[v. 1] From Poe to the pulps -- [v. 2] From the 1940s to now.
[v. 1.] From Poe to the pulps. Somnambulism: a fragment / Charles Brockden Brown -- The adventure of the German student / Washington Irving -- Berenice / Edgar Allan Poe -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The tartarus of maids / Herman Melville -- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The legend of Monte del Diablo / Bret Harte -- The moonstone mass / Harriet Prescott Spofford -- His unconquerable enemy / W.C. Morrow -- In dark New England days / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The yellow wall paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The black dog / Stephen Crane -- Ma'ame Peþlagie / Kate Chopin -- Thurlow's Christmas story / John Kendrick Bangs -- The repairer of reputations / Robert W. Chambers -- The dead valley / Ralph Adams Cram -- The little room / Madeline Yale Wynne -- The striding place / Gertrude Atherton -- An itinerant house / Emma Francis Dawson -- Luella Miller / Mary Wilkins Freeman -- Grettir at Thorhall-stead / Frank Norris -- Yuki-Onna / Lafcadio Hearn -- For the blood is life / F. Marion Crawford -- The moonlit road / Ambrose Bierce -- Lukundoo / Edward Lucas White -- The shell of sense / Olivia Howard Dunbar -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- Golden baby / Alice Brown -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- Consequences / Willa Cather -- The shadowy third / Ellen Glasgow -- Absolute evil / Julian Hawthorne -- Unseen-unfeared / Francis Stevens -- The curious case of Benjamin Button / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The curse of Everard Maundy / Seabury Quinn -- The king of the cats / Stephen Vincent Beneþt -- The jelly-fish / David H. Keller -- Mr. Arcularis / Conrad Aiken -- The black stone / Robert E. Howard -- Passing of a god / Henry S. Whitehead -- The panelled room / August Derleth -- The thing on the doorstep / H.P. Lovecraft -- Genius Loci / Clark Ashton Smith -- The cloak / Robert Bloch.
[v. 2.] From the 1940s to now. Evening primrose / John Collier -- Smoke ghost / Fritz Leiber -- The mysteries of the Joy Rio / Tennessee Williams -- The refugee / Jane Rice -- Mr. Lupescu / Anthony Boucher -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- Midnight / Jack Snow -- Torch Song / John Cheever -- The daemon lover / Shirley Jackson -- The circular valley / Paul Bowles -- I'm scared / Jack Finney -- The Vane sisters / Vladimir Nabokov -- The April witch / Ray Bradbury -- Black country / Charles Beaumont -- Trace / Jerome Bixby -- Where the woodbine twineth / Davis Grubb -- Nightmare / Donald Wandrei -- I have no mouth, and I must scream / Harlan Ellison -- Prey / Richard Matheson -- The events at Poroth Farm / T.E.D. Klein -- Hanka / Isaac Bashevis Singer -- Linnaeus forgets / Fred Chappell -- Novelty / John Crowley -- Mr. Fiddlehead / Jonathan Carroll -- Family / Joyce Carol Oates -- The last feast of Harlequin / Thomas Ligotti --A short guide to the city / Peter Straub -- The general who is dead / Jeff VanderMeer --That feeling, you can only say what it is in French / Stephen King -- Sea Oak / George Saunders -- The long hall on the top floor / Caitlin Kiernan -- Nocturne / Thomas Tessier -- The God of Dark Laughter / Michael Chabon -- Pop art / Joe Hill -- Pansu / Poppy Z. Brite -- Dangerous laughter / Steven Millhauser -- The chambered fruit / M. Rickert -- The wavering knife / Brian Evenson -- Stone animals / Kelly Link -- Pat Moore / Tim Powers -- The little stranger / Gene Wolfe -- Dial tone / Benjamin Percy.