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• The House of Ecstasy • (1938) • short story by Ralph Milne Farley
• Elementals • (1922) • novelette by Stephen Vincent Benét
• Leiningen Versus the Ants • (1938) • novelette by Carl Stephenson (trans. of Leiningens Kampf mit den Ameisen 1937)
• The Second Step • (1934) • short story by Margery Sharp
• The Room on the Fourth Floor • non-genre • (1930) • short story by Ralph Straus
• The Quality of Suspense • essay by Alfred Hitchcock
• The Liqueur Glass • non-genre • (1915) • short story by Phyllis Bottome
• Flood on the Goodwins • (1933) • short story by David Divine [as by A. D. Divine]
• The Blue Paper • (1941) • short fiction by Albert Payson Terhune
• R. M. S. Titanic • (1934) • short story by Hanson W. Baldwin [as by Hanson Baldwin]
• The Baby in the Icebox • (1933) • short fiction by James M. Cain
• Fire in the Galley Stove • (1937) • short story by Capt. William Outerson