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• 3 • Introduction (Aklo, #1) • essay by Roger Dobson and Mark Valentine
• 5 • The Dream of a Great Romance: A Preface to the Chronicle of Clemendy • (1923) • essay by Arthur Machen
• 11 • The Fire of the Wise • short story by Ron Weighell
• 20 • The Strange Case of the Reverend Montague Summers • essay by Roger Dobson
• 26 • Lautréamont-Poet of Nightmare • essay by Alexis Lykiard and Mark Valentine
• 27 • A Selection from Maldoror (extract) • [Maldoror excerpts] • short story by Comte de Lautréamont [as by Comte de Lautéamont]
• 30 • The Arthur Machen Society Appeal • essay by The Editors of Aklo
• 31 •  A Lovecraft Portfolio • interior artwork by John Coulthart
• 35 • The House of the Sun • poem by John Howard
• 38 • A Profile of John Gawsworth • essay by Steve Eng (variant of Profile: John Gawsworth 1987)
• 48 • The Poet and the Philosopher: Gawsworth and M.P. Shiel • (1950) • essay by John Gawsworth
• 52 • Ernest Dowson-Spirit of the Nineties • essay by Mark Valentine
• 53 • The Visit • (1899) • poem by Ernest Dowson
• 53 • Absinthia Taetra • (1899) • poem by Ernest Dowson
• 54 • Vita Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam • (1896) • poem by Ernest Dowson
• 54 • Extreme Unction • (1896) • poem by Ernest Dowson
• 55 • Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae • (1896) • poem by Ernest Dowson
• 56 • Double Cross • short story by Joel Lane
• 63 • Richard Middleton at the New Bohemians • essay by Arthur Machen
• bc •  Aklo, #1, 1988 • interior artwork by Nicholas Blinko