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• xiii • Introduction (The Medusa in the Shield) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• 1 • Introduction (The Dark Descent) • (1987) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• 17 • The Swords • (1969) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 47 • The Roaches • (1965) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• 59 • Bright Segment • (1955) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 86 • Dread • (1984) • novelette by Clive Barker
• 126 • The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 146 • The Monkey • (1980) • novelette by Stephen King
• 186 • Within the Walls of Tyre • (1978) • novelette by Michael Bishop
• 216 • The Rats in the Walls • (1924) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 237 • Schalken the Painter • (1935) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 259 • The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
• 276 • A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
• 287 • How Love Came to Professor Guildea • (1897) • novella by Robert Hichens
• 334 • Born of Man and Woman • (1950) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 338 • My Dear Emily • (1962) • short story by Joanna Russ
• 361 • You Can Go Now • (1980) • short story by Dennis Etchison
• 374 • The Rocking-Horse Winner • (1926) • short story by D. H. Lawrence
• 391 • Three Days • (1984) • novelette by Tanith Lee
• 424 • Good Country People • non-genre • (1955) • short fiction by Flannery O'Connor
• 446 • Mackintosh Willy • (1979) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 463 • The Jolly Corner • (1908) • novelette by Henry James