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• 7 • Introduction (Crucified Dreams) • essay by Joe R. Lansdale
• 13 • The Whimper of Whipped Dogs • (1973) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 31 • The Monster • (1986) • short story by Joe Haldeman
• 43 • The Mojave Two-Step • (1999) • short story by Norman Partridge
• 57 • Front Man • (1998) • novelette by David Morrell
• 89 • Interrogation B • (2007) • short story by Charlie Huston
• 97 • The Quickening • (1981) • novelette by Michael Bishop
• 123 • The Evening and the Morning and the Night • (1987) • novelette by Octavia E. Butler
• 149 • Love in Vain • (1988) • novelette by Lewis Shiner
• 169 • Beast of the Heartland • (1992) • novelette by Lucius Shepard
• 195 • Coffins on the River • (2003) • novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• 219 • Game Night at the Fox & Goose • (1989) • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• 231 • Copping Squid • (2009) • novelette by Michael Shea
• 249 • Access Fantasy • (1998) • short story by Jonathan Lethem
• 263 • Singing on a Star • (2009) • short story by Ellen Klages
• 275 • Quitters, Inc. • non-genre • (1978) • short story by Stephen King
• 295 • Nightbeat • (1975) • short story by Neal Barrett, Jr.
• 301 • Window • (1980) • short story by Bob Leman
• 319 • The Pit • (1987) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 335 • Loss • (2007) • novelette by Tom Piccirilli