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• xiii • Introduction (Wolf's Complete Book of Terror) • essay by Leonard Wolf
• 1 • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas • [Omelas] • (1973) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 7 • I Love My Love • (1958) • poem by Helen Adam
• 10 • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream • (1967) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 22 • The Tattooer • (1963) • short story by
  谷崎潤一郎^?Junichiro Tanizaki
  (trans. of
  刺青^?Irezumi
  1910) [as by Junichiro Tanizaki]
• 27 • Steps (excerpt) • short fiction by Jerzy Kosinski
• 30 • Axolotl • (1967) • short story by
  Julio Cortázar^?Julio Cortazar
  (trans. of Axolotl 1956)
• 34 • The Wish • (1948) • short story by Roald Dahl
• 37 • The Lottery • (1948) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 44 • It's a Good Life • (1953) • short story by Jerome Bixby
• 58 • They Bite • (1943) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• 67 • The Last Night of the World • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 71 • Born of Man and Woman • (1950) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 74 • Piazza Piece • (1927) • poem by John Crowe Ransom
• 75 • The South • (1962) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El Sur 1953)
• 80 • The Fly • (1957) • novelette by George Langelaan (trans. of La mouche)
• 105 • The Doll • (1946) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
• 129 • The Ghost • (1926) • short story by Richard Hughes
• 132 • The Hunted Beast • (1930) • short story by T. F. Powys
• 140 • End • (1947) • poem by Langston Hughes
• 141 • The Rival Dummy • (1928) • short story by Ben Hecht
• 149 • Caterpillars • (1912) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 156 • Lukundoo • (1925) • short story by Edward Lucas White
• 167 • Sredni Vashtar • non-genre • (1910) • short story by Saki
• 171 • The Picture in the House • (1919) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 178 • Pollock and the Porroh Man • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 190 • The Spider • (1915) • novelette by Hanns Heinz Ewers (trans. of Die Spinne 1908)
• 205 • The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains • (1839) • short story by Frederick Marryat (variant of The Werewolf 1837)
• 220 • Tchériapin • (1920) • short story by Sax Rohmer
• 233 • My Doll Janie • (1920) • poem by L. R. Ridge [as by Lola Ridge]
• 234 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 243 • The Mark of the Beast • (1890) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 253 • Manacled • non-genre • (1900) • short story by Stephen Crane
• 256 • Yuki-Onna • (1904) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• 259 • Mujina • (1904) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• 261 • The Squaw • (1893) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 270 • The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
• 283 • The Black Mass, Episode from Là-bas (Down There) • (1928) • short fiction by Joris-Karl Huysmans (trans. of Là-bas : "La messe du chanoine Docre" 1891) [as by J. K. Huysmans]
• 291 • The Magic Shirt • (unknown) • short fiction by F. H. Groome [as by Anonymous]
• 292 • Carmilla • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• 317 • Not to Be Taken at Bed-Time • (1865) • short story by Rosa Mulholland
• 328 • The Very Sad Tale of the Matches • (1979) • poem by Heinrich Hoffmann (trans. of Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug 1845)
• 330 • The Man-Tiger • (unknown) • short story by Cecil Henry Bompas [as by Anonymous]
• 331 • The Hours in the Life of a Lousy-Haired Man, Episode from Maldoror • [Maldoror excerpts] • short fiction by Comte de Lautréamont
• 335 • Varney, the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood (excerpt) • [Varney the Vampyre (excerpts)] • short fiction by James Malcolm Rymer
• 340 • The Horla, or Modern Ghosts • [Le Horla • 3] • (1910) • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• 358 • A Carrion • (1979) • poem by Charles Baudelaire (trans. of Une charogne 1857) [as by Charles Pierre Baudelaire]
• 361 • The Pit and the Pendulum • (1842) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 372 • The Black Cat • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 379 • The Birthmark • (1854) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (variant of The Birth-Mark 1843)
• 392 • La Belle Hélène • (1979) • short story by
  Prosper Mérimée^?Prosper Merimee
• 396 • Nuckelavee • (unknown) • short story by Anonymous
• 398 • La Belle Dame Sans Merci • (1820) • poem by John Keats
• 401 • Isabella, or The Pot of Basil • (1820) • poem by John Keats
• 417 • The Erl-King • (1979) • poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. of
  Der Erlkönig^?Der Erlkoenig
  1782)
• 418 • The Count de Gernande, Episode from Justine • [Excerpts from "Justine"] • (1979) • short fiction by Marquis de Sade [as by The Marquis de Sade]
• 429 • Lord Randal • (unknown) • poem by Anonymous
• 431 • The Painted Skin • [Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio • 40] • (1880) • short story by
  蒲松龄^?Pú Sōnglíng
  Pu Songlin
  Pu Sung-ling
  (trans. of
  畫皮^?Huàpí
  Huapi
  1766) [as by P'u Sung-Ling]
• 434 • Satan at the Gates of Hell, from Paradise Lost, Book II • (1667) • poem by John Milton
• 440 • The Milk-White Doo • (unknown) • short fiction by Anonymous
• 442 • The Wife of Usher's Well • (unknown) • poem by Anonymous
• 445 • Bluebeard • (1697) • short story by Charles Perrault (trans. of La barbe bleue)
• 449 • The Vampire, Episode from The Golden Ass • short story by Apuleius [as by Lucius Apuleius]
• 455 •
  Jaël (excerpt)^?Jael (excerpt)
  • short fiction by uncredited
• 461 • Author Biographies (Wolf's Complete Book of Terror) • essay by uncredited
• 465 • Bibliography (Wolf's Complete Book of Terror) • essay by uncredited