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• 7 • Introduction (Masques IV) • essay by J. N. Williamson
• 15 • The Pack • short story by Chet Williamson
• 29 • Children • short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 41 • Sea Gulls • short story by Gahan Wilson
• 52 • The Coming of Night, the Passing of Day • short story by Ed Gorman
• 59 • Please Don't Hurt Me • short story by F. Paul Wilson
• 66 • Splatter Me an Angel • short story by James Kisner
• 78 • Untitled Still Life with Infinity Perspective • short story by Rex Miller
• 97 • Pratfall • short story by John Maclay
• 101 • The Heart of Helen Day • short story by Graham Masterton
• 116 • Nothing But the Best • short story by Brian McNaughton
• 120 • Somewhere • poem by Denise Dumars
• 122 • Milestone's Face • short story by Gary Brandner
• 132 • Julia's Touch • short story by David T. Connolly
• 136 • Savages • short story by Darrell Schweitzer
• 150 • The Collapse of Civilization • short story by Ray Russell
• 154 • Animal Husbandry • short story by Bruce Boston
• 163 • Sounds • short story by Kathryn Ptacek
• 172 • Whispers of the Unrepentant • poem by T. Winter-Damon
• 175 • Obscene Phone Calls • short story by John Coyne
• 184 • The Children Never Lie • short story by Cameron Nolan
• 197 • The Other Woman • short story by Lois Tilton
• 203 • Love, Hate, and the Beautiful Junkyard Sea • short story by Mort Castle
• 214 • The Sources of the Nile • short story by Rick Hautala
• 219 • Collaborationists • short story by J. N. Williamson
• 228 • My Private Memoirs of the Hoffer Stigmata Pandemic • short story by Dan Simmons
• 241 • The Secret • (1956) • short story by Steve Allen
• 247 • Afterword (Masques IV) • essay by John Maclay