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• Introduction (The Dead Valley and Others) • essay by S. T. Joshi
• The Diamond Lens • (1858) • novelette by Fitz-James O'Brien
• The Horla • [Le Horla • 3] • (1903) • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• The Moon Pool • [Walter Goodwin] • (1918) • novella by A. Merritt
• Count Magnus • (1904) • short story by M. R. James
• The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Dead Valley • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
• The Bad Lands • (1920) • short story by John Metcalfe
• Ooze • (1923) • novelette by Anthony M. Rud
• Fishhead • (1913) • short story by Irvin S. Cobb
• The Harbor-Master • [Lost Species] • (1906) • novelette by Robert W. Chambers (variant of The Harbour Master 1899)
• Ancient Sorceries • [John Silence] • (1908) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
• Cassius • [Gerald Canevin] • (1931) • novelette by Henry S. Whitehead
• The Spider • (1915) • novelette by Hanns Heinz Ewers (trans. of Die Spinne 1908)
• Blind Man's Buff • (1929) • short story by H. Russell Wakefield