matheson]
• 567 • The Dead • (1996) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 575 • The Song of the Slaves • (1940) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 584 • The Outsider • [Dream Cycle] • (1926) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 590 • Eat me • (1989) • short story by Robert R. McCammon (variant of Eat Me) [as by Robert McCammon]
• 598 • Deadman's Road • [Reverend Jedidiah Mercer] • (2007) • novelette by Joe R. Lansdale
• 615 • Pigeons from Hell • (1938) • novelette by Robert E. Howard
• 633 • Live People Don't Understand • (2001) • short story by Scott Edelman
• 642 • The House in the Magnolias • (1932) • short story by August Derleth and Mark Schorer
• 653 • Home Delivery • [Little Tall Island / In the Path of the Eclipse] • (1989) • novelette by Stephen King
• 671 • Dance of the Damned • (1936) • novelette by Arthur J. Burks
• 687 • Z Is for Zombie • non-genre • (1989) • novel by Theodore Roscoe