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• vii • Introduction (Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow) • (1952) • essay by Ray Bradbury
• 1 • The Hour After Westerly • (1947) • short story by Robert M. Coates
• 15 • Housing Problem • (1944) • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• 33 • The Portable Phonograph • (1941) • short story by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
• 40 • None Before Me • (1949) • short story by Sidney Carroll
• 54 • Putzi • (1935) • short story by Ludwig Bemelmans
• 60 • The Daemon Lover • (1949) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 77 • Miss Winters and the Wind • non-genre • (1946) • short story by Christine Noble Govan
• 84 • Mr. Death and the Redheaded Woman • short story by Helen Eustis (variant of The Rider on the Pale Horse 1950)
• 94 • Jeremy in the Wind • (1949) • short story by Nigel Kneale
• 98 • The Glass Eye • (1944) • short story by John Keir Cross
• 116 • Saint Katy the Virgin • (1936) • short story by John Steinbeck
• 125 • Night Flight • (1944) • short story by Josephine W. Johnson
• 133 • The Cocoon • (1946) • short story by John B. L. Goodwin
• 152 • The Hand • (1947) • short story by Wessel Hyatt Smitter
• 164 • The Sound Machine • (1949) • short story by Roald Dahl
• 180 • The Laocoön Complex • (1937) • short story by J. C. Furnas
• 194 • I Am Waiting • (1939) • short story by Christopher Isherwood
• 204 • The Witnesses • (1943) • short story by William Sansom
• 210 • The Enormous Radio • (1947) • short story by John Cheever
• 223 • Heartburn • (1951) • short story by Hortense Calisher
• 235 • The Supremacy of Uruguay • (1933) • short story by E. B. White
• 239 • The Pedestrian • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 245 • A Note for the Milkman • (1950) • short story by Sidney Carroll
• 257 • The Eight Mistresses • (1937) • short story by Jean Hrolda
• 267 • In the Penal Colony • (1948) • novelette by Franz Kafka (trans. of In der Strafkolonie 1919)
• 296 • Inflexible Logic • (1940) • short story by Russell Maloney