Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 5 • Preface (Terribly Strange Tales) • essay by Elizabeth Hough Sechrist and Janette Woolsey
• 13 • Laura • (1914) • short story by Saki
• 19 • La Grande Bretêche • non-genre • (1944) • short story by
  Honoré de Balzac^?Honore de Balzac
  (trans. of La Grande Bretèche 1832)
• 41 • The Night the Ghost Got In • (1933) • short story by James Thurber
• 47 • The Furnished Room • (1904) • short story by O. Henry
• 55 • The King of the Cats • (1929) • short story by Stephen Vincent Benét
• 73 • The Man and the Snake • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 79 • The Adventure of Second Lieutenant Bubnov • (1936) • short story by
  Иван Тургенев^?Ivan Turgenev
  (trans. of
  Похождения подпоручика Бубнова^?Pokhozhdeniya podporuchika Bubnova
  1842) [as by Ivan Turgenev]
• 89 • The Signal-Man • (1875) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866)
• 105 • Coroner's Inquest • non-genre • (1930) • short story by Marc Connelly
• 113 • The Lady, or the Tiger? • (1939) • short story by Frank R. Stockton (variant of The Lady or the Tiger? 1882)
• 121 • Clay-Shuttered Doors • (1926) • short story by Helen R. Hull
• 143 • The Legend of Micah Rood • (1954) • short story by Alton H. Blackington
• 151 • The Open Window • (1911) • short story by Saki
• 157 • The Dream • (1924) • short story by W. Somerset Maugham
• 163 • The Specter • (1903) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Apparition 1883)
• 171 • The Very Foreign Ambassadors • (1960) • short story by Walter M. Bastian, Jr.
• 177 • A Terribly Strange Bed • (1852) • short story by Wilkie Collins
• 197 • The Black Dog • non-genre • (1892) • short story by Stephen Crane
• 203 • The Canterville Ghost • (1887) • novelette by Oscar Wilde
• 235 • The Sassage Machine • short fiction by Charles Dickens
• 239 • Fear • (1926) • short story by Stephen French Whitman
• 243 • A Curious Dream • (1882) • short story by Mark Twain