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• 1 • Introduction: Luncheon in the Sepulcher: Poe and the Gothic Tradition • (1977) • essay by Thomas M. Disch
• 11 • The Beautiful Stranger • (1968) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 21 • Solid Objects • (1920) • short story by Virginia Woolf
• 29 • Where the Lines Converge • (1977) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
• 73 • All at One Point • (1968) • short story by Italo Calvino (trans. of Tutto in un punto 1964)
• 79 • The Waiting Place • (1896) • short story by Sarah Orne Jewett
• 91 • Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind • (1973) • novelette by Philip José Farmer
• 139 • Elephant's Ear • (1960) • short story by Joan Aiken
• 149 • Bodies • (1970) • novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
• 173 • Running Down • (1975) • novelette by M. John Harrison
• 209 • The Roaches • (1965) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 221 • The Last Supper • (1971) • short story by Russell FitzGerald
• 237 • Among the Dahlias • non-genre • (1957) • short story by William Sansom
• 245 • Under the Garden • (1963) • novella by Graham Greene
• 303 • The Holland of the Mind • (1969) • novelette by Pamela Zoline
• 345 • Elephant with Wooden Leg • (1975) • short story by John Sladek
• 365 • The Wardrobe • (1936) • short story by Thomas Mann (trans. of Der Kleiderschrank 1899)