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• Introduction (Thrillers) • (1994) • essay by Robert Sheckley
• 1 • Tale of the Piper • (1928) • short story by Donn Byrne
• 5 • The Lifted Veil • (1859) • novelette by George Eliot
• 47 • Number 13 • (1904) • short story by M. R. James
• 63 • Rats • (1929) • short story by M. R. James
• 69 • Count Magnus • (1904) • short story by M. R. James
• 82 • The Queer Feet • non-genre • [Father Brown] • (1910) • novelette by G. K. Chesterton
• 101 • The Ivory God • (1905) • short story by J. S. Fletcher
• 115 • The Apparition of Mrs. Veal • (1919) • short story by Daniel Defoe (variant of A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705 1706)
• 124 • The Thing in the Hall • (1912) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 137 • Night • (1935) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La nuit 1887)
• 142 • The Drowned Man • (1891) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le noyé 1888)
• 149 • Who Knows? • (1910) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Qui sait ? 1890)
• 162 • Young Goodman Brown • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 175 • The Ballad of Reading Gaol • non-genre • (1898) • poem by Oscar Wilde
• 194 • The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 199 • The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 218 • The Black Cat • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 229 • Ligeia • (1838) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 245 • The Squaw • (1893) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 257 • The Last Leaf • non-genre • (1907) • short story by O. Henry
• 263 • The Well • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 276 • The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain • [Christmas Books] • (1848) • novella by Charles Dickens
• 362 • Moxon's Master • (1899) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 372 • The Middle Toe of the Right Foot • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 381 • The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 390 • The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 411 • Man Overboard! • (1903) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 447 • The Werewolf (excerpt: chapter 39 of The Phantom Ship) • (1839) • short story by Frederick Marryat
• 468 • Schalken the Painter (revised) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (variant of Schalken the Painter 1851) [as by J. S. Le Fanu]
• 491 • Carmilla • [Martin Hesselius] • (1907) • novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. S. Le Fanu]
• 559 • Gabriel's Marriage • (1853) • novelette by Wilkie Collins
• 603 • The Sexton's Hero • (1847) • short story by Mrs. Gaskell