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• ix • Introduction (The Unexpected) • (1948) • essay by Bennett Cerf
• 1 • Salesmanship • non-genre • (1930) • short story by Mary Ellen Chase
• 10 • The Storm • (1944) • short story by McKnight Malmar
• 26 • Back for Christmas • non-genre • (1939) • short story by John Collier
• 33 • The Thousand Dollar Bill • (1935) • short story by Manuel Komroff
• 50 • Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen • non-genre • (1907) • short story by O. Henry
• 57 • Exchange of Men • (1946) • short story by Joseph Cross
• 72 • A Horseman in the Sky • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 80 • Two Bottles of Relish • non-genre • (1932) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 96 • Final Break • (1945) • short story by Ian S. Thomson
• 100 • Addio • non-genre • (1921) • short story by Thomas Beer
• 118 • Suspicion • non-genre • (1933) • short story by Dorothy L. Sayers
• 138 • Gavin • (1945) • short story by John Van Druten
• 154 • Mammon and the Archer • non-genre • (1902) • short story by O. Henry
• 162 • Clay-Shuttered Doors • (1926) • short story by Helen R. Hull
• 186 • The Interlopers • (1912) • short story by Saki
• 193 • Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper • (1943) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 216 • Adam and Eve and Pinch Me • (1921) • short story by A. E. Coppard
• 230 • Revelations in Black • (1933) • novelette by Carl Jacobi
• 255 • The Price of the Head • non-genre • (1916) • short story by John Russell
• 270 • The Chaser • (1940) • short story by John Collier