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• 1 • Foreword (Famous Monster Tales) • essay by Clifton Fadiman
• 4 • Smoke Ghost • (1941) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 23 • The Phantom Farmhouse • (1923) • novelette by Seabury Quinn
• 48 • The Horror of the Heights • (1913) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 65 • The Thing on Outer Shoal • (1947) • short story by P. Schuyler Miller
• 78 • The Outsider • [Dream Cycle] • (1926) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 86 • Second Night Out • (1946) • short story by Frank Belknap Long (variant of The Black, Dead Thing 1933)
• 97 • It • (1940) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 125 • The Dancing Partner • (1928) • short story by Jerome K. Jerome
• 135 • The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 145 • Skeleton • (1945) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 164 • The Thing in the Pond • (1934) • short story by Paul Ernst
• 177 • Negotium Perambulans • (1922) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 193 • The 51st Dragon • (1919) • short story by Heywood Broun (variant of The Fifty-First Dragon)