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• 9 • Introduction (The First Mayflower Book of Black Magic Stories) • essay by Michel Parry
• 12 • Potential • [Severn Valley] • (1973) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 22 • The Snake • (1933) • short story by Dennis Wheatley
• 38 • They Bite • (1943) • short story by Anthony Boucher
• 51 • The Vixen • (1911) • short story by Aleister Crowley
• 55 • "He Cometh and He Passeth By!" • (1928) • novelette by H. Russell Wakefield
• 84 • The Invoker of the Beast • short story by
  Фёдор Сологуб^?Fyodor Sologub
  (trans. of
  Призывающий зверя^?Prizyvayuschiy zverya
  1906) [as by Feodor Sologub]
• 93 • Witch War • (1951) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 99 • The Ensouled Violin • novelette by Helena P. Blavatsky [as by Helene P. Blavatsky]
• 130 • Nasty • (1959) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 132 • The New People • (1958) • short story by Charles Beaumont
• 155 • In the Valley of the Sorceress • (1916) • short story by Sax Rohmer
• 172 • The Devil's Debt • (1894) • short story by James Platt
• 184 • The Hand of Glory • [Jules de Grandin] • (1933) • novelette by Seabury Quinn