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• xv • Hobgoblin • (1979) • essay by Isaac Asimov
• xix • The Fantastic Mystery: A Neglected Genre • (1979) • essay by Charles G. Waugh
• 3 • The Angel of the Lord • [Uncle Abner] • (1911) • short story by Melville Davisson Post
• 17 • Music from the Dark • (1935) • novelette by Cornell Woolrich (variant of Dark Melody of Madness)
• 53 • The Legend of Joe Lee • (1964) • short story by John D. MacDonald
• 67 • A Little Place Off the Edgware Road • (1939) • short story by Graham Greene
• 73 • The Man Who Collected "The Shadow" • (1971) • short story by Bill Pronzini
• 80 • The Red Signal • (1924) • short story by Agatha Christie
• 98 • The American's Tale • (1880) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 105 • The Finger of Stone • (1920) • short story by G. K. Chesterton
• 125 • The Strange Children • (1955) • short story by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
• 137 • I Had a Hunch, and... • (1959) • short story by Talmage Powell
• 148 • New Murders for Old • (1939) • short story by John Dickson Carr
• 167 • No Place for Magic • (1954) • short story by Maurice Procter
• 176 • The Fallen Angel • (1955) • short story by Evan Hunter
• 190 • Three Day Magic • (1948) • novella by Charlotte Armstrong
• 271 • Nine-Finger Jack • (1951) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• 277 • The Veiled Woman • (1952) • novella by Howard Browne and Mickey Spillane [as by Mickey Spillane]
• 325 • The Blessington Method • (1956) • short story by Stanley Ellin
• 338 • The One-to-Ten Affair • (1969) • novelette by Michael Gilbert (I)
• 356 • For All the Rude People • non-genre • (1961) • short story by Jack Ritchie
• 371 • The Winner • (1970) • short story by Donald E. Westlake
• 381 • The Human Zero • (1931) • novelette by Erle Stanley Gardner
• 429 • The Convenient Monster • [Simon Templar] • (1959) • novelette by Leslie Charteris
• 455 • The Tragedies in the Greek Room • [Moris Klaw] • (1915) • novelette by Sax Rohmer (variant of Case of the Tragedies in the Greek Room 1913)
• 477 • The Forbidden Word • (1972) • short story by Edward D. Hoch [as by R. L. Stevens]
• 487 • The Criminal • (1972) • short story by Joe Gores [as by Joseph N. Gores]
• 497 • Murder, 1986 • (1970) • novelette by P. D. James