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• 3 • The Signalman • (1866) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 18 • The Shooting of Curly Dan • (1973) • short story by John Lutz
• 27 • The Invalid's Story • non-genre • (1882) • short story by Mark Twain
• 35 • A Journey • (1899) • short story by Edith Wharton
• 47 • The Problem of the Locked Caboose • (1976) • novelette by Edward D. Hoch
• 69 • Midnight Express • (1935) • short story by Alfred Noyes
• 77 • Faith, Hope and Charity • (1930) • short story by Irvin S. Cobb
• 98 • Dead Man • (1936) • short story by James M. Cain
• 112 • The Phantom of the Subway • (1945) • novelette by Cornell Woolrich (variant of You Pays Your Nickel 1936)
• 133 • The Man on B-17 • (1950) • short story by August Derleth [as by Stephen Grendon]
• 140 • The Three Good Witnesses • (1945) • short story by Harold Lamb
• 157 • Snowball in July • non-genre • (1952) • short story by Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee [as by Ellery Queen]
• 167 • All of God's Children Got Shoes • (1953) • short story by Howard Schoenfeld
• 179 • The Sound of Murder • (1963) • short story by William P. McGivern
• 192 • The Train • (1957) • short story by Charles Beaumont
• 202 • That Hell-Bound Train • (1958) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 218 • Inspector Maigret Deduces • (1966) • short story by Georges Simenon (trans. of Jeumont, 51 minutes d'arrêt 1938)
• 232 • Sweet Fever • (1976) • short story by Bill Pronzini
• 239 • The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady • (1977) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg
• 249 • Bibliography (Midnight Specials) • (1977) • essay by uncredited