Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 'It's a Good Life' • (1953) • short story by Jerome Bixby (variant of It's a Good Life)
• A Child in the Bush of Ghosts • (unknown) • short story by Olympe Bhêly-Quénum (trans. of Promenade dans la forêt 1968)
• A Redress for Andromeda • [Dandridge Cycle] • (2000) • short story by
  Caitlín R. Kiernan^?Caitlin R. Kiernan
• A Woman Seldom Found • (1956) • short story by William Sansom
• Afterweird: The Efficacy of a Worm-Eaten Dictionary • essay by
  China Miéville^?China Mieville
• Angels in Love • (1991) • short story by Kathe Koja
• Bloodchild • (1984) • novelette by Octavia E. Butler
• Casting the Runes • (1911) • novelette by M. R. James
• Details • (2002) • short story by
  China Miéville^?China Mieville
• Don't Look Now • (1970) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
• Dust Enforcer • (2008) • short fiction by Reza Negarestani
• Egnaro • (1981) • novelette by M. John Harrison
• Family • (1989) • short story by Joyce Carol Oates
• Far Below • (1939) • short story by Robert Barbour Johnson
• Feeders and Eaters • (2002) • short story by Neil Gaiman
• Flat Diane • (2004) • novelette by Daniel Abraham
• Foreweird • essay by Michael Moorcock
• Genius Loci • (1933) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1990) • short story by Poppy Z. Brite
• Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands • (1987) • short story by Garry Kilworth
• How Nuth Would Have Practised His Art Upon the Gnoles • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• In the Hills, the Cities • (1984) • novelette by Clive Barker
• Introduction (The Weird) • essay by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
• It Only Comes Out at Night • (1976) • short story by Dennis Etchison
• Last Rites and Resurrections • (1994) • short story by Martin Simpson
• Little Lambs • (2009) • short story by Stephen Graham Jones
• Mimic • (1942) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim
• Mister Taylor • short story by Augusto Monterroso (trans. of Mister Taylor 1954)
• My Mother • (1983) • short story by Jamaica Kincaid
• Replacements • (1992) • novelette by Lisa Tuttle
• Same Time, Same Place • (1963) • short story by Mervyn Peake
• Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass • (1977) • short story by Bruno Schulz (trans. of
  Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą^?Sanatorium Pod Klepsydra
  1937)
• Sandkings • [Thousand Worlds] • (1979) • novelette by George R. R. Martin
• Saving the Gleeful Horse • (2010) • short story by K. J. Bishop
• Shades • (1987) • novelette by Lucius Shepard
• Singing My Sister Down • (2004) • short story by Margo Lanagan
• Smoke Ghost • (1941) • short story by Fritz Leiber
• Soft • (1984) • short story by F. Paul Wilson
• Tainaron: Mail from Another City • (2004) • novella by Leena Krohn (trans. of Tainaron: Postia toisesta kaupungista 1985)
• The Autopsy • (1980) • novella by Michael Shea
• The Beak Doctor • (1977) • novella by Eric Basso
• The Beautiful Gelreesh • (2003) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
• The Belonging Kind • (1981) • short story by William Gibson and John Shirley
• The Book • (1930) • short story by Margaret Irwin
• The Boy in the Tree • (1989) • novelette by Elizabeth Hand
• The Brood • (1980) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• The Brotherhood of Mutilation • (2003) • novella by Brian Evenson
• The Cage • [Ambergris] • (2002) • novelette by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Colomber • short story by Dino Buzzati (trans. of Il colombre 1961)
• The Complete Gentleman • [The Palm-Wine Drinkard] • (1952) • short fiction by Amos Tutuola
• The Country Doctor • (1993) • short story by Steven Utley
• The Crowd • (1943) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• The Dark • (1991) • short story by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Delicate • (1994) • short story by Jeffrey Ford
• The Diane Arbus Suicide Portfolio • (1993) • short story by Marc Laidlaw
• The Discovery of Telenapota • (1984) • short story by
  প্রেমেন্দ্র মিত্র^?Premendra Mitra
  Prēmēndra Mitra
  (trans. of
  তেলেনাপোতা আবিষ্কার^?Telenapota Abishkar
  Tēlēnāpōtā Ābiṣkāra
  Telenapota Abiskara
  ) [as by Premendra Mitra]
• The Dissection • short story by Georg Heym (trans. of Die Sektion 1913)
• The Dunwich Horror • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1929) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• The End of the Garden • (1994) • short story by Michal Ajvaz (trans. of Konec Zahrady 1991)
