This collection offers variety in its horrors, from cold grue to physical and psychic torment. It is a book of curiously memorable tales, a book which will have an instant appeal to all readers who have an inclination towards the unusual, the unique... who long to look beyond the horizons of normality.

Contents:

• Foreword by August Derleth
• Under the Horns by Robert Bloch
• Come Back, Uncle Ben! by Joseph Payne Brennan
• The Church in High Street by J. Ramsey Campbell
• Hargrave's Fore-Edge Book by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
• Miss Esperson by Stephen Grendon
• The Habitants of Middle Islet by William Hope Hodgson
• The Grey God Passes by Robert E. Howard
• The Aquarium by Carl Jacobi
• The Man Who Wanted to Be in the Movies by John Jakes
• In Memoriam by David H. Keller
• Witches' Hollow by H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
• The Ideal Type by Frank Mace
• The Firing-Chamber by John Metcalfe
• The Green Vase by Dennis Roidt
• Xélucha by M.P. Shiel
• The Animals in the Case by H. Russell Wakefield
• Caer Sidhi by George Wetzel