These are some of Brennan's non-Lucius Leffing stories, though one of them mentions him in its opening. They are a more varied lot. Many are basic straight horror stories, a genre I generally like less than occult detectives.
The opening story (City of the Seven Winds) is more like Dunsany, and has the benefit (from my point of view) that the first-person narrative actually turns the tables on the villain and escapes, which does not happen that often in horror stories. My only objection to it is that although it is supposedly set on the Syrian border, the "feel" of the city is more old-European than Arabian. ( )