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• xi • Introduction (Open at Your Own Risk) • essay by Joan Kahn
• 1 • The Yellow Wall-Paper • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman [as by Charlotte Curtis Stetson Gilman]
• 18 • A Man from Glasgow • (1947) • short story by W. Somerset Maugham
• 29 • The Daemon Lover • (1949) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 44 • Pen, Pencil and Poison • (1891) • essay by Oscar Wilde
• 64 • A Place of One's Own • (1941) • novella by Osbert Sitwell
• 102 • The Fortunes of Martin Waldeck • (1813) • short story by Sir Walter Scott
• 113 • Murder in Solitude • (1955) • essay by Alister Kershaw
• 137 • The Mole • (1923) • short story by Gerald Bullett
• 145 • The Man Who Missed the 'Bus • (1928) • short story by Stella Benson
• 160 • Elvira Barney • (1958) • essay by Edgar Lustgarten
• 197 • The Toll-House • (1907) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 207 • A Theme for Hyacinth • (1967) • short story by Julian Symons
• 229 • Miss Parsons • (1821) • essay by Henry Wilson
• 245 • Stay of Execution • (1963) • novella by Michael Gilbert (I)
• 298 • The Squire's Story • non-genre • (1853) • short story by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell]
• 314 • The Beast with Five Fingers • (1919) • novelette by William Fryer Harvey
• 340 • Steinie Morrison • (1962) • essay by Maurice Moisewitsch
• 364 • Death and the Compass • (1970) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La muerte y la brújula 1942)
• 376 • Mrs. Amworth • (1922) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 391 • Last Visit • (1944) • short story by Christopher Lazare
• 409 • Murder Among the Lovebirds • (1940) • essay by Janet Flanner
• 416 • The Coach • (1909) • short story by Violet Hunt
• 434 • The Spider • (1961) • short story by Jan Gerhard Toonder
• 446 • "Eleven Days' Wonder" • (1947) • essay by Lenore Glen Offord
• 474 • Sensational Occurrence at a Poetry Reading • (1943) • short fiction by P. G. Wodehouse
• 500 • Biographical Notes (Open at Your Own Risk) • essay by Sherry Knox