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• 1 • Introduction (Witches' Brew: Horror and Supernatural Stories By Women) • essay by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini
• 7 • The Haunted Chamber • (1794) • short story by Ann Radcliffe
• 26 • The Last Man (excerpt) • (1826) • short fiction by Mary Shelley [as by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley]
• 37 • The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
• 56 • The Striding Place • (1896) • short story by Gertrude Atherton
• 64 • Afterward • (1910) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 98 • Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched • (1922) • short story by May Sinclair
• 122 • The Lamp • (1933) • short story by Agatha Christie
• 132 • The Gray Men • (1927) • short story by Rebecca West (variant of The Grey Men)
• 140 • The Cyprian Cat • (1933) • short story by Dorothy L. Sayers
• 155 • A Haunted House • (1921) • short story by Virginia Woolf
• 158 • The Idol of the Flies • (1942) • short story by Jane Rice
• 184 • Judgement Day • non-genre • (1965) • novelette by Flannery O'Connor
• 206 • The Birds • (1952) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
• 235 • Night Court • (1953) • novelette by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
• 256 • The Lovely House • (1952) • novelette by Shirley Jackson
• 282 • Kindling Point • short story by Marcia Muller
• 300 • The Bingo Master • (1980) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates