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•  "Come Not, Lucifer!" • interior artwork by R. A. Brandt
• 7 • Introduction: Publisher's Note ("Come Not, Lucifer!") • essay by uncredited
• 11 • King Pest • (1842) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of King Pest the First: A Tale Containing an Allegory 1835)
• 27 • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 39 • The Black Cat • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 53 • Bartleby • non-genre • (1853) • novelette by Herman Melville
• 95 • The Signalman • (1866) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 111 • The Watcher • [Reminiscences of a Bachelor] • (1847) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• 153 • The Oath • novelette by
  Honoré de Balzac^?Honore de Balzac
  (trans. of Le pacte: Vieille nouvelle 1822)
• 177 • Torture by Hope • short story by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. of La torture par l'espérance 1883)
• 185 • The Pistol Shot • short story by
  Александр Пушкин^?Alexander Pushkin
  (trans. of
  Выстрел^?Vystrel
  1831) [as by Alexander Pushkin]
• 201 • The Queen of Spades • (1927) • novelette by
  Александр Пушкин^?Alexander Pushkin
  (trans. of
  Пиковая дама^?Pikovaya dama
  1834) [as by Alexander Pushkin]
• 231 • Thrawn Janet • (1881) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 245 • A Lodging for the Night • non-genre • (1877) • novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson