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• ix • Introduction (Some Things Dark and Dangerous) • essay by Joan Kahn
• 1 • Mr. Loveday's Little Outing • non-genre • (1935) • short story by Evelyn Waugh
• 12 • The White Cat of Drumgunniol • (1870) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• 29 • The Murder of Dr. Burdell • (1935) • essay by Edmund Pearson
• 41 • The Destruction of Smith • (1912) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 51 • Wet Saturday • non-genre • (1938) • short story by John Collier
• 62 • The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag • non-genre • (1926) • short story by Dorothy L. Sayers
• 80 • Fatal Visit of the Inca to Pizarro and His Followers in the City of Caxamalca • (1847) • essay by William H. Prescott
• 87 • Man Overboard! • (1903) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 156 • Portrait of a Murderer • non-genre • (1942) • short fiction by Richard Wilson Webb and Hugh Callingham Wheeler [as by Q. Patrick]
• 161 • The Dead Finger • (1911) • short story by Howard Pyle
• 185 • Boy Hunt • (1944) • essay by John Bartlow Martin
• 210 • Calling All Stars • (1961) • short story by Leo Szilard
• 217 • "These Terrible Men, the Harpes!" • essay by Robert M. Coates [as by Robert Coates]
• 256 • When the Bough Breaks • (1944) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• 272 • A Musical Enigma • (1870) • short story by Christopher Pearse Cranch (variant of A Musical Mystery) [as by C. P. Cranch]
• 287 • The Sinking Ship • non-genre • (1895) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 291 • Biographical Notes (Some Things Dark and Dangerous) • essay by Ann O'Hara