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• 3 • Introduction (The Sleeping and the Dead) • essay by August Derleth
• 7 • A View from a Hill • (1925) • short story by M. R. James
• 27 • Glory Hand • (1937) • short story by August Derleth
• 37 • The Lady's Maid's Bell • (1902) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 61 • The Shadows • (1927) • novelette by Henry S. Whitehead
• 85 • Out of the Eons • (1935) • novelette by Hazel Heald and H. P. Lovecraft
• 115 • The Jar • (1944) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 131 • The Bully of Chapelizod • [Ghost Stories of Chapelizod • 2] • (1851) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (variant of The Village Bully)
• 137 • Over the River • (1941) • short story by P. Schuyler Miller
• 151 • Carnaby's Fish • (1945) • short story by Carl Jacobi
• 164 • The Painted Mirror • (1937) • short story by Donald Wandrei
• 173 • The Double Shadow • [Poseidonis] • (1933) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 187 • The Ocean Leech • (1925) • short story by Frank Belknap Long [as by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.]
• 198 • Amina • (1907) • short story by Edward Lucas White
• 210 • Farewell Performance • (1940) • short story by H. Russell Wakefield
• 218 • One Way to Mars • (1945) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 229 • Out of the Picture • (1936) • novelette by Arthur Machen
• 257 • The Canal • (1927) • novelette by Everil Worrell
• 275 • The Postman of Otford • (1917) • short story by Lord Dunsany (variant of How the Office of Postman Fell Vacant in Otford-under-the-Wold)
• 280 • Deaf, Dumb and Blind • (1925) • short story by C. M. Eddy, Jr. and H. P. Lovecraft [as by C. M. Eddy, Jr.]
• 294 • Spider-Bite • (1926) • novelette by Robert S. Carr
• 324 • Brenner's Boy • (1932) • short story by John Metcalfe
• 344 • Mr. Lupescu • (1945) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• 349 • Masquerade • (1942) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• 365 • Seventh Sister • (1943) • short story by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
• 386 • In Amundsen's Tent • (1928) • novelette by John Martin Leahy
• 408 • Man in a Hurry • (1944) • short story by Alan Nelson
• 414 • The Last Pin • (1940) • short story by Howard Wandrei [as by H. W. Guernsey]
• 422 • The Doll • (1946) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
• 458 • The Tool • (1928) • short story by William Fryer Harvey [as by William F. Harvey]
• 472 • The Dreams in the Witch-House • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1933) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 515 • Bibliography (The Sleeping and the Dead) • essay by uncredited