Contents

1. "Foreword"
2. "Mr. George" by Stephen Grendon
   August Derleth
   August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...
   
   
3. "The Loved Dead" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
   C. M. Eddy, Jr.
   Clifford Martin Eddy, Jr. was an American author best known for his horror and supernatural short stories. He is best remembered for his work in Weird Tales magazine.- Career :...
   
   
4. "The Sign" by Lord Dunsany
5. "The La Prello Paper" by Carl Jacobi
   Carl Richard Jacobi
   Carl Richard Jacobi was an American author. He wrote short stories in the horror, fantasy, science fiction and crime genres for the pulp magazine market.-Biography:...
   
   
6. "The Gorge of the Churels" by H. Russell Wakefield
   H. Russell Wakefield
   Herbert Russell Wakefield was an English short story writer, novelist, publisher, and civil servant chiefly remembered today for his ghost stories.-Life:...
   
   
7. "Dhoh" by Manly Wade Wellman
   Manly Wade Wellman
   Manly Wade Wellman was an American writer. He is best known for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains and for drawing on the native folklore of that region, but he wrote in a wide variety of genres, including science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, detective...
   
   
8. "The Churchyard Yew" by J. Sheridan LeFanu
   August Derleth
   August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...
   
   
9. "Technical Slip" by John Beynon Harris
10. "The Man Who Collected Poe" by Robert Bloch
    Robert Bloch
    Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock...
    
    
11. "Hector" by Michael West
    August Derleth
    August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...
    
    
12. "Roman Remains" by Algernon Blackwood
    Algernon Blackwood
    Algernon Henry Blackwood, CBE was an English short story writer and novelist, one of the most prolific writers of ghost stories in the history of the genre. He was also a journalist and a broadcasting narrator. S. T...
    
    
13. "A Damsel With a Dulcimer" by Malcolm Ferguson
14. "The Suppressed Edition" by Richard Curle
15. "The Lonesome Place" by August Derleth
    August Derleth
    August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...
    
    
16. "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by H. P. Lovecraft
    H. P. Lovecraft
    Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....
    
    

Reprints

• London: Consul, 1965 (abridged, omits The Case of Charles Dexter Ward).
• New York: New American Library, 1974 (abrdged).