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• vii • Introduction (Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow) • (1952) • essay by Ray Bradbury
• 1 • The Hour After Westerly • (1947) • short story by Robert M. Coates
• 13 • Housing Problem • (1944) • short story by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Henry Kuttner]
• 28 • The Portable Phonograph • (1941) • short story by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
• 35 • None Before Me • (1949) • short story by Sidney Carroll
• 46 • Putzi • (1935) • short story by Ludwig Bemelmans
• 51 • The Demon Lover • short story by Shirley Jackson (variant of The Daemon Lover 1949)
• 66 • Miss Winters and the Wind • non-genre • (1946) • short story by Christine Noble Govan
• 72 • Mr. Death and the Redheaded Woman • (1952) • short story by Helen Eustis (variant of The Rider on the Pale Horse 1950)
• 80 • Jeremy in the Wind • (1949) • short story by Nigel Kneale
• 84 • The Glass Eye • (1944) • short story by John Keir Cross
• 99 • Saint Katy the Virgin • (1936) • short story by John Steinbeck
• 107 • Night Flight • (1944) • short story by Josephine W. Johnson
• 113 • The Cocoon • (1946) • short story by John B. L. Goodwin
• 130 • The Hand • (1947) • short story by Wessel Hyatt Smitter
• 140 • The Sound Machine • (1949) • short story by Roald Dahl
• 154 • The Laocoön Complex • (1937) • short story by J. C. Furnas
• 165 • I Am Waiting • (1939) • short story by Christopher Isherwood
• 174 • The Witnesses • (1943) • short story by William Sansom
• 179 • The Enormous Radio • (1947) • short story by John Cheever
• 190 • Heartburn • (1951) • short story by Hortense Calisher
• 200 • The Supremacy of Uruguay • (1933) • short story by E. B. White
• 204 • The Pedestrian • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 208 • A Note for the Milkman • (1950) • short story by Sidney Carroll
• 219 • The Eight Mistresses • (1937) • short story by Jean Hrolda
• 225 • In the Penal Colony • (1948) • novelette by Franz Kafka (trans. of In der Strafkolonie 1919)
• 252 • Inflexible Logic • (1940) • short story by Russell Maloney