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• xi • Introduction (Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural) • essay by Phyllis Fraser and Herbert A. Wise
• xix • Introduction to the Notes (Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural) • essay by Phyllis Fraser and Herbert A. Wise
• 3 • La Grande Bretêche • non-genre • short story by
  Honoré de Balzac^?Honore de Balzac
  (trans. of La Grande Bretèche 1832)
• 24 • The Black Cat • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 34 • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 44 • A Terribly Strange Bed • (1852) • short story by Wilkie Collins
• 57 • The Boarded Window • non-genre • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 62 • The Three Strangers • non-genre • (1883) • novelette by Thomas Hardy
• 85 • The Interruption • non-genre • (1925) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 99 • Pollock and the Porroh Man • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 116 • The Sea Raiders • (1897) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of The Sea-Raiders 1896)
• 127 • Sredni Vashtar • non-genre • (1910) • short story by Saki
• 133 • Moonlight Sonata • (1931) • short story by Alexander Woollcott
• 136 • Silent Snow, Secret Snow • (1932) • short story by Conrad Aiken
• 155 • Suspicion • non-genre • (1933) • short story by Dorothy L. Sayers
• 172 • The Most Dangerous Game • non-genre • (1924) • novelette by Richard Edward Connell [as by Richard Connell]
• 188 • Leiningen Versus the Ants • (1938) • novelette by Carl Stephenson (trans. of Leiningens Kampf mit den Ameisen 1937)
• 212 • The Gentleman from America • (1924) • short story by Michael Arlen
• 231 • A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
• 242 • The Killers • non-genre • (1927) • short story by Ernest Hemingway
• 253 • Back for Christmas • non-genre • (1939) • short story by John Collier
• 259 • Taboo • (1939) • novelette by Geoffrey Household
• 283 • The Haunters and the Haunted: or, The House and the Brain • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859)
• 324 • Rappaccini's Daughter • [Rappaccini • 1] • (1844) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 356 • The Trial for Murder • (1928) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt 1865) [as by Charles Allston Collins and Charles Dickens]
• 368 • Green Tea • [Martin Hesselius] • (1869) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• 403 • What Was It? • [Harry Escott] • (1859) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 417 • Sir Edmund Orme • (1891) • novelette by Henry James
• 447 • The Horla, or Modern Ghosts • [Le Horla • 3] • (1910) • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• 473 • Was It a Dream? • (1903) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La morte 1887)
• 478 • The Screaming Skull • (1908) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 509 • The Furnished Room • (1904) • short story by O. Henry
• 516 • Casting the Runes • (1911) • novelette by M. R. James
• 539 • Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad • novelette by M. R. James (variant of "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" 1904)
• 560 • Afterward • (1910) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 592 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 604 • The Great God Pan • (1894) • novella by Arthur Machen
• 660 • How Love Came to Professor Guildea • (1897) • novella by Robert Hichens
• 708 • The Return of Imray • (1891) • short story by Rudyard Kipling (variant of The Recrudescence of Imray)
• 721 • "They" • (1904) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• 745 • Lukundoo • (1925) • short story by Edward Lucas White
• 760 • Caterpillars • (1912) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 769 • Mrs. Amworth • (1922) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 785 • Ancient Sorceries • [John Silence] • (1908) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
• 835 • Confession • (1921) • short story by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson [as by Algernon Blackwood]
• 854 • The Open Window • (1911) • short story by Saki
• 858 • The Beckoning Fair One • (1911) • novella by Oliver Onions
• 928 • Out of the Deep • (1923) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
• 958 • Adam and Eve and Pinch Me • (1921) • short story by A. E. Coppard
• 970 • The Celestial Omnibus • (1908) • short story by E. M. Forster
• 987 • The Ghost Ship • (1912) • short story by Richard Middleton (variant of The Ghost-Ship)
• 998 • The Sailor-Boy's Tale • (1942) • short story by Karen Blixen [as by Isak Dinesen]
• 1010 • The Rats in the Walls • (1924) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 1031 • The Dunwich Horror • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1929) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft