The Magic Shop / H.G. Wells
The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe
Genesis and catastrophe (a true story) / Roald Dahl
Here there be tygers / Stephen King
Man overboard! / Winston Churchill
The lottery / Shirley Jackson
The bus-conductor / E.F. Benson
Thanksgiving / Joyce Carol Oates
Excerpt from The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving
The terrible old man / H.P. Lovecraft
John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit
The furnished room / O. Henry
The man upstairs / Ray Bradbury
The music on the hill / Saki
The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce
Fingers on the back of the neck / Margaret Mahy
The cremation of Sam McGee / Robert W. Service.