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• 11 • Introduction: One Foot Out of the Grave • essay by Tony Barnstone and Michelle Mitchell-Foust
• 23 • Depraved Cogitation • (2011) • poem by Henry Israeli
• 25 • Night of the Living, Night of the Dead • (2000) • poem by Kim Addonizio
• 27 • Der Totentanz (The Dance of the Dead) • (1874) • poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. of Der Totentanz 1813)
• 30 • Zombies • poem by Bryan D. Dietrich [as by Bryan Dietrich]
• 32 • Dead Man's Hate • (1930) • poem by Robert E. Howard
• 35 • Puck's Nighttime Speech (from "A Midsummer Night's Dream") • poem by William Shakespeare
• 36 • On Two of Signorelli's Frescoes • (1883) • poem by Eugene Lee-Hamilton [as by Eugene Lee Hamilton]
• 38 • The Book of the Dead Man (Medusa) • poem by Marvin Bell (variant of The Book of the Dead Man #11 1994)
• 41 • The Sleeper • (1841) • poem by Edgar Allan Poe
• 44 • Metamorphoses of the Vampire • (1983) • poem by Charles Baudelaire (trans. of Les métamorphoses du vampire 1857)
• 46 • The Revenant • (2008) • poem by Tony Barnstone
• 47 • From "The Giaour" • poem by Lord George Gordon Byron [as by George Gordon, Lord Byron]
• 49 • All Hallows Eve • poem by William Baer
• 53 • The Death of Dracula (A Song from "AIDS: The Musical") • (1991) • poem by Michael Hulse
• 56 • Sarah Winchester, 23 Years Dead, Watches House of Dracula • (2013) • poem by Alexandra Teague
• 58 • Blade, The Daywalker • (2012) • poem by Tim Seibles
• 60 • Blade, Historical • (2012) • poem by Tim Seibles
• 62 • The Vampire • poem by Conrad Aiken (variant of The Vampire: 1914 1924)
• 67 • Count Orlok • poem by Jim Stewart (Canada)
• 69 • My Childhood Nightmares Unfolded in Serial Narrative • poem by Tony Trigilio
• 71 • The View from Harold Way • (2008) • poem by Sarah Maclay
• 75 • Dead Hoodlums • poem by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Los compadritos muertos 1965)
• 76 • Ghost Tango • (2013) • poem by
  Sholeh Wolpé^?Sholeh Wolpe
• 77 • Words for Spring • (2005) • poem by Alan Michael Parker
• 80 • In the Dust • (2004) • poem by Matthew Sweeney
• 81 • The Afterlife: Letter to Sam Hamill • (1999) • poem by Hayden Carruth
• 83 • Nocturne • (1986) • poem by Li-Young Lee
• 84 • We Are Seven • (1798) • poem by William Wordsworth
• 88 • I Last Saw My Mother • (1991) • poem by Gary Young
• 89 • No. 670 (One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted—) • (1891) • poem by Emily Dickinson
• 90 • Haunted • (2013) • poem by Charles Harper Webb
• 92 • Ghost House • (1906) • poem by Robert Frost
• 94 • Daniel • (2007) • poem by David Orr
• 95 • From "Little Gidding" • poem by T. S. Eliot
• 99 • Paint • (2003) • poem by David Daniel (I)
• 100 • The Shadow on the Stone • (1917) • poem by Thomas Hardy
• 101 • Goodbye to a Poltergeist • (1977) • poem by Mark Jarman
• 103 • I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee • (1952) • poem by Howard Nemerov
• 105 • The Ghost of King Hamlet (from "Hamlet") • poem by William Shakespeare
• 108 • Labuntur et Imputantur • (1996) • poem by Ciarán Carson
• 109 • Voices from the Other World • (1957) • poem by James Merrill
• 111 • From "The Invisible" • poem by Charles Simic
• 112 • Ghosts • (1961) • poem by Anne Sexton
• 113 • Ghost • (1983) • poem by Harold Pinter
• 114 • The White Ghosts • (2005) • poem by Richard Garcia
• 116 • Hotel Window • (1994) • poem by Edward Hirsch
• 118 • The Apparition • (1633) • poem by John Donne
• 119 • Gas-Lamp Ghost • (1918) • poem by Richard Hunt
• 120 • As If a Phantom Caress'd Me • (1855) • poem by Walt Whitman
• 121 • The Inheritance • (1916) • poem by D. H. Lawrence
• 123 • The Unquiet Grave • (1868) • poem by uncredited
• 125 • Sonnet 23: Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint • (1673) • poem by John Milton
• 126 • (Weathervane) Pirate Ship of the Dead • poem by Derek Dew
• 127 • Blue Dementia • (2005) • poem by Yusef Komunyakaa
• 129 • The Ghosts (from "The Song of Hiawatha") • poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (variant of The Ghosts 1947)
