Contents

Foreword by Roger Luckhurst

Publisher’s Note

Caterpillars

E.F. Benson

The Boarded Window

Ambrose Bierce

John Bartine’s Watch

Ambrose Bierce

Bones of the Dead

Daniele Bonfanti

In the Court of the Dragon

Robert W. Chambers

Crossroads

Carolyn Charron

The Mourning Woman

E.E.W. Christman

The Fifth Gable

Kay Chronister

The Dream Woman

Wilkie Collins

The Upper Berth

F. Marion Crawford

For the Blood is the Life

F. Marion Crawford

Lot No. 249

Arthur Conan Doyle

She’s Gone

Morgan Elektra

The Spider

Hanns Heinz Ewers

Carmilla

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

The Southwest Chamber

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

The Doom of the Griffiths

Elizabeth Gaskell

Swim At Your Own Risk

Matthew Gorman

Edward Randolph’s Portrait

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Voice in the Night

William Hope Hodgson

Worms of the Earth

Robert E. Howard

The Mezzotint

M.R. James

Casting the Runes

M.R. James

Merry-Go-Round, Never Broke Down

Jason L. Kawa

The Murmur of Its Name

Stephen Kotowych

The Shunned House

H.P. Lovecraft

An Idle Dream, Quite Gone Now

G.L. McDorman

The Pool of the Stone God

A. Merritt

This Time, Forever

Michelle Muenzler

The Power of Darkness

Edith Nesbit

The Wondersmith

Fitz-James O’Brien

William Wilson

Edgar Allan Poe

The Vampyre

John Polidori

Tracks in the Snow

Cody Schroeder

John Johnson

Oliver Smith

Magdala Amygdala

Lucy A. Snyder

My Brother Tom

Mariah Southworth

The Judge’s House

Bram Stoker

The Bride

Angela Sylvaine

The Floating Girls: A Documentary

Damien Angelica Walters

The Final One Percent

Desmond Warzel

The Flowering of the Strange Orchid

H.G. Wells

The Red Room

H.G. Wells

Midnight Snack

Michaël Wertenberg

The House of the Nightmare

Edward Lucas White

Manipulation

Trisha J. Wooldridge

Biographies & Sources