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• ix • Introduction (Embraces: Dark Erotica) • essay by Paula Guran
• 1 • You Give Me Fever • short story by Nancy Holder
• 11 • Saturnalia • (1999) • short story by David J. Schow
• 31 • On the Dangers of Simultaneity, Or, Ungh, Mmmm, Oh-Baby-Yeah, Aaah, Oooh... UH-OH! • short story by Robert Devereaux
• 39 • Creeps • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 47 • Torpor • short story by Charlee Jacob
• 63 • Seeing Things • short story by J. R. Corcorrhan
• 79 • Before the White Asylum • short story by Rob Hardin
• 89 • Blue Boy • short story by M. Christian
• 105 • Her Master's Hand • short story by Dominick Cancilla
• 109 • Madly, Deeply • short story by Connie Wilkins
• 117 • First Love • short story by Jay Russell
• 123 • Small Bubbles • short story by Samuel Cross
• 129 • Payback's a Bitch • short story by Thomas S. Roche
• 147 • Director of Dolls • short story by Anne Tourney
• 157 • Mekong Medusa • short story by Julia Solis
• 167 • Beholder • short story by Stephen Dedman
• 173 • Homewrecker • (1998) • short story by Poppy Z. Brite
• 177 • Matchbox Screamers • short story by Ian Grey
• 187 • The Virgin Spring • short story by Lorelei Shannon
• 199 • Learn at Home! Your Career in Evil! • short story by John Shirley
• 215 • About the Writers (Embraces: Dark Erotica) • essay by Paula Guran