Contents

• Editors’ Note, by Philip J. Rahman & Dennis E. Weiler
• Introduction, Helen Mary Hughesdon
• Fiction
  • "A Fragment of a Dream"
  • "The Shadow of a Nightmare"
  • "The Green Flame"
  • "The Tree-Men of M’bwa"
  • "When the Fire Creatures Came"
  • "The Lives of Alfred Kramer"
  • "The Fire Vampires"
  • "Spawn of the Sea"
  • "The Lady in Gray"
  • "The Man Who Never Lived"
  • "The Nerveless Man"
  • "The Chuckler"
  • "A Scientist Divides"
  • "The Destroying Horde"
  • "The Monster from Nowhere"
  • "The Witch-Makers"
  • "The Eye and the Finger"
  • "The Painted Mirror"
  • "Uneasy Lie the Drowned"
  • "Giant-Plasm"
  • "Don’t Dream"
  • "It Will Grow On You"
  • "Strange Harvest"
  • "Nightmare"
  • "The Crater"
  • "Delirium of the Dead"
• Prose Poems, Essays, and Marginalia
  • "The Messengers"
  • "The Pursuers"
  • "The Woman at the Window"
  • "The Purple Land"
  • "Dreaming Away My Life"
  • "Black Flame"
  • "The Shrieking House"
  • "The Phantom City"
  • "The Kingdom of Dreams"
  • "The Lotus and the Poppy"
  • "Unforgotten Night"
  • "Santon Merlin"
  • "Cigarette Characterization"
  • "The Imaginative Element in Modern Literature"
• "Of Donald Wandrei, August Derleth and H.P.Lovecraft", by D. H. Olson