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• 9 • Introduction (Skeleton Keys: Tales from the Edge of the Chair) • essay by Joan Kahn
• 11 • The Sixth Capsule; or, Proof by Circumstantial Evidence • (1926) • essay by Edmund Pearson
• 23 • Fool's Mate • (1951) • short story by Stanley Ellin
• 40 • The Axeman Wore Wings • (1952) • essay by Robert Tallant
• 63 • Stone from the Stars • (1961) • novelette by
  Валентина Журавлёва^?Valentina Zhuravlyova
  (trans. of
  Звездный камень^?Zvezdnyy kamen'
  1960) [as by Valentina Zhuravleva]
• 77 • The Queen of Spades • (1962) • short story by
  Александр Пушкин^?Alexander Pushkin
  (trans. of
  Пиковая дама^?Pikovaya dama
  1834) [as by Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin]
• 103 • Billy: The Seal Mission • (1946) • essay by Stewart Alsop and Thomas Braden
• 126 • A Watcher by the Dead • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 138 • Tea Party • (1965) • short story by Harold Pinter
• 143 • Death Draws a Triangle • (1934) • essay by Edward Hale Bierstadt
• 178 • The Net • (1940) • short story by Robert M. Coates
• 188 • Prisoner of the Sand • (1939) • essay by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• 228 • The End of the Party • (1932) • short story by Graham Greene
• 238 • The Last Inhabitant of the Tuileries • (1962) • essay by André Castelot
• 246 • Jesting Pilot • (1947) • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• 260 • Shattering the Myth of John Wilkes Booth's Escape • (1924) • essay by William G. Shepherd
• 287 • A Piece of Steak • non-genre • (1909) • short story by Jack London
• 306 • The Game of Murder • (1960) • short story by Gerd Gaiser (trans. of Das Mörderspiel 1955)
• 314 • Biographical Notes (The Edge of the Chair) • (1967) • essay by Onica Friend