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• Introduction (Taverns of the Dead) • (2005) • essay by F. Paul Wilson
• The Smoke in Mooney's Pub • (2005) • short story by Chet Williamson
• The Winner • (2005) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• The King of Rotten Wood • (2005) • short story by Gary A. Braunbeck [as by Gary Braunbeck]
• Shoggoth's Old Peculiar • (1998) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• Friday Night at the Wicked Swan • (2005) • short story by Charles L. Grant
• Bucket of Blood • (1997) • short story by Norman Partridge
• Foreword (Taverns of the Dead) • (2005) • essay by Kealan Patrick Burke
• The Lingering Scent of Apples • (2005) • short story by P. D. Cacek
• The Souls of Drowning Mountain • (2005) • short story by Jack Cady
• Kristine's Kwiet Korner • (2005) • short story by Melanie Tem
• Gas Station Carnivals • (1996) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Front-Page McGuffin and the Greatest Story Never Told • (1998) • novelette by Peter Crowther
• Dés Lors • (2005) • short story by Roberta Lannes
• At Home in the Pubs of Old London • (2000) • short story by Christopher Fowler
• Spirited • (2005) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Times of Atonement • (2005) • short story by Yvonne Navarro
• That Was Radio Clash • [Newford] • (2005) • novelette by Charles de Lint
• Bar Talk • (2005) • short story by Peter Straub (variant of Interlude: Bar Talk 1990)
• Time Was • (2005) • novelette by David Morrell
• Shades of the Past (The Traveling Salesman Goes Home) • (2005) • short story by C. Bruce Hunter
• Luke: Homeward Angel • (2005) • short story by Chaz Brenchley
• The Last Good Times • (2000) • short story by Tim Lebbon
• Two in the Eyes • (2005) • short story by Tom Piccirilli
• Welcome to the Masque • (1991) • short story by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Order of Nature • (2005) • short story by Edward Lee
• A Fine and Private Place • (2005) • short story by Thomas F. Monteleone
• The Family Room • (2005) • short story by Nicholas Royle
• The Snug • (1997) • short story by Terry Lamsley