Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• ix • Introduction (The Ancient Mysteries Reader) • essay by Peter Haining
• 1 • Subterranean Worlds • essay by Peter Haining
• 5 • MS. Found in a Bottle • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1833) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 16 • The Coming Race (excerpt) • (1871) • short fiction by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• 35 • Prehistoric Man • essay by Peter Haining
• 38 • The Grisly Folk • (1921) • essay by H. G. Wells
• 53 • The Mound Builders • (1876) • essay by Lafcadio Hearn
• 59 • Mythology • essay by Peter Haining
• 62 • The Shining Pyramid • (1895) • novelette by Arthur Machen
• 86 • The Call of Cthulhu • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1928) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 115 • Lost Races • essay by Peter Haining
• 119 • The Moon Pool • [Walter Goodwin] • (1918) • novella by A. Merritt
• 163 • The Terror of Blue John Gap • (1974) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 179 • Ancient Civilizations • essay by Peter Haining
• 182 • The Valley of the Sorceress • (1916) • short story by Sax Rohmer (variant of In the Valley of the Sorceress)
• 198 • A New God Was Born • (1975) • essay by B. Traven
• 205 • Legendary Continents • essay by Peter Haining
• 209 • The Lost Continent • (1960) • short story by Geoffrey Household
• 222 • An Offering to the Moon • (1953) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 233 • Mysterious Monuments • essay by Peter Haining
• 236 • The Secret of Stonehenge • (1968) • short story by Harry Harrison
• 241 • The Bald-Headed Mirage • (1960) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 255 • Monsters • essay by Peter Haining
• 258 • Creature of the Snows • (1960) • short story by William Sambrot
• 270 • The Convenient Monster • [Simon Templar] • (1959) • novelette by Leslie Charteris
• 297 • Gods from the Skies? • essay by Peter Haining
• 301 • The Cave of History • (1947) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon (variant of The Sky Was Full of Ships)
• 313 • Men Without Bones • (1954) • short story by Gerald Kersh