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• 1 • Introduction (Movie Monsters: Great Horror Film Stories) • (1988) • essay by Peter Haining
• 3 • Inviting Frankenstein into the Parlour • (1974) • essay by Ray Bradbury
• 8 • Balaoo - The Demon Baboon (excerpt) • (1912) • short fiction by Gaston Leroux
• 32 • The Golem • (1914) • short story by Chayim Bloch
• 52 • The Beetle (excerpt) • (1897) • short fiction by Richard Marsh
• 65 • The Ring of Thoth • (1890) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 84 • King Kong • [King Kong] • (1933) • short story by Draycot M. Dell and Edgar Wallace
• 101 • The Bride of Frankenstein • [Frankenstein Universe] • (1935) • novelette by Guy Preston [as by Guy Preston and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley]
• 132 • Dracula's Guest • [Dracula] • (1914) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 146 • The War of the Worlds (abridgement) • [The War of the Worlds] • (1920) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 159 • The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms • (1951) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Fog Horn)
• 169 • Casting the Runes • (1911) • novelette by M. R. James
• 192 • The Fly • (1957) • novelette by George Langelaan (trans. of La mouche)
• 223 • Who Goes There? • [Who Goes There?] • (1946) • novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by Don A. Stuart]