Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• vii • Introduction (Twisted) • (1962) • essay by Groff Conklin
• 9 • The Playground • (1952) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 23 • The Other Hand • (1961) • short story by George Langelaan (trans. of L'autre main 1962)
• 38 • The Thing in the Cellar • (1932) • short story by David H. Keller, M.D. [as by David H. Keller]
• 44 • The Diary of a Madman • (1903) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Un fou 1885)
• 48 • The Upturned Face • non-genre • (1900) • short story by Stephen Crane
• 52 • The Little Man Who Wasn't Quite • (1961) • short story by William W. Stuart
• 67 • Night Drive • (1950) • short story by Murray Leinster [as by Will F. Jenkins]
• 79 • The Song of Marya • (1957) • novelette by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
• 98 • Mrs. Manifold • (1949) • short story by August Derleth [as by Stephen Grendon]
• 109 • A Holy Terror • (1882) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 122 • Impulse • (1938) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 133 • Brenda • (1954) • short story by Margaret St. Clair
• 143 • The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 148 • The Shunned House • (1928) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 172 • The World Well Lost • (1953) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon