Kittens / Dean Koontz -- The Magic Shop / H.G. Wells -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Genesis and catastrophe / Roald Dahl -- The squaw / Bram Stoker -- Here there be tygers / Stephen King -- "Man overboard" / Winston Churchill -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The bus-conductor / E. F. Benson -- Thanksgiving / Joyce Carol Oates -- 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 Service.