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• ix • Foreword (Hanging by a Thread) • essay by Ogden Nash
• xv • Introduction (Hanging by a Thread) • essay by Eudora Welty
• 1 • The Scorched Face • (1925) • novelette by Dashiell Hammett
• 37 • The Murder of Arnold Rothstein • (1932) • essay by Russel Crouse
• 51 • The Splintered Monday • (1966) • short story by Charlotte Armstrong
• 69 • The Mysterious Occurrence at Lambeth • (1855) • novelette by G. P. R. James
• 93 • The Guest • (1957) • short story by Albert Camus (trans. of
  L'hôte^?L'hote
  )
• 107 • The Sandyford Mystery • (1935) • essay by William Roughead
• 142 • The Grandstand Complex • (1935) • short story by Horace McCoy
• 153 • The Other Place • (1952) • short story by Robert Borger
• 158 • The Blue Hotel • non-genre • (1898) • novella by Stephen Crane
• 187 • "Other Than a Good One" • (1947) • essay by Joseph Henry Jackson
• 217 • The Hashish Man • (1910) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 222 • The True Story • (1939) • short story by Dylan Thomas
• 226 • The Manhattan Well Murder • (1872) • essay by E. S. Gould
• 238 • The Way Up to Heaven • non-genre • (1954) • short story by Roald Dahl
• 251 • The Haunted and the Haunters • (1919) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859)
• 287 • Escape from the Bastille • (1850) • essay by Jean Henry Latude
• 295 • Miss Holland's Elopement • (1936) • essay by Edmund Pearson
• 306 • The Peasant Girl • (1956) • short story by Algis Budrys
• 327 • A Strange Murderer • (1923) • short story by
  Максим Горький^?Maxim Gorky
  [as by Maxim Gorky]
• 335 • Lost Hearts • (1895) • short story by M. R. James
• 345 • A Marriage Tragedy • (1858) • novella by Wilkie Collins
• 402 • The Sea Raiders • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of The Sea-Raiders)
• 413 • The Waste Land • (1961) • short story by Alan Paton
• 417 • The Death of Agrippina, the Mother of Nero • (1860) • essay by Tacitus
• 423 • Beheaded in Error • (1965) • short story by unknown
• 437 • A Manner of Legacy • (1933) • short story by Donn Byrne
• 450 • A Sort of Genius • (1937) • essay by James Thurber
• 464 • Funny the Way Things Work Out • (1963) • short story by John D. MacDonald
• 476 • Captain John Porteous • (1824) • essay by uncredited
• 484 • The End • (1962) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El fin 1953)
• 488 • Operation Enticement • (1952) • novelette by Henry Cecil
• 518 • To the South Sea Islands • (1950) • essay by Thor Heyerdahl
• 532 • Cambric Tea • non-genre • (1925) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
• 552 • A Ghost of a Head • (1852) • short story by Charles Rabou (trans. of Le ministère public 1832) [as by Anonymous]
• 563 • A Winter's Tale • (1949) • novelette by Helen Eustis
• 588 • The Murder at the Towers • (1929) • short story by Evoe [as by E. V. Knox]
• 596 • Biographical Notes (Hanging by a Thread) • essay by Mary McGinn