Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural

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Introduction: In Search of Masterpieces • essay by Marvin Kaye
Fiends and Creatures • essay by Marvin Kaye
Dracula's Guest • [Dracula] • (1914) • shortstory by Bram Stoker
The Professor's Teddy Bear • (1948) • shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon (variant of The Professor's Teddy-Bear)
Bubnoff and the Devil • (1975) • shortstory by Ivan Turgenev (trans. of Похождения подпоручика Бубнова 1916)
The Quest for Blank Claveringi • (1967) • shortstory by Patricia Highsmith
The Erl-King • (1979) • poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. of Der Erlkönig 1782)
The Bottle Imp • (1891) • novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Malady of Magicks • (1978) • shortstory by Craig Shaw Gardner
Lan Lung • (1980) • novelette by M. Lucie Chin
The Dragon Over Hackensack • poem by Richard L. Wexelblat
The Transformation • (1830) • shortstory by Mary Shelley [as by Mary W. Shelley ]
The Faceless Thing • (1963) • shortstory by Edward D. Hoch
Lovers and Other Monsters • essay by Marvin Kaye
The Anchor • (1947) • shortstory by Jack Snow
When the Clock Strikes • (1980) • shortstory by Tanith Lee
Oshidori • (1904) • shortstory by Lafcadio Hearn
Carmilla • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by Sheridan LeFanu ]
Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory • (1979) • novelette by Orson Scott Card (variant of Eumenides in the Fourth-Floor Lavatory)
Lenore • (1773) • poem by Gottfried August Bürger
The Black Wedding • (1958) • shortstory by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Hop-Frog • (1849) • shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Hop-Frog: Or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs)
Sardonicus • (1961) • novelette by Ray Russell
Graveyard Shift • (1960) • shortstory by Richard Matheson
Wake Not the Dead • (1823) • novelette by Johann Ludwig Tieck
Night and Silence • (1922) • shortstory by Maurice Level
Acts of God and Other Horrors • essay by Marvin Kaye
Flies • (1953) • shortstory by Isaac Asimov
The Night Wire • (1926) • shortstory by H. F. Arnold
Last Respects • (1975) • shortstory by Dick Baldwin
The Pool of the Stone God • (1923) • shortstory by A. Merritt
A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor • (1955) • poem by Ogden Nash
The Tree • (1955) • shortstory by Dylan Thomas
Stroke of Mercy • (1981) • novelette by Parke Godwin
Lazarus • (1906) • shortstory by Leonid Andreyev (variant of Eleazar)
The Beast Within • essay by Marvin Kaye
The Waxwork • (1931) • shortstory by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X ]
The Silent Couple • (1826) • shortstory by Pierre Courtois
Moon-Face • (1902) • shortstory by Jack London
Death in the School-Room • (1841) • shortstory by Walt Whitman
The Upturned Face • (1900) • shortstory by Stephen Crane
One Summer Night • (1906) • shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
The Easter Egg • (1930) • shortstory by Saki [as by H. H. Munro ]
The House in Goblin Wood • (1947) • novelette by John Dickson Carr
The Vengeance of Nitocris • (1928) • shortstory by Tennessee Williams
The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew • (1911) • shortstory by Damon Runyon
His Unconquerable Enemy • (1889) • shortstory by W. C. Morrow
Rizpah • (1895) • poem by Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Question • (1962) • shortstory by Stanley Ellin (variant of The Question My Son Asked)
Ghosts and Miscellaneous Nightmares • essay by Marvin Kaye
The Flayed Hand • (1875) • shortstory by Guy de Maupassant (variant of La Main Écorchée)
The Hospice • (1975) • novelette by Robert Aickman
The Christmas Banquet • (1843) • shortstory by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Hungry House • (1951) • novelette by Robert Bloch
The Demon of the Gibbet • (0000) • poem by Fitz-James O'Brien
The Owl • (0000) • shortfiction by Anatole Le Braz
No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince • (1895) • shortstory by Ralph Adams Cram
The Music of Erich Zann • (1922) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
Riddles in the Dark • (1937) • shortstory by J. R. R. Tolkien
Afterword: Is Terror a Dying Art? • essay by Marvin Kaye
Miscellaneous Notes (Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural) • essay by Marvin Kaye