Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Foreword (Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe) • essay by Jeff VanderMeer
• Songs of a Dead Dreamer • (1985) • collection by Thomas Ligotti
• The Frolic • (1982) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Les Fleurs • (1981) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Alice's Last Adventure • (1985) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Dream of a Mannikin • (1982) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Drink to Me Only with Labyrinthine Eyes • [The Nyctalops Trilogy • 2] • (1982) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Eye of the Lynx • [The Nyctalops Trilogy • 3] • (1983) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story • (1985) • novelette by Thomas Ligotti
• The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise • (1996) • short story by Thomas Ligotti (variant of The Christmas Eves of Aunt Elise: A Tale of Possession in Old Grosse Pointe 1983)
• The Lost Art of Twilight • (1986) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• The Troubles of Dr. Thoss • (1985) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Masquerade of a Dead Sword: A Tragedie • (1989) • short story by Thomas Ligotti (variant of Masquerade of a Dead Sword 1986)
• Dr. Voke and Mr. Veech • (1983) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Professor Nobody's Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror • (1985) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Dr. Locrian's Asylum • (1987) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• The Sect of the Idiot • [Azathoth] • (1988) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• The Greater Festival of Masks • (1985) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• The Music of the Moon • (1987) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• The Journal of J. P. Drapeau • (1987) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Vastarien • (1987) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Grimscribe: His Lives and Works • (1991) • collection by Thomas Ligotti
• Introduction (Grimscribe: His Lives and Works) • (1991) • short fiction by Thomas Ligotti
• The Last Feast of Harlequin • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1990) • novelette by Thomas Ligotti
• The Spectacles in the Drawer • (1987) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Flowers of the Abyss • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Nethescurial • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• The Dreaming in Nortown • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• The Mystics of Muelenburg • (1987) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• In the Shadow of Another World • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• The Cocoons • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• The Night School • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• The Glamour • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• The Library of Byzantium • (1988) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Miss Plarr • (1991) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• The Shadow at the Bottom of the World • (1990) • short story by Thomas Ligotti