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• ii • Flight Into the Unknown • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
• 1 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 13 • The Automatic Pistol • (1940) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 28 • The Term • (1938) • poem by William Carlos Williams
• 31 • The Birds • (1952) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
• 62 • The Warning • (1922) • poem by Adelaide Crapsey
• 71 • Man Chooses Death, a Tale from Madagascar • short fiction by uncredited
• 72 • How the Three Young Men Found Death • short story by Geoffrey Chaucer and Gail M. Griffin
• 77 • The Cremation of Sam McGee • (1907) • poem by Robert W. Service
• 82 • August Heat • (1910) • short story by William Fryer Harvey [as by William F. Harvey]
• 91 • Because I Could Not Stop for Death • (1890) • poem by Emily Dickinson
• 93 • Lament • non-genre • (1921) • poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• 94 • Midnight Charm • (1876) • short fiction by Mark Twain
• 99 • Plague Burial • short story by Jerzy Kosinski
• 111 • Men Are Different • (1954) • short story by Alan Bloch
• 112 • The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street • (1960) • short story by Rod Serling
• 135 • Fire and Ice • (1920) • poem by Robert Frost
• 137 • House Fear • (1916) • poem by Robert Frost
• 138 • Southbound on the Freeway • (1963) • poem by May Swenson
• 140 • Locomotive 38, the Ojibway • (1937) • short story by William Saroyan
• 153 • Ride a Wild Horse • (1953) • poem by Hannah Kahn
• 154 • High Flight • (1955) • poem by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
• 156 • Eldorado • (1849) • poem by Edgar Allan Poe