Here are fifty-eight heart-gripping tales on the fine art of terror.

Killed by kindness / Nedra Tyre -- Just a minor offense / John F. Suter -- A home away from home / Robert Bloch -- Death of a derelict / Joseph Payne Brennan -- The arrowmont prison irddle / Bill Pronzini -- The Dettweiler solution / Lawrence Block -- The Whitechapel wantons / Vincent McConnor -- Cora's raid / Isak Romun -- Life or breath / Nelson DeMiller -- A private little war / William Brittain -- Have you ever seen this woman? /John Lutz-- Joe Cutter's game / Brian Garfield -- A cabin in the woods / John Coyne -- The long arm of El Jefe / Edward Wellen -- Kid Cardula / Jack Ritchie -- Career man / James Holding -- The perfidy of Profesor Blake / Libby MacCall -- Sea change / Henry Slesar -- The blue tambourine / Donald Olson -- Graveyard shift / William P. McGivern -- A bottle of wine / Borden Deal -- Man bites dog / Donald Honig -- Never trust an ancestor / Michael Zuroy -- Another war / Edward D. Hoch -- Sparrow on a string / Alice Scanlan Reach -- The missing tattoo / Clayton Matthews -- The fall of Dr. Scourby / Patricia Matthews -- The loose end / Stephen Wasylyk -- That so-called laugh / Frank Sisk. A very special talent / Margaret B. Maron -- The joker / Betty Ren Wright -- A very hard sell / Helen Nielsen -- The tin ear / Ron Goulart -- The time before the crime / Charlotte Edwards -- After the unfortunate accident / Barry N. Malzberg -- The grateful thief / Patrick O'Keeffe -- The inspiration / Talmage Powell -- Death is a lonely lover / Robert Colby -- The witness was a lady / Fletcher Flora -- Scheme for destruction / Pauline C. Smith -- To the manner born / Mary Braund -- Black disaster / Richard O. Lewis -- The marrow of justice / Hal Ellson -- Innocent witness / Iring Schiffer -- We're really not that kind of people / Samuel W. Taylor -- Pocket evidence / Harold Q. Masur -- The death desk / S.S.Rafferty -- A left-handed profession / Al Nussbaum -- Second spring / Theodore Mathieson -- Bank night / Arthur Porges -- The contagious killer / Bryce Walton -- Bad actor / Gary Brandner -- Free advice, incorporated / Michael Brett -- The real criminal / James M. Gilmore -- The hard sell / William Dolan -- The prosperous Judds / Bob Bristow -- The dead Indian / Robert W. Alexander -- The china cottage / August Derletth.