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• xvii • Introduction (100 Creepy Little Creature Stories) • essay by Stefan Dziemianowicz
• 1 • After Dark in the Playing Fields • (1924) • short story by M. R. James
• 4 • The Amulet of Hell • (1935) • short story by Robert Leonard Russell
• 10 • The American's Tale • (1880) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 16 • Amina • (1907) • short story by Edward Lucas White
• 26 • The Avenging Hand • (1926) • short story by Roy Wallace Davis
• 32 • The Basilisk • (1892) • short story by R. Murray Gilchrist
• 38 • Baynter's Imp • (1943) • short story by August Derleth
• 44 • The Beast of the Yungas • (1927) • short story by Willis Knapp Jones
• 51 • The Beetle • (1953) • short story by Garnett Radcliffe
• 57 • A Birthday Present for Tommy • (1945) • short story by Charles King
• 65 • The Cactus • (1950) • short story by Mildred Johnson
• 74 • Call First • (1975) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 78 • Caterpillars • (1912) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 86 • Dagon • (1919) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 91 • The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 99 • Dark Brother • (1993) • short story by Donald R. Burleson
• 103 • Deep Wood • (1990) • short story by Stephen Mark Rainey [as by Stephen M. Rainey]
• 111 • Demons of the Sea • (1923) • short story by William Hope Hodgson
• 120 • The Deserted Garden • (1929) • short story by August Derleth
• 125 • The Devil of the Marsh • (1893) • short story by H. B. Marriott Watson [as by H. B. Marriott-Watson]
• 129 • The Devilish Rat • (1974) • short story by Edward Page Mitchell [as by Albert Page Mitchell]
• 137 • Dog, Cat, and Baby • (1987) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 139 • Dummy • (1994) • short story by Simon MacCulloch
• 145 • The Dump • (1981) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 150 • The Edge of the Shadow • (1927) • short story by R. E. Dupuy [as by R. Ernest Dupuy]
• 154 • Exhibit A • (1924) • short story by Anne Harris Hadley (variant of Exhibit "A")
• 160 • Fairy Gossamer • (1924) • short story by Harry Harrison Kroll
• 165 • Familiar Face • (1994) • short story by Robert M. Price
• 174 • Father's Vampire • (1952) • short story by Len Moffatt and Alvin Taylor [as by Len J. Moffatt and Alvin Taylor]
• 181 • The Feather Pillow • (1976) • short story by Horacio Quiroga (trans. of El almohadón de plumas 1907)
• 184 • The Fisherman's Special • (1939) • short story by H. L. Thomson
• 188 • The Frog • (1930) • short story by Granville S. Hoss
• 193 • Frogfather • (1946) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 198 • The Gargoyle Sacrifice • (1994) • short story by Tina L. Jens
• 204 • Ghouls of the Sea • (1934) • short story by J. B. S. Fullilove
• 208 • The Gray Wolf • (1864) • short story by George MacDonald
• 213 • The Green-and-Gold Bug • (1924) • short story by J. M. Alvey (variant of The Green and Gold Bug)
• 217 • The House on the Rynek • (1936) • short story by Dermot Chesson Spence
• 226 • I'll Be Glad When I'm Dead • (1946) • short story by Charles King
• 231 • Indigestion • (1977) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 238 • The Inn • (1937) • short story by Rex Ernest
• 243 • Itching for Action • (1994) • short story by Charles Garofalo
• 250 • Jikininki • (1904) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• 254 • John Mortonson's Funeral • (1906) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 255 • The Keen Eyes and Ears of Kara Kedi • (1937) • short story by
  Claude Farrère^?Claude Farrere
  (trans. of La peur du chat 1907)
• 260 • The Kelpie • (1936) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 266 • Ladies in Waiting • (1975) • short story by Hugh B. Cave
• 274 • Laura • (1914) • short story by Saki
• 279 • Left by the Tide • (1929) • short story by Edward E. Schiff
• 282 • The Lesser Brethren Mourn • (1940) • short story by Seabury Quinn
• 290 • The Marmot • (1944) • short story by Allison V. Harding
