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• vii • Introduction (The Bedside Playboy) • essay by Hugh M. Hefner
• 9 • Softly Walks the Beetle • (1960) • short story by John Collier
• 21 • A Fledgling of L'Amour • essay by Alexander King
• 29 • The Best of All Possible Worlds • (1960) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 38 • The Pious Pornographers • (1957) • essay by William Iversen [as by Ivor Williams]
• 55 • The Story of Dumb Hanns • (1962) • short story by Charles Whiting
• 57 • Night Ride • (1957) • short story by Charles Beaumont
• 74 • How Not to Write a Best Seller • (1960) • short story by Larry Siegel
• 77 • Five-Card Poker and the Hell with It • (1957) • essay by Max Shulman
• 83 • A Jackpot of Corpses • (1961) • essay by Ben Hecht
• 88 • The Millionaire Mentality • essay by J. Paul Getty
• 97 • The Father and Son Cigar • (1962) • essay by Nelson Algren
• 113 • Advice About Women • (1955) • short story by Erskine Caldwell
• 123 • A Cry from the Penthouse • non-genre • (1959) • short story by Henry Slesar
• 135 • The Voyage of the Peanut • (1959) • short story by Harvey Jacobs
• 155 • Tune Every Heart and Every Voice • (1962) • short story by Irwin Shaw
• 167 • Dear Ann and Abby: • (1958) • short fiction by Anonymous
• 176 • The Perfect Alibi • short fiction by Joe Hickey and Mike McGrady
• 179 • The Way of a Traveling Man • short story by J. A. Gato
• 181 • Triplication • (1959) • short story by Robert Sheckley
• 187 • Americans Go Home • essay by Leslie A. Fiedler
• 206 • The Emancipated Man • (1961) • short story by John Wallace
• 227 • With All Due Respect • non-genre • (1959) • short story by Fred McMorrow
• 243 • The Roger Price Theory of Nomenclature • (1960) • short fiction by Roger Price (1918-1990)
• 250 • Conversation with a Bug • (1961) • short story by Jack Sharkey
• 255 • Ode to a Housefly • (1962) • poem by Ernie Kovacs
• 256 • The Book of Tony • (1960) • short story by Ken W. Purdy
• 273 • Hospitality • (1956) • short story by Lesley Conger
• 276 • Marcianna and the Natural Carpaine in Papaya • (1961) • novelette by Bernard Wolfe
• 301 • Visiting Fireman • (1960) • short fiction by Art Buchwald and Herb Caen
• 327 • To Be Courteous to Women • (1963) • short story by William Saroyan
• 334 • To Lindsay • (1959) • poem by Allen Ginsberg
• 334 • Made by Hand • (1959) • poem by Gregory Corso
• 335 • To Harpo Marx • (1959) • poem by Jack Kerouac
• 337 • Harpy • (1960) • novelette by T. K. Brown, III
• 363 • Falconry: Who Needs It? • (1956) • short fiction by P. G. Wodehouse
• 369 • Sleepers, Awake! • (1958) • short story by Herbert Gold
• 381 • Rocket to the Renaissance • (1960) • essay by Arthur C. Clarke
• 395 • Double Standard • (1963) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 400 • The Cuckold and the Cakes • (1957) • short story by Anonymous
• 404 • The Sensible Man • (1959) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 409 • Take Your Seats • (1957) • short story by Ray Russell
• 412 • No Such Thing As a Vampire • (1959) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 421 • O Debt, Where Is Thy Sting? • (1959) • short fiction by Carlton Brown
• 429 • The Murder of Edmund Grant • short fiction by Robert Cenedella
• 442 • A Second Father • (1957) • novelette by Budd Schulberg
• 468 • The Manipulators • (1957) • essay by Vance Packard
• 484 • We're Running a Little Late • (1958) • novelette by Garson Kanin