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• 7 • Introduction (Cries of Terror) • essay by Anthony Masters
• 9 • The Hands of Mr. Ottermole • non-genre • (1929) • novelette by Thomas Burke
• 28 • The Open Window • (1911) • short story by Saki
• 32 • In the Vault • (1925) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 41 • The Brazilian Cat • [Round the Fire • 7] • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 62 • The Whistling Room • [Carnacki (Hodgson)] • (1910) • short story by William Hope Hodgson
• 81 • The Loved Dead • short story by C. M. Eddy, Jr. and H. P. Lovecraft [as by C. M. Eddy]
• 93 • The Idol of the Flies • (1942) • short story by Jane Rice
• 117 • Thus I Refute Beelzy • (1940) • short story by John Collier
• 123 • The Misanthrope • (1918) • short story by J. D. Beresford
• 133 • Music When Soft Voices Die ... • (1944) • short story by John Keir Cross
• 152 • August Heat • (1910) • short story by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey]
• 158 • The Bad Lands • (1920) • short story by John Metcalfe
• 170 • A School Story • (1911) • short story by M. R. James
• 178 • The Interruption • non-genre • (1925) • short story by W. W. Jacobs