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• xix • Introduction (Fire and Sleet and Candlelight) • essay by August Derleth
• 3 • You Were at the Dead River • poem by George Abbe
• 3 • Death Is a Little Thing • poem by George Abbe
• 4 • The Clean Gentleman • poem by George Abbe
• 5 • The Step Mother • poem by Helen Adam
• 7 • The Fair Young Wife • poem by Helen Adam
• 10 • An Exceeding Great Army • poem by Ethan Ayer
• 11 • Edgar Allan Poe • poem by R. H. Barlow [as by Robert H. Barlow]
• 11 • Shub-Ad • poem by R. H. Barlow [as by Robert H. Barlow]
• 12 • Warning to Snake-Killers • poem by R. H. Barlow [as by Robert H. Barlow]
• 13 • Mythological Episode • poem by R. H. Barlow [as by Robert H. Barlow]
• 13 • The Panther Possible • poem by William D. Barney
• 14 • The Gourd-Heads • poem by William D. Barney
• 16 • In the Beginninging • poem by William D. Barney
• 17 • Lament for Better or Worse • (1959) • poem by Gene Baro
• 18 • Top Hat and Tales • poem by Lorna Beers
• 19 • "Soft Sell" • poem by Lorna Beers
• 19 • The Rowers • poem by
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• 20 • Babylon • poem by
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• 21 • A Lincolnshire Tale • (1958) • poem by John Betjeman
• 24 • Nightmare Number Four • (1945) • poem by Robert Bloch
• 29 • This Here Is Hell • poem by Samuel M. Bradley
• 30 • Roc's Brood • poem by Samuel M. Bradley
• 31 • One Day of Rain • (1959) • poem by Joseph Payne Brennan
• 32 • Ghost-Town Saloon: Winter • poem by Joseph Payne Brennan
• 32 • The Humming Stair • (1953) • poem by Joseph Payne Brennan
• 33 • Recognition of Death • poem by Joseph Payne Brennan
• 33 • The Scythe of Dreams • poem by Joseph Payne Brennan
• 34 • The Chestnut Roasters • poem by Joseph Payne Brennan
• 35 • The Man I Met • poem by Joseph Payne Brennan
• 35 • The Serpent Waits • poem by Joseph Payne Brennan
• 36 • Grandfather's Ghost • (1959) • poem by Joseph Payne Brennan
• 36 • The Last Pagan Mourns for Dark Rosaleen • poem by Joseph Payne Brennan
• 37 • Ossian • poem by Joseph Payne Brennan
• 37 • The Wind of Time • (1957) • poem by Joseph Payne Brennan
• 38 • Avery Anameer • poem by Joseph Payne Brennan
• 39 • Nightmare • poem by Joseph Payne Brennan
• 40 • Mr. Ripley Parodies Mr. Nash—or Vice Versa • poem by Julian Brown
• 41 • Opening Door • poem by Winifred Adams Burr
• 42 • Ghosts • poem by Winifred Adams Burr
• 43 • Grand Finale • poem by Sara King Carleton
• 44 • Lunae Custodiens • poem by Lin Carter
• 46 • The Dream-Daemon • [Dreams from R'lyeh • 24] • poem by Lin Carter
• 47 • The Sabbat • [Dreams from R'lyeh • 19] • poem by Lin Carter
• 47 • Carcosa • [Dreams from R'lyeh • 22] • poem by Lin Carter
• 48 • Dark Yuggoth • [Dreams from R'lyeh • 25] • poem by Lin Carter
• 48 • Semi-Private • poem by Mabel MacDonald Carver
• 49 • Addict • poem by Mabel MacDonald Carver
• 50 • Sorceress • poem by Gertrude Claytor
• 50 • The Stair • poem by Gertrude Claytor
• 52 • Green Woods • poem by Elizabeth Coatsworth
• 52 • Empty House • poem by Elizabeth Coatsworth
• 53 • The Wind Shrieked Loud • (1949) • poem by Elizabeth Coatsworth
• 54 • Murder House • (1949) • poem by Elizabeth Coatsworth
• 55 • Daniel Webster's Horses • (1949) • poem by Elizabeth Coatsworth
• 56 • Atlantis • (1947) • poem by Stanton A. Coblentz
