Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• vii • Introduction (Poe's Children: The New Horror) • (2008) • essay by Peter Straub
• 3 • The Bees • (2003) • short story by Dan Chaon
• 23 • Cleopatra Brimstone • (2001) • novella by Elizabeth Hand
• 80 • The Man on the Ceiling • (2000) • novelette by Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem
• 105 • The Great God Pan • (1988) • novelette by M. John Harrison
• 130 • The Voice of the Beach • (1982) • novelette by Ramsey Campbell
• 162 • The Body • (2008) • short story by Brian Evenson (variant of Body 2004)
• 173 • Louise's Ghost • (2001) • novelette by Kelly Link
• 206 • The Sadness of Detail • (1989) • short story by Jonathan Carroll
• 218 • Leda • (2002) • short story by M. Rickert
• 232 • In Praise of Folly • (1992) • short story by Thomas Tessier
• 247 • Plot Twist • (2002) • short story by David J. Schow
• 265 • The Two Sams • (2002) • short story by Glen Hirshberg
• 284 • Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story • (1985) • novelette by Thomas Ligotti
• 304 • Unearthed • (2006) • short story by Benjamin Percy
• 319 • Gardener of Heart • (2005) • short story by Bradford Morrow
• 334 • Little Red's Tango • (2002) • novelette by Peter Straub
• 374 • The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet • (1984) • novella by Stephen King
• 428 • 20th Century Ghost • (2002) • short story by Joe Hill
• 449 • The Green Glass Sea • (2004) • short story by Ellen Klages
• 459 • The Kiss • (1999) • novelette by Tia V. Travis
• 487 • Black Dust • (2001) • short story by Graham Joyce
• 502 • October in the Chair • (2002) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• 516 • Missolonghi 1824 • (1990) • short story by John Crowley
• 528 • Insect Dreams • (2003) • novella by Rosalind Palermo Stevenson
• 579 • Credits (Poe's Children: The New Horror) • (2008) • essay by uncredited
• 583 • About the Authors (Poe's Children: The New Horror) • (2008) • essay by uncredited