Introduction -- George Abbe You Were at the Dead River ; Death Is a Little Thing ; The Clean Gentleman -- Helen Adam The Step Mother ; The Fair Young Wife -- Ethan Ayer An Exceeding Great Army -- R. H. Barlow Edgar Allan Poe ; Shub-Ad ; Warning to Snake-Killers ; Mythological Episode -- William D. Barney The Panther Possible ; The Gourd-Heads ; In the Beginninging -- Gene Baro Lament for Better or Worse --Lorna Beers Top Hat and Tales ; Soft Sell -- Laura Benét The Rowers ; Babylon -- John Betjeman A Lincolnshire Tale -- Robert Bloch Nightmare Number Four -- Samuel M. Bradley This Here Is Hell ; Roc's Brood -- Joseph Payne Brennan One Day of Rain ; Ghost-Town Saloon: Winter ; The Humming Stair ; Recognition of Death ; The Scythe of Dreams ; The Chestnut Roasters ; The Man I Met ; The Serpent Waits ; Grandfather's Ghost ; The Last Pagan Mourns for Dark Rosaleen ; Ossian ; The Wind of Time ; Avery Anameer ; Nightmare -- Julian Brown  Mr. Ripley Parodies Mr. Nash—or Vice Versa -- Winifred Adams Burr Opening Door ; Ghosts -- Sara King Carleton Grand Finale -- Lin Carter Lunae Custodiens ; The Dream-Daemon ; The Sabbat ; Carcosa ; Dark Yuggoth --Mabel MacDonald Carver Semi-Private ; Addict -- Gertrude Claytor Sorceress ; The Stair -- Elizabeth Coatsworth  Green Woods ; Empty House ; The Wind Shrieked Loud ; Murder House ; Daniel Webster's Horses -- Stanton A. Coblentz Atlantis ; The Watcher -- Grant Code The High Place at Marib ; News of My Friends ; Highway to Nowhere ; The Night Refuses a Dreamer ; Playground of the Pixie ; Foreboding ; Ballad of Two Kings ; Building of Sand ; Prayer in Blackout [Nursery Rhymes for Surrealists] ; Nos Moraturi Te Salutamus [Nursery Rhymes for Surrealists] ; Epitaph for a Wooden Soldier [Nursery Rhymes for Surrealists] -- Beverly Connelly 2000 A.D. ; Testimony -- Mary Elizabeth Counselman Room in Darkness -- Margaret Stanion Darling Country Lane -- Gustav Davidson From Nothing Strange ; Downgoing ; Ambushed by Angels -- August Derleth Moon and Fog ; Place-Ghost -- Alfred Dorn Invisible Painter ; Dark Hotel ; Reversions -- Leah Bodine Drake The Woods Grow Darker ; A Warning to Skeptics ; The Pool ; The Word of Willow ; The Gods of the Dana ; The Witches -- Burnham Eaton The Unexplored ; Inbound ; Shadowed ; Lost Voice on this Hill -- Charles Edward Eaton Tropes of One Season -- Norma Farber Unicorns at Harvard ; Parkinson and the Octopus ; Witching Hour -- Marguerite George Paneled in Pine ; Brief Biography ; Here I Lie -- Ryah Tumarkin Goodman They Know -- Frances Angevine Gray Tenant ; Otherwhere ; Tapers -- Lisa Grenelle Devil Doll -- R. H. Grenville Nightmare ; Intuition ; Ghost ; Borderline -- Amy Groesbeck The Brothers -- Robert E. Howard The Sands of Time ; Earth-Born -- Aletha Humphreys Arachnida, Female ; Party Bid -- Leslie Nelson Jennings Keep Darkness ; The Yellow Cat -- Geoffrey Johnson A Winter Legend -- Joseph Joel Keith 250 Willow Lane ; Bedtime Tales ; Mr. Lerner ; Child Wife ; Woman Telephoning ; Flogged Child ; Sunday Edition ; Wolf and Tiger Dining, A. B. ; Salems of Oppression ; Old Meg of Kitrann ; Party Line ; Nightmare in Morganza -- Martha Keller Wilderness Road ; Herbs and Simples -- Mary Kennedy One of the Sidhe -- Walter H. Kerr Prenatal Fantasy ; The Hanged Thing ; Vampire ; Trap ; The Stone -- Herman Stowell King Evocation -- Vera Bishop Konrick Erda -- Frank Belknap Long Adjuration ; The New Adam ; It Is Not Only the Dead -- Lilith Lorraine Since We Are Property ; No Escape ; Case History ; It May Be Like This ; Legend of the Hills -- Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni Pause -- Anne Marx Nightmare -- Stanley McNail Elsie's House ; Lottie Mae ; The Secrets of Cisterns ; The House on Maple Hill ; The Witch -- Edna Meudt Part-Time Tenant -- H. S. Neill Second Sight -- Alden Nowlan Aunt Jane -- Edith Ogutsch Musings of an Insomniac ; Premonition -- Jennie M. Palen Legend of Ramapo Mountain -- Conrad Pendleton Dark House in Autumn -- Hyam Plutzik Jim Desterland -- Tom Poots Black Spirit -- Dorothy Quick The Monster ; House of Life ; The Forest ; Undertone -- Katherine Reeves Enigma -- Alastair Reid Ghosts -- Liboria E. Romano All Souls -- Raymond Roseliep Vendor ; Professor Nocturnal ; Black Are the Stars ; Where Roots Tangle ; In Time of Darkness ; The Scissors Grinder ; Alan ; GI ; Tour. In Rain -- Larry Rubin Synchronized ; For a Poetry Reading to Which No One Came ; The Druggist -- Sydney King Russell Night Peril ; Warning ; The Shape of Fear ; Forecast ; Six Silver Handles ; Perennial Mourner ; Spectre -- Antonia Y. Schwab Danse Macabre -- Walter Shedlofsky Prophecy ; House of Yesterday -- Ruth Forbes Sherry Waltz  -- Jon Silkin Deeply Gone -- Louis Simpson The Lover's Ghost -- Jocelyn Macy Sloan Stranger Bride ; And the Pear Trees Shiver ; The Invaders -- Clark Ashton Smith To the Daemon Sublimity ; The Incubus of Time ; Metaphor ; Memorial ; Amor Aeternalis ; The Horologe -- Vincent Starrett Femme Fatale ; Romantic Episode ; The Death of Santa Claus -- Felix Stefanile A Little Night Music ; Praying Mantis ; Vampire Bride ; The Familiar Stranger ; So Separate and Strange -- Jane Stuart Hawicks' Crossing -- Jesse Stuart Heart-Summoned ; The Gone ; Spring Voices ; Two Leaves ; Extended Invitation -- Lucia Trent Frail Hands -- Lewis Turco The Seer ; Gather These Bones -- Mark Van Doren Oldest Cemetery -- Harold Vinal Flight ; Ghostly Reaper ; Sleeping Village ; Gentleman in Oils ; A Wreath for One Lost ; We, the Few Who Believe ; Toward Avernus ; Heimdall ; The Well-Finder -- Donald Wandrei Water Sprite -- Donald Wandrei The Woman at the Window ; The Prehistoric Huntsman ; The Challenger ; Forest Shapes ; Lyric of Doubt -- Wade Wellman On the Staircase ; A Ballad of Despair -- James L. Weil Fancy Fishing -- Margaret Widdemer Companions ; Ghost to Come -- Loring Williams The Skeptic ; Recompense -- James Wright The Ghost -- Elinor Wylie Atavism.