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• xvii • Preface (Stranger) • (2002) • essay by Michele Slung
• 1 • The Women's Room • (2002) • novelette by Tabitha King
• 21 • In the Desert of Deserts • (1993) • short story by Thomas Tessier
• 33 • The Baby-Sitters • (1966) • short story by Alex Hamilton
• 49 • After You've Gone • (2002) • short story by John Peyton Cooke
• 66 • He • (1926) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 78 • The Nature of the Thing • (1970) • short story by Patricia Highsmith
• 95 • The General Store • (1999) • short story by G. K. Wuori
• 114 • Honey, I'm Home! • (1992) • novelette by Lisa Tuttle
• 133 • Letters from the Samantha • (1976) • short story by Mark Helprin
• 146 • The Box • (1994) • short story by Jack Ketchum
• 158 • Afterward • (1910) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 191 • The Town Where No One Got Off • (1958) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 201 • Hated • (1995) • novelette by Christopher Fowler
• 218 • Being Kind • (2002) • short story by Victoria Rotschild
• 233 • Meteor • (1941) • novelette by John Wyndham
• 252 • Shite-Hawks • (2001) • short story by Muriel Gray
• 266 • Jack the Ripper • non-genre • (1997) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 272 • Button, Button • (1970) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 281 • The Asian Shore • (1970) • novelette by Thomas M. Disch
• 319 • The Hobby • (1987) • short story by Eric McCormack
• 324 • The Two-Headed Man • (1990) • short story by Nancy A. Collins
• 338 • Hides • (2002) • novelette by Jay Russell