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• [i] • Introduction (The Supernatural in Fiction) • essay by uncredited
• 1 • Witches, Werewolves and Vampires - The Terrible Tribe • essay by uncredited
• 3 • Medea (excerpt) • short fiction by Euripides
• 4 • Share Alike • (1953) • short story by Jerome Bixby and Joe E. Dean
• 15 • The Amulet • (1959) • short story by Gordon R. Dickson
• 30 • The Werewolf • (1926) • short story by Frederick Marryat [as by H. B. Marryat]
• 44 • The Mark of the Beast • (1890) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 56 • Homecoming • [The Elliott Family] • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Homecoming 1946)
• 69 • Gods, Devils and Damnations - From the Darkness Next Door • essay by uncredited
• 71 • The Underworld (excerpt) • [The Aeneid] • (unknown) • short fiction by Virgil
• 72 • The Jam • (1958) • short story by Henry Slesar
• 76 • The Kings of the Sea • [Brigadier Ffellowes] • (1968) • novelette by Sterling E. Lanier
• 93 • Flies • (1953) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 100 • Young Goodman Brown • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 112 • None Before Me • (1949) • short story by Sidney Carroll
• 122 • Burnt Toast • (1955) • short story by Mack Reynolds
• 131 • Ghost Stories - The Haunted House of Man's Mind • essay by uncredited
• 132 • from: The Nun's Priest's Tale (excerpt) • (1387) • short fiction by Geoffrey Chaucer
• 134 • The Haunted Woodshed • (1961) • short story by Harold R. Daniels
• 144 • The Furnished Room • (1904) • short story by O. Henry
• 150 • Was It a Dream? • (1903) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La morte 1887)
• 155 • The Ghost Ship • (1912) • short story by Richard Middleton (variant of The Ghost-Ship)
• 164 • Hey, Look at Me! • (1962) • short story by Jack Finney
• 176 • Running Wolf • (1920) • short story by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson [as by Algernon Blackwood]
• 193 • Spells and Sorcery - Odd Doings and Strange Dooms • essay by uncredited
• 194 • The Tempest (excerpt) • (unknown) • short fiction by William Shakespeare
• 195 • It's a Good Life • (1953) • short story by Jerome Bixby
• 211 • The Canvas Bag • (1955) • short story by Alan E. Nourse
• 221 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 231 • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 239 • The Dark Door • (1971) • short story by Leo P. Kelley
• 253 • Things - The Bizarre on the Human Horizon • essay by uncredited
• 254 • from: The Book of Ezekiel • (unknown) • short fiction by Ezekiel
• 255 • The Lonesome Place • (1948) • short story by August Derleth
• 262 • What Was It? • (1859) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 273 • The Rocking-Horse Winner • (1926) • short story by D. H. Lawrence
• 287 • The Bagman's Story • (1837) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 299 • Dr. Heidegger's Experiment • (1837) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 308 • The Outsider • [Dream Cycle] • (1926) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft