The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin
I Love My Love / Helen Adam
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream / Harlan Ellison
The Tattooer / Junichiro Tanizaki
A Selection from Steps / Jerzy Kosinski
Axolotl / Julio Cortazar
Wish / Roald Dahl
The Lottery / Shirley Jackson
It's a Good Life / Jerome Bixby
They Bite / Anthony Boucher
The Last Night of the World / Ray Bradbury
Born of Man and Woman / Richard Matheson
Piazza Piece / John Crowe Ransom
The South / Jorge Luis Borges
The Fly / George Langelaan
The Doll / Algernon Blackwood
The Ghost / Richard Hughes
The Hunted Beast / T. F. Powys
End / Langston Hughes
The Rival Dummy / Ben Hecht
Caterpillars / E. F. Benson
Lukundoo / Edward Lucas White
Sredni Vashtar / Saki (H. H. Munro)
The Picture un the House / H. P. Lovecraft
Pollock and the Porroh Man / H. G. Wells
The Spider / Hans Heinz Ewers
The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains / Frederick Marryat
Tcheriapin / Sax Rohmer
My Doll Janie / Lola Ridge
The Monkey's Paw / W. W. Jacobs
The Mark of the Beast / Rudyard Kipling
Manacled / Stephen Crane
Yuki-Onna / Lafcadio Hearn
Mujina / Lafcadio Hearn
The Squaw / Bram Stoker
The Yellow Wallpaper / Chalotte Perkins Gilman
The Black Mass, Episode from La-bas (Down There) / J. K. Huysmans
The Magic Shirt / Anonymous
Carmilla / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Not to Be Taken at Bed-time / Rosa Mulholland
The Very Sad Tale of the Matches / Heinrich Hoffmann
The Man-Tiger / Anonymous
The Hours in the Life of a Lousy-Haired Man, Episode from Maldoror
Varney, the Vampyre / James Malcolm Rymer
The Horla / Guy de Maupassant
A Carrion / Charles Baudelaire
Pit and the Pendulum / Edgar Allan Poe
Black Cat / Edgar Allan Poe
Birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne
La Belle Helene / Prosper Merimee
Nuckelavee / Anonymous
La Bella Dame Sans Merci / John Keats
Isabella, or The Pot Basil
The Erl-King / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Count de Gernande, Episode from Justine / The Marquis de Sade
Lord Randal / Anonymous
The Painted Skin / P'u Sung-ling
Satan at the Gates of Hell, from Paradise Lost, Book II / John Milton
The Milk-White Doo / Anonymous
The Wife of Usher's Well / Anonymous
Bluebeard / Charles Perrault
The Vampire, Episode from The Golden Ass / Lucius Apuleius
Jael / Book of Judges