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Anthology Title:
The Nightmare Reader • [The Nightmare Reader] • anthology by Peter Haining
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- ix • Preface (The Nightmare Reader) • essay by Peter Haining (variant of Editor's Preface (The Nightmare Reader))
- xiii • What Hath Light Wrought? • essay by Isaac Asimov
- 1 • The Midnight Embrace • (1796) • short story by Matthew Gregory Lewis [as by Matthew Lewis]
- 13 • The Transformation • (1830) • short story by Mary Shelley
- 33 • The Bold Dragoon • [Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman] • (1824) • short story by Washington Irving
- 43 • Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow • (1821) • short story by Thomas De Quincey
- 51 • The Magician • (1973) • short story by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Tale of Kosem Kesamim, the Magician 1835) [as by Lord Lytton]
- 69 • Berenice • non-genre • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Berenice—A Tale?Berenice-A Tale1835)
- 79 • The Drunkard's Dream • [The Purcell Papers • 3] • (1838) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- 95 • The Man in the Reservoir • (1945) • short story by Charles Fenno Hoffman (variant of Ben Blower's Story 1842) [as by C. F. Hoffman]
- 105 • Haceldama • (1875) • essay by Lafcadio Hearn
- 119 • The Ensouled Violin • novelette by Helena P. Blavatsky [as by Madame Blavatsky]
- 149 • Visions of the Night • (1887) • essay by Ambrose Bierce
- 157 • The Soldiers' Rest • (1914) • short story by Arthur Machen
- 163 • The Bureau d'Echange de Maux • (1915) • short story by Lord Dunsany
- 169 • The Silver Mirror • (1972) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
- 181 • The Testament of Magdalen Blair • (1913) • novelette by Aleister Crowley
- 211 • A Dream of Armageddon • (1903) • novelette by H. G. Wells
- 239 • A School Story • (1911) • short story by M. R. James
- 247 • The Grimoire • (1936) • short story by Montague Summers
- 271 • The Evil Clergyman • (1939) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
- 277 • The Slayers and the Slain • (1949) • short story by August Derleth
- 287 • The Shifting Growth • (1962) • short story by John Gawsworth and Edgar Jepson [as by John Gawsworth]
- 293 • Along Came a Spider • (1951) • essay by Algernon Blackwood
- 299 • The Head Hunter • (1950) • short story by Robert Bloch (variant of Head Man)
- 319 • The Haunting of the New • [The Irish Stories] • (1969) • short story by Ray Bradbury
- 337 • The Curse • (1946) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke