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• v • Introduction (Where Nightmares Are) • (1966) • essay by Peter Haining
• 11 • Moxon's Master • (1910) • short story by Ambrose Bierce (variant of A Night at Moxon's 1899)
• 19 • The Body Snatcher • (1884) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 35 • The Man That Was Used Up • (1839) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 43 • Night • (1935) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La nuit 1887)
• 47 • Rappaccini's Daughter • [Rappaccini • 1] • (1844) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 72 • What Was It? • [Harry Escott] • (1859) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 83 • The Familiar • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 116 • The Trial for Murder • (1929) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt 1865)
• 126 • The Spectre Bridegroom • (1819) • short story by Washington Irving
• 138 • Thrawn Janet • (1881) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 147 • The Cask of Amontillado • [Fortunato] • (1846) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 153 • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 161 • The White Cat of Drumgunniol • (1966) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 171 • Passeur • (1897) • short story by Robert W. Chambers