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• 7 • Foreword (The Unspeakable People) • (1969) • essay by August Derleth
• 9 • Preface (The Unspeakable People) • (1969) • essay by Peter Haining
• 11 • The Monk (excerpt from The Monk: A Romance) • short fiction by Matthew Gregory Lewis
• 26 • The Raven • (1845) • poem by Edgar Allan Poe
• 32 • The Bird Woman • (1863) • short story by Henry Spicer
• 36 • My Own Tale • (1907) • short story by R. H. Benson [as by Robert Hugh Benson]
• 46 • Williamson • [Gerald Canevin] • (1946) • short story by Henry S. Whitehead (variant of "Williamson")
• 66 • A Thing of Beauty • (1963) • short story by Wallace West
• 75 • The Outsider • [Dream Cycle] • (1926) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 83 • The Loved Dead • (1924) • short story by C. M. Eddy, Jr. and H. P. Lovecraft [as by C. M. Eddy, Jr.]
• 95 • The Copper Bowl • non-genre • (1928) • short story by George Fielding Eliot
• 109 • The Feast in the Abbey • (1935) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 118 • The Cathedral Crypt • (1935) • short story by John Wyndham [as by John Beynon Harris]
• 125 • The Graveyard Rats • (1936) • short story by Henry Kuttner
• 134 • Bianca's Hands • (1947) • short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 145 • The Head and the Feet • (1940) • short story by C. S. Forester
• 160 • The Idol of the Flies • (1942) • short story by Jane Rice
• 186 • A Night at a Cottage ... • (1926) • short story by Richard Hughes
• 190 • The Shape of Things • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of Tomorrow's Child)
• 209 • Desire and the Black Masseur • (1948) • short story by Tennessee Williams
• 219 • The Coffin (excerpt from The Ka of Gifford Hillary) • (1956) • short fiction by Dennis Wheatley
• 233 • Mercy • (1967) • short story by Laurence James