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• ix • Foreword (Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe) • essay by Jeff VanderMeer
• Songs of a Dead Dreamer • (1986) • collection by Thomas Ligotti
• 3 • The Frolic • (1982) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 19 • Les Fleurs • (1981) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 27 • Alice's Last Adventure • (1985) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 45 • Dream of a Mannikin • (1982) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 72 • Drink to Me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes • [The Nyctalops Trilogy • 2] • (1982) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 82 • Eye of the Lynx • [The Nyctalops Trilogy • 3] • (1983) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 91 • Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story • (1985) • novelette by Thomas Ligotti
• 111 • The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise • (1996) • short story by Thomas Ligotti (variant of The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise: A Tale of Possession in Old Grosse Pointe 1983)
• 120 • The Lost Art of Twilight • (1986) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 138 • The Troubles of Dr. Thoss • (1985) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 151 • Masquerade of a Dead Sword: A Tragedie • (1989) • short story by Thomas Ligotti (variant of Masquerade of a Dead Sword 1986)
• 172 • Dr. Voke and Mr. Veech • (1983) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 183 • Professor Nobody's Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror • (1985) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 189 • Dr. Locrian's Asylum • (1987) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 200 • The Sect of the Idiot • [Azathoth] • (1988) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 211 • The Greater Festival of Masks • (1985) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 219 • The Music of the Moon • (1987) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 228 • The Journal of J. P. Drapeau • (1987) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 235 • Vastarien • (1987) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Grimscribe: His Lives and Works • (1991) • collection by Thomas Ligotti
• 253 • Introduction (Grimscribe: His Lives and Works) • (1991) • short fiction by Thomas Ligotti
• 255 • The Last Feast of Harlequin • [Cthulhu Mythos short fiction] • (1990) • novelette by Thomas Ligotti
• 296 • The Spectacles in the Drawer • (1987) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 309 • Flowers of the Abyss • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 319 • Nethescurial • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 334 • The Dreaming in Nortown • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 357 • The Mystics of Muelenburg • (1987) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 366 • In the Shadow of Another World • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 380 • The Cocoons • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 391 • The Night School • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 403 • The Glamour • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 413 • The Library of Byzantium • (1988) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 427 • Miss Plarr • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• 437 • The Shadow at the Bottom of the World • (1990) • short story by Thomas Ligotti