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• Mr. Loveday's Little Outing • non-genre • (1935) • short story by Evelyn Waugh
• The White Cat of Drumgunniol • (1966) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• The Murder of Dr. Burdell • (1935) • essay by Edmund Pearson
• The Destruction of Smith • (1912) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• Wet Saturday • non-genre • (1938) • short story by John Collier
• The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag • non-genre • (1926) • short story by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Fatal Visit of the Inca to Pizarro and His Followers in the City of Caxamalca • (1847) • essay by William H. Prescott
• Man Overboard! • (1903) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• Portrait of a Murderer • non-genre • (1942) • short fiction by Richard Wilson Webb and Hugh Callingham Wheeler [as by Q. Patrick]
• The Dead Finger • (1911) • short story by Howard Pyle
• Boy Hunt • (1944) • essay by John Bartlow Martin
• Calling All Stars • (1961) • short story by Leo Szilard
• "These Terrible Men, the Harpes!" • (1970) • essay by Robert M. Coates [as by Robert Coates]
• When the Bough Breaks • (1944) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• A Musical Enigma • (1870) • short story by Christopher Pearse Cranch (variant of A Musical Mystery) [as by C. P. Cranch]
• The Sinking Ship • non-genre • (1895) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson