An oversized anthology of dark and bizarre tales written throughout the past century.;The discovery of Telenapota / Premendra Mitra -- Soft / F. Paul Wilson -- Bloodchild / Octavia E. Butler -- In the hills, the cities / Clive Barker -- Tainaron: mail from another city / Leena Krohn -- Hogfoot Right and Bird-hands / Garry Kilworth -- Shades / Lucius Shephard -- The function of dream sleep / Harlan Ellison -- Worlds that flourish / Ben Okri -- The boy in the tree / Elizabeth Hand -- Family / Joyce Carol Oates -- His mouth will taste of wormwood / Poppy Z. Brite -- The end of the garden / Michal Ajvaz -- The dark / Karen Joy Fowler -- Angels in love / Kathe Koja -- The ice man / Haruki Murakami -- Replacements / Lisa Tuttle -- The Diane Arbus suicide portfolio / Marc Laidlaw -- The country doctor / Steven Utley -- Last rites and resurrections / Martin Simpson -- The ocean and all its devices / William Browning Spencer -- The delicate / Jeffrey Ford -- The man in the black suit / Stephen King -- The snow pavilion / Angela Carter -- The meat garden / Craig Padawer -- The stiff and the stile / Stepan Chapman.;The other side / Alfred Kubin -- The screaming skull / F. Marion Crawford -- The willows / Algernon Blackwood -- Sredni Vashtar / Saki -- Casting the runes / M.R. James -- How Nuth would have practised his art upon the Gnoles / Lord Dunsany -- The man in the bottle / Gustav Meyrink -- The dissection / Georg Heym -- The spider / Hanns Heinz Ewers -- The hungry stones / Rabindranath Tagore -- The vegetable man / Luigi Ugolini -- The people of the pit / A. Merritt -- The hell screen / Ryunosuke Akutagawa -- Unseen -- unfeared / Francis Stevens -- In the penal colony / Franz Kafka -- The white wryak / Stefan Grabinski -- The night wire / H.F. Arnold -- The Dunwich horror / H.P. Lovecraft -- The book / Margaret Irwin -- The Mainz Psalter / Jean Ray -- The shadowy street / Jean Ray -- Genius loci / Clark Ashton Smith -- The town of cats / Hagiwara Sakutaro -- The tarn / Hugh Walpole -- Sanatorium under the sign of the hourglass / Bruno Schulz -- Far below / Robert Barbour Johnson -- Smoke ghost / Fritz Leiber -- White rabbits / Leonora Carrington -- Mimic / Donald A. Wollheim -- The crowd / Ray Bradbury -- The long sheet / William Sansom.;The Aleph / Jorge Luis Borges -- A child in the bush of ghosts / Olympe Bhely-Quenum -- The summer people / Shirley Jackson -- The man who sold rope to the Gnoles / Margaret St. Clair -- The hungry house / Robert Bloch -- The complete gentleman / Amos Tutola -- 'It's a good life' / Jerome Bixby -- Mister Taylor / Augusto Monterroso -- Axolotl / Julio Cortazar -- A woman seldom found / William Sansom -- The howling man / Charles Beaumont -- Same time, same place / Mervyn Peake -- The colomber / Dino Buzati -- The other side of the mountain / Michel Bernanos -- The salamander / Merce Rodoreda -- The ghoulbird / Claude Seignolle -- The sea was as wet as wet could be / Gahan Wilson -- Don't look now / Daphne du Maurier -- The hospice / Robert Aickman -- It only comes out at night / Dennis Etchison -- The psychologist who wouldn't do awful things to rats / James Tiptree, Jr. -- The beak doctor / Eric Basso -- My mother / Jamaica Kincaid -- Sandkings / George R.R. Martin -- Window / Bob Leman -- The brood / Ramsey Campbell -- The autopsy / Michael Shea -- The belonging kind / William Gibson, John Shirley -- Egnaro / M. John Harrison -- The little dirty girl / Joanna Russ -- The new rays / M. John Harrison.;Yellow and red / Tanith Lee -- The specialist's hat / Kelly Link -- A redress for Andromeda / Caitlin R. Kiernan -- The god of dark laughter / Michael Chabon -- Details / China Mieville -- The genius of assassins / Michael Cisco -- Feeders and eaters / Neil Gaiman -- The cage / Jeff VanderMeer -- The beautiful Gelreesh / Jeffrey Ford -- The town manager / Thomas Ligotti -- The brotherhood of mutilation / Brian Evenson -- The white hands / Mark Samuels -- Flat Diane / Daniel Abraham -- Singing my sister down / Margo Lanagan -- The people on the island / T.M. Wright -- The forest / Laird Barron -- The hide / Liz Williams -- Dust enforcer / Reza Negarestani -- The familiars / Michael Morrisette -- The lion's den / Steve Duffy -- Little lambs / Stephen Graham Jones -- Saving the gleeful horse / K.J. Bishop.