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)