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• 11 • Introduction (The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural) • essay by Stephen King
• 25 • Hop Frog • (1858) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Hop-Frog; or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs 1849)
• 32 • Rappaccini's Daughter • [Rappaccini • 1] • (1844) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 62 • Squire Toby's Will • (1868) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 91 • The Squaw • (1893) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 103 • The Jolly Corner • (1908) • novelette by Henry James
• 135 • "Man Overboard!" • (1899) • short story by Winston S. Churchill [as by Winston Churchill]
• 139 • The Hand • (1919) • short story by Theodore Dreiser
• 157 • The Valley of Spiders • (1903) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 168 • The Middle Toe of the Right Foot • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 177 • Pickman's Model • (1927) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 190 • Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper • (1943) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 207 • The Screaming Laugh • (1938) • novelette by Cornell Woolrich
• 228 • A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
• 238 • Bianca's Hands • (1947) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 247 • The Girl with the Hungry Eyes • (1949) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 262 • Shut a Final Door • (1947) • short story by Truman Capote
• 276 • Come and Go Mad • (1949) • novelette by Fredric Brown
• 317 • The Scarlet King • (1954) • short story by Evan Hunter
• 328 • Sticks • [Cthulhu Mythos short fiction] • (1974) • novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• 347 • Sardonicus • (1961) • novelette by Ray Russell
• 380 • A Teacher's Rewards • (1970) • short story by Robert Phillips
• 388 • The Roaches • (1965) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 397 • The Jam • (1958) • short story by Henry Slesar
• 403 • Black Wind • (1979) • short story by Bill Pronzini
• 408 • The Road to Mictlantecutli • (1965) • short story by Adobe James
• 422 • Passengers • (1968) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 435 • The Explosives Expert • (1967) • short story by John Lutz
• 442 • Call First • (1975) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 447 • The Fly • (1952) • short story by Arthur Porges
• 452 • Namesake • short story by Rosalind M. Greenberg [as by Elizabeth Morton]
• 454 • Camps • (1979) • novelette by Jack Dann
• 480 • You Know Willie • (1957) • short story by Theodore R. Cogswell
• 485 • The Mindworm • (1950) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• 498 • Warm • (1953) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 507 • Transfer • (1975) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 514 • The Doll • (1980) • novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
• 536 • If Damon Comes • [Oxrun] • (1978) • short story by Charles L. Grant
• 548 • Mass Without Voices • (1979) • short story by Arthur L. Samuels
• 550 • The Oblong Room • non-genre • (1967) • short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 560 • The Party • (1967) • short story by William F. Nolan
• 570 • The Crate • (1979) • novelette by Stephen King