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•  Endpaper Art • interior artwork by Stephen Player
• xiii • Introduction: You Are Here Because You Want the Real Thing • (1986) • essay by Stephen King
• 1 • Weaver of Wonders • (1987) • essay by Ramsey Campbell
• 5 • Introduction (Night Visions 4) • (1987) • essay by Clive Barker
• 9 • Clive Barker: Anarchic Prince of Horror • (1987) • essay by Stephen Jones
• 23 • Give Me B Movies or Give Me Death! • (1985) • essay by Douglas E. Winter
• 43 • Little House of Horrors: Master of Gore Lives It Up on Blood Money • (1988) • essay by Juliet Warman
• 47 • A Little Bit of Hamlet • interview of Clive Barker • interview by Dennis Etchison
• 69 • Stephen King: Surviving the Ride • (1986) • essay by Clive Barker
• 77 • Some Harsh Words for the Critics from Ballard and Barker • (1987) • essay by Rodney Burbeck
• 83 • Ramsey Campbell: An Appreciation • (1986) • essay by Clive Barker
• 89 • Terror Tactics • (1988) • essay by John Brosnan
• 95 • Who's Afraid of Clive Barker? The Titan of Terror and His Studies in Dread Reckoning • (1988) • essay by David Streitfeld
• 111 •   Review: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe • (1988) • review by Clive Barker
• 115 • A Dog's Tale • essay by Peter Atkins
• 149 • Hell Hound • (1986) • essay by Anne Billson
• 155 • Introduction: Books of Blood • (1984) • essay by Ramsey Campbell
• 157 • The Delights of Dread: Clive Barker's First Three Books of Blood • essay by Michael A. Morrison
• 173 • Monsters, Miracles, and Revelations: Clive Barker's Tales of Transformation (The Second Three Books of Blood) • essay by Michael A. Morrison
• 185 • Meet Clive Barker • (1986) • interview of Clive Barker • interview by Stefan Jaworzyn and Philip Nutman
• 191 • Horror in Print: Clive Barker • (1986) • interview of Clive Barker • interview by Stanley Wiater
• 201 • Clive Barker: Renaissance Hellraiser • (1987) • interview of Clive Barker • interview by Leanne C. Harper
• 209 • Talking Terror with Clive Barker • (1987) • interview of Clive Barker • interview by Douglas E. Winter
• 215 • Every Fear is a Desire • interview of Clive Barker • interview by Lisa Tuttle
• 227 • From Here to Quiddity: Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show • essay by Gary Hoppenstand
• 263 • Big Chills • (1987) • essay by Clive Barker
• 271 • Gangsters vs. Mutants • (1991) • essay by Philip Nutman
• 279 • Blood and Cheap Thrills • (1987) • essay by Alan Jones
• 289 • Slime Time • essay by Kim Newman
• 295 • King of the Gory Tellers • (1986) • essay by Neil Gaiman
• 299 • Raising Hell with Clive Barker • (1987) • essay by Douglas E. Winter
• 307 • Sex in the Attic with Devilhead Slime • (1987) • essay by Joe Bob Briggs
• 309 • Clive Barker: Hellraiser • (1987) • essay by Nigel Floyd
• 319 • See You in Hell, Darling • (1989) • essay by Alan Jones
• 323 • Go Straight to Hell • (1988) • essay by Edwin Pouncey
• 327 • Hellbound: Bringing It to Light • essay by Peter Atkins
• 335 • Introduction: Nightbreed • (1990) • essay by Clive Barker
• 341 • Frights of Fancy • (1989) • essay by Nigel Floyd
• 347 • Knocking on the Glass • (1988) • essay by Peter Atkins and Clive Barker
• 359 • Introduction: Taboo • (1988) • essay by Clive Barker
• 361 • Flame On! • interview of Clive Barker • interview by Neil Gaiman
• 379 • Foreword: Swamp Thing • (1987) • essay by Clive Barker
• 381 • Die Laughing! Clive Barker in Conversation with Tim Burton • (1989) • essay by Mark Salisbury
• 389 • An Introduction: The Bare Bones • (1987) • essay by Clive Barker
• 393 • Eroticizing the World • (1987) • interview of Clive Barker • interview by G. Dair
• 397 • To See or Not to See • (1987) • essay by Clive Barker
• 401 • On Censorship • essay by Clive Barker
• 403 • Beneath the Blanket of Banality • (1988) • interview of Clive Barker • interview by Lionel Gracey-Whitman and Don Melia
• 425 • Clive Barker: A Working Bibliography • essay by Stephen Jones
• 455 • Shadows in Eden: Afterword • essay by Clive Barker