Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown

Introduction GHOSTS AND MISCELLANEOUS NIGHTMARES The Others — Joyce Carol Oates Tap Dancing — John Gregory Betancourt The Hungry Stones — Rabindranath Tagore The Southwest Chamber — Mary E. Wilkins Freeman The Lost Room — Fitz-James O'Brien The Ghost to His Ladye Love — W. S. Gilbert The Happy Children — Arthur Machen Darby O'Gill and the Good People — Herminie T. Kavanagh Keeping His Promise — Algernon Blackwood A Day in the Life of Comrade Lenin — Carole Buggé The Throwing Suit — Darrell Schweitzer and Jason Van Hollander The Man Who Wanted to Be in the Movies — John Jakes THE BEAST WITHIN Fidel Bassin — W. J. Stamper Unsigned Original — Parke Godwin The Clemency of the Court — Willa Cather The Empty Zoo — Edward D. Hoch Beyond Sleep — Barry N. Malzberg Finnegan's Wake — Traditional Bianca's Hands — Theodore Sturgeon The Iron Man — Frederick Laing Sagittarius — Ray Russell Wolf — Michael Moorcock An Illusion in Red and White — Stephen Crane The People of the Pit — A. Merritt In the Avu Observatory — H. G. Wells In the Valley of the Shades — C. H. Sherman The Thing in the Hall — E. F. Benson The Inchcape Rock — Robert Southey Mr. Wilde's Second Chance — Joanna Russ The Dreams in the Witch-House — H. P. Lovecraft The Little Man on the Subway — Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl The Poems — Ray Bradbury Vision Quest — Patrick LoBrutto CONTES CRUELLES The Man in the Bottle — Gustav Meyrink A Diagnosis of Death — Ambrose Bierce Remember Me — Joan Vander Putten The Pardon — Emilia Pardo-Bazan The One Thousand Dozen — Jack London Carmanda — Jessica Amanda Salmonson The Spirit of Hospitality — Saralee Terry The Cripple — Maurice Level The Squaw — Bram Stoker Pictures — Irving Werner The Necklace — Guy de Maupassant The Necklace: A Sequel — Jack Moffitt FRIENDS AND CREATURES Midnight — Jack Snow Ms. Lipshutz and the Goblin — Marvin Kaye Amina — Edward Lucas White Simpson's Lesser Sphynx — Esther M. Friesner Dress of White Silk — Richard Matheson The Palace of the Mountain Ogre — Toby Sanders Snow White Walking — Adèle Slaughter The Little Witch of Elm Street — Mildred Clingerman The Brown Man's Servant — W. W. Jacobs Poppa Bear — Alvin Vogel In Letters of Fire — Gaston Leroux Green Magic — Jack Vance Acknowledgments