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• Preface: The Gothic Takes a Holiday • essay by Danel Olson
• Mbo • (1997) • short story by Nicholas Royle
• In the Desert of Deserts • (1993) • short story by Thomas Tessier
• Going Native • (2004) • short fiction by John Bushore
• The Butsudan • short fiction by Lucy Taylor
• Twilight in the Green Zone • short fiction by David Wellington
• Jarkman at the Othergates • short fiction by Terry Dowling
• Rustle • (1993) • short story by Peter Crowther
• Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Nameless House of the Night of Dread Desire • (2004) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• Skin of My Soul • short fiction by Sean Meriwether
• The Man Who Stalked Hyde • short fiction by William F. Nolan
• The House by the Bulvarnoye Koltso • short fiction by Steve Rasnic Tem
• Bones • (2004) • short fiction by Ilsa J. Bick
• Extinctions in Paradise • (1995) • short story by Brian Hodge
• Against Gravity (excerpt) • short fiction by Farnoosh Moshiri
• Tide Pool • short fiction by Douglas Unger
• The Black and White Sisters • short fiction by T. Coraghessan Boyle [as by T. C. Boyle]
• The Pumpkin Child • (2002) • short fiction by Nancy A. Collins
• Ever After • short fiction by James Cortese
• Lovecraft's Pillow • short fiction by Rick Hautala and Mark Steensland
• Purity • (2003) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• Waiting for the 400 • novelette by Kyle Marffin (variant of Waiting for the 400: A Northwoods Noir 1998)
• Beasts (excerpt) • short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Wide, Wide Sea • novelette by Barbara Roden