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• Jacqueline Ess: Her Will and Testament • (1984) • novelette by Clive Barker
• The Swords • (1969) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• The Conqueror Worm • (1983) • short story by Stephen R. Donaldson
• Salon Satin • (1991) • short story by Carolyn Banks
• Death and the Single Girl • (1976) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• The Master Builder • (1989) • novelette by Christopher Fowler
• Ladies in Waiting • (1975) • short story by Hugh B. Cave
• Master • (1974) • short story by Angela Carter
• How Love Came to Professor Guildea • (1957) • novella by Robert Hichens [as by Robert S. Hichens]
• The Villa Désirée • (1921) • short story by May Sinclair
• A Quarter Past You • (1989) • short story by Jonathan Carroll
• Keeping House • (1989) • short story by Michael Blumlein
• Consanguinity • (1965) • short story by Ronald Duncan
• The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson • (1984) • short story by Stephen King
• Sea Lovers • (1988) • short story by Valerie Martin
• Psychopomp • (1991) • short story by Haydn Middleton
• A Glowing Future • non-genre • (1977) • short story by Ruth Rendell
• The Tiger Returns to the Mountain • (1991) • short story by Terry L. Parkinson [as by T. L. Parkinson]
• Wings • (1988) • short story by Harriet Zinnes
• The Basilisk • (1892) • short story by R. Murray Gilchrist
• Festival • (1987) • short story by Eric McCormack
• Not Cricket • (1991) • short story by Patrick McGrath (variant of Cleave the Vampire, or, a Gothic Pastorale)