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• 11 • Introduction (Great Tales of Madness and the Macabre) • essay by Lawrence Block
• 15 • Deathbinder • (1988) • novelette by Alexander Jablokov
• 36 • The Marked Man • (1979) • short story by David Ely
• 47 • The Ones Who Turn Invisible • (1988) • short story by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre
• 60 • Ever After • (1987) • novelette by Susan Palwick
• 83 • The Living Dead • (1967) • short story by Robert Bloch (variant of Underground)
• 89 • Report on a Broken Bridge • (1971) • short story by Dennis O'Neil
• 103 • The Beast from One-Quarter Fathom • (1985) • short story by George Alec Effinger
• 122 • Was It a Dream? • (1903) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La morte 1887)
• 127 • The Madonna of the Wolves • (1988) • novella by S. P. Somtow [as by Somtow Sucharitkul]
• 173 • Placebo • (1989) • short story by Andrew Vachss
• 177 • The Man at the Window • (1988) • short story by Charles Gordon
• 184 • Yanqui Doodle • (1987) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• 219 • An Inhabitant of Carcosa • (1886) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 223 • Real Time • (1989) • short story by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• 227 • Killer in the House • (1988) • novelette by Jas. R. Petrin
• 248 • Sometimes They Bite • (1976) • short story by Lawrence Block
• 260 • Three Men in a Tub • (1990) • short story by Lemuel Cork
• 269 • The Wedding Gig • non-genre • (1980) • short story by Stephen King
• 282 • Flicks • (1988) • novelette by Bill Crenshaw
• 305 • The Leopard Man's Story • non-genre • (1903) • short story by Jack London
• 309 • Something Evil in the House • (1968) • short story by Celia Fremlin
• 320 • How the Wind Spoke at Madaket • (1985) • novella by Lucius Shepard
• 380 • The Black Cat • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 389 • The Dive People • (1959) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 398 • Graffiti • (1983) • short story by Stanley Ellin
• 409 • The Dim Rumble • [Azazel] • (1982) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 419 • The Leather Funnel • (1902) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 431 • Trinity • (1984) • novella by Nancy Kress
• 479 • Island Man • (1981) • novelette by Robert Anton Wilson [as by R. A. Wilson]