Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • Cults: An Introduction • essay by Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh
• 5 • The Miracle of the Stigmata • (1910) • short story by Frank Harris
• 18 • An Unincorporated Association • (1869) • short story by Leonard Kip
• 32 • The Devil of the Picuris • (1921) • novelette by Edwin L. Sabin
• 55 • The Country of the Blind • (1904) • novelette by H. G. Wells
• 77 • Monkey Eyes • (1929) • novella by Erle Stanley Gardner
• 130 • Music from the Big Dark • (1935) • novelette by Cornell Woolrich (variant of Dark Melody of Madness)
• 167 • Village of the Dead • [Simon Ark • 1] • (1955) • short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 183 • The Wait • (1958) • short story by Kit Reed
• 198 • The Time for Delusion • (1958) • novelette by Donald Franson
• 227 • Children of the Corn • (1977) • novelette by Stephen King
• 255 • The Persistence of Vision • (1978) • novella by John Varley
• 300 • Forget-Me-Not • (1950) • novelette by William F. Temple
• 322 • Unhuman Sacrifice • (1958) • novelette by Katherine MacLean
• 351 • A Selective and Annotated Bibliography of Short Stories About Cults • essay by Frank D. McSherry, Jr. and Charles G. Waugh