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• 1 • The Rocking-Horse Winner • (1926) • short story by D. H. Lawrence
• 23 • Heartburn • (1951) • short story by Hortense Calisher
• 38 • The Snail-Watcher • (1964) • short story by Patricia Highsmith (variant of The Snail Watcher)
• 49 • Manuscript Found in a Police State • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss [as by Brian Aldiss]
• 88 • The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles • (1951) • short story by Margaret St. Clair [as by Idris Seabright]
• 95 • The Mark of the Beast • (1890) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 114 • The Summer People • (1950) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 134 • The Leopard Man's Story • non-genre • (1903) • short story by Jack London
• 140 • The Garden of Forking Paths • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan 1941)