Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• vii • Introduction (The Young Oxford Book of Nightmares) • essay by Dennis Pepper
• 1 • Mason's Life • (1972) • short story by Kingsley Amis
• 5 • Seafood • short story by Francis Beckett
• 8 • Nightmare in Blue • (1961) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 11 • Dream Ghost • (1976) • short story by Sydney J. Bounds
• 18 • The Lost Child • (1952) • short story by John Burke
• 29 • The Gargles • short story by Michael Chislett
• 41 • Blood Will Cry Out • (1957) • short story by J. J. Curle (variant of Awake-Asleep-Awake)
• 52 • Nightmare • (1987) • short story by Berlie Doherty
• 63 • The Big Wind • (1964) • short story by Marien Dreyer
• 75 • Four Twenty-Four Precisely • (1970) • short story by John Edgell
• 79 • S. Q. • short story by
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• 84 • Uncle Walter • short story by John Gordon
• 93 • Dream Fountain • short story by Dennis Hamley
• 102 • Frisky • short story by Kenneth Ireland
• 110 • The White-washed Room • (1955) • short story by Gerald Kersh
• 115 • Scottish Melody • short story by Sheila Lavelle
• 127 • Mrs. Beale and Trixie • (1980) • short story by Christopher Leach
• 138 • Nightmare • (1996) • short story by Morgan Llywelyn
• 146 • The Front Room • (1983) • short story by Michelle Magorian
• 158 • Dream Justice • (1932) • short story by E. W. Mayo
• 161 • The Patch • (1932) • short story by Philip Murray
• 164 • The Eyes • juvenile • (1996) • short story by Kit Pearson
• 179 • The Water Mill • short story by Alison Prince
• 189 • Gone • short story by Sue Welford
• 199 • Dark Zone • (1998) • short story by Ed Williams
• 202 • The Corpse Will Walk • (1994) • short story by Carolyn Swift
• 213 • Badnight Story • short story by Robert Scott