• 132 • Great-Grandmother's Young Ghost • (2008) • poem by Molly Peacock
• 133 • In Order to Talk with the Dead • (1993) • poem by Jorge Teillier (trans. of Para hablar con los muertos 1965)
• 134 • The Panther • (2011) • poem by William Stobb
• 137 • Incantation of the Spirits of Earth and Air (from "Manfred") • poem by Lord George Gordon Byron [as by George Gordon, Lord Byron]
• 140 • From "The Ghosts of the Buffaloes" • poem by Vachel Lindsay
• 143 • The Dead King Eats the Gods • (1998) • poem by uncredited
• 149 • From "Zahhak's Burning Tehran" • poem by Amin Esmaielpour
• 154 • From Hell, Mister Lusk • (2001) • poem by Michelle Mitchell-Foust
• 156 • Canto XIII: The Wood of Suicides (from "The Inferno") • poem by Dante Alighieri
• 161 • Night of Hell • (2007) • poem by Arthur Rimbaud (trans. of Nuit de l'Enfer 1873)
• 163 • Satan's Speech to the Fallen Angels (From "Paradise Lost") • non-genre • poem by John Milton
• 168 • The Gardener • (1987) • poem by Stephen Dobyns
• 171 • Mephistopheles • (1961) • poem by
  Борис Пастернак^?Boris Pasternak
  (trans. of
  Мефистофель^?Mefistofel'
  1919) [as by Boris Pasternak]
• 173 • Nemesis • (1918) • poem by H. P. Lovecraft
• 176 • Howl, Part II • poem by Allen Ginsberg
• 179 • The Whale (From "The Middle English Physiologus") • poem by Anonymous
• 181 • The Whale • (1964) • poem by Bishop Theobaldus
• 183 • From "The Devil's Walk" • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
• 187 • Lucifer in Starlight • (1883) • poem by George Meredith
• 188 • From "Faust" • [Faust] • (1984) • poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• 191 • Hades' Pitch • (1995) • poem by Rita Dove
• 192 • Devil's Tattoo • (1999) • poem by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill (trans. of Stigmata)
• 194 • In the Pines • (1998) • poem by David St. John (I)
• 200 • Demons • (1982) • poem by
  Александр Пушкин^?Alexander Pushkin
  (trans. of
  Бесы^?Besy
  1830) [as by Alexander Pushkin]
• 203 • Deus Ex Machina • (2008) • poem by Jennifer Clement
• 205 • From "The Oldest Legend of Ancestors" (Oral epic of the De Ang people) • poem by Anonymous
• 210 • Sonnet 100 • (1633) • poem by Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke
• 211 • The Second Coming • (1920) • poem by W. B. Yeats [as by William Butler Yeats]
• 212 • Beast from the Sea (From "The Book of Revelation") • poem by Anonymous
• 214 • The World • non-genre • (1862) • poem by Christina Rossetti
• 215 • Incubus • (1983) • poem by Charles Baudelaire (trans. of Le revenant 1857)
• 216 • Enkidu's Dream of the Underworld (From "The Epic of Gilgamesh) • poem by Anonymous
• 218 • The Land of the Dead (from "The Odyssey") • [The Iliad and The Odyssey] • poem by Homer
• 220 • Address (From "Suite for Emily") • (1995) • poem by Lynda Hull
• 223 • No. 712 (Because I Could Not Stop for Death) • (1955) • poem by Emily Dickinson (variant of Because I Could Not Stop for Death 1890)
• 225 • Flute Playing the Death of Thisbe (from "A Midsummer Night's Dream") • poem by William Shakespeare
• 226 • Death, to the Dead for Evermore • non-genre • (1916) • poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 226 • Skeleton • (2011) • poem by Suzanne Roberts (poet)
• 227 • Instructions for a Journey • (1984) • poem by Grace Schulman
• 230 • The Angel Opened • (2000) • poem by Dana Curtis
• 231 • Questions about Angels • (1991) • poem by Billy Collins
• 233 • Isis Unveiled • (1998) • poem by Edward Hirsch
• 235 • To Kitty, Who Loved the Sea and Somerset Maugham • poem by Hélène Cardona
• 236 • Halo • (2007) • poem by C. K. Williams
• 239 • From "Psalm 18" • (1989) • poem by King David
• 241 • God of the Gas Chambers, Where Are You Hiding? • poem by Willis Barnstone
• 242 • The Refinery • (1990) • poem by Robert Pinsky
• 245 • Monsters I've Met • (1981) • poem by Shel Silverstein
• 245 •  Monsters I've Met • (1981) • interior artwork by Shel Silverstein
• bc •  Death • interior artwork by uncredited