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• A Matter of Taste • (1984) • short story by Parke Godwin
• A Nightmare • (1896) • poem by Christina Rossetti
• A Passage in the Life of Mr. John Oakhurst • non-genre • (1874) • short story by Bret Harte
• A Secret • (1992) • short story by Julia L. Keefer
• A Sunday in December • (1992) • short story by Joan Andelman
• A Thing of Beauty • (1963) • short story by Wallace West
• A-round the Corner • (1950) • short story by Josef Marais
• Berenice • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Berenice—A Tale 1835)
• Blue Eyes • non-genre • (1919) • short story by Maurice Level (trans. of " Mes yeux " 1904)
• Don Juan; or The Elixir of Long Life • (1992) • novelette by
  Honoré de Balzac^?Honore de Balzac
  (trans. of
  L'élixir de longue vie^?L'elixir de longue vie
  1830)
• Ellen M'Jones Aberdeen • non-genre • (1992) • poem by W. S. Gilbert (variant of Ellen McJones Aberdeen 1868) [as by William S. Gilbert]
• Expedition • (1956) • short story by Fredric Brown
• Gentleman on the Top Floor • (1965) • short story by Frederick Laing
• Happy Hour • (1991) • short story by Marvin Kaye
• Himeros's Daughter • (1992) • short story by Thomas D. Sadler
• Horace, Nellie, and the Computer • (1992) • poem by Richard L. Wexelblat
• I'm in Marsport Without Hilda • (1957) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• In the Morgue • (1923) • short story by Dashiell Hammett
• In the Shadows of My Fear • (1988) • short story by Joan Vander Putten
• Introduction (Lovers and Other Monsters) • (1992) • essay by Marvin Kaye
• Journeys End • (1957) • short story by Poul Anderson
• Laura • (1992) • short story by Carole Buggé
• Let No Man Dream • (1992) • short story by Paula Volsky
• Minnie Field • (1992) • short fiction by E. P. Conkle
• Minotauress • (1991) • short story by Darrell Schweitzer
• Moonflower • (1992) • short story by J. Timothy Hunt
• Princess • (1988) • short story by Morgan Llywelyn
• Selected Bibliography and Filmography • (1992) • essay by uncredited
• Share Alike • (1953) • short story by Jerome Bixby and Joe E. Dean
• Teacher • (1992) • short story by C. H. Sherman
• The Black Wench • (1985) • short story by Ray Russell
• The Blue Eye • (1992) • short story by Guillaume Apollinaire (trans. of
  L'œil bleu^?L'oeil bleu
  1916)
• The Bridge to the Liver Pies • (1992) • poem by Saralee Kaye [as by Saralee Terry]
• The Colonel's Choice • non-genre • (1891) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Deadly Ratio • (1948) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon (variant of It Wasn't Syzygy)
• The Douglas Tragedy • (1992) • poem by Anonymous
• The Fiend • (1964) • short story by Frederik Pohl
• The Lady and the Tiger • (1948) • novelette by Jack Moffitt
• The Lady's Maid's Bell • (1902) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• The Language of Love • (1957) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• The Legs That Walked • (1953) • short story by Justin Dowling
• The Maiden • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Master of Rampling Gate • (1984) • novelette by Anne Rice
• The Old Woman Who Dragged Her Husband's Corpse • (1989) • short story by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• The Pearl of Love • (1925) • short story by H. G. Wells
• The Permanent Stiletto • (1889) • short story by W. C. Morrow
• The Satyr • (1992) • short story by Toby Sanders
• The Songs of My Young • (1992) • short story by Dan Burrello
• The Strange High House in the Mist • [Dream Cycle] • (1931) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Wild Wood • (1957) • short story by Mildred Clingerman
• Tripping the Light Fantastic • (1992) • short story by Dan Potter
• Twenty-Six Men and a Girl • non-genre • (1918) • short story by
  Максим Горький^?Maxim Gorky
  (trans. of
  Двадцать шесть и одна^?Dvadtzat' shest' i odna
  1899) [as by Maxim Gorky]
• Voices in the Coalbin • (1990) • short story by Mary Higgins Clark
• Will the Real Dennis Casper Please Stand Up? • (1992) • short story by Amy Wasp-Wimberger