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• 9 • Introducing 33 Sardonics • essay by Tiffany Thayer
• 25 • The Last of the Stories • (1888) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 39 • The Cask of Amontillado • [Fortunato] • (1846) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 46 • The Sphinx Without a Secret • (1887) • short story by Oscar Wilde
• 132 • A New Pleasure • (1920) • short story by Pierre Louÿs (trans. of Une volupté nouvelle 1899) [as by Pierre Louys]
• 145 • Morlvera • (1919) • short story by Saki
• 161 • Prologue to Book Four • short fiction by
  François Rabelais^?Francois Rabelais
• 195 • The Faithful Amulet • (1897) • short story by W. C. Morrow
• 224 • The Sand-Man • (1885) • novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Der Sandmann 1816) [as by E. T. W. Hoffmann]
• 316 • The Black Cupid • (1880) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• 323 • Rappaccini's Daughter • [Rappaccini • 1] • (1844) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 352 • The Pearl of Love • (1925) • short story by H. G. Wells