Contents:

• Introduction by Stefan Dziemianowicz
• The Insufficient Answer by Robert Aickman
• Mrs. Amworth by E. F. Benson
• The Scent of Vinegar by Robert Bloch
• Good Lady Ducayne by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• Sometimes Salvation by Pat Cadigan
• The Brotherhood of Blood by Hugh B. Cave
• A Mystery of the Campagna by Anne Crawford
• For the Blood Is the Life by F. Marion Crawford
• I Vant to Be Alone by Barb D’Amato
• Nellie Foster by August Derleth
• Madeleine by Barbara Hambly
• Ken’s Mystery by Julian Hawthorne
• Revelations in Black by Carl Jacobi
• The First Time by K. W. Jeter
• Girl’s Night Out by Kathe Koja & Barry N. Malzberg
• Night Laughter by Ellen Kushner
• La Dame by Tanith Lee
• The Girl with the Hungry Eyes by Fritz Leiber
• Dress of White Silk> by Richard Matheson
• Shambleau [Northwest Smith] by C. L. Moore
• My Dear Emily by Joanna Russ
• American Gothic by Ray Russell
• The Pearls of the Vampire Queen [Nifft the Lean] by Michael Shea
• The End of the Story by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady by Brian Stableford
• The Last Grave of Lill Warran [John Thunstone] by Manly Wade Wellman
• Luella Miller by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman
• ...To Feel Another’s Woe by Chet Williamson
• The Canal by Everil Worrell