The others / J.C. Oates -- Tap dancing / J.G. Betancourt -- The hungry stones / R. Tagore -- The southwest chamber / M.E.W. Freeman -- The lost room / F. O'Brien -- The ghost to his ladye love / W.S. Gilbert -- The happy children / A. Machen -- Darby O'Gill and the good people / H.T. Kavanagh -- Keeping his promise / A. Blackwood -- A day in the life of Comrade Lenin / C. Bugge -- The throwing suit / D. Schweitzer ; J. Van Hollander -- The man who wanted to be in the movies / J. Jakes -- Fidel Bassin / W.J. Stamper -- Unsigned original / P. Godwin -- The clemency of the court / W. Cather -- The empty zoo / E.D. Hoch -- Beyond sleep / B.N. Malzberg -- Finnegan's wake / trad. -- Bianca's hands / T. Sturgeon -- The iron man / F. Laing -- Sagittarius / R. Russell -- Wolf / M. Moorcock -- An illusion in red and white / S. Crane -- Man overboard / W. Churchill -- The people of the pit / A.

The dreams in the witch-house / H.P. Lovecraft -- The little man on the subway / I. Asimov ; F. Pohl -- The poems / R. Bradbury -- Vision quest / P. LoBrutto -- The man in the bottle / B. Meyrink -- A diagnosis of death / A. Bierce -- Remember me / J.V. Putten -- The pardon / E. Pardo-Bazan -- The one thousand dozen / J. London -- Carmanda / J.A. Salmonson -- The spirit of hospitality / S. Terry -- The cripple / M. Level -- The squaw / B. Stoker -- Pictures / I. Werner -- The necklace / G. de Maupassant -- The necklace: a sequel / J. Moffitt -- Midnight / J. Snow -- Ms. Lipshutz and the goblin / M. Kaye -- Amina / Edward Lucas White -- Simpson's lesser sphynx / E.M. Friesner -- Dress of white silk / R. Matheson -- The palace of the mountain ogre / T. Sanders -- Snow white waking / A. Slaughter -- The little witch of Elm Street / M. Clingerman -- The brown mans' servant / W.W. Jacobs --

This new treasury of terror will propel you through fifty-eight stories and poems of fear and nightmare. Like its companion volume, Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural, this collection intends to terrify the reader with the cosmic fear of the unknown, not merely horrify with blood and gore.
The modern and classic authors represented are some of the most distinguished and popular of our time. Joyce Carol Oates writes about a man who starts to see long-dead acquaintances - alive. John Jakes recounts the unnatural desire of "The Man Who Wanted to Be in Movies" and Winston Churchill tells of the natural fear of a man lost at sea. Of special interest is the poem by W. S. Gilbert (of Gilbert & Sullivan) and the story by Gaston Leroux (author of The Phantom of the Opera).
Other authors include Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, Richard Matheson, Joanna Russ, Theodore Sturgeon, Guy de Maupassant, Michael Moorcock, Parke Godwin, Willa Cather, A. Merritt, Isaac Asimov, Frederick Pohl, and Jack Vance.
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown is expertly compiled by Marvin Kaye, who provides fascinating notes with each selection and an Introduction that provides further insights into the genres of terror and horror.

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