• 57 • The Watcher • poem by Stanton A. Coblentz
• 58 • The High Place at Marib • poem by Grant Code
• 60 • News of My Friends • poem by Grant Code
• 61 • Highway to Nowhere • poem by Grant Code
• 62 • The Night Refuses a Dreamer • poem by Grant Code
• 62 • Playground of the Pixie • poem by Grant Code
• 64 • Foreboding • poem by Grant Code
• 64 • Ballad of Two Kings • poem by Grant Code
• 65 • Building of Sand • poem by Grant Code
• 66 • Prayer in Blackout • [Nursery Rhymes for Surrealists] • poem by Grant Code
• 66 • Nos Moraturi Te Salutamus • [Nursery Rhymes for Surrealists] • poem by Grant Code
• 67 • Epitaph for a Wooden Soldier • [Nursery Rhymes for Surrealists] • poem by Grant Code
• 68 • 2000 A.D. • poem by Beverly Connelly
• 68 • Testimony • poem by Beverly Connelly
• 68 • Room in Darkness • poem by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
• 69 • Country Lane • poem by Margaret Stanion Darling
• 70 • From Nothing Strange • poem by Gustav Davidson
• 70 • Downgoing • poem by Gustav Davidson
• 71 • Ambushed by Angels • poem by Gustav Davidson
• 72 • Moon and Fog • poem by August Derleth
• 72 • Place-Ghost • poem by August Derleth
• 73 • Invisible Painter • poem by Alfred Dorn
• 74 • Dark Hotel • poem by Alfred Dorn
• 74 • Reversions • poem by Alfred Dorn
• 75 • The Woods Grow Darker • (1955) • poem by Leah Bodine Drake
• 76 • A Warning to Skeptics • (1951) • poem by Leah Bodine Drake
• 77 • The Pool • poem by Leah Bodine Drake
• 78 • The Word of Willow • (1956) • poem by Leah Bodine Drake
• 79 • The Gods of the Dana • (1954) • poem by Leah Bodine Drake
• 80 • The Witches • poem by Leah Bodine Drake
• 82 • The Unexplored • poem by Burnham Eaton
• 82 • Inbound • poem by Burnham Eaton
• 83 • Shadowed • poem by Burnham Eaton
• 84 • Lost Voice on this Hill • poem by Burnham Eaton
• 85 • Tropes of One Season • poem by Charles Edward Eaton
• 89 • Unicorns at Harvard • poem by Norma Farber
• 91 • Parkinson and the Octopus • poem by Norma Farber
• 91 • Witching Hour • poem by Norma Farber
• 94 • Paneled in Pine • poem by Marguerite George
• 94 • Brief Biography • poem by Marguerite George
• 95 • Here I Lie • poem by Marguerite George
• 96 • They Know • poem by Ryah Tumarkin Goodman
• 97 • Tenant • poem by Frances Angevine Gray
• 98 • Otherwhere • poem by Frances Angevine Gray
• 98 • Tapers • poem by Frances Angevine Gray
• 99 • Devil Doll • poem by Lisa Grenelle
• 100 • Nightmare • poem by R. H. Grenville
• 101 • Intuition • poem by R. H. Grenville
• 101 • Ghost • poem by R. H. Grenville
• 102 • Borderline • poem by R. H. Grenville
• 102 • The Brothers • (1958) • short story by Amy Groesbeck
• 107 • The Sands of Time • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 108 • Earth-Born • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 109 • Arachnida, Female • poem by Aletha Humphreys
• 109 • Party Bid • poem by Aletha Humphreys
• 110 • Keep Darkness • poem by Leslie Nelson Jennings
• 110 • The Yellow Cat • poem by Leslie Nelson Jennings
• 112 • A Winter Legend • poem by Geoffrey Johnson
• 113 • 250 Willow Lane • poem by Joseph Joel Keith
• 114 • Bedtime Tales • poem by Joseph Joel Keith
• 115 • Mr. Lerner • poem by Joseph Joel Keith
• 115 • Child Wife • poem by Joseph Joel Keith
• 116 • Woman Telephoning • poem by Joseph Joel Keith
