Contents:

• Introduction by Dr. Arthur Liebman
• The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe
• Was it a Dream? by Guy de Maupassant
• Calloway’s Code by O. Henry
• An Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce
• The Leopard Man’s Story by Jack London
• Gabriel-Ernest by Saki
• Payoff by Ellery Queen
• April Fool by Mark Van Doren
• Every Fifth Man by Edward D. Hoch
• Loaded with Money by Anthony Marsh
• The Little Old Lady from Cricket Creek by Len Gray
• Another American Tragedy by John Collier
• The Leakage by Frank Sisk
• Thank You Ma’am by Langston Hughes
• We Spy by Clark Howard
• A Crazy Way to Make a Living by Ed Dumonte
• Blurred View by John D. MacDonald
• Every Litter Bit Hurts by Michael Avallone
• Package Deal by Jack Ritchie
• In a Glass Darkly Agatha Christie
• At Last, the True Story of Frankenstein by Harry Harrison
• The Real Thing by Robert Specht
• Time Trammel by Miriam Allen deFord
• X Marks the Pedwalk by Fritz Leiber
• Crime on Mars by Arthur C. Clarke