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• Introduction: That Gulf of Fear • essay by Michael Sims
• Dreams of Forgotten Alchemists (from Frankenstein) • short fiction by Mary Shelley
• Man-Bats on the Moon • short fiction by Richard Adams Locke
• The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• A Walk on the Bottom of the Sea (from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) • short fiction by Jules Verne
• The Telescopic Eye • (1876) • short story by W. H. Rhodes
• The Automaton Ear • (1873) • novelette by Florence McLandburgh
• The Monarch of Dreams • (1886) • short story by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• The Senator's Daughter • (1879) • short story by Edward Page Mitchell
• The Clock That Went Backward • (1881) • short story by Edward Page Mitchell
• Monsters of Magnitude (from Two on a Tower) • short fiction by Thomas Hardy
• A Horror of the Spirit (from Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde) • short fiction by Robert Louis Stevenson
• A Wife Manufactured to Order • (1895) • short story by Alice W. Fuller
• Mysterious Disappearances • ["Mysterious disappearances"] • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• Monsters Manufactured (from The Island of Doctor Moreau) • [The Island of Dr. Moreau] • short fiction by H. G. Wells
• The Monster of Lake LaMetrie • (1899) • short story by Wardon Allan Curtis
• The Thames Valley Catastrophe • (1897) • short story by Grant Allen
• Wireless • (1902) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• The Hall Bedroom • (1903) • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• The Five Senses • (1909) • short story by E. Nesbit
• The Horror of the Heights • (1913) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle