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•  The Absinthe Drinker • (1901) • interior artwork by Viktor Oliva
• 7 • Introduction (Dead Drunk) • essay by Pam Lock
• 15 • The Body-Snatcher • (1895) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (variant of The Body Snatcher 1884)
• 41 • The Spotted Dog • (1870) • novelette by Anthony Trollope
• 101 • Kitty's Dream and Its Results • (1886) • short story by E. E. L.
• 111 •  The Bottle • (1847) • interior artwork by George Cruikshank
• 115 •  The Drunkard's Children • (1848) • interior artwork by George Cruikshank
• 119 • The Ostler • (1855) • short story by Wilkie Collins
• 149 • An Engineer's Story • (1873) • short story by Amelia B. Edwards (variant of The Engineer 1866)
• 173 • Under the Cloak • (1872) • short story by Rhoda Broughton
• 187 • How We Got Up the Glenmutchkin Railway • (1845) • short story by W. E. Aytoun [as by William Aytoun]
• 221 • The Barber's Supper • (1837) • short story by James White (d.1862)
• 247 • The Mark of the Beast • (1890) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 265 • Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed from a Skull • (1814) • poem by Lord George Gordon Byron [as by Lord Byron]