Wolfs Complete Book of Terror

Contents:

• Introduction (Wolf's Complete Book of Terror) • essay by Leonard Wolf
1 • The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas • (1973) • shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
7 • I Love My Love • (1979) • poem by Helen Adam
10 • I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream • (1967) • shortstory by Harlan Ellison
22 • The Tattooer • (1963) • shortstory by Junichiro Tanizaki
27 • Steps (Excerpt) • (1968) • shortfiction by Jerzy Kosinski
30 • Axolotl • (1967) • shortstory by Julio Cortázar (trans. of Axolotl 1956)
34 • The Wish • (1948) • shortstory by Roald Dahl
37 • The Lottery • (1948) • shortstory by Shirley Jackson
44 • It's a Good Life • (1953) • shortstory by Jerome Bixby
58 • They Bite • (1943) • shortstory by Anthony Boucher
67 • The Last Night of the World • (1951) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury
71 • Born of Man and Woman • (1950) • shortstory by Richard Matheson
74 • Piazza Piece • (1927) • poem by John Crowe Ransom
75 • The South • (1962) • shortstory by Jorge Luís Borges (trans. of El sur 1953)
80 • The Fly • (1957) • novelette by George Langelaan (trans. of La mouche)
105 • The Doll • (1946) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
129 • The Ghost • (1926) • shortstory by Richard Hughes
132 • The Hunted Beast • (1930) • shortstory by T. F. Powys
140 • End • (1947) • poem by Langston Hughes
141 • The Rival Dummy • (1946) • shortstory by Ben Hecht
149 • Caterpillars • (1912) • shortstory by E. F. Benson
156 • Lukundoo • (1907) • shortstory by Edward Lucas White
167 • Sredni Vashtar • (1911) • shortstory by Saki
171 • The Picture in the House • (1919) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
178 • Pollock and the Porroh Man • (1895) • shortstory by H. G. Wells
190 • The Spider • (1915) • novelette by Hanns Heinz Ewers (trans. of Die Spinne 1908)
205 • The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains • (1839) • shortstory by Frederick Marryat (variant of The Werewolf (excerpt: chapter 39 of The Phantom Ship))
220 • Tchériapin • (1920) • shortstory by Sax Rohmer
233 • My Doll Janie • (1979) • poem by Lola Ridge
234 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • shortstory by W. W. Jacobs
243 • The Mark of the Beast • (1890) • shortstory by Rudyard Kipling
253 • Manacled • (1900) • shortstory by Stephen Crane
256 • Yuki-Onna • (1904) • shortstory by Lafcadio Hearn
259 • Mujina • (1904) • shortstory by Lafcadio Hearn
261 • The Squaw • (1893) • shortstory by Bram Stoker
270 • The Yellow Wallpaper • (1892) • novelette by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
283 • The Black Mass, Episode from Là-bas (Down There) • (1891) • shortfiction by Joris-Karl Huysmans (variant of The Black Mass (chapter XIX from Là-Bas)) [as by J. K. Huysmans ]
291 • The Magic Shirt • (unknown) • shortfiction by Anonymous
292 • Carmilla • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
317 • Not to Be Taken at Bed-Time • (1865) • shortstory by Rosa Mulholland
328 • The Very Sad Tale of the Matches • (1979) • poem by Heinrich Hoffmann (trans. of Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug 1845)
330 • The Man-Tiger • (unknown) • shortfiction by Anonymous
331 • The Hours in the Life of a Lousy-Haired Man, Episode from Maldoror • (unknown) • shortfiction by Comte de Lautréamont
335 • Varney, the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood (excerpt) • [Varney the Vampyre (excerpts)] • (1847) • shortfiction by James Malcolm Rymer
340 • The Horla, or Modern Ghosts • [Le Horla • 1] • (1886) • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla)
358 • A Carrion • (1979) • poem by Charles P. Baudelaire (trans. of Une Charogne 1857) [as by Charles Pierre Baudelaire ]
361 • The Pit and the Pendulum • (1842) • shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
372 • The Black Cat • (1843) • shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
379 • The Birthmark • (1843) • shortstory by Nathaniel Hawthorne
392 • La Belle Helene • (1979) • shortstory by Prosper Mérimée
396 • Nuckelavee • (unknown) • shortfiction by Anonymous
398 • La Belle Dame sans Merci • (1820) • poem by John Keats
401 • Isabella, or The Pot of Basil • (1820) • poem by John Keats
417 • The Erl-King • (1979) • poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. of Der Erlkönig 1782)
418 • The Count de Gernande, Episode from Justine • (1979) • shortfiction by Marquis de Sade [as by The Marquis de Sade ]
429 • Lord Randal • (unknown) • poem by Anonymous
431 • The Painted Skin • (1895) • shortstory by P'u Sung-Ling
434 • Satan at the Gates of Hell, from Paradise Lost, Book II • (unknown) • shortfiction by John Milton
440 • The Milk-White Doo • (unknown) • shortfiction by Anonymous
442 • The Wife of Usher's Well • (1947) • poem by Anonymous
445 • Bluebeard • (1697) • shortstory by Charles Perrault (variant of La Barbe Bleüe)
449 • The Vampire, Episode from The Golden Ass • (unknown) • shortstory by Apuleius [as by Lucius Apuleius ]
455 • Jaël (excerpt) • (unknown) • shortfiction by Book of Judges
461 • Author Biographies (Wolf's Complete Book of Terror) • essay by uncredited
465 • Bibliography (Wolf's Complete Book of Terror) • essay by uncredited