“Mr. Arcularis” by Conrad Aiken from Harper’s 1931. Copyright © 1931 by Conrad Aiken. Renewed. Reprinted by permission of Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents, Inc.
“The Night Wire” by H. F. Arnold from Weird Tales, September 1926. Copyright © 1926 by Popular Fiction Publishing Co. Renewed. Reprinted by permission of Weird Tales Ltd.
“Legal Rites” by Isaac Asimov and James MacCreigh from Weird Tales, September 1950. Copyright © 1950 by Isaac Asimov and Frederick Pohl. Renewed. Reprinted by permission of the Trident Media Group and Curtis Brown Ltd.
“The Corner Shop” by Cynthia Asquith from The Ghost Book, edited by Cynthia Asquith. London, Hutchinson, 1926. Copyright © 1926 by Cynthia Asquith. Renewed. Reprinted by permission of Roland Asquith.
“The Follower” by Cynthia Asquith from My Grimmest Nightmare, London, G. Allen & Unwin, 1935. Copyright © 1935 by Cynthia Asquith. Renewed. Reprinted by permission of Roland Asquith.
“Song of the Dead” by Wyatt Blassingame from Dime Mystery Magazine, March 1935. Copyright © 1935 by Popular Publications, Inc. Copyright renewed 1963 and assigned to Argosy Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by arrangement with Argosy Communications, Inc.
“The House in Half Moon Street” by Hector Bolitho from The House in Half Moon Street by Hector Bolitho, London, Cobden-Sanderson, 1935. Copyright © 1935 by Hector Bolitho. Renewed. Reprinted by permission of The Alfred and Isabel Marian Reed Trust.
“The Avenging of Ann Leete” by Marjorie Bowen from Seeing Life! And Other Stories by Marjorie Bowen, London, Hurst & Blackett, 1923. Copyright © 1923 by Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long. Renewed. Reprinted by permission of Sharon Eden.
“The Ghosts of Steamboat Coulee” by Arthur J. Burks from Weird Tales, May 1926. Copyright © 1966 by Arkham House; from Black Medicine, Sauk City, WI, Arkham House, 1966. Reprinted by permission of Arkham House.
“Playmates” by A. M. Burrage from Some Ghost Stories by A. M. Burrage, London, Cecil Palmer, 1927. Copyright © 1927 by A. M. Burrage. Renewed. Reprinted by permission of J. S. F. Burrage.
“Just Behind You” by Ramsey Campbell from Poe’s Progeny, edited by Gary Fry, Bradford, U.K., Gray Friar Press, 2005. Copyright © 2005 by Ramsey Campbell. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Behind the Screen” by Dale Clark from Weird Tales, April 1934. Copyright © 1934 by Popular Fiction Publishing Co. Renewed. Reprinted by permission of Weird Tales Ltd.
“Death Must Die” by Albert E. Cowdrey from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, November/December 2010. Copyright © 2010 by Albert E. Cowdrey. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Punch and Judy” by Frederick Cowles from Star Book of Horror No. 1, 1975. Copyright © 1975 by Michael W. Cowles. Reprinted by permission of Michael W. Cowles.
“Pacific 421” by August Derleth from Weird Tales, September 1944 and Something Near by August Derleth, Sauk City, WI, Arkham House, 1945. Copyright © 1945 by Arkham House. Reprinted by permission of Arkham House.
“The Return of Andrew Bentley” by August Derleth and Mark Schorer from Weird Tales, September 1933 and Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant People, Sauk City, WI, Arkham House, 1966. Copyright © 1966 by Arkham House. Reprinted by permission of Arkham House.
“Death’s Warm Fireside” by Paul Ernst from Dime Mystery Magazine, March 1936. Copyright © 1936 by Popular Publications, Inc. Copyright © renewed 1964 and assigned to Argosy Communications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by arrangement with Argosy Communications, Inc.
