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• 13 • Foreword (The Magicians: Occult Stories) • essay by Peter Haining
• 15 • Introduction (The Magicians: Occult Stories) • essay by Colin Wilson
• 27 • The Black Mass (excerpt) • (1891) • short fiction by Joris-Karl Huysmans (trans. of Là-bas : "La messe du chanoine Docre")
• 38 • The Magus (excerpt) • essay by Eliphas Levi
• 50 • A Story of the Mystical • (1875) • short story by Helena P. Blavatsky [as by Madame Blavatsky]
• 61 • An Experiment In Necromancy (excerpt) • short fiction by Aleister Crowley
• 71 • Rosa Alchemica • (1914) • short story by W. B. Yeats
• 91 • Strange Occurrence in Clerkenwell • (1895) • short story by Arthur Machen
• 116 • The Return of the Ritual • [Dr. Taverner • 2] • (1922) • short story by Dion Fortune
• 134 • Playing with Fire • (1966) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 149 • Breath of Allah • [The Mysterious Abû Tabâh • 5] • (1918) • short story by Sax Rohmer
• 170 • Lucifer Over London • (1950) • short story by Lewis Spence
• 181 • With Intent to Steal • (1906) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
• 205 • The Witch Cult (excerpt) • short fiction by Gerald B. Gardner [as by Gerald Gardner]
• 220 • Afterword (The Magicians: Occult Stories) • essay by Peter Haining