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• 7 • Introduction (The Best Horror Stories) • essay by Lynn Picknett
• 13 • The Black Cat • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 21 • The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 26 • The Premature Burial • (1844) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 38 • The Torture of Hope • (1909) • short story by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. of La torture par l'espérance 1883)
• 43 • An Episode of the Terror • (1973) • short story by
  Honoré de Balzac^?Honore de Balzac
  (trans. of Un épisode sous la Terreur 1830)
• 57 • The Hand • [La main d'écorché • 2] • (1910) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La main 1883)
• 63 • The Withered Arm • (1888) • novelette by Thomas Hardy
• 86 • The Idiots • non-genre • (1896) • short story by Joseph Conrad
• 105 • The Bird • (1916) • short story by Thomas Burke
• 112 • The Terror • (1916) • novella by Arthur Machen
• 185 • Lot No. 249 • (1892) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 213 • The Apprentice • (1926) • essay by Hilaire Belloc
• 217 • The Sentence • (1921) • novelette by J. Kaden-Bandrowski
• 237 • The Killers • non-genre • (1927) • short story by Ernest Hemingway
• 246 • Arabesque: The Mouse • (1921) • short story by A. E. Coppard
• 252 • Treasure Trove • (1959) • short story by F. Tennyson Jesse (variant of Thirty Pieces of Silver 1924)
• 258 • Cinci • non-genre • (1965) • short story by Luigi Pirandello (trans. of Cinci 1932)
• 266 • Suspicion • non-genre • (1933) • short story by Dorothy L. Sayers
• 280 • The Last Chukka • (1935) • novelette by Alec Waugh
• 303 • Dead on Her Feet • (1935) • short story by Cornell Woolrich
• 320 • Taboo • (1939) • novelette by Geoffrey Household
• 338 • A Little Place Off the Edgware Road • (1939) • short story by Graham Greene
• 343 • The Words of Guru • (1941) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• 350 • Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper • (1943) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 367 • The Glass Eye • (1944) • short story by John Keir Cross
• 380 • The Web • (1952) • short story by D'Arcy Niland
• 386 • The Little Black Bag • (1950) • novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
• 410 • The Physiology of Fear • (1954) • short story by C. S. Forester
• 423 • The Head and the Feet • (1940) • short story by C. S. Forester
• 433 • The Veldt • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 445 • Skeleton • (1945) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 458 • Evening Primrose • (1940) • short story by John Collier
• 470 • Back from the Grave • (1958) • short story by Robert Silverberg
• 479 • A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
• 487 • The Island of Bright Birds • (1965) • short story by John Christopher
• 496 • The Comforts of Home • non-genre • (1960) • short story by Flannery O'Connor
• 514 • The Skylight • (1960) • novelette by Penelope Mortimer
• 530 • Pig • (1959) • short story by Roald Dahl
• 547 • Robert • non-genre • (1958) • short story by Stanley Ellin
• 560 • The Question • (1962) • short story by Stanley Ellin (variant of The Question My Son Asked)
• 568 • In the Steam Room • (1966) • short story by Frank Baker
• 577 • The Pencil • (1953) • short story by Edmund Crispin
• 581 • The Dark of the Moon • (1950) • short story by Olaf Ruhen
• 589 • Falling Object • (1971) • short story by Bill Brittain [as by William Brittain]
• 599 • The Terrapin • non-genre • (1962) • short story by Patricia Highsmith
• 611 • The Taste of Your Love • [Liefde's Kronkelwegen • 2] • (1975) • short story by Eddy C. Bertin (trans. of De smaak van jouw liefde 1971)
• 616 • Aunt Jennie's Tonic • (1971) • short story by Leonard Tushnet
• 632 • Not After Midnight • (1971) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
• 668 • The Game • (1977) • short story by Thomasina Weber
• 680 • The Fanatic • (1964) • short story by Arthur Porges
• 687 • The Whimper of Whipped Dogs • (1973) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 702 • Judas Story • (1975) • novelette by Brian Stableford [as by Brian M. Stableford]
• 719 • You're Putting Me On—Aren't You? • (1971) • short story by Joe Gores
• 726 • Wake Up Dead • (1975) • short story by Tim Stout
• 741 • Corabella • (1975) • short story by Owen Brookes [as by David Fletcher]