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• Préface (Détours dans les ténèbres) • essay by Peter Haining (trans. of Introduction (The Lucifer Society: Macabre Tales by Great Modern Writers) 1972)
• Notices sur les auteurs (Détours dans les ténèbres) • essay by uncredited
• 19 • La rue en colère • [Club of Queer Trades] • short story by G. K. Chesterton (trans. of A Somewhat Improbable Story 1908)
• 27 • Dans un battement d'ailes • short story by Agatha Christie (trans. of The Call of Wings 1933)
• 48 • Les cerises • short story by Lawrence Durrell (trans. of The Cherries 1936)
• 54 • Les gris • short story by J. B. Priestley (trans. of The Grey Ones 1953)
• 81 • Le petit cinéma d'Edgware Road • (1958) • short story by Graham Greene (trans. of A Little Place Off the Edgware Road 1939)
• 91 • Le bal • short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald (trans. of The Dance 1926)
• 113 • La porte de bronze • (1952) • novelette by Raymond Chandler (trans. of The Bronze Door 1939)
• 151 • L'affaire du 7 rue de M. • short story by John Steinbeck (trans. of The Affair at 7 Rue de M— 1955)
• 163 • L'amateur d'escargots • (1975) • short story by Patricia Highsmith (trans. of The Snail Watcher 1964)
• 175 • La terrible réponse • short story by Paul Gallico (trans. of The Terrible Answer 1950)
• 195 • Miriam • (1964) • short story by Truman Capote (trans. of Miriam 1945)
• 215 • L'exterminateur • (1969) • short story by William S. Burroughs (trans. of Exterminator 1960)
• 220 • Au temps du jurassique • (1975) • short story by John Updike (trans. of During the Jurassic 1966)