| 5 |
Prologue (Nighttouch)
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Gerry Goldberg
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Essay
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| 11 |
Forget-Me-Not
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Bernard Taylor
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Novelette
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| 11 |
Preparation
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P. K. Page
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Poem
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| 20 |
Old Mansion
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John Crowe Ransom
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Poem
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| 20 |
The Cupola
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Louise Bogan
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Poem
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| 22 |
The Snail-Watcher
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Patricia Highsmith
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Short Story
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| 25 |
The Shadow-Maker
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Gwendolyn MacEwen
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Short Fiction
|
| 25 |
The Wind in Winter
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Miroslav Holub
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Poem
|
| 26 |
The Case of Jean Grenier (1603) (excerpt)
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Montague Summers
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Short Fiction
|
| 27 |
Eidolon
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Robert Penn Warren
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Poem
|
| 28 |
Road Signs
|
Dilys Henrik Jones
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Poem
|
| 28 |
The Kill
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Peter Fleming
|
Short Story
|
| 29 |
The Wolves
|
Allen Tate
|
Poem
|
| 34 |
from On the Nightmare (excerpt)
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Ernest Jones
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Short Fiction
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| 34 |
The Case of Dion Fortune (1935)
|
Colin Wilson
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Essay
|
| 34 |
The Quest
|
George Garrett
|
Poem
|
| 37 |
"I Can Hear His Screams"
|
uncredited
|
Essay
|
| 37 |
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
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Rod Serling
|
Short Story
|
| 38 |
The Night Mirror
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John Hollander
|
Poem
|
| 41 |
All the Roary Night
|
Kenneth Patchen
|
Poem
|
| 47 |
from Foundation of Psychopathology (excerpt)
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J. C. Nemiah
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Essay
|
| 48 |
from Perelandra (excerpt)
|
C. S. Lewis
|
Short Fiction
|
| 48 |
Nobody
|
Robert Graves
|
Poem
|
| 48 |
The Dragon
|
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
|
Short Story
|
| 48 |
The Shadow of Night
|
Coventry Patmore
|
Poem
|
| 49 |
The Horla
|
Guy de Maupassant
|
Novelette
|
| 54 |
A Twilight Man
|
Harry Guest
|
Poem
|
| 55 |
Bird Cage
|
Saint-Denys Garneau
|
Poem
|
| 61 |
from An Essay in Autobiography (excerpt)
|
Boris Pasternak
|
Short Fiction
|
| 61 |
The Horrors of Sleep
|
Emily Brontë
|
Poem
|
| 62 |
Primitive
|
Patricia Martland
|
Poem
|
| 63 |
Mannikins of Horror
|
Robert Bloch
|
Short Story
|
| 66 |
The Man from the Top of the Mind
|
David Wagoner
|
Poem
|
| 71 |
Altamont, Dec. 1969
|
Leonard Wolf
|
Essay
|
| 71 |
Medusa
|
William Alexander Percy
|
Poem
|
| 72 |
The Bridge of Dread
|
Edwin Muir
|
Poem
|
| 75 |
A Day
|
John Porter
|
Poem
|
| 75 |
Haunted
|
Siegfried Sassoon
|
Poem
|
| 75 |
The Olitau
|
Ivan T. Sanderson
|
Essay
|
| 76 |
The Curse of Yig
|
Zealia Brown Bishop
|
Short Story
|
| 85 |
Snake
|
Theodore Roethke
|
Poem
|
| 86 |
Wolves Don't Cry
|
Bruce Elliott
|
Short Story
|
| 91 |
The Prisoner's Dream
|
Eugenio Montale
|
Poem
|
| 92 |
Corrida
|
Roger Zelazny
|
Short Story
|
| 92 |
The Minotaur
|
Muriel Rukeyser
|
Poem
|
| 94 |
The Night Fisherman
|
Martin Ricketts
|
Short Story
|
| 96 |
The Dragonfly
|
Howard Nemerov
|
Poem
|
| 99 |
from Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions
|
John Lame Deer
|
Essay
|
| 99 |
Solitude
|
Thomas De Quincey
|
Essay
|
| 99 |
The Snow
|
Clifford Dyment
|
Short Story
|
| 100 |
Silent Snow, Secret Snow
|
Conrad Aiken
|
Short Story
|
| 108 |
The Monster Children
|
Joyce Maynard
|
Essay
|
| 110 |
Heigh and the Brand of Satan (excerpt)
|
Basil Copper
|
Short Fiction
|
| 115 |
Trial of the Blood
|
K. M. O'Donnell
|
Short Story
|
| 120 |
I Am Coming
|
Philip Lamantia
|
Poem
|
| 120 |
The Case of Helene-Josephine Poirer (1850)
|
Montague Summers
|
Essay
|
| 124 |
from The Occult (excerpt 1)
|
Colin Wilson
|
Essay
|
| 124 |
Robert Davidson
|
Edgar Lee Masters
|
Poem
|
| 125 |
from The Occult (excerpt 2)
|
Colin Wilson
|
Essay
|
| 126 |
Bianca's Hands
|
Theodore Sturgeon
|
Short Story
|
| 126 |
Damn Her
|
John Ciardi
|
Poem
|
| 130 |
The Voice
|
Thomas Hardy
|
Poem
|
| 133 |
Invitation to the Dance
|
Ted Hughes
|
Poem
|
| 133 |
The Premature Burial
|
Edgar Allan Poe
|
Short Story
|
| 135 |
Cool Air
|
H. P. Lovecraft
|
Short Story
|
| 135 |
Moontan
|
Mark Strand
|
Poem
|
| 138 |
Siege
|
Alden Nowlan
|
Poem
|
| 140 |
Drugged
|
Walter de la Mare
|
Poem
|
| 141 |
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (excerpt)
|
Robert Louis Stevenson
|
Short Fiction
|
| 142 |
from Etudes Cliniques (excerpt)
|
Dr. Morel
|
Short Fiction
|
| 143 |
The Ice Skin
|
James Dickey
|
Poem
|
| 144 |
Blood Son
|
Richard Matheson
|
Short Story
|
| 145 |
Words Above a Narrow Entrance
|
David Wagoner
|
Poem
|
| 147 |
The Sentry
|
Alun Lewis
|
Poem
|
| 148 |
The Image
|
Roy Fuller
|
Poem
|
| 149 |
The Hanover Vampire (1925)
|
Montague Summers
|
Essay
|
| 153 |
from Blood Thoughts (excerpt)
|
Harlan Ellison
|
Essay
|
| 153 |
Mirage
|
R. P. Blackmur
|
Poem
|
| 156 |
Exploration Over the Rim
|
William Dickey
|
Poem
|
| 156 |
The Loss
|
E. L. Mayo
|
Poem
|
| 158 |
Epilogue (Nighttouch)
|
Gerry Goldberg
|
Essay
|