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• 9 • Introduction: A Few Words About Ghosts (Phantoms of the Night) • (1996) • essay by Richard Gilliam
• 12 • Hi, Bob • (1996) • short story by Howard Kaylan
• 24 • Unfortunate Obsession • (1996) • short story by Matthew J. Costello
• 33 • When a Child Cries • (1996) • short story by Michelle West [as by Michelle Sagara]
• 47 • Blood Ties • (1996) • short story by Craig Shaw Gardner
• 58 • The Hound Lover • (1996) • short story by Laura Resnick
• 76 • Specters in the Moonlight • (1996) • short story by Larry Segriff
• 85 • Cages • (1996) • short story by Scott Ciencin
• 105 • Casting Circles • (1996) • short story by Edward E. Kramer
• 112 • The Most Ancient Battle • (1996) • novelette by Michael G. Coney [as by Michael Coney]
• 139 • Blood Ghost • (1996) • short story by John Helfers
• 148 • Black Water • (1996) • short story by Diana L. Paxson
• 168 • Star Quality • (1996) • short story by Marc Bilgrey
• 175 • Preacherman Gets the Blues • (1996) • short story by Tina L. Jens
• 194 • Hell Just Over the Hill • short story by George Zebrowski
• 203 • The Spirit from the Ninth Heaven • (1996) • short story by William F. Wu
• 222 • Old As a Rose in Bloom • (1996) • short story by Lawrence Schimel
• 227 • The Bachelor • (1996) • short story by Peter Crowther
• 239 • The Nana's House • (1996) • short story by Lisa W. Cantrell [as by Lisa Cantrell]
• 252 • More Voices, More Rooms • (1996) • short story by Billie Sue Mosiman
• 263 • Last Man in Line • (1996) • short story by Owl Goingback
• 278 • Ancestral Culture • (1996) • short story by Kimberly Rufer-Bach
• 288 • Sent Down from God • short story by Randy Miller
• 302 • The Fruit of Her Womb • (1996) • short story by Douglas Clegg
• 319 • Ghost Caper • (1994) • short story by Wendy Hornsby
• 330 • Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright • (1996) • short fiction by Christopher Morgan
• 350 • Pale Ghost • (1996) • short fiction by Gerald Hausman
• 354 • Isles • (1996) • novelette by Pamela Sargent
• 385 • Phantoms of the Night • (1996) • short story by Richard Gilliam