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• ix • Introduction (And the Darkness Falls) • essay by Boris Karloff
• 3 • The Test • non-genre • (1920) • short story by Maurice Level (trans. of Confrontation 1910)
• 7 • "John Gladwin Says ..." • (1928) • short story by Oliver Onions
• 17 • The Black Pool • (1917) • novelette by Frederick Stuart Greene
• 36 • The Scoop • (1934) • short story by Leonora Gregory
• 40 • Femme et chatte • poem by Paul Verlaine (trans. of Femme et chatte 1866)
• 41 • The Hanging of Alfred Wadham • (1928) • short story by E. F. Benson [as by Edward F. Benson]
• 52 • The Departure • (1932) • short story by Selma Robinson
• 58 • The Adventure of Second Lieutenant Bubnov • (1936) • short story by
  Иван Тургенев^?Ivan Turgenev
  (trans. of
  Похождения подпоручика Бубнова^?Pokhozhdeniya podporuchika Bubnova
  1842) [as by Ivan Turgenev]
• 66 • In the Wheat • non-genre • (1920) • short story by Maurice Level (trans. of Dans les blés 1904)
• 71 • The Madman • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Un fou 1885)
• 77 • The Storm • (1944) • short story by McKnight Malmar
• 89 • L'Amour après la Mort • (1884) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• 92 • Rizpah • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred Lord Tennyson]
• 96 • One Who Saw • (1931) • short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X]
• 109 • My Favorite Murder • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 116 • The Grove of Ashtaroth • (1910) • novelette by John Buchan
• 135 • The Case of Lady Sannox • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 144 • The Black Godmother • (1912) • short fiction by John Galsworthy
• 148 • The Stranger • (1927) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 158 • The Panelled Room • (1933) • short story by August Derleth
• 167 • The Mask • (1912) • short story by F. Tennyson Jesse
• 181 • Richard Cory • non-genre • (1897) • poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson
• 182 • The Witness • (1910) • short story by Violet Hunt
• 200 • The Caged White Werewolf of the Saraban (excerpt) • short fiction by William B. Seabrook
• 207 • Footsteps • short story by Eileen Verrinder
• 213 • The Island • (1924) • short story by L. P. Hartley [as by Leslie P. Hartley]
• 226 • The Red Lodge • short story by H. Russell Wakefield [as by Herbert R. Wakefield]
• 237 • The Cyprian Cat • (1933) • short story by Dorothy L. Sayers
• 248 • An Official Position • non-genre • short story by W. Somerset Maugham
• 265 • The Garden of Proserpine • (1866) • poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• 295 • The Sutor of Selkirk • (1937) • short story by One of the Authors of the 'Odd Volume,' 'Tales and Legends,' &c. (variant of
  The Sutor of Selkirk.—A Remarkable True Story^?The Sutor of Selkirk.-A Remarkable True Story
  1829) [as by uncredited]
• 300 • The Idol with Hands of Clay • (1923) • short story by Sir Frederick Treves
• 307 • Another American Tragedy • non-genre • (1940) • short story by John Collier
• 314 • The Razor of Pedro Dutel • (1917) • short story by Richard Matthews Hallet
• 329 • The Crucifixion of the Outcast • short story by W. B. Yeats [as by William B. Yeats]
• 336 • Ulalume • (1850) • poem by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of To —— —— ——: Ulalume: A Ballad 1847)
• 339 • Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched • (1922) • novelette by May Sinclair
• 357 • The Ghost • (1926) • short story by Richard Hughes
• 360 • Jenshih, or The Fox Lady • (1944) • short story by
  Shen Chi-chi^?Shen Jiji
  (trans. of 任氏传 unknown)
• 369 • Three O'Clock • non-genre • (1943) • novelette by Cornell Woolrich [as by William Irish]
• 393 • The Mortal • (1926) • short story by Oliver Onions
• 396 • The Listeners • (1911) • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 398 • The Well • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 409 • The Horrible God • (1934) • short story by Thomas Burke
• 415 • Mrs. Adis • non-genre • (1922) • short story by Sheila Kaye-Smith
• 421 • Telling • (1927) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
• 428 • The Death of the Poor • poem by Charles Baudelaire (trans. of La mort des pauvres 1857)
• 429 • A Maniac • non-genre • (1920) • short story by Maurice Level (trans. of Un maniaque 1910)
• 433 • An Illusion in Red and White • non-genre • (1900) • short story by Stephen Crane
• 438 • A Modest Proposal • (1729) • essay by Jonathan Swift (variant of A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country; and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick)
• 446 • The Chaser • (1940) • short story by John Collier
• 449 • Where the Tides Ebb and Flow • (1908) • short story by Lord Dunsany (variant of The Terrible Dream)
• 454 • My Last Duchess • (1842) • poem by Robert Browning
• 456 • Out of the Deep • (1923) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
• 480 • Perchance to Dream • (1930) • short story by Michael Joyce
• 489 • The Empty House • non-genre • (1920) • short story by Maurice Level (trans. of La maison vide 1910)
• 494 • Browdean Farm • (1927) • short story by A. M. Burrage
• 505 • Breakdown • (1929) • short story by L. A. G. Strong
• 516 • The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan • [Hyperborea] • (1932) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 524 • The Angelus • (1935) • short story by William Younger
• 528 • Song of the Shirt • (1843) • poem by Thomas Hood
• 531 • The Silver Mask • (1932) • short story by Hugh Walpole
• 543 • The Viy • novelette by
  Николай Гоголь^?Nikolai Gogol
  (trans. of
  Вий^?Viy
  1835) [as by Nikolai Gogol]
• 575 • Death • short fiction by Dorothy Richardson
• 578 • Prospice • (1864) • poem by Robert Browning
• 579 • The Woman's Ghost Story • (1907) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 587 • The Brute • (1906) • short story by Joseph Conrad
• 605 • The Thing on the Doorstep • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1937) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft