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• 7 • Introduction (Black Magic: 13 Chilling Tales) • (1967) • essay by Don Ward
• 11 • Ancient Sorceries • [John Silence] • (1908) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
• 73 • Pollock and the Porroh Man • (1895) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 86 • The Minister's Books • (1942) • short story by Stephen Vincent Benét
• 87 • The Lady on the Grey • (1951) • short story by John Collier (variant of The Lady on the Gray)
• 95 • Cheese • (1946) • short story by A. E. Coppard
• 110 • The Book • (1930) • short story by Margaret Irwin
• 126 • Casting the Runes • (1911) • novelette by M. R. James
• 147 • "He Cometh and He Passeth By!" • (1928) • novelette by H. Russell Wakefield [as by H. R. Wakefield]
• 173 • Where Do You Live, Queen Esther? • (1961) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 180 • A Way of Thinking • (1953) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 208 • A Narrow Escape • (1912) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 211 • Rappaccini's Daughter • [Rappaccini • 1] • (1844) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 241 • The Man Upstairs • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury