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• A Cautionary Word • (1963) • essay by August Derleth
• A Piece of Linoleum • (1933) • short story by David H. Keller, M.D. [as by David H. Keller]
• A Thin Gentleman with Gloves • (1943) • short story by August Derleth [as by Simon West]
• An Invitation to the Hunt • (1960) • short story by George Hitchcock
• Canavan's Back Yard • [Canavan] • (1958) • short story by Joseph Payne Brennan
• Death Waters • (1924) • short story by Frank Belknap Long (variant of Death-Waters)
• Moonlight—Starlight • (1959) • short story by Virginia Layefsky
• Sweets to the Sweet • (1947) • short story by Robert Bloch
• The Eye and the Finger • (1936) • short story by Donald Wandrei
• The Feasting Dead • (1954) • novella by John Metcalfe
• The Horror at Red Hook • (1927) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Kite • (1937) • short story by Carl Jacobi
• The Lips • (1929) • short story by Henry S. Whitehead
• The Seed from the Sepulchre • (1933) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith (variant of The Seed from the Sepulcher)
• The Shuttered Room • (1959) • novelette by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
• The Triumph of Death • (1949) • short story by H. Russell Wakefield
• The Tsanta in the Parlour • (1948) • short story by August Derleth (variant of The Tsanta in the Parlor) [as by Stephen Grendon]