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• 1 • Introduction (American Gothic Tales) • (1996) • essay by Joyce Carol Oates
• 10 • From Wieland, or The Transformation (excerpt) • (1798) • short fiction by Charles Brockden Brown
• 19 • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow • (1819) • novelette by Washington Irving
• 45 • The Man of Adamant • (1837) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (variant of The Man of Adamant: An Apologue)
• 65 • Young Goodman Brown • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 65 • The Tartarus of Maids • (1855) • short story by Herman Melville
• 78 • The Black Cat • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 87 • The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
• 103 • The Romance of Certain Old Clothes • (1868) • short story by Henry James
• 121 • The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 129 • Afterward • (1910) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 157 • The Striding Place • (1896) • short story by Gertrude Atherton
• 163 • Death in the Woods • non-genre • (1926) • short story by Sherwood Anderson
• 175 • The Outsider • [Dream Cycle] • (1926) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 182 • A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
• 191 • The Lonesome Place • (1948) • short story by August Derleth
• 199 • The Door • (1939) • short story by E. B. White
• 204 • The Lovely House • (1952) • novelette by Shirley Jackson
• 226 • Allal • (1977) • short story by Paul Bowles
• 236 • The Reencounter • (1979) • short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• 242 • In the Icebound Hothouse • (1985) • short story by William Goyen
• 253 • The Enormous Radio • (1947) • short story by John Cheever
• 264 • The Veldt • (1950) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 278 • The Dachau Shoe • (1970) • short story by W. S. Merwin
• 280 • The Approved • (1970) • short story by W. S. Merwin
• 282 • Spiders I Have Known • (1970) • short story by W. S. Merwin
• 285 • Postcards from the Maginot Line • (1970) • short story by W. S. Merwin
• 286 • Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams • (1969) • short story by Sylvia Plath
• 301 • In Bed One Night • (1988) • short story by Robert Coover
• 304 •
  Schrödinger's Cat^?Schroedinger's Cat
  • (1974) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
• 312 • The Waterworks • (1984) • short story by E. L. Doctorow
• 315 • Shattered Like a Glass Goblin • (1968) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 325 • Human Moments in World War III • (1983) • short story by Don DeLillo
• 339 • The Anatomy of Desire • (1981) • short story by John L'Heureux
• 344 • Little Things • (1988) • short story by Raymond Carver
• 346 • The Temple • (1996) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• 349 • Freniere (from Interview with the Vampire) • (1976) • short story by Anne Rice
• 358 • A Short Guide to the City • (1990) • short story by Peter Straub
• 369 • In the Penny Arcade • (1984) • short story by Steven Millhauser
• 378 • The Reach • (1981) • short story by Stephen King
• 398 • Snow • (1985) • short story by John Crowley
• 406 • The Last Feast of Harlequin • [Cthulhu Mythos short fiction] • (1990) • novelette by Thomas Ligotti
• 455 • Time and Again • (1983) • short story by Breece D'J Pancake
• 460 • Replacements • (1992) • novelette by Lisa Tuttle
• 475 • Spirit Seizures • (1987) • short story by Melissa Pritchard
• 486 • Cat in Glass • (1989) • short story by Nancy Etchemendy
• 500 • The Girl Who Loved Animals • (1988) • short story by Bruce McAllister
• 518 • Ursus Triad, Later • (1996) • short story by Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg
• 525 • The Nuclear Family: His Talk, Her Teeth • (1989) • short story by Katherine Dunn
• 533 • Subsoil • (1994) • short story by Nicholson Baker