“The Lost Boy of the Ozarks” by Steve Friedman from Backpacker, November 2009. Copyright © 2009 by Steve Friedman. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Floor Above” by M. L. Humphreys from Weird Tales, May 1923. Copyright © 1923 by Rural Publications. Renewed. Reprinted by permission of Weird Tales Ltd.
“Mr. Saul” by H. R. F. Keating from The Thirteenth Ghost Book, edited by James Hale, London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1977. Copyright © 1977 by H. R. F. Keating. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Advent Reunion” by Andrew Klavan from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January 2011. Copyright © 2011 by Amalgamated Metaphor. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“The Dead-Wagon” by Greye La Spina from Weird Tales, September 1927. Copyright © 1927 by Popular Fiction Publishing Co. Renewed. Reprinted by permission of Weird Tales Ltd.
“Smoke Ghost” by Fritz Leiber from Unknown, October 1941. Copyright © 1941 by Fritz Leiber. Renewed. Reprinted by permission of Richard Curtis Associates, Inc.
“He Walked by Day” by Julius Long from Weird Tales, June 1934. Copyright © 1934 by Popular Fiction Publishing Co. Renewed. Reprinted by permission of Weird Tales Ltd.
“The Fifth Candle” by Cyril Mand from Weird Tales, January 1939. Copyright © 1939 by Popular Fiction Publishing Co. Renewed. Reprinted by permission of Weird Tales Ltd.
“The Considerate Hosts” by Thorp McClusky from Weird Tales, December 1939. Copyright © 1939 by Popular Fiction Publishing Co. Renewed. Reprinted by permission of Weird Tales Ltd.
“Mordecai’s Pipe” by A.V. Milyer from Weird Tales, June 1936. Copyright © 1936 by Popular Fiction Publishing Co. Renewed. Reprinted by permission of Weird Tales Ltd.
“But at My Back I Always Hear” by David Morrell from Shadows 6, edited by Charles L. Grant, New York, Doubleday, 1983. Copyright © 1983 by David Morrell. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Night-Side” by Joyce Carol Oates from Night-Side by Joyce Carol Oates, New York, Vanguard Press, 1977. Copyright © 1977 by Ontario Review, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the author and John Hawkins and Associates, Inc.
“Thing of Darkness” by G. G. Pendarves from Weird Tales, August 1937. Copyright © 1937 by Popular Fiction Publishing Co. Renewed. Reprinted by permission of Weird Tales Ltd.
“Make-Believe” by Michael Reaves from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, March/April 2010. Copyright © 2010 by Michael Reaves. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“Journey into the Kingdom” by M. Rickert from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 2006. Copyright © 2006 by M. Rickert. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“They Found My Grave” by Joseph Shearing from Orange Blossoms by Joseph Shearing, London, Heinemann, 1938. Copyright © 1938 by Gabrielle Margaret Vere Long. Renewed. Reprinted by permission of Sharon Eden.
“The Midnight El” by Robert Weinberg from Return to the Twilight Zone, edited by Carol Serling, New York, DAW Books, 1994. Copyright © 1994 by DAW Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.
“School for the Unspeakable” by Manly Wade Wellman from Weird Tales, September 1937. Copyright © 1937 by The Popular Fiction Publishing Company. Renewed. Reprinted by permission of David A. Drake.
“In at the Death” by Donald E. Westlake from The Thirteenth Ghost Book, edited by James Hale, London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1977. Copyright © 1977 by Donald E. Westlake. Reprinted by permission of the estate of Donald E. Westlake and LJK Literary Management.
“The Fireplace” by Henry S. Whitehead from Weird Tales, January 1925. Copyright © 1944 by Arkham House; from Jumbee, Sauk City, WI, Arkham House, 1944. Reprinted by permission of Arkham House.
“Coventry Carol” by Chet Williamson from Ghosts, edited by Peter Straub, Brooklandville, MD, Borderlands Press, 1995. Copyright © 1995 by Chet Williamson. Reprinted by permission of the author.