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• 9 • Preface (The Best of Whispers) • essay by Stuart David Schiff
• 11 • Sticks • [Cthulhu Mythos short fiction] • (1974) • novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• 31 • The Chimney • (1977) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 47 • The Button Molder • (1979) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
• 79 • The Dead Line • (1979) • short story by Dennis Etchison
• 91 • The Barrow Troll • (1975) • short story by David Drake
• 101 • At the Bottom of the Garden • (1975) • short story by David Campton
• 111 • Paging Dr. Death • short story by Sharon N. Farber [as by S. N. Dyer]
• 127 • Lex Talionis • (1979) • novelette by Russell Kirk
• 147 • The Francis File • short story by William F. Nolan
• 155 • The Screaming Woman • [Green Town] • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 169 • The Bones Wizard • (1984) • short story by Alan Ryan
• 181 • Dr. Aldrich's Head • short story by Jerry Sohl
• 191 • Substitution Trick • (1985) • short story by Connie Willis
• 201 • Fingers • short story by Melanie Tem
• 209 • Where the Snowmen Go • short story by Scott Middleton
• 217 • One for the Horrors • (1983) • short story by David J. Schow
• 227 • From the Lower Deep • (1979) • short story by Hugh B. Cave
• 239 • A Fly One • (1979) • short story by Steve Sneyd
• 245 • Leaks • (1987) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 259 • The Horses of Lir • (1981) • short story by Roger Zelazny
• 271 • I Walk the Night • short story by Whitley Strieber
• 281 • Beyond Any Measure • (1982) • novella by Karl Edward Wagner
• 327 • The Golden (early version) • novel by Lucius Shepard
• 469 • The End • essay by Stuart David Schiff
• 471 • Afterword (The Best of Whispers) • essay by Stuart David Schiff