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• 1 •  Medusa • interior artwork by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
• 2 •  The Scream • interior artwork by Edvard Munch
• 6 • Introduction (A Chamber of Horrors) • essay by John Hadfield
• 16 • Recipe for Villainy • poem by Thomas Middleton
• 17 • Exercise • poem by George Crabbe
• 18 • Hell • non-genre • poem by John Milton
• 19 •  Hell (detail) • interior artwork by Hieronymus Bosch
• 20 •  Satan Sowing Tares • (1878) • interior artwork by Felicien Rops
• 21 • Satan • non-genre • poem by John Milton
• 22 • Innocents' Song • (1961) • poem by Charles Causley
• 23 •  Salome • (1894) • interior artwork by Aubrey Beardsley
• 24 • The Hunted Beast • (1930) • short story by T. F. Powys
• 33 • Captain Murderer • (1860) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 35 • Tailpiece • (1930) • poem by Harry Graham
• 37 •  Saturn Devouring His Child • interior artwork by Francisco Goya [as by Francisco José Goya y Lucientes]
• 39 • The Small Assassin • (1946) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 55 •  Configuration • (1928) • interior artwork by Hans Arp
• 56 •  La femme qui pleure • (1937) • interior artwork by Pablo Picasso
• 57 • Berenice • non-genre • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of
  Berenice—A Tale^?Berenice-A Tale
  1835)
• 63 • Mr. Loveday's Little Outing • non-genre • (1935) • short story by Evelyn Waugh
• 69 •  Chimaera • (1962) • interior artwork by Michael Ayrton
• 70 •  Randolf's Party • (1964) • interior artwork by John Lennon
• 71 • Randolf's Party • (1964) • short story by John Lennon
• 72 • Intimation of Things to Come • poem by William Shakespeare
• 73 •  Macbeth and the Witches • (1794) • interior artwork by Henry Fuseli
• 74 •  The Doll • (1934) • interior artwork by Hans Bellmer
• 75 • The Tender Age • (1956) • short story by John Collier
• 79 •  A Chamber of Horrors • interior artwork by Paul Klee
• 80 • More Spinned Against • (1953) • short story by John Wyndham
• 91 •  Death and the Maiden • (1517) • interior artwork by Hans Baldung
• 92 •  Perspective - Madame Récamier de Gérard • (1951) • interior artwork by
  René Magritte^?Rene Magritte
• 93 • Necessity • (1899) • poem by Harry Graham
• 94 • The Abyss • (1943) • short story by
  Леонид Андреев^?Leonid Andreyev
  (trans. of
  Бездна^?Bezdna
  1902) [as by Leonid Andreyev]
• 106 • A Woman Seldom Found • (1956) • short story by William Sansom
• 109 •  Woman Bird • (1934) • interior artwork by Joan Miro
• 110 •  Kabiline in Motion • (1937) • interior artwork by Victor Brauner
• 111 • The Monk (excerpt) • short fiction by Matthew Gregory Lewis [as by M. G. Lewis]
• 116 • Fair Elenor • (1783) • poem by William Blake
• 119 • Porphyria's Lover • (1836) • poem by Robert Browning
• 121 • At the Draper's • (1914) • poem by Thomas Hardy
• 122 • An Actor of Parts • short story by P. S.
• 125 •  A Chamber of Horrors • (1964) • interior artwork by Tomi Ungerer
• 126 • O Amiable Lovely Death • non-genre • poem by William Shakespeare
• 127 •  Lovers • (1470) • interior artwork by uncredited (variant of Die toten Liebenden) [as by
  Matthias Grünewald^?Matthias Grunewald
  ]
• 128 •  The Spectators • (1962) • interior artwork by Peter Behan
• 130 • The Spectre-Smitten • (1831) • novelette by Samuel Warren
• 149 •  Untitled • interior artwork by
  Honoré Daumier^?Honore Daumier
• 150 • The Valley of Vain Desires • (1880) • poem by John Addington Symonds
• 152 • The Desire to Be a Man • (1883) • short story by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. of Le désir d'être un homme 1882)
• 159 •  Untitled [2] • interior artwork by
  Honoré Daumier^?Honore Daumier
• 160 • Minotaur • poem by Michael Ayrton
• 161 •  Restless Minotaur • (1963) • interior artwork by Michael Ayrton
• 162 •  Hera • (1929) • interior artwork by Francis Picabia
• 163 • The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
• 177 • Bianca • (1901) • poem by Arthur Symons
• 178 • Meeting with a Double • (1951) • poem by George D. Painter
• 179 •  Figure IV • (1964) • interior artwork by Ivan Serpa
• 180 •  Per Aspera ad Astra • (1964) • interior artwork by Paul Wunderlich
• 181 • Drugged • (1921) • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 182 • Miss Cornelius • (1928) • short story by William Fryer Harvey
• 195 • Mummy to the Rescue • (1950) • short story by Angus Wilson
• 201 •  Drawing A • (1964) • interior artwork by Joao Suzuki
• 202 •  A Girl Possessed • (1924) • interior artwork by Paul Klee
• 205 • A Little Place Off the Edgware Road • (1939) • short story by Graham Greene
• 210 • The Horrors of Sleep • (1846) • poem by Emily Brontë
• 211 •  The Dream (detail) • interior artwork by Salvador Dali
• 214 • Green Tea • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 239 • The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 255 • William and Mary • (1960) • novelette by Roald Dahl
• 278 • Skirmish • (1950) • short story by Clifford D. Simak
• 281 •  Crash • (1964) • interior artwork by Eduardo Paolozzi
• 282 •  Simon le magician • (1957) • interior artwork by
  Félix Labisse^?Felix Labisse
• 298 • A Dance of Death • poem by Charles Baudelaire (trans. of Danse macabre 1861)
• 299 •  Death at the Ball • (1875) • interior artwork by Felicien Rops
• 300 •  Cordula • (1958) • interior artwork by Horst Janssen
• 302 • The Mansions of the Dead • poem by Robert Blair
• 303 • Holy-Day for Ghosts • poem by John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee (1653-1692)
• 304 • Thou Shell of Death • poem by Cyril Tourneur
• 306 •  The Triumph of Death (detail) • interior artwork by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (variant of cover art for De triomf van de dood 1562) [as by Pieter Breughel the Elder]
• 307 • A Tough Tussle • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 313 •  Engraving from the Anatomy • (1543) • interior artwork by Andreas Vesalius
• 314 • The Ultimate Fear • non-genre • poem by William Shakespeare
• 316 •  The Prison Courtyard • (1890) • interior artwork by Vincent van Gogh
• 317 • The Living Death • poem by Oscar Wilde
• 318 • Envoi • short fiction by D. B. Wyndham Lewis