Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vii • Introduction (Ancestral Shadows: An Anthology of Ghostly Tales) • (2004) • essay by Vigen Guroian
• 3 • Ex Tenebris • (1957) • short story by Russell Kirk
• 18 • Behind the Stumps • (1950) • short story by Russell Kirk
• 33 • Uncle Isaiah • (1951) • short story by Russell Kirk
• 50 • The Surly Sullen Bell • (1950) • short story by Russell Kirk
• 68 • Balgrummo's Hell • (1967) • short story by Russell Kirk
• 85 • Lex Talionis • (1979) • novelette by Russell Kirk
• 106 • What Shadows We Pursue • (1953) • short story by Russell Kirk
• 122 • The Cellar of Little Egypt • (1962) • short story by Russell Kirk
• 137 • Fate's Purse • (1979) • novelette by Russell Kirk
• 156 • The Princess of All Lands • (1979) • short story by Russell Kirk
• 178 • Sorworth Place • [Ralph Bain] • (1952) • novelette by Russell Kirk
• 195 • Saviourgate • [Ralph Bain] • (1976) • short story by Russell Kirk
• 211 • The Last God's Dream • [Manfred Arcane] • (1979) • short story by Russell Kirk
• 250 • The Peculiar Demesne of Archvicar Gerontion • (1980) • novelette by Russell Kirk (variant of The Peculiar Demesne)
• 276 • There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding • (1976) • novelette by Russell Kirk
• 308 • Watchers at the Strait Gate • (1980) • novelette by Russell Kirk
• 326 • The Reflex-Man in Whinnymuir Close • (1983) • novelette by Russell Kirk
• 353 • The Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost • (1983) • novelette by Russell Kirk
• 395 • An Encounter by Mortstone Pond • (1984) • short story by Russell Kirk
• 402 • A Cautionary Note on the Ghostly Tale • (1962) • essay by Russell Kirk