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• The Two Drovers • (1827) • novelette by Sir Walter Scott
• 9 • Introduction (A Century of Thrillers: From Poe to Arlen) • essay by James Agate
• 23 • The Traveler's Story of a Terribly Strange Bed • (1856) • short story by Wilkie Collins (variant of A Terribly Strange Bed 1852)
• 43 • Mad Monkton • (1857) • novella by Wilkie Collins
• 063 • The Affair at Coulter's Notch • non-genre • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 105 • The Biter Bit • non-genre • (1858) • novelette by Wilkie Collins
• 137 • The Adventure of the Speckled Band • non-genre • [Sherlock Holmes] • (1892) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 167 • The Mortal Immortal • (1891) • short story by Mary Shelley [as by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley]
• 183 • The Gentleman from America • (1924) • short story by Michael Arlen
• 205 • The Leech of Folkestone • [The Ingoldsby Legends] • (1931) • novelette by Richard Harris Barham [as by R. H. Barham]
• 233 • Jerry Jarvis's Wig • [The Ingoldsby Legends] • short story by Richard Harris Barham [as by R. H. Barham]
• 251 • The Spectre of Tappington • [The Ingoldsby Legends] • novelette by Richard Harris Barham [as by R. H. Barham]
• 279 • Singular Passage in the Life of the Late Henry Harris, Doctor of Divinity • [The Ingoldsby Legends] • novelette by Richard Harris Barham (variant of Singular Passage in the Life of the Late Henry Harris 1831) [as by R. H. Barham]
• 375 • The Hair • (1928) • short story by A. J. Alan
• 389 • The Gold-Bug • non-genre • (1843) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 425 • The Cask of Amontillado • [Fortunato] • (1846) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 433 • The Murders in the Rue Morgue • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1841) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 469 • The Mystery of Marie Rogêt • non-genre • [Chevalier Dupin] • (1842) • novella by Edgar Allan Poe
• 519 • The Pit and the Pendulum • (1842) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 537 • Berenice • non-genre • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Berenice—A Tale 1835)
• 547 • William Wilson • (1850) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of William Wilson: A Tale 1839)
• 567 • The Masque of the Red Death • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Mask of the Red Death 1842)
• 575 • Roger Malvin's Burial • (1832) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 595 • Dr. Heidegger's Experiment • (1837) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 605 • The Gray Champion • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 615 • Wandering Willie's Tale • [Redgauntlet Excerpts] • (1824) • short story by Sir Walter Scott
• 665 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 681 • Sir Dominick Sarsfield • (1933) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (variant of Sir Dominick's Bargain 1872) [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 697 • Mr. Justice Harbottle • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 731 • Green Tea • [Martin Hesselius] • (1869) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• 769 • The Birthday of the Infanta • non-genre • (1889) • short story by Oscar Wilde
• 789 • The Trial for Murder • (1929) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt 1865)
• 801 • The Story of the Bagman's Uncle • (1837) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 819 • No. 1 Branch Line, the Signalman • (1868) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866)
• 835 • The Squire's Story • non-genre • (1853) • short story by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell]
• 853 • The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand • non-genre • (1911) • short story by J. S. Fletcher
• 871 • Malachi's Cove • non-genre • (1864) • short story by Anthony Trollope
• 893 • The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain • (1905) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton [as by Lord Lytton]
• 933 • The Story of the Greek Slave • short story by Frederick Marryat [as by Captain Frederick Marryat]
• 949 • The Woman's Ghost Story • (1907) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 961 • Secret Worship • [John Silence] • (1908) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
• 997 • The Open Door • (1881) • novelette by Margaret Oliphant [as by Mrs. Oliphant]
• 1043 • The Suitable Surroundings • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 1051 • One of the Missing • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 1073 • A Tough Tussle • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 1081 • A Horseman in the Sky • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce