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• ix • Foreword (The Nightmare Factory) • essay by Poppy Z. Brite
• xi • Introduction: The Consolations of Horror • essay by Thomas Ligotti
• 3 • The Frolic • (1982) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 16 • Les Fleurs • (1981) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 23 • Alice's Last Adventure • (1985) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 39 • Dream of a Mannikin • (1982) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 52 • The Chymist • [The Nyctalops Trilogy • 1] • (1981) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 62 • Drink to Me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes • [The Nyctalops Trilogy • 2] • (1982) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 71 • Eye of the Lynx • [The Nyctalops Trilogy • 3] • (1983) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 79 • The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise • short story by Thomas Ligotti (variant of The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise: A Tale of Possession in Old Grosse Pointe 1983)
• 87 • The Lost Art of Twilight • (1986) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 103 • The Troubles of Dr. Thoss • (1985) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 114 • Masquerade of a Dead Sword • (1986) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 132 • Dr. Voke and Mr. Veech • (1983) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 141 • Dr. Locrian's Asylum • (1987) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 150 • The Sect of the Idiot • [Azathoth] • (1988) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 159 • The Greater Festival of Masks • (1985) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 166 • The Music of the Moon • (1987) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 173 • The Journal of J. P. Drapeau • (1987) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 179 • Vastarien • (1987) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 195 • The Last Feast of Harlequin • [Cthulhu Mythos short fiction] • (1990) • novelette by Thomas Ligotti
• 229 • The Spectacles in the Drawer • (1987) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 240 • Flowers of the Abyss • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 247 • Nethescurial • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 260 • The Dreaming in Nortown • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 280 • The Mystics of Muelenburg • (1987) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 287 • In the Shadow of Another World • (1988) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 299 • The Cocoons • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 308 • The Night School • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 318 • The Glamour • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 327 • The Library of Byzantium • (1988) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 339 • Miss Plarr • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 348 • The Shadow at the Bottom of the World • (1990) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 359 • The Medusa • (1991) • novelette by Thomas Ligotti
• 377 • Conversations in a Dead Language • (1989) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 389 • The Prodigy of Dreams • (1986) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 399 • Mrs. Rinaldi's Angel • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 409 • The Tsalal • (1994) • novelette by Thomas Ligotti
• 436 • Mad Night of Atonement • (1989) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 449 • The Strange Design of Master Rignolo • (1989) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 459 • The Voice in the Bones • (1989) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 469 • Teatro Grottesco • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 486 • Severini • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 498 • Gas Station Carnivals • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 514 • The Bungalow House • (1995) • novelette by Thomas Ligotti
• 533 • The Clown Puppet • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 542 • The Red Tower • short story by Thomas Ligotti