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• xiii • Preface (I Shudder at Your Touch) • (1991) • essay by Michele Slung
• 1 • The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson • (1984) • short story by Stephen King
• 25 • Sea Lovers • (1988) • short story by Valerie Martin
• 35 • Psychopomp • (1991) • short story by Haydn Middleton
• 51 • A Glowing Future • non-genre • (1977) • short story by Ruth Rendell
• 61 • The Tiger Returns to the Mountain • (1991) • short story by Terry L. Parkinson [as by T. L. Parkinson]
• 83 • Consanguinity • (1965) • short story by Ronald Duncan
• 101 • Keeping House • (1989) • short story by Michael Blumlein
• 113 • The Villa Désirée • (1921) • short story by May Sinclair
• 127 • Cleave the Vampire, or A Gothic Pastorale • (1991) • short story by Patrick McGrath (variant of Cleave the Vampire, or, a Gothic Pastorale)
• 143 • The Swords • (1969) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 175 • Salon Satin • (1991) • short story by Carolyn Banks
• 183 • How Love Came to Professor Guildea • (1957) • novella by Robert Hichens [as by Robert S. Hichens]
• 233 • Wings • (1988) • short story by Harriet Zinnes
• 239 • The Basilisk • (1892) • short story by R. Murray Gilchrist
• 247 • A Quarter Past You • (1989) • short story by Jonathan Carroll
• 255 • The Master Builder • (1989) • novelette by Christopher Fowler
• 295 • Festival • (1987) • short story by Eric McCormack
• 311 • Ladies in Waiting • (1975) • short story by Hugh B. Cave
• 323 • Death and the Single Girl • (1976) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 333 • Master • (1974) • short story by Angela Carter
• 343 • The Conqueror Worm • (1983) • short story by Stephen R. Donaldson
• 359 • Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament • (1984) • novelette by Clive Barker
• 401 • Notes on the Authors • (1991) • essay by Michele Slung