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• ix • Introduction (In the Grip of Terror) • essay by Groff Conklin
• 1 • The Last Kiss • non-genre • (1920) • short story by Maurice Level (trans. of Le baiser dans la nuit 1912)
• 7 • The Illustrated Man • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 23 • The Upturned Face • non-genre • (1900) • short story by Stephen Crane
• 28 • The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey • non-genre • (1933) • novelette by Dorothy L. Sayers
• 59 • The Horror-Horn • (1922) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 75 • Night Drive • (1950) • short story by Murray Leinster [as by Will F. Jenkins]
• 89 • In the Vault • (1925) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 100 • The Diary of a Madman • (1903) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Un fou 1885)
• 106 • The Tool • (1928) • short story by William Fryer Harvey [as by William F. Harvey]
• 122 • Bianca's Hands • (1947) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 133 • The Cross of Carl • (1931) • novella by Walter Owen
• 185 • Hathor's Pets • (1950) • short story by Margaret St. Clair
• 201 • A Terribly Strange Bed • (1852) • short story by Wilkie Collins
• 215 • The Well • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 230 • Revenge • non-genre • (1947) • short story by Samuel Blas
• 239 • The Pit and the Pendulum • (1842) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 257 • Macklin's Little Friend • (1936) • short story by Howard Wandrei [as by H. W. Guernsey]
• 277 • The Easter Egg • non-genre • (1930) • short story by Saki [as by H. H. Munro]
• 282 • Problem in Murder • (1939) • novelette by H. L. Gold
• 318 • The Moth • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 331 • A Resumed Identity • (1908) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 338 • Bubbles • (1926) • short story by Wilbur Daniel Steele