• 116 • Flogged Child • poem by Joseph Joel Keith
• 117 • Sunday Edition • poem by Joseph Joel Keith
• 118 • Wolf and Tiger Dining, A. B. • poem by Joseph Joel Keith
• 118 • Salems of Oppression • poem by Joseph Joel Keith
• 119 • Old Meg of Kitrann • poem by Joseph Joel Keith
• 119 • Party Line • poem by Joseph Joel Keith
• 120 • Nightmare in Morganza • poem by Joseph Joel Keith
• 123 • Wilderness Road • (1946) • poem by Martha Keller
• 123 • Herbs and Simples • (1946) • poem by Martha Keller
• 124 • One of the Sidhe • poem by Mary Kennedy
• 126 • Prenatal Fantasy • poem by Walter H. Kerr
• 127 • The Hanged Thing • poem by Walter H. Kerr
• 127 • Vampire • poem by Walter H. Kerr
• 128 • Trap • poem by Walter H. Kerr
• 128 • The Stone • poem by Walter H. Kerr
• 129 • Evocation • poem by Herman Stowell King
• 130 • Erda • poem by Vera Bishop Konrick
• 130 • Adjuration • poem by Frank Belknap Long
• 131 • The New Adam • poem by Frank Belknap Long
• 132 • It Is Not Only the Dead • poem by Frank Belknap Long
• 133 • Since We Are Property • (1952) • poem by Lilith Lorraine
• 133 • No Escape • poem by Lilith Lorraine
• 134 • Case History • poem by Lilith Lorraine
• 134 • It May Be Like This • (1952) • poem by Lilith Lorraine
• 135 • Legend of the Hills • (1952) • poem by Lilith Lorraine
• 136 • Pause • poem by Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni
• 136 • Nightmare • poem by Anne Marx
• 137 • Elsie's House • (1958) • poem by Stanley McNail
• 138 • Lottie Mae • (1960) • poem by Stanley McNail
• 138 • The Secrets of Cisterns • (1960) • poem by Stanley McNail
• 139 • The House on Maple Hill • (1960) • poem by Stanley McNail
• 140 • The Witch • poem by Stanley McNail
• 141 • Part-Time Tenant • poem by Edna Meudt
• 142 • Second Sight • poem by H. S. Neill
• 143 • Aunt Jane • poem by Alden Nowlan [as by Alden A. Nowlan]
• 143 • Musings of an Insomniac • poem by Edith Ogutsch
• 144 • Premonition • poem by Edith Ogutsch
• 144 • Legend of Ramapo Mountain • poem by Jennie M. Palen
• 148 • Dark House in Autumn • poem by Conrad Pendleton
• 149 • Jim Desterland • (1959) • poem by Hyam Plutzik
• 150 • Black Spirit • poem by Tom Poots
• 151 • The Monster • poem by Dorothy Quick
• 151 • House of Life • (1953) • poem by Dorothy Quick
• 153 • The Forest • (1953) • poem by Dorothy Quick
• 153 • Undertone • (1953) • poem by Dorothy Quick
• 154 • Enigma • poem by Katherine Reeves
• 155 • Ghosts • (1958) • poem by Alastair Reid
• 156 • All Souls • poem by Liboria E. Romano
• 157 • Vendor • poem by Raymond Roseliep
• 158 • Professor Nocturnal • poem by Raymond Roseliep
• 160 • Black Are the Stars • poem by Raymond Roseliep
• 161 • Where Roots Tangle • poem by Raymond Roseliep
• 161 • In Time of Darkness • poem by Raymond Roseliep
• 162 • The Scissors Grinder • poem by Raymond Roseliep
• 163 • Alan • poem by Raymond Roseliep
• 164 • GI • poem by Raymond Roseliep
• 164 • Tour. In Rain • poem by Raymond Roseliep
• 165 • Synchronized • poem by Larry Rubin
• 166 • For a Poetry Reading to Which No One Came • poem by Larry Rubin
• 167 • The Druggist • poem by Larry Rubin
• 167 • Night Peril • poem by Sydney King Russell
• 168 • Warning • poem by Sydney King Russell
• 169 • The Shape of Fear • poem by Sydney King Russell
• 170 • Forecast • poem by Sydney King Russell
