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• xiii • Introduction: In Search of Masterpieces • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 1 • Fiends and Creatures • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 3 • Dracula's Guest • [Dracula] • (1914) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 14 • The Professor's Teddy Bear • (1948) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon (variant of The Professor's Teddy-Bear)
• 24 • Bubnoff and the Devil • (1975) • short story by
  Иван Тургенев^?Ivan Turgenev
  (trans. of
  Похождения подпоручика Бубнова^?Pokhozhdeniya podporuchika Bubnova
  1842) [as by Ivan Turgenev]
• 31 • The Quest for Blank Claveringi • (1967) • short story by Patricia Highsmith
• 44 • The Erl-King • poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. of
  Der Erlkönig^?Der Erlkoenig
  1782)
• 46 • The Bottle Imp • (1891) • novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 71 • A Malady of Magicks • [Ebenezum] • (1978) • short story by Craig Shaw Gardner
• 86 • Lan Lung • (1980) • novelette by M. Lucie Chin
• 106 • The Dragon Over Hackensack • poem by Richard L. Wexelblat
• 107 • The Transformation • short story by Mary Shelley [as by Mary W. Shelley]
• 122 • The Faceless Thing • (1963) • short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 127 • Lovers and Other Monsters • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 129 • The Anchor • (1947) • short story by Jack Snow
• 134 • When the Clock Strikes • (1980) • short story by Tanith Lee
• 149 • Oshidori • (1904) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• 151 • Carmilla • [Martin Hesselius] • (1970) • novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by Sheridan LeFanu]
• 214 • Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory • (1979) • novelette by Orson Scott Card (variant of Eumenides in the Fourth-Floor Lavatory)
• 229 • Lenore • (1985) • poem by Gottfried August Bürger (trans. of Lenore 1774)
• 237 • The Black Wedding • (1958) • short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer (trans. of Di shvarts-khasene unknown)
• 245 • Hop-Frog • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Hop-Frog; or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs 1849)
• 254 • Sardonicus • (1961) • novelette by Ray Russell
• 286 • Graveyard Shift • (1960) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 291 • Wake Not the Dead • (1823) • novelette by Ernst Raupach (trans. of
  Laßt die Todten ruhen^?Lasst die Todten ruhen
  1822) [as by Johann Ludwig Tieck (in error)]
• 314 • Night and Silence • non-genre • (1922) • short story by Maurice Level (trans. of La nuit et le silence 1906)
• 319 • Acts of God and Other Horrors • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 321 • Flies • (1953) • short story by Isaac Asimov
• 328 • The Night Wire • (1926) • short story by H. F. Arnold
• 335 • Last Respects • (1975) • short story by Dick Baldwin
• 340 • The Pool of the Stone God • (1923) • short story by A. Merritt
• 344 • A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor • (1955) • poem by Ogden Nash
• 348 • The Tree • (1939) • short story by Dylan Thomas
• 355 • Stroke of Mercy • (1981) • novelette by Parke Godwin
• 374 • Lazarus • short story by
  Леонид Андреев^?Leonid Andreyev
  (trans. of
  Елеазар^?Yeleazar
  1906) [as by Leonid Andreyev]
• 391 • The Beast Within • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 393 • The Waxwork • (1931) • short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X]
• 404 • The Silent Couple • (1985) • short story by Pierre Courtois (trans. of La maison du silence 1826)
• 408 • Moon-Face • non-genre • (1902) • short story by Jack London
• 413 • Death in the School-Room • (1841) • short story by Walt Whitman
• 419 • The Upturned Face • non-genre • (1900) • short story by Stephen Crane
• 423 • One Summer Night • (1906) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 425 • The Easter Egg • non-genre • (1930) • short story by Saki [as by H. H. Munro]
• 429 • The House in Goblin Wood • non-genre • (1947) • novelette by John Dickson Carr
• 448 • The Vengeance of Nitocris • (1928) • short story by Tennessee Williams
• 459 • The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew • non-genre • (1911) • short story by Damon Runyon
• 472 • His Unconquerable Enemy • (1889) • short story by W. C. Morrow
• 481 • Rizpah • (1880) • poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Lord Alfred Tennyson]
• 486 • The Question • (1962) • short story by Stanley Ellin (variant of The Question My Son Asked)
• 495 • Ghosts and Miscellaneous Nightmares • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 497 • The Flayed Hand • [La main d'écorché • 1] • (1904) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of
  La main d'écorché^?La main d'ecorche
  1875)
• 502 • The Hospice • (1975) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 533 • The Christmas Banquet • (1843) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 549 • The Hungry House • (1951) • novelette by Robert Bloch
• 566 • The Demon of the Gibbet • (1881) • poem by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 568 • The Owl • (unknown) • short fiction by Anatole Le Braz (trans. of La chouette 1897)
• 575 • No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
• 588 • The Music of Erich Zann • [Erich Zann] • (1922) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 596 • Riddles in the Dark • (1972) • short story by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 609 • Afterword: Is Terror a Dying Art? • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 615 • Miscellaneous Notes (Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural) • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 619 • Selected Bibliography (Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural) • essay by Marvin Kaye