Supernatural sleuths and ghostly gumshoes populate these tales of the criminally creepy.

Contents:

• Lonely Train a’ Comin’ [“The Train”] by William F. Nolan · ss Gallery Oct ’81
• Vandy, Vandy [John] · Manly Wade Wellman · ss F&SF Mar ’53
• The Ghost Patrol [Max Kearny] by Ron Goulart · ss F&SF Oct ’68
• The Adventure of the Ball of Nostradamus [Solar Pons] · August Derleth & Mack Reynolds · ss F&SF Jun ’55
• The Gateway of the Monster [Carnacki] William Hope Hodgson · ss The Idler Jan ’10
• A Good Judge of Character by Susan Dunlap · ss Deadly Allies, ed. Robert J. Randisi & Marilyn Wallace, Doubleday Perfect Crime, 1992
• The Angel of the Lord [“The Broken Stirrup-Leather”; Uncle Abner] by Melville Davisson Post ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 3 ’11
• Falling Boy by David Dean · nv EQMM Apr ’95
• The Existential Man by Lee Killough · nv F&SF Mar ’82
• The Midnight El [Sidney Taine] by Robert Weinberg · ss Return to the Twilight Zone, ed. Carol Serling & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1994
• The Cardula Detective Agency [Cardula] by Jack Ritchie · ss AHMM Mar ’77
• The Chronology Protection Case [Phil D’Amato] by Paul Levinson · nv Analog Sep ’95
• Children of Ubasti [Jules de Grandin] by Seabury Quinn · nv Weird Tales Dec ’29
• Death by Ecstasy [“The Organleggers”; Gil Hamilton] by Larry Niven · na Galaxy Jan ’69

Edited by: Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg