Robert Aickman

The reach / Stephen King -- Evening primose / John Collier -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The new mother / Lucy Clifford -- There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russell Kirk -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison -- [Young Goodman Brown]( / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Mr. Justice Harbottle / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The crowd / Ray Bradbury -- The autopsy / Michael Shea -- John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit -- Sticks / Karl Edward Wagner -- Larger than oneself / Robert Aickman -- Belsen express / Fritz Leiber -- Yours truly, Jack the ripper / Robert Bloch -- If Damon comes / Charles L. Grant -- Vandy, Vandy / Manly Wade Wellman.

pt. 1. The color of evil. The reach / Stephen King -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- The ash-tree / M.R. James -- The new mother / Lucy Clifford -- There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russell Kirk -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison -- [Young Goodman Brown]( / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Mr. Justice Harbottle -- J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The crowd / Ray Bradbury -- The autopsy / Michael Shea -- John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit -- Sticks / Karl Edward Wagner -- Larger than oneself / Robert Aickman -- Belsen Express / Fritz Leiber -- Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch -- If Damon comes / Charles L. Grant -- Vandy, Vandy / Manly Wade Wellman -- pt. 2. The Medusa in the shield. The swords / Robert Aickman -- The roaches / Thomas M. Disch -- Bright segment / Theodore Sturgeon -- Dread / Clive Barker -- The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The monkey / Stephen King -- Within the walls of Tyre / Michael Bishop -- The rats in the walls / H.P. Lovecraft -- Schalken the painter / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- How love came to Professor Guildea / Robert Hichens -- Born of man and woman / Richard Matheson -- My dear Emily / Joanna Russ -- You can go now / Dennis Etchison -- The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence -- Three days / Tanith Lee -- Good country people / Flannery O'Connor -- Mackintosh Willy / Ramsey Campbell -- The jolly corner / Henry James -- pt. 3. A fabulous formless darkness. Smoke ghost / Fritz Leiber -- Seven American nights / Gene Wolfe -- The signal-man / Charles Dickens -- [Crouch End]( / Stephen King -- Night-side / Joyce Carol Oates -- Seaton's aunt / Walter de la Mare -- Clara Militch / Ivan Turgenev -- The repairer of reputations / Robert W. Chambers -- The beckoning fair one / Oliver Onions -- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The beautiful stranger / Shirley Jackson -- [The damned thing]( / Ambrose Bierce -- Afterward / Edith Wharton -- The willows / Algernon Blackwood -- The Asian shore / Thomas M. Disch -- The hospice / Robert Aickman -- A little something for us tempunauts / Philip K. Dick.

Contains: The Late Shift by Dennis Etchison The Enemy by Isaac Bashevis Singer Dark Angel by Edward Bryant The Crest of Thirty-six by Davis Grubb Mark Ingestre: The Customer’s Tale by Robert Aickman Where the Summer Ends by Karl Edward Wagner The Bingo Master by Joyce Carol Oates Children of the Kingdom by T. E. D. Klein The Detective of Dreams by Gene Wolfe Vengeance Is. By Theodore Sturgeon The Brood by Ramsey Campbell The Whistling Well by Clifford D. Simak The Peculiar Demesne by Russell Kirk Where the Stones Grow by Lisa Tuttle The Night Before Christmas by Robert Bloch The Stupid Joke by Edward Gorey A Touch of Petulance by Ray Bradbury Lindsay and the Red City Blues by Joe Haldeman A Garden of Blackred Roses by Charles L. Grant Owls Hoot in the Daytime by Manly Wade Wellman Where There’s a Will by Richard Matheson and Richard Christian Matheson Traps by Gahan Wilson [The Mist]( by Stephen King

"Aickman's superbly written tales terrify not with standard thrills and gore but through a radical overturning of the laws of nature and everyday life. His territory of the strange, of the 'void behind the face of order,' is a surreal region that grotesquely mimics the quotidian: Is that river the Thames, or is it even a river? What does it mean when a prospective lover removes one dress, and then another--and then another? Do a herd of cows in a peaceful churchyard contain the souls of jilted women preparing to trample a cruel lover to death?" --

Contains: [The Monkey]( / Stephen King -- The brave litte toaster / Thomas M. Disch -- The Attleborough poltergeist / Richard Cowper -- The Hot and cold running waterfall / Stephen Tall -- Unicorn tapestry / Suzy McKee Charnas -- Strata / Edward Bryant -- The Confession of Hamo / Mary C. Pangborn -- Feesters in the lake / Bob Leman -- Don't look back / Pat Murphy -- Letters to the postman / Robert Aickman --

Provides a look at ghosts--in stories, in movies, reports of sightings throughout history, fakes, and more.

Contains: [Jerusalem's lot]( / Stephen King -- The parasite / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Fearful rock / Manly Wade Wellman -- Sardonicus / Ray Russell -- Nighflyers / George R.R. Martin -- Horrible imaginings / Fritz Leiber -- Jane Brown's body / Cornell Woolrich -- Killdozer / Theodore Sturgeon -- The shadow out of time / H.P. Lovecraft -- The stains / Robert Aickman -- The horror from the hills / Frank Belknap Long -- Children of the kingdom / T.E.D. Klein -- Frost and fire / Ray Bradbury.

The unsettled dust / Robert Aickman -- How he left the hotel / Louisa Baldwin -- Whessoe / Nugent Barker -- The shuttered room / E.F. Benson -- [Inhabitant of Carcosa]( / Ambrose Bierce -- Is there anybody there? / Charles Birkin -- The whisperers / Algernon Blackwood -- Curfew / L.M. Boston -- I'm sure it was no. 31 / A.M. Burrage -- The guide / Ramsey Campbell -- The limping ghost / R. Chetwynd-Hayes -- Mrs. Zant and the ghost / Wilkie Collins -- The house by the tarn / Basil Copper -- In Kropfsberg Keep / Ralph A. Cram -- The ghost in all the rooms / Daniel DeFoe -- The bagman's uncle / Charles Dickens -- The bully of Brocas Court / Arthur Conan Doyle -- In the confessional / Amelia B. Edwards -- The tune in Dan's café / Shamus Frazer -- Beyond the Bourne / John S. Glasby -- The valley of lost children / William Hope Hodgson -- The sand-walker / Fergus Hume -- The real right thing / Henry James -- The haunted dolls' house / M.R. James -- The wall-painting / Roger Johnson -- They / Rudyard Kipling -- The last laugh / D.H. Lawrence -- Robin's Rath / Margery Lawrence -- The dream / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The sundial / R.H. Malden -- The fifteenth man / Richard Marsh -- Brenner's boy / John Metcalfe -- Uncle Abraham's romance / Edith Nesbit -- What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien -- The next room / Vincent O'Sullivan -- The footstep of the Aventine / Roger Pater -- [William Wilson]( / Edgar Allan Poe -- Courage / Forrest Reid -- The last of Squire Ennismore / Mrs. J.H. Riddell -- The Garside Fell disaster / L.T.C. Rolt -- The tears of Saint Agathé / David G. Rowlands -- The sould of Laploshka / Saki.