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• vii • Introduction (The Mists from Beyond) • essay by Stefan Dziemianowicz [as by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz]
• 11 • The Trial for Murder • (1929) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt 1865)
• 23 • The Middle Toe of the Right Foot • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 32 • The Judge's House • (1891) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 50 • Afterward • (1910) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 80 • Smoke Ghost • (1941) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 96 • The Crowd • (1943) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 110 • A Little Place Off the Edgware Road • (1939) • short story by Graham Greene
• 116 • The Daemon Lover • (1949) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 132 • The Man Who Collected Poe • (1951) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 147 • Poor Little Saturday • (1956) • short story by Madeleine L'Engle
• 163 • The Indian • (1963) • short story by John Updike
• 170 • The Legend of Joe Lee • (1964) • short story by John D. MacDonald
• 182 • Cry Havoc • (1976) • short story by Davis Grubb
• 193 • Night-Side • (1977) • novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
• 219 • This Is Death • (1977) • short story by Donald E. Westlake (variant of In at the Death)
• 233 • The Making of Revelation, Part I • (1980) • novelette by Philip José Farmer
• 249 • But at My Back I Will Always Hear • (1990) • short story by David Morrell (variant of But at My Back I Always Hear 1983)
• 265 • Laugh Track • (1984) • short story by Harlan Ellison
• 285 • Confession of a (Pornographer's) Shroud • (1984) • novelette by Clive Barker
• 319 • The Ghost Village • [Blue Rose] • (1992) • novelette by Peter Straub