Notes
"Swarm", "Spider Rose", "Cicada Queen", "Sunken Gardens" and "Twenty Evocations" are part of the"Shaper/Mechanist" series.
The remaining stories are divided into SF and Fantasy categories.
- "First Edition" stated on the copyright page.
- The copyright page contains the complete Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data including the year of publication (1989), the ISBN (0-87054-158-7) and the LCCN: 89-31079.
- Month of publication from Locus1.
- "Typographic modifications by Dan X. Solo" stated on the copyright page.
- "Jacket by Rick Lieder, Based on Computerized Fractal Imagery" printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
- Stories are placed into three sections: "Shaper/Mechanist" (first five stories), "Science Fiction" (next three stories), and "Fantasy" (last four stories).
- "Illustrations by Rick Lieder" stated on the title page. The interior artwork consists of full-page B&W illustrations for eight of the stories.
- 4231 copies printed per S.T. Joshi's Sixty Years of Arkham House.
