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• 13 • Introduction: Step Up to the Rail, My Friends • essay by F. Paul Wilson
• 17 • Foreword: Purveyors of Fine Spirits Since... • essay by Kealan Patrick Burke
• 21 • The Lingering Scent of Apples • (2005) • short story by P. D. Cacek
• 41 • The Winner • (2005) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 55 • The Souls of Drowning Mountain • (2005) • short story by Jack Cady
• 69 • Kristine's Kwiet Korner • (2005) • short story by Melanie Tem
• 79 • Shoggoth's Old Peculiar • (1998) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 89 • Gas Station Carnivals • (1996) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 105 • Bucket of Blood • (1997) • short story by Norman Partridge
• 121 • The King of Rotten Wood • (2005) • short story by Gary A. Braunbeck
• 147 • Front-Page McGuffin and the Greatest Story Never Told • (1998) • novelette by Peter Crowther
• 175 • Dés Lors • (2005) • short story by Roberta Lannes
• 189 • At Home in the Pubs of Old London • (2000) • short story by Christopher Fowler
• 201 • Spirited • (2005) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 207 • Times of Atonement • (2005) • short story by Yvonne Navarro
• 221 • That Was Radio Clash • [Newford] • (2005) • novelette by Charles de Lint
• 239 • Friday Night at the Wicked Swan • (2005) • short story by Charles L. Grant
• 251 • Bar Talk • (2005) • short story by Peter Straub (variant of Interlude: Bar Talk 1990)
• 255 • Time Was • (2005) • novelette by David Morrell
• 281 • Shades of the Past (The Traveling Salesman Goes Home) • (2005) • short story by C. Bruce Hunter
• 291 • Luke, Homeward Angel • (2005) • short story by Chaz Brenchley
• 307 • The Last Good Times • (2000) • short story by Tim Lebbon
• 321 • Two in the Eyes • (2005) • short story by Tom Piccirilli
• 335 • Welcome to the Masque • (1991) • short story by Jeff VanderMeer
• 345 • The Order of Nature • (2005) • short story by Edward Lee
• 357 • A Fine and Private Place • (2005) • short story by Thomas F. Monteleone
• 377 • The Family Room • (2005) • short story by Nicholas Royle
• 383 • The Smoke in Mooney's Pub • (2005) • short story by Chet Williamson
• 399 • The Snug • (1997) • short story by Terry Lamsley