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• vii • Foreword (The Lucifer Society: Macabre Tales by Great Modern Writers) • (1972) • essay by Kingsley Amis
• xv • Introduction (The Lucifer Society: Macabre Tales by Great Modern Writers) • (1972) • essay by Peter Haining
• 3 • "Man Overboard!" • (1899) • short story by Winston S. Churchill [as by Winston Churchill]
• 7 • Timber • (1920) • short story by John Galsworthy
• 17 • The Angry Street • [Club of Queer Trades] • (1972) • short story by G. K. Chesterton (variant of A Somewhat Improbable Story 1908)
• 23 • The Call of Wings • (1933) • short story by Agatha Christie
• 39 • The Cherries • (1936) • short story by Lawrence Durrell
• 43 • A Man from Glasgow • (1944) • short story by W. Somerset Maugham [as by Somerset Maugham]
• 55 • Earth to Earth • (1955) • short story by Robert Graves
• 60 • The Grey Ones • (1953) • short story by J. B. Priestley
• 79 • The Man Who Didn't Ask Why • (1957) • short story by C. S. Forester
• 83 • All But Empty • (1947) • short story by Graham Greene
• 87 • Animals or Human Beings • (1955) • short story by Angus Wilson
• 93 • Something Strange • (1960) • short story by Kingsley Amis
• 117 • The Post-Mortem Murder • (1921) • novelette by Sinclair Lewis
• 143 • The Dance • (1926) • short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 159 • A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
• 170 • The Bronze Door • (1939) • novelette by Raymond Chandler
• 199 • A Man Who Had No Eyes • (1931) • short story by MacKinlay Kantor
• 203 • The Affair at 7 Rue de M— • (1955) • short story by John Steinbeck
• 212 • The Snail Watcher • (1964) • short story by Patricia Highsmith
• 220 • Inferiority Complex • (1955) • short story by Evan Hunter
• 225 • The Terrible Answer • (1950) • short story by Paul Gallico
• 240 • Miriam • (1945) • short story by Truman Capote
• 254 • Exterminator • (1972) • short story by William S. Burroughs [as by William Burroughs]
• 259 • During the Jurassic • (1966) • short story by John Updike