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• 1 • Introduction (The Dark Descent) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• 15 • The Reach • (1981) • short story by Stephen King
• 31 • Evening Primrose • (1940) • short story by John Collier
• 40 • The Ash-Tree • (1904) • short story by M. R. James
• 50 • The New Mother • (1882) • short story by Lucy Clifford
• 59 • There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding • (1976) • novelette by Russell Kirk
• 85 • The Call of Cthulhu • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1928) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 108 • The Summer People • (1950) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 118 • The Whimper of Whipped Dogs • (1973) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 132 • Young Goodman Brown • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 142 • Mr. Justice Harbottle • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 167 • The Crowd • (1943) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 175 • The Autopsy • (1980) • novella by Michael Shea
• 203 • John Charrington's Wedding • (1891) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 209 • Sticks • [Cthulhu Mythos short fiction] • (1974) • novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• 225 • Larger Than Oneself • (1966) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 245 • Belsen Express • (1975) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 255 • Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper • (1943) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 268 • If Damon Comes • [Oxrun] • (1978) • short story by Charles L. Grant
• 278 • Vandy, Vandy • [John the Balladeer] • (1953) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 291 • The Swords • (1969) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 312 • The Roaches • (1965) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 321 • Bright Segment • (1955) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 339 • Dread • (1984) • novelette by Clive Barker
• 368 • The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 382 • The Monkey • (1980) • novelette by Stephen King
• 410 • Within the Walls of Tyre • (1978) • novelette by Michael Bishop
• 431 • The Rats in the Walls • (1924) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 445 • Schalken the Painter • (1935) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 460 • The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
• 472 • A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
• 480 • How Love Came to Professor Guildea • (1897) • novella by Robert Hichens
• 513 • Born of Man and Woman • (1950) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 516 • My Dear Emily • (1962) • short story by Joanna Russ
• 532 • You Can Go Now • (1980) • short story by Dennis Etchison
• 541 • The Rocking-Horse Winner • (1926) • short story by D. H. Lawrence
• 553 • Three Days • (1984) • novelette by Tanith Lee
• 576 • Good Country People • non-genre • (1955) • short fiction by Flannery O'Connor
• 591 • Mackintosh Willy • (1979) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 602 • The Jolly Corner • (1908) • novelette by Henry James
• 629 • Smoke Ghost • (1941) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 641 • Seven American Nights • (1978) • novella by Gene Wolfe
• 680 • The Signalman • (1866) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 690 • Crouch End • [Cthulhu Mythos short fiction] • (1980) • novelette by Stephen King
• 712 • Night-Side • (1977) • novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
• 731 • Seaton's Aunt • (1922) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
• 753 • Clara Militch • (1897) • novelette by
  Иван Тургенев^?Ivan Turgenev
  (trans. of
  После смерти (Клара Милич)^?Posle smerti (Klara Milich)
  1883) [as by Ivan Turgenev]
• 793 • The Repairer of Reputations • [King in Yellow (Chambers)] • (1895) • novelette by Robert W. Chambers
• 817 • The Beckoning Fair One • (1911) • novella by Oliver Onions
• 864 • What Was It? • [Harry Escott] • (1859) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 874 • The Beautiful Stranger • (1968) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 880 • The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 887 • Afterward • (1910) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 909 • The Willows • (1907) • novella by Algernon Blackwood
• 944 • The Asian Shore • (1970) • novelette by Thomas M. Disch
• 970 • The Hospice • (1975) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 995 • A Little Something for Us Tempunauts • (1974) • novelette by Philip K. Dick