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• vii • Introduction (Strange and Fantastic Stories: Fifty Tales of Terror, Horror and Fantasy) • essay by Christopher Morley
• 1 • The Ancient Sin • (1923) • short story by Michael Arlen
• 10 • The Executioner • non-genre • short story by
  Honoré de Balzac^?Honore de Balzac
  (trans. of El Verdugo 1830)
• 21 • Enoch Soames • (1916) • novelette by Max Beerbohm (variant of Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties)
• 50 • Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent • (1937) • short story by
  Stephen Vincent Benét^?Stephen Vincent Benet
• 65 • Caterpillars • (1912) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 74 • The Criminal • (1918) • short story by J. D. Beresford
• 83 • The Middle Toe of the Right Foot • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 92 • The Occupant of the Room • (1909) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 101 • In the Mirror • (1918) • short story by
  Валерий Брюсов^?Valeriy Bryusov
  (trans. of
  В зеркале^?V zerkale
  1902) [as by Valery Brussof]
• 112 • Jean-ah Poquelin • non-genre • (1883) • short story by George Washington Cable [as by George W. Cable]
• 133 • Variation on a Theme • (1935) • short story by John Collier
• 145 • The Trial for Murder • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt 1865) [as by Charles A. Collins and Charles Dickens]
• 157 • Blow Up with the Brig! • (1859) • short story by Wilkie Collins
• 170 • The Brute • (1906) • short story by Joseph Conrad
• 191 • The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 212 • True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal • short story by Daniel Defoe (variant of A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705 1706)
• 221 • No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman • (1927) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866)
• 235 • The Three Infernal Jokes • (1915) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 242 • The Other Side of the Hedge • (1911) • short story by E. M. Forster
• 248 • The Elixir of Life • (1881) • short story by Richard Garnett
• 254 • President Lincoln's Dream • (1936) • short story by Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax [as by Lord Halifax]
• 256 • August Heat • (1910) • short story by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey]
• 262 • Wakefield • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 271 • The Story of Serapion • non-genre • short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Der Einsiedler Serapion 1819)
• 282 • The Ghost • (1926) • short story by Richard Hughes
• 286 • The Romance of Certain Old Clothes • (1868) • short story by Henry James
• 306 • The Mezzotint • (1904) • short story by M. R. James
• 318 • Mrs. Drainger's Veil • (1919) • novelette by Howard Mumford Jones
• 345 • Wireless • (1902) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 364 • The Woman Who Rode Away • (1925) • novelette by D. H. Lawrence
• 401 • Carmilla • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 475 • The Kennel • non-genre • (1920) • short story by Maurice Level (trans. of Le chenil 1906)
• 482 • The Novel of the White Powder • (1927) • short story by Arthur Machen (variant of Novel of the White Powder 1895)
• 499 • Lord Mountdrago • (1939) • novelette by W. Somerset Maugham
• 523 • The Specter • (1903) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Apparition 1883)
• 530 • Bartleby, the Scrivener • non-genre • (1853) • novelette by Herman Melville (variant of Bartleby)
• 568 • The Ghost Ship • (1912) • short story by Richard Middleton (variant of The Ghost-Ship)
• 579 • The Diamond Lens • (1858) • novelette by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 603 • Ligeia • (1838) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 619 • Laura • (1914) • short story by Saki
• 624 • The Cyprian Cat • (1933) • short story by Dorothy L. Sayers
• 637 • Wandering Willie's Tale • [Redgauntlet Excerpts] • (1824) • short story by Sir Walter Scott
• 655 • The Victim • (1922) • novelette by May Sinclair
• 676 • Desire • (1920) • short story by James Stephens
• 684 • Thrawn Janet • (1881) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 695 • The Torture of Hope • (1909) • short story by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. of La torture par l'espérance 1883)
• 700 • Tarnhelm • (1929) • short story by Hugh Walpole
• 716 • The Door in the Wall • (1906) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 733 • Kerfol • (1916) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 756 • The Vanishing Lady • (1934) • short story by Alexander Woollcott