Contents (view Concise Listing)

• xv • Editor's Foreword (Tales of Dungeons and Dragons) • (1986) • essay by Peter Haining
• xvii • Introduction (Tales of Dungeons and Dragons) • (1986) • essay by Ray Bradbury
• 3 • The Dualitists • (1986) • short story by Bram Stoker (variant of The Dualitists, or, The Death Doom of the Double Born 1887)
• 18 • The Mysterious Mummy • (1903) • short story by Sax Rohmer
• 30 • The Lighthouse • short story by Robert Bloch and Edgar Allan Poe [as by Edgar Allan Poe]
• 45 • The Eighty-Third • (1916) • short story by Katharine Fullerton Gerould
• 61 • The Kid Learns • (1925) • short story by William Faulkner
• 66 • The Monster of the Deep • (1935) • short story by John Collier
• 78 • The Grip of Death • (1939) • short story by Robert Bloch and Henry Kuttner [as by Robert Bloch]
• 90 • The Great Stone Death • (1949) • short story by John D. MacDonald
• 100 • Vengeance by Proxy • (1940) • short story by John Wyndham [as by John Beynon]
• 112 • The Mangler • (1972) • novelette by Stephen King
• 135 • The Malice of Inanimate Objects • (1933) • short story by M. R. James
• 141 • Borrhomeo the Astrologer • (1862) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• 155 • Three Wishes • (1912) • novelette by F. Anstey
• 183 • The Haunted Pampero • (1916) • short story by William Hope Hodgson (variant of The Haunted "Pampero")
• 200 • The Magic Mirror • (1938) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 210 • The Overman • (1906) • novelette by Upton Sinclair
• 233 • The House Party at Smoky Island • (1935) • short story by Lucy Maud Montgomery [as by L. M. Montgomery]
• 243 • Shining Hat at Tarring Neville • (1935) • short story by T. H. White
• 250 • A Modern Magician • (1979) • short story by Olaf Stapledon
• 261 • The Glove • (1975) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 277 • The Hollow Land • (1856) • novelette by William Morris
• 314 • The Mystery of the Ultimate Hills • (1913) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 324 • The Field Where the Satyrs Danced • (1928) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 328 • The Ageing Faun • (1910) • short story by Arthur Ransome
• 337 • Biddulph • (1915) • short story by W. Heath Robinson
• 343 • The Bat King • (1937) • short story by James Hilton
• 355 • The Challenge from Beyond • [Cthulhu Mythos Tales] • (1935) • short story by Robert E. Howard and Frank Belknap Long and H. P. Lovecraft and A. Merritt and C. L. Moore [as by H. P. Lovecraft]
• 363 • People of the Black Coast • (1969) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 373 • The Ravages of Spring • (1973) • novelette by John Gardner
• 399 • Bright Phoenix • (1963) • short story by Ray Bradbury