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• 1 • Introduction (The Colour of Evil) • (1987) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• 13 • The Reach • (1981) • short story by Stephen King
• 29 • Evening Primrose • (1940) • short story by John Collier
• 39 • The Ash-Tree • (1904) • short story by M. R. James
• 49 • The New Mother • (1882) • short story by Lucy Clifford
• 58 • There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding • (1976) • novelette by Russell Kirk
• 84 • The Call of Cthulhu • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1928) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 107 • The Summer People • (1950) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 118 • The Whimper of Whipped Dogs • (1973) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 132 • Young Goodman Brown • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 142 • Mr. Justice Harbottle • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 168 • The Crowd • (1943) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 176 • The Autopsy • (1980) • novella by Michael Shea
• 205 • John Charrington's Wedding • (1891) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 211 • Sticks • [Cthulhu Mythos short fiction] • (1974) • novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• 227 • Larger Than Oneself • (1966) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 248 • Belsen Express • (1975) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 258 • Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper • (1943) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 272 • If Damon Comes • [Oxrun] • (1978) • short story by Charles L. Grant
• 282 • Vandy, Vandy • [John the Balladeer] • (1953) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman