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• 6 • Introduction (The Unexpected) • (1961) • essay by Leo Margulies
• 7 • The Professor's Teddy Bear • (1948) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon (variant of The Professor's Teddy-Bear)
• 17 • Legal Rites • (1950) • novelette by Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl
• 42 • The Strange Island of Dr. Nork • (1949) • novelette by Robert Bloch
• 60 • Mrs. Hawk • (1950) • short story by Margaret St. Clair
• 67 • The Handler • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 76 • The Automatic Pistol • (1940) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 91 • The Unwanted • (1951) • short story by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
• 102 • The Valley Was Still • (1939) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 115 • The Scrawny One • (1949) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• 119 • Come and Go Mad • (1949) • novelette by Fredric Brown
• 154 • The Big Shot • (1949) • short story by Eric Frank Russell