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And the Darkness Falls

Boris Karloff

First published 1946
Publisher World Publishing Co.
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages ix+631
Price $2.75

Contents from The Supernatural Index. "Jacket Design by Leo Manso" and price on the front flap of the dust jacket (image in FantLab).

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 The Test Maurice Level Short Story
7 "John Gladwin Says ..." Oliver Onions Short Story
17 The Black Pool Frederick Stuart Greene Novelette
36 The Scoop Leonora Gregory Short Story
40 Femme et chatte Paul Verlaine Poem
41 The Hanging of Alfred Wadham Edward F. Benson Short Story
52 The Departure Selma Robinson Short Story
58 The Adventure of Second Lieutenant Bubnov Ivan Turgenev Short Story
66 In the Wheat Maurice Level Short Story
71 The Madman Guy de Maupassant Short Story
77 The Storm McKnight Malmar Short Story
89 L'Amour après la Mort Lafcadio Hearn Short Story
92 Rizpah Alfred Lord Tennyson Poem
96 One Who Saw Ex-Private X Short Story
109 My Favorite Murder Ambrose Bierce Short Story
116 The Grove of Ashtaroth John Buchan Novelette
135 The Case of Lady Sannox Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
144 The Black Godmother John Galsworthy Short Fiction
148 The Stranger Algernon Blackwood Short Story
158 The Panelled Room August Derleth Short Story
167 The Mask F. Tennyson Jesse Short Story
181 Richard Cory Edwin Arlington Robinson Poem
182 The Witness Violet Hunt Short Story
200 The Caged White Werewolf of the Saraban (excerpt) William B. Seabrook Short Fiction
207 Footsteps Eileen Verrinder Short Story
213 The Island Leslie P. Hartley Short Story
226 The Red Lodge Herbert R. Wakefield Short Story
237 The Cyprian Cat Dorothy L. Sayers Short Story
248 An Official Position W. Somerset Maugham Short Story
265 The Garden of Proserpine Algernon Charles Swinburne Poem
295 The Sutor of Selkirk uncredited Short Story
300 The Idol with Hands of Clay Sir Frederick Treves Short Story
307 Another American Tragedy John Collier Short Story
314 The Razor of Pedro Dutel Richard Matthews Hallet Short Story
329 The Crucifixion of the Outcast William B. Yeats Short Story
336 Ulalume Edgar Allan Poe Poem
339 Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched May Sinclair Novelette
357 The Ghost Richard Hughes Short Story
360 Jenshih, or The Fox Lady Shen Chi-chi Short Story
369 Three O'Clock William Irish Novelette
393 The Mortal Oliver Onions Short Story
396 The Listeners Walter de la Mare Poem
398 The Well W. W. Jacobs Short Story
409 The Horrible God Thomas Burke Short Story
415 Mrs. Adis Sheila Kaye-Smith Short Story
421 Telling Elizabeth Bowen Short Story
428 The Death of the Poor Charles Baudelaire Poem
429 A Maniac Maurice Level Short Story
433 An Illusion in Red and White Stephen Crane Short Story
438 A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift Essay
446 The Chaser John Collier Short Story
449 Where the Tides Ebb and Flow Lord Dunsany Short Story
454 My Last Duchess Robert Browning Poem
456 Out of the Deep Walter de la Mare Novelette
480 Perchance to Dream Michael Joyce Short Story
489 The Empty House Maurice Level Short Story
494 Browdean Farm A. M. Burrage Short Story
505 Breakdown L. A. G. Strong Short Story
516 The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan Clark Ashton Smith Short Story
524 The Angelus William Younger Short Story
528 Song of the Shirt Thomas Hood Poem
531 The Silver Mask Hugh Walpole Short Story
543 The Viy Nikolai Gogol Novelette
575 Death Dorothy Richardson Short Fiction
578 Prospice Robert Browning Poem
579 The Woman's Ghost Story Algernon Blackwood Short Story
587 The Brute Joseph Conrad Short Story
605 The Thing on the Doorstep H. P. Lovecraft Novelette
ix Introduction (And the Darkness Falls) Boris Karloff Essay