Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper • (1943) • short story by Robert Bloch
• The House of Ecstasy • (1938) • short story by Ralph Milne Farley
• His Brother's Keeper • non-genre • (1922) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• Fire in the Galley Stove • (1937) • short story by William Outerson
• Two Bottles of Relish • non-genre • (1932) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• The Three Good Witnesses • (1945) • short story by Harold Lamb
• Elementals • (1922) • novelette by
  Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet
• Leiningen Versus the Ants • (1938) • novelette by Carl Stephenson (trans. of Leiningens Kampf mit den Ameisen 1937)
• Smee • (1929) • short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X]
• The Hangman Won't Wait • (1944) • short story by John Dickson Carr
• The Tunnel • non-genre • (1925) • short story by John Metcalfe
• The Second Step • (1934) • short story by Margery Sharp
• The Room on the Fourth Floor • non-genre • (1930) • short story by Ralph Straus
• The Ringed Word • (1934) • short story by T. O. Beachcroft
• The Quality of Suspense • (1945) • essay by Alfred Hitchcock
• The Second-Class Passenger • (1906) • short fiction by Perceval Gibbon
• The News in English • non-genre • (1940) • short fiction by Graham Greene
• If You Don't Get Excited • (1941) • short fiction by Edwin Corle
• The Liqueur Glass • non-genre • (1915) • short story by Phyllis Bottome
• The Alarm Bell • short fiction by Donald Henderson
• With Bated Breath • (1935) • short fiction by Ross Santee
• Flood on the Goodwins • (1933) • short story by David Divine [as by A. D. Divine]
• Sunset • (1927) • short fiction by Sidney Herschel Small
• Triggers in Leash • (1925) • short fiction by Allan Vaughan Elston
• The Blue Paper • (1941) • short fiction by Albert Payson Terhune
• R. M. S. Titanic • (1934) • short story by Hanson W. Baldwin [as by Hanson Baldwin]
• The Baby in the Icebox • (1933) • short fiction by James M. Cain