Contents (view Concise Listing)

• xvii • Introduction (100 Wild Little Weird Tales) • (1994) • essay by Stefan Dziemianowicz
• 1 • Across the Gulf • (1926) • short story by Henry S. Whitehead
• 9 • Alice and the Allergy • (1946) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 16 • Anton's Last Dream • (1937) • short story by Edwin Baird
• 23 • The Archfiend's Fingers • (1932) • short story by Kirk Mashburn
• 27 • Berenice • non-genre • (1850) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Berenice—A Tale 1835)
• 34 • The Black Madonna • non-genre • (1928) • short story by A. W. Wyville
• 37 • The Black Monk • (1938) • short story by G. G. Pendarves
• 44 • The Boat on the Beach • (1930) • short story by Kadra Maysi
• 50 • Burnt Things • (1930) • short story by Robert C. Sandison
• 58 • Cat's Cradle • (1952) • short story by E. W. Tomlinson
• 63 • The Cavern • (1938) • short story by Gertrude Gordon and Manly Wade Wellman [as by Manly Wade Wellman]
• 70 • The Chain • non-genre • (1928) • short story by H. Warner Munn
• 78 • The Church Stove at Raebrudafisk • non-genre • (1927) • short story by G. Appleby Terrill
• 85 • The Closed Door • (1933) • short story by Harold Ward
• 92 • Country House • non-genre • (1949) • short story by Ewen Whyte
• 99 • The Cracks of Time • (1948) • short story by Dorothy Quick
• 108 • The Cripple • non-genre • (1933) • short story by Maurice Level (trans. of L'infirme 1919)
• 112 • Cross of Fire • (1939) • short story by Lester del Rey
• 119 • Dark Rosaleen • (1950) • short story by Seabury Quinn
• 127 • The Death Mist • (1932) • short story by Captain George H. Daugherty, Jr.
• 131 • The Disinterment of Venus • [Averoigne] • (1934) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 138 • The Doom That Came to Sarnath • [Dream Cycle] • (1920) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 143 • Dream Justice • (1932) • short story by E. W. Mayo
• 145 • A Dream of Death • non-genre • (1936) • short story by Andrew Daw
• 150 • The Dream of Death • (1925) • short story by Elwood F. Pierce
• 154 • Eric Martin's Nemesis • (1937) • short story by J. Wilmer Benjamin [as by Jay Wilmer Benjamin]
• 161 • Escape • (1938) • short story by Paul Ernst
• 167 • The Extra Passenger • (1947) • short story by August Derleth [as by Stephen Grendon]
• 174 • The Feast in the Abbey • (1935) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 180 • Fidel Bassin • non-genre • (1925) • short story by W. J. Stamper
• 187 • The Fifth Candle • (1939) • short story by George R. Hahn and Richard Levin [as by Cyril Mand]
• 194 • The Finishing Touches • (1931) • short story by Renier Wyers
• 199 • A Gipsy Prophecy • (1937) • short story by Bram Stoker (variant of The Gipsy Prophecy 1914)
• 207 • The Girdle • (1927) • short story by Joseph McCord
• 212 • The Gloves • (1953) • short story by Garnett Radcliffe
• 217 • The Harbor of Ghosts • (1936) • short story by M. J. Bardine
• 224 • The Hate • (1928) • short story by Wilford Allen
• 226 • The Haunted Wood of Adoure • (1930) • short story by Elliott O'Donnell [as by Elliot O'Donnell]
• 234 • The Hidden Talent of Artist Bates • (1948) • short story by Snowden T. Herrick
• 239 • The High Places • (1939) • short story by Frances Garfield
• 244 • His Brother's Keeper • non-genre • (1994) • short story by George Fielding Eliot [as by Captain George Fielding Eliot]
• 247 • The Hunch • (1939) • short story by Gene Lyle, III
• 251 • Hypnos • [Dream Cycle] • (1922) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 257 • I Can't Wear White • (1953) • short story by Suzanne Pickett
• 264 • In the Dark • (1936) • short story by Ronal Kayser
• 269 • The Iron Hands of Katzaveere • (1952) • short story by David Eynon
• 276 • The Japanese Tea Set • (1952) • short story by Francis J. O'Neil
