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• ix • Foreword (The Bedside Book of Horror) • essay by Herbert van Thal
• 3 • The Venus of Ille • (1891) • novelette by
  Prosper Mérimée^?Prosper Merimee
  (trans. of La Vénus d'Ille 1837)
• 31 • A Singular Passage In the Life of The Late Henry Harris, D. D. • [The Ingoldsby Legends] • (1945) • novelette by Richard Harris Barham (variant of Singular Passage in the Life of the Late Henry Harris 1831) [as by R. H. Barham]
• 54 • The Sea Monster • (1955) • novella by Gerhart Hauptmann (trans. of Das Meerwunder: Eine unwahrscheinliche Geschichte 1934)
• 113 • The Man Who Could Hear Fishes Scream • short story by Harry E. Turner
• 122 • The Clock Watcher • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 160 • The Recluse • short story by David Dixon
• 190 • The Traveller • short story by Christopher Bray
• 215 • The Landlady • (1959) • short story by Roald Dahl
• 225 • Memoirs of an Executioner • novelette by Fielden Hughes
• 261 • A Shoal of Time • (1972) • short story by Alex Hamilton