Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vii • Introduction (Poe's Children: The New Horror) • essay by Peter Straub
• 1 • The Bees • (2003) • short story by Dan Chaon
• 20 • Cleopatra Brimstone • (2001) • novella by Elizabeth Hand
• 71 • The Man on the Ceiling • (2000) • novelette by Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem
• 94 • The Great God Pan • (1988) • novelette by M. John Harrison
• 117 • The Voice of the Beach • (1982) • novelette by Ramsey Campbell
• 146 • The Body • short story by Brian Evenson (variant of Body 2004)
• 156 • Louise's Ghost • (2001) • novelette by Kelly Link
• 185 • The Sadness of Detail • (1989) • short story by Jonathan Carroll
• 196 • Leda • (2002) • short story by M. Rickert
• 208 • In Praise of Folly • (1992) • short story by Thomas Tessier
• 222 • Plot Twist • (2002) • short story by David J. Schow
• 239 • The Two Sams • (2002) • short story by Glen Hirshberg
• 256 • Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story • (1985) • novelette by Thomas Ligotti
• 275 • Unearthed • (2006) • short story by Benjamin Percy
• 288 • Gardener of Heart • (2005) • short story by Bradford Morrow
• 302 • Little Red's Tango • (2002) • novelette by Peter Straub
• 338 • The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet • (1984) • novella by Stephen King
• 387 • 20th Century Ghost • (2002) • short story by Joe Hill
• 406 • The Green Glass Sea • (2004) • short story by Ellen Klages
• 415 • The Kiss • (1999) • novelette by Tia V. Travis
• 440 • Black Dust • (2001) • short story by Graham Joyce
• 454 • October in the Chair • (2002) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 467 • Missolonghi 1824 • (1990) • short story by John Crowley
• 477 • Insect Dreams • (2003) • novella by Rosalind Palermo Stevenson
• 523 • Credits (Poe's Children: The New Horror) • essay by uncredited
• 527 • About the Authors (Poe's Children: The New Horror) • essay by uncredited