Contents

• "I Envy the Deer"
• "Winter Dusk"
• "Artifice"
• "Snow at Night"
• "My Adolescent Dreams"
• "Potter's Field"
• "Advent of Autumn"
• "Abandoned Factory Yard"
• "Encounter"
• "Skeleton"
• "Walking in New Haven"
• "Age"
• "Remembering the Wind"
• "The Watcher"
• "Rat"
• "Three Buzzards"
• "Deserted Farm, New England"
• "Death of a Minor Poet"
• "Old Victorian House"
• "Nightmare One"
• "Nightmare Two"
• "Nightmare Three"
• "Drough"
• "Reminiscence: Emergency Room"
• "Refrain"
• "The Older Gods"
• "Halloween Snow"
• "The Follower"
• "At the Cemetery Gate"
• "Burnt Summer"
• "The Soundless Scream"
• "Words: Late Winter"
• "Beyond the Night"
• "The Haunted Ways"
• "Tides"
• "The Waxwork Woods"
• "The One Silence"
• "On the Death of Scootch, My Cat"
• "Sorcerer's Web"
• "New England Farmer Dying"
• "Mummy"
• "November Day"
• "Empty Rooms"
• "Ice Forest at Midnight"
• "The Cold Cliffs"
• "Epitaph for Earth"
• "Early Autumn"
• "Sunday Morning"
• "When Cedar Woods"
• "Writhing Wind"
• "The Closer Light"
• "The Abandoned Boudoir"
• "Junkman"
• "Selection"
• "Where in Blinding Light"
• "The Act of Hours"
• "Time and Falling Snow"
• "Marsh Moment"
• "Poe's Lake"
• "Bleak November Days"
• "Down Endless Years"
• "My Father's Death"
• "Grottos of Horror"
• "The Collector"
• "Marrow Cold"
• "My True Love"
• "Dust"
• "The Horror"
• "The Ugly Avoided Places"
• "Gradations of Death"
• "Summation"
• "Sea Grotto"
• "The Leech Collector"
• "Farrison"
• "After Fifty"
• "Hell: A Variation"
• "My Nineteenth Nightmare"
• "Century's End"
• "Junkyard in Winter"
• "Final Assignation"
• "The Trail I took"
• "Written in Despair"
• "Return"
• "Walk on, My Darling"
• Three Poems by Doris Philbrick Brennan:
  • "Nightmare"
  • "Alone"
  • "Path to Nowhere"