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• Double Standard • (1963) • short story by Fredric Brown
• The Best of All Possible Worlds • (1960) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• Night Ride • (1957) • short story by Charles Beaumont
• The Sensible Man • (1959) • short story by Avram Davidson
• The Voyage of the Peanut • (1959) • short story by Harvey Jacobs
• No Such Thing As a Vampire • (1959) • short story by Richard Matheson
• A Cry from the Penthouse • non-genre • (1959) • short story by Henry Slesar
• We're Running a Little Late • (1958) • novelette by Garson Kanin
• A Second Father • (1957) • novelette by Budd Schulberg
• The Murder of Edmund Grant • short fiction by Robert Cenedella
• O Debt, Where Is Thy Sting? • (1959) • short fiction by Carlton Brown
• Take Your Seats • (1957) • short story by Ray Russell
• The Cuckold and the Cakes • (1957) • short story by Anonymous
• Sleepers, Awake! • (1958) • short story by Herbert Gold
• Falconry: Who Needs It? • (1956) • short fiction by P. G. Wodehouse
• Harpy • (1960) • novelette by T. K. Brown, III
• To Be Courteous to Women • (1963) • short story by William Saroyan
• Visiting Fireman • (1960) • short fiction by Art Buchwald and Herb Caen
• Marcianna and the Natural Carpaine in Papaya • (1961) • novelette by Bernard Wolfe
• Hospitality • (1956) • short story by Lesley Conger
• The Book of Tony • (1960) • short story by Ken W. Purdy
• Conversation with a Bug • (1961) • short story by Jack Sharkey
• The Roger Price Theory of Nomenclature • (1960) • short fiction by Roger Price (1918-1990)
• With All Due Respect • non-genre • (1959) • short story by Fred McMorrow
• The Emancipated Man • (1961) • short story by John Wallace
• The Way of a Traveling Man • short story by J. A. Gato
• The Perfect Alibi • short fiction by Joe Hickey and Mike McGrady
• Dear Ann and Abby: • (1958) • short fiction by Anonymous
• Tune Every Heart and Every Voice • (1962) • short story by Irwin Shaw
• Advice About Women • (1955) • short story by Erskine Caldwell
• How Not to Write a Best Seller • (1960) • short story by Larry Siegel
• The Story of Dumb Hanns • (1962) • short story by Charles Whiting
• Softly Walks the Beetle • (1960) • short story by John Collier
• To Harpo Marx • (1959) • poem by Jack Kerouac
• To Lindsay • (1959) • poem by Allen Ginsberg
• Made by Hand • (1959) • poem by Gregory Corso
• Ode to a Housefly • (1962) • poem by Ernie Kovacs
• Rocket to the Renaissance • (1960) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• Triplication • (1959) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• The Manipulators • (1957) • essay by Vance Packard
• Americans go Home • essay by Leslie A. Fiedler
• The Father and Son Cigar • (1962) • essay by Nelson Algren
• The Millionaire Mentality • essay by J. Paul Getty
• A Jackpot of Corpses • (1961) • essay by Ben Hecht
• Five-Card Poker and the Hell with It • (1957) • essay by Max Shulman
• A Fledgling of L'Amour • essay by Alexander King
• Introduction (The Bedside Playboy) • essay by Hugh M. Hefner
• The Pious Pornographers • (1957) • essay by William Iversen [as by Ivor Williams]