• 283 • The Justice of the Czar • non-genre • (1928) • short story by George Fielding Eliot [as by Captain George Fielding Eliot]
• 289 • The Last Drive • (1933) • short story by Carl Jacobi
• 293 • The Last Incantation • [Malygris] • (1930) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 297 • The Last Man • (1950) • short story by Seabury Quinn
• 306 • The Last of Mrs. DeBrugh • (1937) • short story by H. Sivia
• 310 • The Late Mourner • (1934) • short story by Julius Long
• 313 • The Man in the Taxi • (1937) • short story by Leslie Gordon Barnard
• 316 • The Man Who Was Saved • (1926) • short story by B. W. Sliney
• 323 • Masquerade • (1937) • short story by Mearle Prout
• 328 • Mr. Bauer and the Atoms • (1946) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• 334 • Muggridge's Aunt • (1935) • short story by August Derleth [as by August W. Derleth]
• 340 • Murder Man • (1949) • short story by Ewen Whyte
• 348 • Murder Mask • (1937) • short story by Edgar Daniel Kramer
• 355 • The Murderer • (1930) • short story by Murray Leinster
• 361 • Night and Silence • non-genre • (1922) • short story by Maurice Level (trans. of La nuit et le silence 1906)
• 365 • The Nightmare Road • (1934) • short story by Florence Crow
• 370 • No Eye-Witnesses • (1932) • short story by Henry S. Whitehead
• 378 • Nude with a Dagger • (1934) • short story by Jean Ray (trans. of Le tableau 1925) [as by John Flanders]
• 381 • The Ocean Ogre • (1937) • short story by Dana Carroll
• 389 • Off the Map • (1954) • short story by Rex Dolphin
• 397 • On Top • non-genre • (1933) • short story by Ralph Allen Lang
• 400 • One Chance • non-genre • (1935) • short story by Ethel Helene Coen
• 401 • The Other Santa • (1949) • short story by Thorp McClusky
• 409 • A Pair of Swords • (1933) • short story by Carl Jacobi
• 412 • The Pale Man • (1934) • short story by Julius Long
• 418 • Parthenope • (1953) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 422 • The Phantom Bus • (1930) • short story by W. Elwyn Backus
• 427 • Rendezvous • (1936) • short story by Richard H. Hart
• 433 • The Ring • (1932) • short story by J. M. Fry
• 440 • The Sealed Casket • (1935) • short story by Richard F. Searight
• 446 • The Seeds from Outside • (1937) • short story by Edmond Hamilton
• 450 • The Sixth Gargoyle • (1951) • short story by David Eynon
• 457 • Soul-Catcher • (1927) • short story by Robert S. Carr
• 464 • The Statue • (1943) • short story by James Causey
• 472 • The Stranger from Kurdistan • [Ismeddin] • (1925) • short story by E. Hoffmann Price
• 478 • Swamp Horror • (1926) • short story by R. J. Robbins and Will Smith
• 487 • Take the Z Train • (1950) • short story by Allison V. Harding (variant of Take the Z-Train)
• 493 • The Teakwood Box • (1938) • short story by Johns Harrington
• 498 • These Doth the Lord Hate • (1939) • short story by Manly Wade Wellman
• 503 • Thinker • (1949) • short story by Malcolm Kenneth Murchie
• 510 • Threshold of Endurance • (1946) • short story by Betsy Emmons
• 512 • Top of the World • (1935) • short story by Tarleton Collier
• 517 • The Tree of Life • (1930) • short story by Paul Ernst
• 522 • The Tryst in the Tomb • non-genre • (1928) • short story by M. J. Cain
• 527 • Under the Eaves • (1932) • short story by Helen M. Reid
• 530 • The Unveiling • (1940) • short story by Alfred I. Tooke
• 534 • The Violet Death • (1935) • short story by Gustav Meyrink (trans. of Der violette Tod 1902)
• 539 • A Visitor from Far Away • (1936) • short story by Loretta Burrough
• 545 • Warning Wings • (1929) • short story by Arlton Eadie
• 551 • What Waits in Darkness • (1935) • short story by Loretta Burrough
• 557 • When the Sea Gives Up Its Dead • (1929) • short story by Robert Peery
• 565 • The Witch-Baiter • (1927) • short story by Anthony M. Rud [as by R. Anthony]
• 572 • The Witch-Ball • (1928) • short story by E. F. Benson