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• xi • Introduction: The Monster Tour (A Treasury of American Horror Stories) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg and Frank D. McSherry, Jr. and Charles G. Waugh [as by Martin H. Greenberg and Frank McSherry, Jr. and Charles G. Waugh]
• 1 • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 9 • Lost Face • non-genre • (1908) • short story by Jack London
• 19 • Being • (1954) • novelette by Richard Matheson
• 45 • One Happy Family • (1983) • short story by John S. McFarland
• 53 • Return to the Sabbath • (1938) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 65 • The Autopsy • (1980) • novella by Michael Shea
• 95 • The Believers • (1941) • short story by Robert Arthur
• 109 • A Teacher's Rewards • (1970) • short story by Robert S. Phillips
• 117 • Chico Lafleur Talks Funny • short story by Suzette Haden Elgin
• 133 • The Legend of Joe Lee • (1964) • short story by John D. MacDonald
• 143 • Seventh Sister • (1943) • short story by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
• 157 • The Isle of Voices • (1893) • novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 173 • One Man's Harp • (1943) • short story by Babette Rosmond
• 181 • Cannibalism in the Cars • non-genre • (1868) • short story by Mark Twain
• 189 • The Smell of Cherries • (1982) • short story by Jeffrey Goddin
• 201 • Away • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 205 • Twilla • (1974) • novelette by Tom Reamy
• 235 • His Name Was Not Forgotten • (1943) • short story by Joel Townsley Rogers
• 247 • Désirée's Baby • non-genre • (1893) • short story by Kate Chopin
• 253 • The Children of Noah • (1957) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 267 • The Man Who Collected Poe • (1951) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 279 • Pickman's Model • (1927) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 289 • The Screwfly Solution • (1977) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 307 • The Unpleasantness at Carver House • (1967) • short story by Carl Jacobi
• 319 • Mute Milton • (1966) • short story by Harry Harrison
• 325 • Dumb Supper • (1950) • short story by Kris Neville [as by Henderson Starke]
• 335 • Lonely Train a' Comin' • (1981) • short story by William F. Nolan (variant of The Train)
• 345 • Children of the Corn • (1977) • novelette by Stephen King
• 369 • Legal Rites • (1950) • novelette by Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl
• 391 • The Devil and Daniel Webster • (1936) • short story by Stephen Vincent Benét
• 403 • The Master of the Hounds • (1966) • novelette by Algis Budrys
• 425 • The Devil of the Picuris • (1921) • novelette by Edwin L. Sabin
• 445 • The Garrison • (1965) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim
• 451 • The Desrick on Yandro • [John the Balladeer] • (1952) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 461 • Shaggy Vengeance • (1984) • novelette by Robert Adams
• 479 • The Horsehair Trunk • (1946) • short story by Davis Grubb
• 487 • The Curse of Yig • short story by Zealia Bishop and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Zealia Brown Reed Bishop]
• 501 • Peekaboo • (1979) • short story by Bill Pronzini
• 507 • Bird of Prey • (1949) • short story by Nelson S. Bond
• 521 • The Haunter of the Dark • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1936) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 539 • Song of the Slaves • (1942) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman (variant of The Song of the Slaves 1940)
• 549 • The Eagle-Claw Rattle • (1980) • short story by Ardath Mayhar
• 555 • Our Town • (1955) • novelette by Jerome Bixby
• 571 • Perverts • (1983) • short story by Whitley Strieber
• 581 • The Goddess of Zion • (1941) • short story by David H. Keller, M.D.
• 591 • Alannah • (1945) • short story by August Derleth
• 603 • His Coat So Gay • [Brigadier Ffellowes] • (1970) • novelette by Sterling E. Lanier
• 623 • Bigfish • short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 629 • Lonely Road • (1956) • short story by Richard Wilson
• 639 • Beyond the Threshold • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1941) • novelette by August Derleth
• 659 • The Monster of Lake LaMetrie • (1899) • short story by Wardon Allan Curtis