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• xi • Introduction (Whispers) • essay by Stuart David Schiff
• 1 • Sticks • [Cthulhu Mythos short fiction] • (1974) • novelette by Karl Edward Wagner
• 21 • The Barrow Troll • (1975) • short story by David Drake
• 31 • The Glove • (1975) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 43 • The Closer of the Way • short story by Robert Bloch
• 55 • Dark Winner • (1976) • short story by William F. Nolan
• 58 •  Sticks • interior artwork by Stephen Fabian
• 59 •  Dark Winner • interior artwork by Lee Brown Coye
• 62 • Ladies in Waiting • (1975) • short story by Hugh B. Cave
• 71 • White Moon Rising • short story by Dennis Etchison
• 86 • Graduation • short story by Richard Christian Matheson
• 99 • Mirror, Mirror • short story by Ray Russell
• 103 • The House of Cthulhu • [Cthulhu Mythos short fiction] • (1973) • short story by Brian Lumley
• 106 •  The House of Cthulhu • interior artwork by Mike Garcia
• 107 •  The Inglorious Rise of the Catsmeat Man • interior artwork by Tim Kirk
• 115 • Antiquities • short story by John Crowley
• 123 • A Weather Report from the Top of the Stairs • (1973) • short story by David Lunde and James Sallis
• 130 • The Scallion Stone • novelette by Basil A. Smith
• 146 • The Inglorious Rise of the Catsmeat Man • (1971) • short story by Robin Smyth
• 153 • The Pawnshop • short story by Charles E. Fritch
• 154 •  The Willow Platform • interior artwork by Frank Utpatel
• 155 •  Goat • interior artwork by George Barr
• 160 • Le Miroir • short story by Robert Aickman
• 169 • The Willow Platform • (1973) • short story by Joseph Payne Brennan
• 184 • The Dakwa • [Lee Cobbett] • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 199 • Goat • (1971) • short story by David Campton
• 210 • The Chimney • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 225 • Afterword (Whispers) • essay by Stuart David Schiff