• The Familiars • (2009) • short story by Micaela Morrissette
• The Forest • (2007) • novelette by Laird Barron
• The Function of Dream Sleep • (1988) • novelette by Harlan Ellison
• The Genius of Assassins: Three Dreams of Murder in the First Person • (2002) • novelette by Michael Cisco (variant of The Genius of Assassins)
• The Ghoulbird • short story by Claude Seignolle (trans. of Le hupeur 1967)
• The God of Dark Laughter • (2001) • short story by Michael Chabon
• The Hell Screen • short story by
  芥川龍之介^?Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  (trans. of
  地獄変^?Jigokuhen
  1918) [as by
  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa^?Ryunosuke Akutagawa
  ]
• The Hide • (2007) • short story by Liz Williams
• The Hospice • (1975) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• The Howling Man • (1959) • short story by Charles Beaumont
• The Hungry House • (1951) • novelette by Robert Bloch
• The Hungry Stones • (1916) • short story by
  রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর^?Ravīndranātha Thākura
  (trans. of
  ক্ষুধিত পাষান^?Kshudhita Pashan
  1895) [as by Rabindranath Tagore]
• The Ice Man • (2006) • short story by
  村上春樹^?Haruki Murakami
  (trans. of
  氷男^?Kōri Otoko
  1991) [as by Haruki Murakami]
• The Lion's Den • (2009) • novelette by Steve Duffy
• The Little Dirty Girl • (1982) • novelette by Joanna Russ
• The Long Sheet • (1941) • short story by William Sansom
• The Mainz Psalter • (1965) • novelette by Jean Ray (trans. of Le psautier de Mayence 1931)
• The Man in the Black Suit • (1994) • short story by Stephen King
• The Man in the Bottle • (1973) • short story by Gustav Meyrink (trans. of Der Mann auf der Flasche 1904)
• The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles • (1951) • short story by Margaret St. Clair
• The Meat Garden • (1996) • short story by Craig Padawer
• The New Rays • (1982) • short story by M. John Harrison
• The Night Wire • (1926) • short story by H. F. Arnold
• The Ocean and All Its Devices • (1994) • novelette by William Browning Spencer
• The Other Side (excerpt) • short fiction by Alfred Kubin
• The Other Side of the Mountain • (2011) • novella by Michel Bernanos (trans. of La montagne morte de la vie 1967)
• The People of the Pit • (1918) • short story by A. Merritt
• The People on the Island • (2005) • short story by T. M. Wright
• The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats • (1976) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.
• The Salamander • short story by Mercè Rodoreda (trans. of La salamandra 1967)
• The Screaming Skull • (1908) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be • (1967) • short story by Gahan Wilson
• The Shadowy Street • (1965) • novelette by Jean Ray (trans. of
  La ruelle ténébreuse^?La ruelle tenebreuse
  1932)
• The Snow Pavilion • (1995) • short story by Angela Carter
• The Specialist's Hat • (1998) • short story by Kelly Link
• The Spider • (1915) • novelette by Hanns Heinz Ewers (trans. of Die Spinne 1908) [as by Hans Heinz Ewers]
• The Stiff and the Stile • (1997) • short story by Stepan Chapman
• The Summer People • (1950) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• The Tarn • (1923) • short story by Hugh Walpole
• The Town Manager • (2003) • short story by Thomas Ligotti
• The Town of Cats • (2008) • short story by
  萩原朔太郎^?はぎわらさくたろう
  Hagiwara Sakutarō
  (trans. of
  猫町^?Nekomachi
  Neko-machi
  1935) [as by
  Hagiwara Sakutarō^?Hagiwara Sakutaro
  ]
• The Vegetable Man • short story by Luigi Ugolini (trans. of L'uomo vegetale 1917)
• The White Hands • (2003) • short story by Mark Samuels
• The White Wyrak • (1993) • short story by
  Stefan Grabiński^?Stefan Grabinski
  (trans. of
  Biały Wyrak (Gawęda kominiarska)^?Bialy wyrak
  Bialy Wyrak (Gaweda kominiarska)
  1921)
• The Willows • (1907) • novella by Algernon Blackwood
• Unseen—Unfeared • (1919) • short story by Francis Stevens
• White Rabbits • (1941) • short story by Leonora Carrington
• Window • (1980) • short story by Bob Leman
• Worlds That Flourish • (1988) • short story by Ben Okri
• Yellow and Red • (1998) • short story by Tanith Lee (variant of Yellow & Red)
• In the Penal Colony • (2003) • novelette by Franz Kafka (trans. of In der Strafkolonie 1919)
• The Aleph • (1998) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El Aleph 1945)
• Axolotl • short story by
  Julio Cortázar^?Julio Cortazar
  (trans. of Axolotl 1956)