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• ix • Introduction (100 Tiny Tales of Terror) • (1996) • essay by Stefan Dziemianowicz
• 1 • Ashes of Circumstance • (1925) • short story by J. U. Giesy
• 7 • At the Bend of the Trail • (1934) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 11 • August Heat • (1910) • short story by William Fryer Harvey
• 15 • Beside the Seaside • (1976) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 20 • Best of Luck • (1978) • short story by David Drake
• 24 • The Boarded Window • non-genre • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 28 • Boo, Yourself • (1987) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 31 • The Broken Thread • (1932) • short story by Kirk Mashburn
• 36 • The Bus-Conductor • (1906) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 43 • The Chill • (1981) • short story by Dennis Etchison
• 48 • The Cleaning Machine • [Ronald Burke] • (1971) • short story by F. Paul Wilson
• 51 • The Coffin Merchant • (1912) • short story by Richard Middleton
• 56 • The Dancing Partner • (1928) • short story by Jerome K. Jerome
• 62 • The Desert Lich • (1924) • short story by Frank Belknap Long
• 68 • Dickon the Devil • [Martin Hesselius] • (1936) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 76 • The Doll's Ghost • (1896) • short story by F. Marion Crawford
• 85 • The Dreamclown • (1983) • short story by Nancy A. Collins
• 90 • Ember • (1990) • short story by Fred Chappell
• 98 • The Empty House • non-genre • (1920) • short story by Maurice Level (trans. of La maison vide 1910)
• 102 • The Epiphany of Death • (1934) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 106 • The Everlasting Club • short story by Arthur Gray [as by Ingulphus]
• 111 • Fair Trade • (1982) • short story by William F. Nolan
• 115 • The Family Underwater • (1993) • short story by Lucy Taylor
• 119 • Fear • [La peur • 1] • (1909) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La peur 1882)
• 124 • Fluffy • (1947) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 130 • Footprints in the Water • (1990) • short story by Poppy Z. Brite
• 134 • The Frenzied Farmhouse • (1989) • short story by
  Stefan Grabiński^?Stefan Grabinski
  (trans. of Szalona zagroda 1918) [as by Stefan Grabinski]
• 140 • Gobble, Gobble! • (1990) • short story by William F. Nolan
• 145 • Graven Images • (1993) • short story by William Browning Spencer
• 149 • The Greater Festival of Masks • (1985) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 155 • The Green Scarab • (1925) • short story by Willis Knapp Jones
• 161 • The Grim Passenger • (1925) • short story by Donald E. Keyhoe [as by Donald Edward Keyhoe]
• 167 • Have You Seen Me? • (1991) • short story by Nancy Holder
• 175 • Heroes • (1993) • short story by Richard Chizmar [as by Richard T. Chizmar]
• 181 • The Hollow • (1990) • short story by David B. Silva
• 187 • The House of Shadows • (1933) • short story by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
• 193 • In Kropfsberg Keep • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
• 201 • In the Triangle • (1934) • short story by Howard Wandrei
• 204 • In the Vault • (1925) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 211 • Itself • (1925) • short story by Seabury Quinn
• 216 • Jason, Come Home • (1986) • short story by Darrell Schweitzer
• 223 • Johnny on the Spot • (1939) • short story by Frank Belknap Long
• 226 • Justice • (1991) • short story by Brian Stableford
• 232 • The Law of the Hills • (1930) • short story by Grace M. Campbell
• 240 • Letter from Will Stotler, Dated October 32nd As Received by D. E. LeRoss • (1995) • short story by D. E. LeRoss and William R. Stotler
• 246 • Lightning Rod • (1990) • short story by Melanie Tem
• 254 • The Lions in the Desert • (1993) • short story by David Langford
• 262 • The Little Green Ones • (1992) • short story by Les Daniels
• 266 • Miracles • (1928) • short story by Barry Pain
• 273 • Morella • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Morella — A Tale 1835)
• 277 • Moving Out • (1991) • short story by Nicholas Royle
• 282 • Mr. Lupescu • (1945) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• 285 • Mr. Templeton's Toyshop • (1986) • short story by Thomas Wiloch (variant of Selections from "Mr. Templeton's Toyshop")
• 290 • Mrs. Bentley's Daughter • (1930) • short story by August Derleth
• 294 • Mrs. Edmonds' Pantry • (1996) • short story by Tina L. Jens
• 301 • The Music on the Hill • (1911) • short story by Saki
• 305 • The Mystery of the Semi-Detached • short story by E. Nesbit [as by Edith Nesbit]
• 308 • The Ninth Skeleton • (1928) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 311 • No Eye-Witnesses • (1932) • short story by Henry S. Whitehead
• 318 • Old Clothes • (1985) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 326 • One-Night Strand • (1994) • short story by Donald R. Burleson
• 330 • One Size Eats All • (1993) • short story by T. E. D. Klein
• 334 • An Original Revenge • (1897) • short story by W. C. Morrow
• 339 • The Outsider • [Dream Cycle] • (1926) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 344 • Over Time's Threshold • (1932) • short story by Howard Wandrei
• 350 • The Palace of the Dead • (1929) • short story by Robert Peery
• 356 • Past Tense • (1991) • short story by Brian Hodge
• 365 • People Who Love Life • (1991) • short story by Douglas Clegg
• 373 • Phantom Brass • (1934) • short story by Carl Jacobi
• 379 • The Ponderer • (1948) • short story by Eric Frank Russell
• 386 • Preparations for the Game • (1982) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 394 • Purification • (1896) • short story by Robert Barr
• 400 • A Queer Cicerone • (1915) • short story by Bernard Capes
• 405 • The Rag Thing • (1951) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim [as by David Grinnell]
• 409 • The Rajah's Gift • [Ismeddin] • (1925) • short story by E. Hoffmann Price
• 414 • Roadside Pickup • (1974) • short story by Richard Laymon
• 418 • Schizo Jimmie • (1960) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 427 • Shrapnel • (1985) • short story by Karl Edward Wagner
• 433 • Silent Crickets • (1975) • short story by John Shirley
• 436 • The Skeptic • (1993) • short story by Hugh B. Cave
• 441 • The Striding Place • (1896) • short story by Gertrude Atherton
• 446 • The Sultan's Jest • [Ismeddin] • (1925) • short story by E. Hoffmann Price
• 452 • Talent • (1953) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 459 • The Tapestry Gate • (1940) • short story by Leigh Brackett
• 470 • The Terminus • (1985) • short story by Kim Newman
• 473 • A Terrible Night • (1856) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 478 • The Three • (1929) • short story by Louise Van de Verg
• 482 • The Three Marked Pennies • (1934) • short story by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
• 489 • The Three Sisters • (1914) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 495 • Tom Toothacre's Ghost Story • (1871) • short story by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• 500 • Tombstone Moon • (1992) • short story by Norman Partridge
• 507 • The Torture by Hope • (1894) • short story by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. of La torture par l'espérance 1883) [as by Villiers de l'Isle Adam]
• 511 • Two Doctors • (1919) • short story by M. R. James
• 517 • The Visitor • (1948) • short story by John Bender
• 523 • Wave Scars • (1993) • short story by Joel Lane
• 530 • A Wedding Chest • (1904) • short story by Vernon Lee
• 538 • What Can a Child Do? • (1988) • short story by Chet Williamson
• 544 • What Say the Frogs Now, Jenny? • (1983) • short story by Hugh B. Cave
• 550 • Wild Grapes • (1934) • short story by August Derleth
• 554 • Will • (1899) • short story by Vincent O'Sullivan