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• ix • Introduction (The Best of Masques) • essay by J. N. Williamson
• 1 • Nightcrawlers • (1984) • novelette by Robert R. McCammon
• 23 • Buried Talents • (1987) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 30 • Soft • (1984) • short story by F. Paul Wilson
• 43 • Second Sight • (1987) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 49 • Everybody Needs a Little Love • (1984) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 65 • The Yard • (1987) • short story by William F. Nolan
• 73 • The Substitute • (1984) • short story by Gahan Wilson
• 84 • Maurice and Mog • (1987) • short story by James Herbert
• 92 • Angel's Exchange • (1984) • short story by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
• 94 • Hidey Hole • (1987) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 99 • Long After Ecclesiastes • (1983) • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 102 • The Night Is Freezing Fast • (1987) • short story by Thomas F. Monteleone
• 111 • The Old Men Know • (1984) • short story by Charles L. Grant
• 127 • Splatter: A Cautionary Tale • (1987) • short story by Douglas E. Winter
• 137 • Czadek • (1984) • short story by Ray Russell
• 147 • Wordsong • (1987) • short story by J. N. Williamson
• 154 • Down by the Sea Near the Great Big Rock • (1984) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 159 • Outsteppin' Fetchit • (1987) • short story by Charles R. Saunders
• 165 • Somebody Like You • (1984) • short story by Dennis Etchison
• 173 • Third Wind • (1984) • short story by Richard Christian Matheson
• 182 • The Boy Who Came Back from the Dead • (1987) • novelette by Alan Rodgers
• 209 • Popsy • (1987) • short story by Stephen King
• 221 • Behind the Masques • essay by J. N. Williamson