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• 2 •  Doorway to Dilemma: Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy (frontispiece) • interior artwork by Enrique Bernardou
• 7 • Introduction: What Is Dark Fantasy? • essay by Mike Ashley
• 13 • What Was It? • [Harry Escott] • (1859) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 31 • The Anticipator • (1898) • short story by Morley Roberts
• 41 • The Lady, or the Tiger? • (1884) • short story by Frank R. Stockton (variant of The Lady or the Tiger? 1882)
• 51 • The Discourager of Hesitancy • (1885) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 59 • The White People • (1904) • novelette by Arthur Machen
• 107 • The Prism • (1901) • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary E. Wilkins]
• 123 • The Mysterious Card • [Mysterious Card] • (1896) • short story by Cleveland Moffett
• 136 • The Mysterious Card Unveiled • [Mysterious Card] • (1896) • short story by Cleveland Moffett
• 155 • A Moonlight Fable • non-genre • (1911) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of The Beautiful Suit 1909)
• 163 • Fear • (1928) • short story by Catherine Wells (I)
• 171 • The Little Room • (1895) • short story by Madeline Yale Wynne
• 188 • The Sequel to The Little Room • (1895) • short story by Madeline Yale Wynne
• 205 • The Thing in the Cellar • (1932) • short story by David H. Keller, M.D. [as by David H. Keller]
• 217 • Johnson Looked Back • (1935) • short story by Thomas Burke
• 225 • The Woman in Red • [Woman in Red] • (1899) • short story by Muriel Campbell Dyar
• 235 • Unmasked • [Woman in Red] • (1900) • short story by Muriel Campbell Dyar
• 245 • The New Mother • (1882) • short story by Lucy Clifford
• 273 • The Hoard of the Gibbelins • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 281 • The Three Marked Pennies • short story by Mary Elizabeth Counselman [as by Mary E. Counselman]