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• 9 • Preface (The Arbor House Celebrity Book of Horror Stories) • essay by Martin H. Greenberg and Charles G. Waugh
• 11 • Introduction ("Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad") • [Asimov's Essays: Other's Work] • essay by Isaac Asimov
• 12 • "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" • (1904) • novelette by M. R. James
• 29 • Introduction (Lukundoo) • essay by Robert Bloch
• 31 • Lukundoo • (1925) • short story by Edward Lucas White
• 45 • Introduction (Don't Look Behind You) • essay by Lawrence Block
• 46 • Don't Look Behind You • non-genre • (1947) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 57 • Introduction (The Monkey's Paw) • essay by Ray Bradbury
• 59 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 69 • Introduction (In the Rose Garden) • essay by Helen Gurley Brown
• 70 • Into the Rose Garden • (1976) • short story by Gardner McKay
• 79 • Introduction (The Mangler) • essay by C. Terry Cline, Jr.
• 81 • The Mangler • (1972) • novelette by Stephen King
• 101 • Introduction (The Enormous Radio) • essay by Rona Jaffe
• 102 • The Enormous Radio • (1947) • short story by John Cheever
• 113 • Introduction (The Lake) • essay by John Jakes
• 115 • The Lake • (1944) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 121 • Introduction (Cannibalism in the Cars) • essay by Garson Kanin
• 122 • Cannibalism in the Cars • non-genre • (1868) • short story by Mark Twain
• 131 • Introduction (The Companion) • essay by Stephen King
• 133 • The Companion • (1976) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 143 • Introduction (Prey) • essay by Ira Levin
• 144 • Prey • (1969) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 155 • Introduction (Sun City) • essay by William F. Nolan
• 156 • Sun City • (1980) • short story by Lisa Tuttle
• 167 • Introduction (The Turn of the Screw) • essay by Joyce Carol Oates
• 168 • The Turn of the Screw • [The Turn of the Screw] • (1898) • novel by Henry James
• 264 • Queen of the Night • (1979) • novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
• 295 • Introduction (How Love Came to Professor Guildea) • essay by Walker Percy
• 296 • How Love Came to Professor Guildea • (1957) • novella by Robert Hichens [as by Robert S. Hichens]
• 337 • Introduction (The Sphinx) • essay by Vincent Price
• 338 • The Sphinx • (1846) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 343 • Introduction (The Pit and the Pendulum) • essay by Irwin Shaw
• 344 • The Pit and the Pendulum • (1842) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 357 • Introduction (Three Lines of Old French) • essay by Robert Sheckley
• 359 • Three Lines of Old French • (1919) • short story by A. Merritt
• 379 • Introduction (The Shadow Out of Time) • essay by Robert Silverberg
• 380 • The Shadow Out of Time • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1936) • novella by H. P. Lovecraft
• 441 • Introduction (The Cask of Amontillado) • essay by Margaret Truman
• 442 • The Cask of Amontillado • [Fortunato] • (1846) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe