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ix Introduction (100 Tiny Tales of Terror) (1996) essay by Stefan Dziemianowicz
1 Ashes of Circumstance (1925) short story by J. U. Giesy
7 At the Bend of the Trail (1934) short story by Manly Wade Wellman
11 August Heat (1910) short story by William Fryer Harvey
15 Beside the Seaside (1976) short story by Ramsey Campbell
20 Best of Luck (1978) short story by David Drake
24 The Boarded Window (1889) short story by Ambrose Bierce
28 Boo, Yourself (1987) short story by Joe R. Lansdale
31 The Broken Thread (1932) short story by Kirk Mashburn
36 The Bus-Conductor (1906) short story by E. F. Benson
43 The Chill (1981) short story by Dennis Etchison
48 The Cleaning Machine [Ronald Burke] (1971) short story by F. Paul Wilson
51 The Coffin Merchant (1912) short story by Richard Middleton
56 The Dancing Partner (1928) short story by Jerome K. Jerome
62 The Desert Lich (1924) short story by Frank Belknap Long
68 Dickon the Devil [Martin Hesselius] (1936) short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
76 The Doll's Ghost (1896) short story by F. Marion Crawford
85 The Dreamclown (1983) short story by Nancy A. Collins
90 Ember (1990) short story by Fred Chappell
98 The Empty House non-genre (1920) short story by Maurice Level (trans. of La maison vide 1910)
102 The Epiphany of Death (1934) short story by Clark Ashton Smith
106 The Everlasting Club short story by Arthur Gray [as by Ingulphus]
111 Fair Trade (1982) short story by William F. Nolan
115 The Family Underwater (1993) short story by Lucy Taylor
119 Fear [La peur 1] (1909) short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La peur 1882)
124 Fluffy (1947) short story by Theodore Sturgeon
130 Footprints in the Water (1990) short story by Poppy Z. Brite
134 The Frenzied Farmhouse (1989) short story by Stefan Grabinski?
(trans. of Szalona zagroda 1918) [as by Stefan Grabinski]
140 Gobble, Gobble! (1990) short story by William F. Nolan
145 Graven Images (1993) short story by William Browning Spencer
149 The Greater Festival of Masks (1985) short story by Thomas Ligotti
155 The Green Scarab (1925) short story by Willis Knapp Jones
161 The Grim Passenger (1925) short story by Donald E. Keyhoe [as by Donald Edward Keyhoe]
167 Have You Seen Me? (1991) short story by Nancy Holder
175 Heroes (1993) short story by Richard Chizmar [as by Richard T. Chizmar]
181 The Hollow (1990) short story by David B. Silva
187 The House of Shadows (1933) short story by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
193 In Kropfsberg Keep (1895) short story by Ralph Adams Cram
201 In the Triangle (1934) short story by Howard Wandrei
204 In the Vault (1925) short story by H. P. Lovecraft
211 Itself (1925) short story by Seabury Quinn
216 Jason, Come Home (1986) short story by Darrell Schweitzer
223 Johnny on the Spot (1939) short story by Frank Belknap Long
226 Justice (1991) short story by Brian Stableford
232 The Law of the Hills (1930) short story by Grace M. Campbell
240 Letter from Will Stotler, Dated October 32nd As Received by D. E. LeRoss (1995) short story by D. E. LeRoss and William R. Stotler
246 Lightning Rod (1990) short story by Melanie Tem
254 The Lions in the Desert (1993) short story by David Langford
262 The Little Green Ones (1992) short story by Les Daniels
266 Miracles (1928) short story by Barry Pain
273 Morella (1850) short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Morella — A Tale 1835)
277 Moving Out (1991) short story by Nicholas Royle
282 Mr. Lupescu (1945) short story by Anthony Boucher
285 Mr. Templeton's Toyshop (1986) short story by Thomas Wiloch (variant of Selections from "Mr. Templeton's Toyshop")
290 Mrs. Bentley's Daughter (1930) short story by August Derleth
294 Mrs. Edmonds' Pantry (1996) short story by Tina L. Jens
301 The Music on the Hill (1911) short story by Saki
305 The Mystery of the Semi-Detached (1893) short story by E. Nesbit [as by Edith Nesbit]
308 The Ninth Skeleton (1928) short story by Clark Ashton Smith
311 No Eye-Witnesses (1932) short story by Henry S. Whitehead
318 Old Clothes (1985) short story by Ramsey Campbell
326 One-Night Strand (1994) short story by Donald R. Burleson
330 One Size Eats All (1993) short story by T. E. D. Klein
334 An Original Revenge (1897) short story by W. C. Morrow
339 The Outsider [Dream Cycle] (1926) short story by H. P. Lovecraft
344 Over Time's Threshold (1932) short story by Howard Wandrei
350 The Palace of the Dead (1929) short story by Robert Peery
356 Past Tense (1991) short story by Brian Hodge
365 People Who Love Life (1991) short story by Douglas Clegg
373 Phantom Brass (1934) short story by Carl Jacobi
379 The Ponderer (1948) short story by Eric Frank Russell
386 Preparations for the Game (1982) short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
394 Purification (1896) short story by Robert Barr
400 A Queer Cicerone (1915) short story by Bernard Capes
405 The Rag Thing (1951) short story by Donald A. Wollheim [as by David Grinnell]
409 The Rajah's Gift [Ismeddin] (1925) short story by E. Hoffmann Price
414 Roadside Pickup (1974) short story by Richard Laymon
418 Schizo Jimmie (1960) short story by Fritz Leiber
427 Shrapnel (1985) short story by Karl Edward Wagner
433 Silent Crickets (1975) short story by John Shirley
436 The Skeptic (1993) short story by Hugh B. Cave
441 The Striding Place (1896) short story by Gertrude Atherton
446 The Sultan's Jest [Ismeddin] (1925) short story by E. Hoffmann Price
452 Talent (1953) short story by Theodore Sturgeon
459 The Tapestry Gate (1940) short story by Leigh Brackett
470 The Terminus (1985) short story by Kim Newman
473 A Terrible Night (1856) short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
478 The Three (1929) short story by Louise Van de Verg
482 The Three Marked Pennies (1934) short story by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
489 The Three Sisters (1914) short story by W. W. Jacobs
495 Tom Toothacre's Ghost Story (1871) short story by Harriet Beecher Stowe
500 Tombstone Moon (1992) short story by Norman Partridge
507 The Torture by Hope (1894) short story by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. of La torture par l'espérance 1883) [as by Villiers de l'Isle Adam]
511 Two Doctors (1919) short story by M. R. James
517 The Visitor (1948) short story by John Bender
523 Wave Scars (1993) short story by Joel Lane
530 A Wedding Chest (1904) short story by Vernon Lee
538 What Can a Child Do? (1988) short story by Chet Williamson
544 What Say the Frogs Now, Jenny? (1983) short story by Hugh B. Cave
550 Wild Grapes (1934) short story by August Derleth
554 Will (1899) short story by Vincent O'Sullivan