Contents

Marvin Kaye – Introduction: In Search Of Masterpieces

Bram Stoker – Dracula’s Guest Theodore Sturgeon – The Professor’s Teddy Bear Ivan Turgenev – Bubnoff And The Devil Patricia Highsmith – The Quest For Blank Claveringi Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe – The Erl King Robert Louis Stevenson – The Bottle Imp Craig Shaw Gardner – A Malady Of Magicks M. Lucie Chin – Lan Lung Richard L. Wexelblat – The Dragon Over Hackenback Mary W. Shelley – The Transformation Edward D. Hoch – The Faceless Thing Jack Snow – The Anchor Tanith Lee – When The Clock Strikes Lafcadio Hearn – Oshidori Sheridan Le Fanu – Carmilla Orson Scott Card – Eumenides In The Fourth Form Lavatory Gottfried August Burger – Lenore Isaac Bashevis Singer – The Black Wedding Edgar Allan Poe – Hop-Frog Ray Russell – Sardonicus Richard Matheson – Graveyard Shift Johann Ludwig Tieck – Wake Not The Dead Maurice Level – Night And Silence Isaac Asimov – Flies H. F. Arnold – The Night Wire Dick Baldwin – Last Respects A. Merritt – The Pool Of The Stone God Ogden Nash – A Tale Of The Thirteenth Floor Dylan Thomas – The Tree Parke Godwin – Stroke Of Mercy Leonid Andreyev – Lazarus A. M. Burrage – The Waxwork Pierre Courtois – The Silent Couple Jack London – Moon Face Walt Whitman – Death In The School-Room Stephen Crane – The Upturned Face Ambrose Bierce – One Summer Night Saki – The Easter Egg John Dickson Carr – The House In Goblin Wood Tennessee Williams – The Vengeance Of Nitocris Damon Runyon – The Informal Execution Of Soupbone Pew W. C. Morrow – His Unconquerable Enemy Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Rizpah Stanley Ellin – The Question Guy de Maupassant – The Flayed Hand Robert Aickman – The Hospice Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Christmas Banquet Robert Bloch – The Hungry House Fitz-James O’Brien – The Demon Of The Gibbet Anatole Le Braz – The Owl Ralph Adams Cram – No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince H. P. Lovecraft – The Music Of Erich Zann J. R. R. Tolkien – Riddles In The Dark (Original version, 1938)

Afterword: Is Terror A Dying Art?