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• ix • Introduction (Tales from the Rogues' Gallery) • (1994) • essay by Peter Haining
• 3 • Down, Satan! • (1985) • short story by Clive Barker
• 8 • A Story of Don Juan • (1941) • short story by V. S. Pritchett
• 14 • The Philosophers' Stone • (1928) • short story by August Derleth [as by August W. Derleth]
• 18 • The Proof • (1953) • short story by John Moore (1907-1967) [as by John Cecil Moore]
• 25 • The Unnamable • [Randolph Carter] • (1925) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 33 • Martin's Close • (1911) • short story by M. R. James
• 52 • Cold-Blooded Tigress of London • (1953) • essay by Anthony Shaffer
• 59 • The Body Snatcher • (1884) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 77 • The Black Cabinet • (1951) • short story by John Dickson Carr
• 96 • A Kind of Madness • (1972) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• 103 • The Fall River Axe Murders • (1981) • short story by Angela Carter
• 123 • The Fiend • (1935) • short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 130 • At the Fork of the Roads • (1909) • short story by Aleister Crowley
• 136 • The Moors Murders • (1967) • essay by Miriam Allen deFord
• 147 • Monsieur de Néron • (1895) • short story by William Waldorf Astor
• 164 • Herodes Redivivus • (1949) • short story by A. N. L. Munby
• 176 • The Borgia Heirloom • (1987) • short story by Julian Symons
• 181 • The Silver Mirror • (1908) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 190 • The Late Eugene Aram • (1930) • short story by Henry A. Hering
• 202 • The Mirror of Cagliostro • (1963) • novelette by Robert Arthur
• 231 • The Skull of the Marquis de Sade • (1945) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 249 • The Sword of Jean Lafitte • (1927) • short story by Kirk Mashburn
• 266 • Jack's Little Friend • (1975) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 276 • Was Crippen a Murderer? • (1937) • essay by A. B. Cox (1893-1971) [as by Anthony Berkeley]
• 284 • Darling Adolf • (1976) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 299 • A Bride in the Bath • (1973) • short story by Peter Lovesey
• 308 • Forget-Me-Not • (1975) • novelette by Bernard Taylor
• 326 • A Case of Coincidence • (1980) • short story by Ruth Rendell