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• ix • Introduction (Sea-Cursed) • (1994) • essay by Stefan Dziemianowicz and T. Liam McDonald
• 1 •
  A Descent Into the Maelström^?A Descent Into the Maelstrom
  A Descent Into the Maelstroem
  • (1841) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 15 • The Captain of the Pole-Star • (1991) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle (variant of The Captain of the Polestar 1883) [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 34 • The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 52 • The Brute • (1906) • short story by Joseph Conrad
• 70 • The Boats of the Glen Carrig (excerpt) • (1907) • short fiction by William Hope Hodgson
• 181 • The Song of the Sirens • (1919) • novelette by Edward Lucas White
• 207 • The Ship of Silent Men • (1920) • novelette by Philip M. Fisher
• 240 • The Temple • (1925) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 251 • Bells of Oceana • (1927) • short story by Arthur J. Burks
• 262 • Second Night Out • (1933) • short story by Frank Belknap Long (variant of The Black, Dead Thing)
• 270 • The Black Kiss • [Michael Leigh] • (1937) • short story by Robert Bloch and Henry Kuttner
• 287 • The Sea Thing • (1940) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• 313 • Sea Curse • [Faring Town] • (1928) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 319 • A Vintage from Atlantis • [Poseidonis] • (1933) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 325 • Derelict • (1937) • short story by Hugh B. Cave
• 337 • Sea-Tiger • (1932) • short story by Henry S. Whitehead
• 345 • The Women • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 354 • The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth • (1965) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 383 • The Wine-Dark Sea • (1966) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 413 • The Ferries • (1982) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 424 • The Night Sea-Maid Went Down • (1971) • short story by Brian Lumley
• 433 • Down by the Sea Near the Great Big Rock • (1984) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 437 • Message Found in a Bottle II, or: An Invitation from Your Captain • (1990) • short story by Nancy Holder
• 443 • A Sailor's Pay • (1991) • short story by Jack Cady
• 459 • Deep Sleep • (1992) • short story by Matthew J. Costello
• 470 • Scape-Goats • (1984) • novelette by Clive Barker
• 493 • Between the Windows of the Sea • (1985) • short story by Jack Dann
• 505 • Dip in the Pool • non-genre • (1952) • short story by Roald Dahl
• 515 • The Night Ocean • novelette by R. H. Barlow and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Robert H. Barlow]
• 534 • Spawn of the Sea • (1933) • short story by Donald Wandrei