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• xii • Legacy of the Corridor • (2022) • essay by Joe Monson
• xv • A Light in the Darkness That Cannot Be Hid • essay by Joe Monson
• xvii • The Power of Story • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 3 • The Persistence of Darkness • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 13 • The Epic of Dune: Epic Traditions in Modern Science Fiction • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 21 • To Name a Genre • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 26 • Literature, Genre, Horror...and Mormons—What? • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 33 • Monsters: Through a Perspective Glass • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 36 • On a Dark and Narrow Way • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 43 • ...Is Death • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 45 • "Night's Plutonian Shore" • (2010) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 47 • In the House Beyond the Field • (2010) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 49 • The Dweller on the Edge of Day • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 50 • Warren—Portrait of the Artist as a Neurotic • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 51 • Warren Evaluates the Effects of Aripiprazole • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 52 • Warren Says Farewell to His Father's Ghost • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 57 • On Entering the Fantastic • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 61 • Three Hallmarks of Horror: Location, Isolation, and Language • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 72 • Reading Stephen King • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 81 • Women and the Fantastic—A Glimpse into a Beginning • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 86 • On Seventeenth-Century Ghosts and What We Can Learn from Them • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 90 • Some Thoughts on the Werewolf • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 94 • Good Words/Bad Words • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 100 • Not–So-Good Horror: Why Little Things Count • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 105 • When Words Stumble • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 109 • Transforming Terrible • essay by Michael R. Collings
• 119 • A Midnight Shooting on the Golden State Freeway • (1990) • short fiction by Michael R. Collings
• 127 • A Pound of Chocolates on St. Valentine's Day • (1989) • novelette by Michael R. Collings
• 146 • Brace the Bear and the Great Eagle-beyond-the-Mountain • short fiction by Michael R. Collings
• 153 • The Calling of Iam'Kendron • (1979) • short fiction by Michael R. Collings
• 176 • Dame Ginny McLaserbeam and the Dastardly Duke • (2019) • short story by Judith Collings and Michael R. Collings
• 186 • In the Haunting Darkness • short fiction by Michael R. Collings
• 193 • Jury of His Peers • (2010) • short fiction by Michael R. Collings
• 198 • Miniaturist • short fiction by Michael R. Collings
• 200 • Palimpsest • (1981) • short story by Michael R. Collings
• 215 • Wer Means Man • (1990) • short story by Michael R. Collings
• 226 • The Egress of Hell • (2016) • short story by Michael R. Collings
• 237 • From: Averse to Horrors: An Abecedary of Monsters and the Monstrous • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 240 • Because I Would Not Stop for Death • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 242 • Black Crocuses • (2010) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 243 • The Boneyard of Old Ezra Snow • (1995) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 249 • Christ of Universe • (2018) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 251 • Dermatillomania • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 253 • The Envy of Demons • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 255 • The Galactic Ambassador Is Invited to Hear the Hand-built Organ on a Newly Conquered World, Its Function Explained by the Victorious Planetary Overlord • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 256 • Grendel's Mother • (2016) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 258 • I Wander the Cosmos, Inventing It • (2010) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 260 • The Last Pastoral • (1985) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 263 • The Legend of Kometes • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 265 • Nosferatu Arrives at Wisborg • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 266 • On the First Outdoor Testing of a Man-Made Bacterium in a Strawberry Patch in California • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 267 • The Program • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 270 • Savage • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 273 • Spatio-Temporal Spectacles • (1993) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 275 • Tapestry • (2016) • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 277 • Triple Sonnet in a Season of Pandemic • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 279 • The Wind from Whirl-Away • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 281 • And When the Bold Word-Monger Came • poem by Michael R. Collings
• 283 • When the Dreamer of Worlds Wakes • poem by Michael R. Collings