• 298 • Metzengerstein • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1832) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 305 • Mimic • (1942) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim
• 311 • Mive • (1928) • short story by Carl Jacobi
• 317 • The Moon-Slave • (1901) • short story by Barry Pain
• 321 • Monsters in the Night • (1954) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 324 • The Mother of Monsters • (1903) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La mère aux monstres 1883)
• 328 • Mother of Toads • [Averoigne] • (1938) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 335 • Mummy • (1929) • short story by Kelsey Percival Kitchel
• 341 • My Father, the Cat • (1957) • short story by Henry Slesar
• 348 • The Necromancer • (1912) • short story by Arthur Gray
• 354 • Night Shapes • (1994) • short story by Robert Weinberg
• 357 • The Owl on the Moor • (1928) • short story by August Derleth and Mark Schorer
• 361 • The Phantom Drug • (1926) • short story by A. W. Kapfer
• 368 • The Place of Hairy Death • (1934) • short story by Anthony M. Rud
• 376 • The Plant-Thing • (1925) • short story by R. G. Macready
• 381 • The Power of the Dog • (1927) • short story by G. G. Pendarves
• 388 • A Problem of the Dark • (1927) • short story by Frances Arthur
• 395 • Professor Jonkin's Cannibal Plant • [Professor Jonkin] • (1905) • short story by Howard R. Garis
• 403 • The Quare Gander • [The Purcell Papers • 4] • (1975) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 411 • The Real Wolf • (1988) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 415 • The Sacrifice • (1988) • short story by Miroslaw Lipinski
• 421 • The Seeds from Outside • (1937) • short story by Edmond Hamilton
• 426 • Seeing the World • (1984) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 432 • Seven Drops of Blood • (1930) • short story by H. F. Jamison
• 439 • Short and Nasty • (1991) • short story by Darrell Schweitzer
• 448 • The Silver Knife • (1932) • short story by Ralph Allen Lang
• 453 • The Sky Garden • (1989) • short story by Peter Cannon
• 461 • Smoke Fantasy • (1939) • short story by Thomas R. Jordan
• 463 • Smudge Makes a New Best Friend • (1994) • short story by Peter Cannon
• 469 • Snail Ghost • (1985) • short story by Will Murray
• 473 • Something Nasty • (1983) • short story by William F. Nolan
• 481 • The Specter Spiders • short story by W. J. Wintle (variant of The Spectre Spiders 1921) [as by William J. Wintle]
• 489 • The Spider of Guyana • short story by Alexandre Chatrian and
  Émile Erckmann^?Emile Erckmann
  (trans. of L'araignée-crabe 1860)
• 498 • Spidertalk • (1984) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 504 • The Tabernacle • (1930) • short story by Henry S. Whitehead
• 509 • Take Me, for Instance • (1966) • short story by Hugh B. Cave
• 516 • That Only a Mother Could Love • (1994) • short story by Mollie L. Burleson
• 520 • There Was Soot on the Cat • (1952) • short story by Suzanne Pickett
• 526 • There's No Such Thing As Monsters • (1984) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• 528 • The Throwback • (1926) • short story by F. Orlin Tremaine [as by Orlin Frederick]
• 530 • The Toad Idol • (1935) • short story by Kirk Mashburn [as by Kirk W. Mashburn]
• 535 • Tzo-Lin's Nightingales • (1931) • short story by Ben Belitt
• 541 • The Unnamable • [Randolph Carter] • (1925) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 548 • The Vampire Maid • (1890) • short story by Hume Nisbet
• 553 • The Werewolf Howls • (1941) • short story by Clifford Ball
• 560 • The Werewolf's Howl • (1934) • short story by Brooke Byrne
• 567 • The Werewolf Snarls • (1937) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 572 • The White Dog • (1915) • short story by
  Фёдор Сологуб^?Fyodor Sologub
  (trans. of
  Собака^?Sobaka
  1908) [as by Feodor Sologub]
• 577 • The White Wyrak • (1993) • short story by
  Stefan Grabiński^?Stefan Grabinski
  (trans. of
  Biały Wyrak (Gawęda kominiarska)^?Bialy wyrak
  Bialy Wyrak (Gaweda kominiarska)
  1921)