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• xiii • Introduction: Gather Ye Nosegays • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 1 • Ghosts and Miscellaneous Nightmares • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 3 • The Others • (1987) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• 8 • Tap Dancing • (1991) • short story by John Gregory Betancourt
• 14 • The Hungry Stones • (1916) • short story by
  রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর^?Ravīndranātha Thākura
  (trans. of
  ক্ষুধিত পাষান^?Kshudhita Pashan
  1895) [as by Rabindranath Tagore]
• 25 • The Southwest Chamber • (1903) • novelette by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• 42 • The Lost Room • (1858) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 57 • The Ghost to His Ladye Love • (1869) • poem by W. S. Gilbert
• 59 • The Happy Children • (1920) • short story by Arthur Machen
• 64 • Darby O'Gill and the Good People • (1901) • short story by Herminie Templeton Kavanagh [as by Herminie T. Kavanagh]
• 77 • Keeping His Promise • (1906) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 90 • A Day in the Life of Comrade Lenin • short story by Carole Buggé
• 103 • The Throwing Suit • (1990) • short story by Darrell Schweitzer and Jason Van Hollander
• 120 • The Man Who Wanted to Be in the Movies • (1962) • short story by John Jakes
• 127 • The Beast Within • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 129 • Fidel Bassin • non-genre • (1925) • short story by W. J. Stamper
• 137 • Unsigned Original • (1975) • short story by Parke Godwin
• 142 • The Clemency of the Court • non-genre • (1893) • short story by Willa Cather
• 150 • The Empty Zoo • (1965) • short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 157 • Beyond Sleep • (1970) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 160 • Finnegan's Wake • (unknown) • poem by Traditional
• 162 • Bianca's Hands • (1947) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 171 • The Iron Man • (1940) • short story by Frederick Lang
• 175 • Sagittarius • (1962) • novella by Ray Russell
• 208 • Wolf • (1966) • short story by Michael Moorcock
• 215 • An Illusion in Red and White • non-genre • (1900) • short story by Stephen Crane
• 221 • Acts of God and Other Horrors • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 223 • Man Overboard • (1899) • short story by Winston S. Churchill (variant of "Man Overboard!") [as by Winston Churchill]
• 227 • The People of the Pit • (1918) • short story by A. Merritt
• 242 • In the Avu Observatory • (1894) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 249 • In the Valley of the Shades • short story by C. H. Sherman
• 256 • The Thing in the Hall • (1912) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 267 • The Inchcape Rock • (1802) • poem by Robert Southey
• 270 • Mr. Wilde's Second Chance • (1966) • short story by Joanna Russ
• 273 • The Dreams in the Witch-House • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1933) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 307 • The Little Man on the Subway • (1950) • short story by Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl
• 319 • The Poems • (1945) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 331 • Vision Quest • short story by Pat LoBrutto [as by Patrick LoBrutto]
• 343 • Contes Cruelles • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 345 • The Man in the Bottle • (1973) • short story by Gustav Meyrink (trans. of Der Mann auf der Flasche 1904)
• 351 • A Diagnosis of Death • (1901) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 355 • Remember Me • short story by Joan Vander Putten
• 371 • The Pardon • short story by Emilia Pardo Bazán (trans. of El indulto 1883)
• 381 • The One Thousand Dozen • non-genre • (1903) • short story by Jack London
• 396 • Carmanda • (1976) • short story by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• 401 • The Spirit of Hospitality • (1991) • poem by Saralee Kaye [as by Saralee Terry]
• 403 • The Cripple • non-genre • (1933) • short story by Maurice Level (trans. of L'infirme 1919)
• 407 • The Squaw • (1893) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 418 • Pictures • short story by Irving Werner
• 426 • The Necklace • non-genre • (1963) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La parure 1884)
• 434 • The Necklace • (1946) • short story by Jack Moffitt
• 449 • Fiends and Creatures • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 451 • Midnight • (1946) • short story by Jack Snow
• 457 • Ms. Lipshutz and the Goblin • (1978) • short story by Marvin Kaye
• 463 • Amina • (1907) • short story by Edward Lucas White
• 473 • Simpson's Lesser Sphynx • (1984) • short story by Esther M. Friesner
• 478 • Dress of White Silk • (1951) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 485 • The Palace of the Mountain Ogre: A Chinese Hansel and Gretel • short story by Toby Sanders
• 495 • Snow White Waking • (1991) • poem by Adèle Slaughter
• 497 • The Little Witch of Elm Street • (1956) • short story by Mildred Clingerman
• 506 • The Brown Man's Servant • (1896) • novelette by W. W. Jacobs
• 529 • Poppa Bear • (1989) • short story by Alvin Vogel
• 541 • In Letters of Fire • [L'homme qui a vu le diable] • (1908) • novelette by Gaston Leroux (trans. of L'homme qui a vu le diable)
• 558 • Green Magic • (1963) • short story by Jack Vance