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• 11 • Editor's Preface (The Necromancers: Best of Black Magic and Witchcraft) • (1971) • essay by Peter Haining
• 13 • Introduction (The Necromancers: Best of Black Magic and Witchcraft) • (1971) • essay by Robert Bloch
• 21 • Modern Witchcraft • (1969) • essay by Robert Graves
• 28 • Black Magic Today • (1971) • essay by Rollo Ahmed
• 33 • The Black Lodge • (1929) • short fiction by Aleister Crowley
• 42 • The Sacrifice (excerpt) • (1929) • essay by Betty May
• 45 • The Sorcerers • (1893) • short story by W. B. Yeats
• 47 • A Life for a Life • (1935) • short story by Dennis Wheatley
• 63 • The Witches' Sabbat • (1971) • essay by C. W. Olliver
• 69 • The Salem Mass • (1971) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (variant of Young Goodman Brown 1835)
• 81 • The Tryals of the New England Witches (excerpt) • (1692) • essay by Cotton Mather
• 83 • An Indictment for Witchcraft • (1971) • essay by uncredited
• 84 • The Lancashire Witches • (1834) • essay by William Godwin
• 88 • The Midnight Assembley (excerpt) • (1971) • short fiction by William Harrison Ainsworth (variant of The Midnight Assembley (excerpt from The Lancashire Witches) 1849) [as by W. Harrison Ainsworth]
• 93 • The Initiation to Witchcraft (excerpt) • (1933) • essay by Margaret Murray
• 103 • A Pact with the Devil • (1971) • essay by uncredited
• 107 • How To Raise A Spirit • (1971) • essay by uncredited
• 109 • The Black Goat Of Brandenberg (excerpt) • (1971) • short fiction by uncredited
• 110 • My Experiences in Necromancy (excerpt) • (1971) • essay by Benvenuto Cellini
• 114 • The Necromancer (excerpt) • (1971) • short fiction by Lorenz Flammenberg [as by Lawrence Flammenberg]
• 137 • Gavon's Eve • (1906) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 151 • The Confession of the Witches of Elfdale • (1971) • essay by uncredited
• 154 • The Witch Finders (excerpt) • (1914) • essay by Sax Rohmer
• 159 • The Witch-Baiter • (1927) • short story by Anthony M. Rud [as by R. Anthony]
• 167 • The Spell of Witchcraft • (1971) • essay by P. T. Barnum
• 175 • Familiars (excerpt) • (1971) • short fiction by Frank Hamel
• 183 • The Little Friend • (1948) • short story by August Derleth (variant of Saunder's Little Friend) [as by August W. Derleth]
• 197 • The Chambre Ardente Affair (excerpt) • (1971) • short fiction by Ronald Seth
• 204 • The Tarn of Sacrifice • (1921) • short story by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson [as by Algernon Blackwood]
• 225 • The Hell-Fire Clubs (excerpt) • (1971) • short fiction by Montague Summers
• 234 • At the Heart of It • (1953) • short story by Michael Harrison
• 246 • Beelzebub • (1963) • short story by Robert Bloch