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• 7 • Introduction (Fiends and Creatures) • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 13 • Enoch • (1946) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 29 • Babylon: 70 M. • (1963) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim
• 37 • A Midnight Visitor • (1892) • short story by John Kendrick Bangs
• 51 • The Vengeance of Nitocris • (1928) • short story by Tennessee Williams [as by Thomas Lanier Williams]
• 65 • The Three Infernal Jokes • (1915) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 73 • An Episode of Cathedral History • (1914) • short story by M. R. James
• 91 • Damned Funny • short story by Marvin Kaye [as by Eugene D. Goodwin]
• 105 • Interim • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 107 • The Bottle Imp • novelette by
  Baron Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué^?Baron Friedrich de La Motte Fouque
  (trans. of
  Das Galgenmännlein^?Das Galgenmaennlein
  1814) [as by La Motte Fouque]
• 131 • Crescendo • (1963) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 141 • In the X-Ray • (1949) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 155 • The Generous Gambler • (1918) • poem by Charles Baudelaire (trans. of Le joueur généreux 1868) [as by Charles Pierre Baudelaire]
• 159 • Captain Murderer • (1860) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 163 • Bubnoff and the Devil • short story by
  Иван Тургенев^?Ivan Turgenev
  (trans. of
  Похождения подпоручика Бубнова^?Pokhozhdeniya podporuchika Bubnova
  1842) [as by Ivan Turgenev]
• 171 • The Shadow Watchers • short story by Dick Baldwin
• 185 • The Faceless Thing • (1963) • short story by Edward D. Hoch