• 171 • Six Silver Handles • (1960) • poem by Sydney King Russell
• 172 • Perennial Mourner • (1959) • poem by Sydney King Russell
• 173 • Spectre • (1959) • poem by Sydney King Russell
• 174 • Danse Macabre • poem by Antonia Y. Schwab
• 175 • Prophecy • poem by Walter Shedlofsky
• 175 • House of Yesterday • poem by Walter Shedlofsky
• 176 • Waltz • poem by Ruth Forbes Sherry
• 177 • Deeply Gone • poem by Jon Silkin
• 181 • The Lover's Ghost • (1959) • poem by Louis Simpson
• 182 • Stranger Bride • poem by Jocelyn Macy Sloan
• 182 • And the Pear Trees Shiver • poem by Jocelyn Macy Sloan
• 183 • The Invaders • poem by Jocelyn Macy Sloan
• 184 • To the Daemon Sublimity • poem by Clark Ashton Smith (variant of To the Daemon of Sublimity)
• 184 • The Incubus of Time • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 185 • Metaphor • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 185 • Memorial • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 186 • Amor Aeternalis • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 186 • The Horologe • poem by Clark Ashton Smith
• 187 • Femme Fatale • poem by Vincent Starrett
• 187 • Romantic Episode • poem by Vincent Starrett
• 188 • The Death of Santa Claus • poem by Vincent Starrett
• 188 • A Little Night Music • poem by Felix Stefanile
• 189 • Praying Mantis • poem by Felix Stefanile
• 190 • Vampire Bride • poem by Felix Stefanile
• 191 • The Familiar Stranger • poem by Felix Stefanile
• 192 • So Separate and Strange • poem by Felix Stefanile
• 193 • Hawicks' Crossing • poem by Jane Stuart
• 195 • Heart-Summoned • poem by Jesse Stuart
• 195 • The Gone • poem by Jesse Stuart
• 196 • Spring Voices • poem by Jesse Stuart
• 196 • Two Leaves • poem by Jesse Stuart
• 197 • Extended Invitation • poem by Jesse Stuart
• 198 • Frail Hands • poem by Lucia Trent
• 199 • The Seer • poem by Lewis Turco
• 200 • Gather These Bones • poem by Lewis Turco
• 205 • Oldest Cemetery • (1958) • poem by Mark Van Doren
• 206 • Flight • (1948) • poem by Harold Vinal
• 207 • Ghostly Reaper • (1948) • poem by Harold Vinal
• 207 • Sleeping Village • (1948) • poem by Harold Vinal
• 208 • Gentleman in Oils • (1948) • poem by Harold Vinal
• 208 • A Wreath for One Lost • (1948) • poem by Harold Vinal
• 209 • We, the Few Who Believe • (1948) • poem by Harold Vinal
• 210 • Toward Avernus • (1948) • poem by Harold Vinal
• 210 • Heimdall • (1948) • poem by Harold Vinal
• 211 • The Well-Finder • (1948) • poem by Harold Vinal
• 211 • Water Sprite • poem by Donald Wandrei
• 212 • The Woman at the Window • (1938) • poem by Donald Wandrei
• 213 • The Prehistoric Huntsman • poem by Donald Wandrei
• 214 • The Challenger • (1927) • poem by Donald Wandrei
• 214 • Forest Shapes • poem by Donald Wandrei
• 215 • Lyric of Doubt • poem by Donald Wandrei
• 215 • On the Staircase • poem by Wade Wellman
• 216 • A Ballad of Despair • poem by Wade Wellman
• 217 • Fancy Fishing • poem by James L. Weil
• 218 • Companions • poem by Margaret Widdemer
• 219 • Ghost to Come • poem by Margaret Widdemer
• 220 • The Skeptic • poem by Loring Williams
• 222 • Recompense • poem by Loring Williams
• 223 • The Ghost • (1959) • poem by James Wright
• 225 • Atavism • (1921) • poem by Elinor Wylie
• 226 • Contributors (Fire and Sleet and Candlelight) • essay by uncredited