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First published 1977
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Virgil Finlay
Pages 156
Price $5.95
ISBN 0312573480

  • Contents from The Supernatural Index.
  • Contains many quotations which are not listed here.

Page Title Author(s) Type
5 Prologue (Nighttouch) Gerry Goldberg Essay
11 Forget-Me-Not Bernard Taylor Novelette
11 Preparation P. K. Page Poem
20 Old Mansion John Crowe Ransom Poem
20 The Cupola Louise Bogan Poem
22 The Snail-Watcher Patricia Highsmith Short Story
25 The Shadow-Maker Gwendolyn MacEwen Short Fiction
25 The Wind in Winter Miroslav Holub Poem
26 The Case of Jean Grenier (1603) (excerpt) Montague Summers Short Fiction
27 Eidolon Robert Penn Warren Poem
28 Road Signs Dilys Henrik Jones Poem
28 The Kill Peter Fleming Short Story
29 The Wolves Allen Tate Poem
34 from On the Nightmare (excerpt) Ernest Jones Short Fiction
34 The Case of Dion Fortune (1935) Colin Wilson Essay
34 The Quest George Garrett Poem
37 "I Can Hear His Screams" uncredited Essay
37 The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street Rod Serling Short Story
38 The Night Mirror John Hollander Poem
41 All the Roary Night Kenneth Patchen Poem
47 from Foundation of Psychopathology (excerpt) J. C. Nemiah 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

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Nighttouch 1977 General Publishing Hardcover Anthology 156