Inhaltsverzeichnis: - Mary Hottinger: Apologia horroris - Mary Hottinger: Die Reise der Mary Celeste (The Voyage of the Mary Celeste) - Edgar Allan Poe: Der Rote Tod (The Masque of the Red Death) - Arthur Machen: Das freundliche Zimmer (The Cosy Room) - Charles Dickens: Der Bahnwärter (The Signal-Man) - Ambrose Bierce: Die Totenwache (The Watcher by the Dead) - Rudyard Kipling: Eine Tatsache (A Matter of Fact) - Philip MacDonald: Unsere gefiederten Freunde (Our Feathered Friends) - R.L. Stevenson: Markheim - E.F. Benson: Die Turmstube (The Room in the Tower) - Oliver Onions: Die lockende Schöne (The Beckoning Fair One) - Rudyard Kipling: >Sie< (They) - Saki: Sredni Vashtar - R.H. Mottram: Verlorene Vergangenheit (Lost Property) - Martin Armstrong: Der Pfeifenraucher (The Pipe-Smoker) - Evelyn Waugh: Der Mann, der Dickens liebte (The Man who liked Dickens) - W.F. Harvey: Augusthitze (August Heat) - Shirley Jackson: Die Lotterie (The Lottery) - A.M. Burrage: Die Wachsfigur (The Waxwork) - Ernest Hemingway: Die Killer (The Killers) - John Metcalfe: Trauermarsch (Funeral March of a Marionette) - Evelyn Waugh: Miss Bella gibt eine Gesellschaft (Bella Fleace gave a Party) - Richard Middleton: Das Geisterschiff (The Ghost Ship)