Contents:

• Preface (Chilling and Killing) • essay by Jacques Barzun
• Introduction (Chilling and Killing) • essay by Joan Kahn
1 • What Was It? • (1859) • shortstory by Fitz-James O'Brien
15 • The Raspberry Patch • shortstory by Berton Roueché
22 • The Man Hunt • essay by Milton MacKaye
38 • Another Solution • shortstory by Gilbert Highet
43 • Miss Hinch • (1911) • novelette by Henry Sydnor Harrison
63 • The Withered Arm • (1888) • novelette by Thomas Hardy
93 • The Old Shell Collector • novelette by H. R. F. Keating
116 • The Man Who Murdered Papa Desire • essay by Lassiter Wren
130 • A Jury of Her Peers • novelette by Susan Glaspell
153 • Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty • (1922) • shortstory by Stacy Aumonier
169 • A Record of Escape • essay by Alfred Morain
184 • The Invaders • shortstory by Robbie Macauley
194 • Bird of Prey • (1941) • shortstory by John Collier
203 • The Confession of Charles Linkworth • (1912) • shortstory by E. F. Benson
219 • The Broadway Central Tragedy • essay by Alfred Henry Lewis
243 • The Woman at the Store • (1912) • shortstory by Katherine Mansfield
254 • Escape • (1934) • shortstory by E. H. Lacon Watson
267 • The Doll • (1968) • shortstory by Francis King
283 • Undertaker Song • (1934) • shortstory by Damon Runyon
296 • The Woman's Ghost Story • (1907) • shortstory by Algernon Blackwood
306 • The Trial of Jane's Aunt • essay by Albert Borowitz
332 • Biographical Notes (Chilling and Killing)