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• You Can Go Now • (1980) • short story by Dennis Etchison
• Within the Walls of Tyre • (1978) • novelette by Michael Bishop
• Three Days • (1984) • novelette by Tanith Lee
• The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
• The Swords • (1969) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• The Rocking-Horse Winner • (1926) • short story by D. H. Lawrence
• The Roaches • (1965) • short story by Thomas M. Disch
• The Rats in the Walls • (1924) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Monkey • (1980) • novelette by Stephen King
• The Jolly Corner • (1908) • novelette by Henry James
• The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• Schalken the Painter • (1935) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• My Dear Emily • (1962) • short story by Joanna Russ
• Mackintosh Willy • (1979) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• Introduction (The Dark Descent) • (1987) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• How Love Came to Professor Guildea • (1897) • novella by Robert Hichens
• Good Country People • non-genre • (1955) • short story by Flannery O'Connor
• Dread • (1984) • novelette by Clive Barker
• Bright Segment • (1955) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• Born of Man and Woman • (1950) • short story by Richard Matheson
• A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner