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• xi • Introduction (Dark Forces) • essay by Kirby McCauley
• 1 • The Late Shift • short story by Dennis Etchison
• 18 • The Enemy • short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer (trans. of Der soyne 1970)
• 27 • Dark Angel • short story by Edward Bryant
• 44 • The Crest of Thirty-Six • short story by Davis Grubb
• 56 • Mark Ingestre: The Customer's Tale • short story by Robert Aickman
• 77 • Where the Summer Ends • novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• 106 • The Bingo Master • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• 129 • Children of the Kingdom • novella by T. E. D. Klein
• 196 • The Detective of Dreams • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 214 • Vengeance Is. • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 222 • The Brood • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 235 • The Whistling Well • novelette by Clifford D. Simak
• 263 • The Peculiar Demesne • novelette by Russell Kirk
• 292 • Where the Stones Grow • short story by Lisa Tuttle
• 306 • The Night Before Christmas • short story by Robert Bloch
• 327 • The Stupid Joke • poem by Edward Gorey
• 342 • A Touch of Petulance • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 353 • Lindsay and the Red City Blues • short story by Joe Haldeman
• 369 • A Garden of Blackred Roses • novelette by Charles L. Grant
• 391 • Owls Hoot in the Daytime • [John the Balladeer] • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 404 • Where There's a Will • short story by Richard Christian Matheson and Richard Matheson
• 412 • Traps • short story by Gahan Wilson
• 419 • The Mist • novella by Stephen King