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• 1 • Introduction: Nurturing Nightmares • essay by Karl Edward Wagner
• 3 • Penny Daye • (1985) • short story by Charles L. Grant
• 13 • Dwindling • (1985) • short story by David B. Silva
• 23 • Dead Men's Fingers • (1985) • novelette by Phillip C. Heath
• 48 • Dead Week • (1985) • short story by Leonard Carpenter
• 61 • The Sneering • (1985) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 78 • Bunny Didn't Tell Us • (1985) • short story by David J. Schow
• 90 • Pinewood • (1984) • short story by Tanith Lee
• 97 • The Night People • (1985) • short story by Michael Reaves
• 111 • Ceremony • (1985) • novelette by William F. Nolan
• 131 • The Woman in Black • (1984) • short story by Dennis Etchison
• 147 • ...Beside the Seaside, Beside the Sea... • (1985) • short story by Simon Clark
• 155 • Mother's Day • (1985) • short story by Stephen F. Wilcox
• 164 • Lava Tears • (1985) • short story by Vincent McHardy
• 176 • Rapid Transit • non-genre • [Dennis Cassady] • (1985) • short story by Wayne Allen Sallee
• 191 • The Weight of Zero • (1985) • short story by John Alfred Taylor
• 205 • John's Return to Liverpool • (1984) • short story by Christopher Burns
• 216 • In Late December, Before the Storm • (1985) • short story by Paul M. Sammon
• 229 • Red Christmas • (1985) • short story by David Garnett [as by David S. Garnett]
• 239 • Too Far Behind Gradina • (1985) • novella by Steve Sneyd