by S T Joshi
First collection: Lonesome Places (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1962).
Text: Lonesome Places (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1962).
Fritz Leiber: “The Girl with the Hungry Eyes”
First publication: The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, ed. Donald A. Wollheim (New York: Avon, 1949).
First collection: The Secret Songs (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968).
Text: Fritz Leiber, Horrible Imaginings, ed. John Pelan (Seattle: Midnight House, 2004).
Ray Bradbury: “The Fog Horn”
First publication: Saturday Evening Post (June 23, 1951).
First collection: The Golden Apples of the Sun (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1953).
Text: Ray Bradbury, The Stories of Ray Bradbury (New York: Knopf, 1980).
Shirley Jackson: “A Visit”
First publication: New World Writing no. 2 (1952) (As “The Lovely House”).
First collection: Come Along with Me, ed. Stanley Edgar Hyman (New York: Viking Press, 1968).
Text: New World Writing no. 2 (1952).
Richard Matheson: “Long Distance Call”
First publication: Beyond Fantasy Fiction (November 1953).
First collection: Shock! (New York: Dell, 1961).
Text: Richard Matheson, Collected Stories (Santa Cruz, CA: Scream/Press, 1989).
Charles Beaumont: “The Vanishing American”
First publication: Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (August 1955).
First collection: The Hunger and Other Stories (New York: Putnam, 1957).
Text: Charles Beaumont, Selected Stories, ed. Roger Anker (Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1988).
T. E. D. Klein: “The Events at Poroth Farm”
First publication: From Beyond the Dark Gateway (December 1972).
First collection: The Events at Poroth Farm (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1990).
Text: Reassuring Tales (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007).
Stephen King: “Night Surf”
First publication: Cavalier (August 1974).
First collection: Night Shift (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978).
Text: Night Shift (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978).
Dennis Etchison: “The Late Shift”
First publication: Dark Forces, ed. Kirby McCauley (New York: Viking, 1980).
First collection: The Dark Country (Santa Cruz, CA: Scream/Press, 1982).
Text: Dennis Etchison, Talking in the Dark: Selected Stories (Lancaster, PA: Stealth Press, 2001).
Thomas Ligotti: “Vastarien”
First publication: Crypt of Cthulhu (St. John’s Eve 1987).
First collection: Songs of a Dead Dreamer, revised edition (London: Robinson, 1989).
Text: Songs of a Dead Dreamer, revised edition (London: Robinson, 1989).
Karl Edward Wagner: “Endless Night”
First publication: The Architecture of Fear, ed. Kathryn Cramer and Peter D. Pautz (New York: Arbor House, 1987).
First collection: Unthreatened by the Morning Light (Eugene, OR: Pulphouse, 1989).
Text: Karl Edward Wagner, Exorcisms and Ecstasies, ed. Stephen Jones (Minneapolis, MN: Fedogan & Bremer, 1997).
Norman Partridge: “The Hollow Man”
First publication: Grue Magazine (Fall 1991).
First collection: The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists (San Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2001).
Text: The Man with the Barbed-Wire Fists (San Francisco: Night Shade Books, 2001).
David J. Schow: “Last Call for the Sons of Shock”
First publication: David J. Schow, Black Leather Required (Shingle-town, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1994).
Text: Black Leather Required (Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1994).
Joyce Carol Oates: “Demon”
First publication: Joyce Carol Oates, Demon and Other Tales (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1996).
Text: Demon and Other Tales (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1996).
Caitlín R. Kiernan: “In the Water Works (Birmingham, Alabama 1888)”
First publication: Caitlín R. Kiernan, Tales of Pain and Wonder (Springfield, PA: Gauntlet Press, 2000).
Text: Caitlín R. Kiernan, To Charles Fort, with Love (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2005).
* Watson, Dr. Percival, Spallanzani, and especially the Bishop of Landaff.—See “Chemical Essays,” vol. v.
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