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• xi • Introduction: Possibility of Pleasure • essay by Marjorie Fischer and Rolfe Humphries
• 1 • Reason • (1917) • poem by Ralph Hodgson (variant of Reason Has Moons)
• 2 • A Haunted House • (1921) • short story by Virginia Woolf
• 4 • The Philosophy of Relative Existences • (1892) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 11 • Birth • (1927) • short story by Liam O'Flaherty
• 16 • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button • (1922) • novelette by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 42 • Strong But Quirky • short story by Irwin Shapiro
• 46 • The Man That Stopped • non-genre • (1934) • short story by Frank O'Connor
• 60 • A Man and His Boots • (1893) • short story by W. B. Yeats
• 61 • Off the Ground • juvenile • (1913) • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 65 • The Rime of True Thomas • (1912) • short story by John Buchan
• 74 • The Haunted Man • (1939) • short story by Ralph Bates
• 100 • A Horseman in the Sky • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 107 • The Bowmen • (1914) • short story by Arthur Machen
• 111 • Before the Battle at Lake Trasimenus • short fiction by Titus Livius [as by Livy]
• 112 • Private Martin Passy • (1933) • short story by William March
• 114 • Ballad of the Buried Sword • (1898) • poem by Ernest Rhys
• 116 • The Perfect Game • (1906) • short story by G. K. Chesterton
• 120 • The Canterville Ghost • (1887) • novelette by Oscar Wilde
• 148 • The Rival Beauties • (1894) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 156 • The Dong with the Luminous Nose • (1877) • poem by Edward Lear
• 160 • A Haunted House • short story by Caius Plinius Lucius (trans. of Epistulæ, VII, 27 unknown) [as by Pliny the Younger]
• 162 • The Transferred Ghost • (1882) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 174 • How a Beautiful Maiden Changed Into a Frog and Leaped Upon the Face of the Moon • (1929) • short story by Charles Erskine Scott Wood
• 177 • An Imperfect Conflagration • non-genre • (1886) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 181 • The Phanton Fence Rider of Sam Miguel • (1936) • short story by Henry Yelvington
• 186 • Old Christmas • (1930) • poem by Roy Helton
• 188 • The Real Right Thing • (1892) • short story by Henry James
• 202 • The Quick and the Dead • (1899) • short story by Finley Peter Dunne
• 205 • Lady Into Fox • (1922) • novella by David Garnett (I)
• 263 • Charley Lambert • short fiction by J. M. Synge
• 265 • The Bold Dragoon; or, The Adventure of My Grandfather • [Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman] • short story by Washington Irving (variant of The Bold Dragoon 1824)
• 274 • The Vixen • (1914) • poem by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
• 276 • A Blazing Starre Seene in the West • (1642) • short fiction by Anonymous
• 279 • The Last Laugh • (1925) • short story by D. H. Lawrence
• 297 • Dionysus and the Pard • (1939) • short story by Geoffrey Household
• 303 • Story of Pygmalion • short story by Ovid
• 305 • The Chaser • (1940) • short story by John Collier
• 308 • King Cheop's Daughter • short fiction by Herodotus
• 309 • Nelly Trim • (1925) • poem by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• 313 • The Story of the Siren • (1920) • short story by E. M. Forster
• 321 • The Unicorn in the Garden • (1939) • short story by James Thurber
• 323 • How Mount Shasta Was Made and How Grizzly Bears Came to Be • (1929) • short story by Charles Erskine Scott Wood
• 325 • The Wisdom of the King • (1897) • short story by W. B. Yeats
• 330 • Orpheus and Eurydice • [Georgics] • short fiction by Virgil
• 332 • A True Account of the Tryals and Confessions of Several Witches, in New England, etc. • essay by Cotton Mather
• 338 • The Witch of Coös • (1923) • poem by Robert Frost
• 343 • Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven • (1907) • novelette by Mark Twain
• 381 • Colonel Sterett Relates Marvels • (1902) • short story by Alfred Henry Lewis (variant of Colonel Sterett's Marvels)
• 388 • A True Story • novella by Lucian of Samosata (trans. of
  Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα^?Alithi diigimata
  0150) [as by Lucian]
• 389 • Macavity: The Mystery Cat • [Practical Cats • 10] • (1939) • poem by T. S. Eliot
• 391 • Private Roger Jones • (1933) • short story by William March
• 392 • Tall Tales of the G.I.s • (1943) • short story by Sergeant Bill Davidson
• 395 • The Elks • short fiction by Julius Caesar
• 396 • Sacre du Printemps • (1937) • short fiction by Ludwig Bemelmans
• 401 • The Elf in Algiers • short story by John Steinbeck
• 404 • Lord Deliver Us • short fiction by Donald Cowie
• 408 • The Voice of God • (1934) • short fiction by Winifred Holtby
• 417 • The Judgement Seat • (1934) • short story by W. Somerset Maugham
• 422 • The Sensitive Goldfish • (1934) • short story by Christina Stead
• 432 • Panic: The Orson Welles Broadcast That Hoaxed America • short fiction by Orson Welles
• 450 • The Soul of Laploshka • (1910) • short story by Saki
• 455 • "No Trouble at All" • (1939) • short story by Ludwig Bemelmans (variant of No Trouble at All 1937)
• 462 • Welsh Incident • poem by Robert Graves (variant of Railway Carriage 1929)
• 464 • The Angry Street: A Bad Dream • [Club of Queer Trades] • (1909) • short story by G. K. Chesterton (variant of A Somewhat Improbable Story 1908)
• 469 • Artist Unknown • (1941) • short story by Heywood Broun
• 473 • A Miracle of St. Scothinus • (1910) • short fiction by John Colgan
• 474 • The Saint • (1931) • short story by Antonia White
• 481 • The Silence of God • (1920) • poem by Osbert Sitwell
• 484 • A Miracle of St. Goar • short fiction by Jean Bolland
• 485 • Building the Church • short fiction by J. M. Synge
• 486 • Private Edward Romano • (1933) • short story by William March
• 487 • Blessed Patrick of the Bells • short fiction by Lady Gregory
• 491 • How Caedmon Learned to Sing • (1930) • short fiction by Bede
• 493 • King O'Toole and St. Kevin • (1909) • short story by Samuel Lover (variant of King O'Toole and His Goose 1831)
• 502 • The Man Who Could Work Miracles • (1898) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 520 • A Shepherd and a Shepherdess • (1935) • short fiction by Elizabeth Goudge
• 535 • The Case of Prometheus • (1899) • short story by Max Beerbohm
• 540 • The Road from Colonus • (1911) • short story by E. M. Forster
• 552 • Mr. Valiant Summoned • short fiction by John Bunyan
• 553 • Philemon and Baucis • short story by Ovid
• 556 • The Fairy Goose • (1927) • short story by Liam O'Flaherty
• 563 • The Passing Strange • (1920) • poem by John Masefield