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• 5 • Prologue (Nighttouch) • essay by Gerry Goldberg
• 11 • Forget-Me-Not • (1975) • novelette by Bernard Taylor
• 11 • Preparation • poem by P. K. Page
• 20 • Old Mansion • (1924) • poem by John Crowe Ransom
• 20 • The Cupola • (1923) • poem by Louise Bogan
• 22 • The Snail-Watcher • (1964) • short story by Patricia Highsmith (variant of The Snail Watcher)
• 25 • The Wind in Winter • poem by Miroslav Holub
• 25 • The Shadow-Maker • short fiction by Gwendolyn MacEwen
• 26 • The Case of Jean Grenier (1603) (excerpt) • short fiction by Montague Summers
• 27 • Eidolon • poem by Robert Penn Warren
• 28 • The Kill • (1931) • short story by Peter Fleming
• 28 • Road Signs • poem by Dilys Henrik Jones
• 29 • The Wolves • poem by Allen Tate
• 34 • The Case of Dion Fortune (1935) • essay by Colin Wilson
• 34 • The Quest • poem by George Garrett
• 34 • from On the Nightmare (excerpt) • short fiction by Ernest Jones
• 37 • The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street • (1960) • short story by Rod Serling
• 37 • "I Can Hear His Screams" • essay by uncredited
• 38 • The Night Mirror • poem by John Hollander
• 41 • All the Roary Night • poem by Kenneth Patchen
• 47 • from Foundation of Psychopathology (excerpt) • essay by J. C. Nemiah
• 48 • The Dragon • short story by
  芥川龍之介^?Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  (trans. of
  竜^?Ryū
  1919) [as by
  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa^?Ryunosuke Akutagawa
  ]
• 48 • The Shadow of Night • poem by Coventry Patmore
• 48 • Nobody • poem by Robert Graves
• 48 • from Perelandra (excerpt) • (1943) • short fiction by C. S. Lewis
• 49 • The Horla • [Le Horla • 3] • (1903) • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• 54 • A Twilight Man • poem by Harry Guest
• 55 • Bird Cage • poem by Saint-Denys Garneau
• 61 • The Horrors of Sleep • (1846) • poem by Emily Brontë
• 61 • from An Essay in Autobiography (excerpt) • short fiction by
  Борис Пастернак^?Boris Pasternak
  [as by Boris Pasternak]
• 62 • Primitive • poem by Patricia Martland
• 63 • Mannikins of Horror • (1939) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 66 • The Man from the Top of the Mind • poem by David Wagoner
• 71 • Altamont, Dec. 1969 • essay by Leonard Wolf
• 71 • Medusa • (1943) • poem by William Alexander Percy
• 72 • The Bridge of Dread • poem by Edwin Muir
• 75 • The Olitau • essay by Ivan T. Sanderson
• 75 • A Day • poem by John Porter
• 75 • Haunted • poem by Siegfried Sassoon
• 76 • The Curse of Yig • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1959) • short story by Zealia Bishop and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Zealia Brown Bishop]
• 85 • Snake • (1955) • poem by Theodore Roethke
• 86 • Wolves Don't Cry • (1954) • short story by Bruce Elliott
• 91 • The Prisoner's Dream • poem by Eugenio Montale
• 92 • Corrida • (1968) • short story by Roger Zelazny
• 92 • The Minotaur • poem by Muriel Rukeyser
• 94 • The Night Fisherman • (1975) • short story by Martin Ricketts
• 96 • The Dragonfly • poem by Howard Nemerov
• 99 • from Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions • essay by John Lame Deer
• 99 • Solitude • essay by Thomas De Quincey
• 99 • The Snow • short story by Clifford Dyment
• 100 • Silent Snow, Secret Snow • (1932) • short story by Conrad Aiken
• 108 • The Monster Children • essay by Joyce Maynard
• 110 • Heigh and the Brand of Satan (excerpt) • (1973) • short fiction by Basil Copper
• 115 • Trial of the Blood • (1974) • short story by Barry N. Malzberg [as by K. M. O'Donnell]
• 120 • I Am Coming • poem by Philip Lamantia
• 120 • The Case of Helene-Josephine Poirer (1850) • essay by Montague Summers
• 124 • from The Occult (excerpt 1) • essay by Colin Wilson
• 124 • Robert Davidson • poem by Edgar Lee Masters
• 125 • from The Occult (excerpt 2) • essay by Colin Wilson
• 126 • Bianca's Hands • (1947) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 126 • Damn Her • poem by John Ciardi
• 130 • The Voice • (1914) • poem by Thomas Hardy
• 133 • The Premature Burial • (1844) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 133 • Invitation to the Dance • (1957) • poem by Ted Hughes
• 135 • Cool Air • (1928) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 135 • Moontan • poem by Mark Strand
• 138 • Siege • poem by Alden Nowlan
• 140 • Drugged • (1921) • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 141 • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (excerpt) • [Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde excerpts] • short fiction by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 142 • from Etudes Cliniques (excerpt) • short fiction by Dr. Morel
• 143 • The Ice Skin • (1963) • poem by James Dickey
• 144 • Blood Son • (1951) • short story by Richard Matheson (variant of "Drink My Red Blood ...")
• 145 • Words Above a Narrow Entrance • poem by David Wagoner
• 147 • The Sentry • poem by Alun Lewis
• 148 • The Image • poem by Roy Fuller
• 149 • The Hanover Vampire (1925) • essay by Montague Summers
• 153 • Mirage • poem by R. P. Blackmur
• 153 • from Blood Thoughts (excerpt) • essay by Harlan Ellison
• 156 • The Loss • poem by E. L. Mayo
• 156 • Exploration Over the Rim • poem by William Dickey
• 158 • Epilogue (Nighttouch) • essay by Gerry Goldberg