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• 9 • Introduction (Terror in the Modern Vein) • essay by Donald A. Wollheim
• 17 • The Croquet Player (Excerpt) • (1936) • shortfiction by H. G. Wells
• 55 • They • (1941) • shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein
• 71 • Fritzchen • (1953) • shortstory by Charles Beaumont
• 83 • The Girl with the Hungry Eyes • (1949) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
• 99 • Fishing Season • (1953) • shortstory by Robert Sheckley
• 113 • The Crowd • (1943) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
• 123 • He • (1926) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
• 135 • The Strange Case of Lemuel Jenkins • (1919) • novelette by Philip M. Fisher
• 161 • The Rag Thing • (1951) • shortstory by Donald A. Wollheim [as byDavid Grinnell]
• 167 • The Burrow • (1933) • novelette by Franz Kafka (trans. of Der Bau 1931)
• 199 • Gone Away • (1935) • shortstory by A. E. Coppard
• 209 • The Silence • (1941) • shortstory by Bernard McLaughlin
• 219 • Mimic • (1942) • shortstory by Donald A. Wollheim [as byMartin Pearson]
• 227 • Shipshape Home • (1952) • shortstory by Richard Matheson
• 245 • The Dream Makers • (1953) • novelette by Robert Bloch
• 271 • The Republic of the Southern Cross • shortstory by Valery Brussov (trans. of Республика Южного Креста 1907)
• 289 • The Inheritors • (1942) • novelette by Robert A. W. Lowndes and John B. Michel