xiii • Introduction: Gather Ye Nosegays • essay by Marvin Kaye
1 • Ghosts and Miscellaneous Nightmares • essay by Marvin Kaye
3 • The Others • (1987) • shortstory by Joyce Carol Oates
8 • Tap Dancing • (1991) • shortstory by John Gregory Betancourt
14 • The Hungry Stones • (1916) • shortstory by Rabindranath Tagore
25 • The Southwest Chamber • (1903) • novelette by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
42 • The Lost Room • (1858) • shortstory by Fitz-James O'Brien
57 • The Ghost to His Ladye Love • (1869) • poem by W. S. Gilbert
59 • The Happy Children • (1920) • shortstory by Arthur Machen
64 • Darby O'Gill and the Good People • (1901) • shortstory by Herminie Templeton Kavanagh
77 • Keeping His Promise • (1906) • shortstory by Algernon Blackwood
90 • A Day in the Life of Comrade Lenin • shortstory by Carole Buggé
103 • The Throwing Suit • (1990) • shortstory by Darrell Schweitzer and Jason Van Hollander
120 • The Man Who Wanted to Be in the Movies • (1962) • shortstory by John Jakes
127 • The Beast Within • essay by Marvin Kaye
129 • Fidel Bassin • (1925) • shortstory by W. J. Stamper
137 • Unsigned Original • (1975) • shortstory by Parke Godwin
142 • The Clemency of the Court • (1893) • shortstory by Willa Cather
150 • The Empty Zoo • (1965) • shortstory by Edward D. Hoch
157 • Beyond Sleep • (1970) • shortstory by Barry N. Malzberg
160 • Finnegan's Wake • (unknown) • poem by Traditional
162 • Bianca's Hands • (1947) • shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon
171 • The Iron Man • (1940) • shortstory by Frederick Lang
175 • Sagittarius • (1962) • novella by Ray Russell
208 • Wolf • (1966) • shortstory by Michael Moorcock
215 • An Illusion in Red and White • (1900) • shortstory by Stephen Crane
221 • Acts of God and Other Horrors • essay by Marvin Kaye
223 • Man Overboard • (1899) • shortstory by Winston Churchill
227 • The People of the Pit • (1918) • shortstory by A. Merritt
242 • In the Avu Observatory • (1894) • shortstory by H. G. Wells
249 • In the Valley of the Shades • shortstory by C. H. Sherman
256 • The Thing in the Hall • (1912) • shortstory by E. F. Benson
267 • The Inchcape Rock • (1802) • poem by Robert Southey
270 • Mr. Wilde's Second Chance • (1966) • shortstory by Joanna Russ
273 • The Dreams in the Witch-House • (1933) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
307 • The Little Man on the Subway • (1950) • shortstory by Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl
319 • The Poems • (1945) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
331 • Vision Quest • shortstory by Pat LoBrutto
343 • Contes Cruelles • essay by Marvin Kaye
345 • The Man in the Bottle • (1973) • shortstory by Gustav Meyrink
351 • A Diagnosis of Death • (1901) • shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
355 • Remember Me • shortstory by Joan Vander Putten
371 • The Pardon • (1883) • shortstory by Emilia Pardo Bazán
381 • The One Thousand Dozen • (1903) • shortstory by Jack London
396 • Carmanda • (1976) • shortstory by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
401 • The Spirit of Hospitality • (1991) • poem by Saralee Kaye [as by Saralee Terry ]
403 • The Cripple • (1933) • shortstory by Maurice Level
407 • The Squaw • (1893) • shortstory by Bram Stoker
418 • Pictures • shortstory by Irving Werner
426 • The Necklace • (1884) • shortstory by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La parure)
434 • The Necklace • (1946) • shortstory by Jack Moffitt
449 • Fiends and Creatures • essay by Marvin Kaye
451 • Midnight • (1946) • shortstory by Jack Snow
457 • Ms. Lipshutz and the Goblin • (1978) • shortstory by Marvin Kaye
463 • Amina • (1907) • shortstory by Edward Lucas White
473 • Simpson's Lesser Sphynx • (1984) • shortstory by Esther M. Friesner
478 • Dress of White Silk • (1951) • shortstory by Richard Matheson
485 • The Palace of the Mountain Ogre: A Chinese Hansel and Gretel • shortstory by Toby Sanders
495 • Snow White Waking • (1991) • poem by Adèle Slaughter
497 • The Little Witch of Elm Street • (1956) • shortstory by Mildred Clingerman
506 • The Brown Man's Servant • (1896) • novelette by W. W. Jacobs
529 • Poppa Bear • (1989) • shortstory by Alvin Vogel
541 • In Letters of Fire • (1908) • shortstory by Gaston Leroux
558 • Green Magic • (1963) • shortstory by Jack Vance