Edited by Boris Karloff (with Edmund Speare)
World Publishing, 1946
Introduction – Boris Karloff
The Test – Maurice Level
“John Gladwin Says…” – Oliver Onions
The Black Pool – Frederick S. Greene
The Scoop – Leonora Gregory
Femme et Chatte – Paul Verlaine
The Hanging of Alfred Wadham – Edward F. Benson
The Departure – Selma Robinson
The Adventure of Second Lieutenant Bubnov – Ivan Turgenev
In the Wheat – Maurice Level
The Madman – Guy de Maupassant
The Storm – McKnight Malmar
L’Amour apres la Mort – Lafcadio Hearn
Rizpah – Alfred Lord Tennyson
One Who Saw – Ex-Private X [A. M. Burrage]
My Favorite Murder – Ambrose Bierce
The Grove of Ashtaroth – John Buchan
The Case of Lady Sannox – Arthur Conan Doyle
The Black Godmother – John Galsworthy
The Stranger – Algernon Blackwood
The Panelled Room – August Derleth
The Mask – Tennyson Jesse
Richard Cory – Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Witness – Violet Hunt
The Caged White Werewolf of the Saraban – William B. Seabrook
Footsteps – Eileen Verrinder
The Island – Leslie P. Hartley
The Red Lodge – Henry R. Wakefield
The Cyprian Cat – Dorothy L. Sayers
An Official Position – W. Somerset Maugham
The Garden of Proserpine – Algernon C. Swinburne
Little Louse Roque – Guy de Maupassant
The Sutor of Selkirk – Anonymous
The Idol with Hands of Clay – Sir Frederick Treves
Another American Tragedy – John Collier
The Razor of Pedro Dutel – Richard M. Hallet
The Crucifixion of the Outcast – William B. Yeats
Ulalume – Edgar Allan Poe
Where Their Fire is Not Quenched – May Sinclair
The Ghost – Richard Hughes
Jenshih, or the Fox Lady – Shen Chi-chi
Three O’Clock – William Irish [Cornell Woolrich]
The Mortal – Oliver Onions
The Listeners – Walter de la Mare
The Well – W. W. Jacobs
The Horrible God – Thomas Burke
Mrs. Adis – Sheila Kaye-Smith
Telling – Elizabeth Bowen
The Death of the Poor – Charles Baudelaire
A Maniac – Maurice Level
An Illusion in Red and White – Stephen Crane
A Modest Proposal – Dean Jonathan Swift
The Chaser – John Collier
Where the Tides Ebb and Flow – Lord Dunsany
My Last Duchess – Robert Browning
Out of the Deep – Walter de la Mare
Perchance to Dream – Michale Joyce
The Empty House – Maurice Level
Bowdean Farm – A. M. Burrage
Breakdown – L. A. G. Strong
The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquam – Clark A. Smith
The Angelus – William Younger
Song of the Shirt – Thomas Hood
The Silver Mask – Hugh Walpole
Viy – Nokolai Gogol
Death – Dorothy Richardson
Prospice – Robert Browning
The Woman’s Ghost Story – Algernon Blackwood
The Brute – Joseph Conrad
The Thing on the Doorstep – H. P. Lovecraft
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