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• Foreword (Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep) • essay by Christopher Golden
• Mother and Daughter • (2001) • short story by Jack Ketchum
• Messages • short story by Errick Nunnally [as by Errick A. Nunnally]
• Sleepless • short story by Mark Steensland
• The Vacant Lot • short story by Thomas Tessier
• Blood, Cold Like Ice • short story by Doungjai Gam
• A Life Unremembered • short story by Daniel G. Keohane [as by G. Daniel Gunn]
• Wired • short story by Elizabeth Massie
• Blue Stars • short story by Tony Tremblay
• Happy Now, Mother? • short story by John Buja
• Nina • (2013) • short story by John McIlveen [as by John M. McIlveen]
• Housing the Hollygobs • short story by Marianne Halbert
• Inertia Creeps • short story by Charles Colyott
• Leave Here Alive • short story by Bracken MacLeod
• The Fine Art of Madness • short story by Gary Frank
• The Beach • short story by Cara M. Colyott
• Angel Tears • (2006) • poem by Jill Bauman
• Darkness on the Edge of Town • (2010) • short story by James A. Moore
• Would You, Could You, in the Dark? • short story by Craig Wolf
• Wishing Won't • short story by Richard E. Dansky [as by Richard Dansky]
• The Phobia Where You're Afraid of Words • short story by Paul McMahon
• Nightly Rituals • short story by William Carl
• White Wings • (2016) • short story by Mark Morris
• The Other Side • short story by Paul McNally
• Truth or Dare? • short story by Bev Vincent
• Unexpected Attraction • (1997) • short story by Matthew J. Costello [as by Matthew Costello]
• The Ritual Remains • short story by Johnathan Lees
• The End of All Stories • short story by Trevor Firetog
• Duality • short story by Brian Keene
• The Lake Children • short story by Izzy Lee
• The Circus Under the Bed • poem by Trisha J. Wooldridge
• 1-2-3 Red Light • (2015) • short story by Gregory L. Norris
• The Old Men Know • (1984) • short story by Charles L. Grant
•  The Oldest Fear • interior artwork by Shikhar Dixit
• Afterword (Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep) • essay by Matt Bechtel