"Ballots were distributed asking the (World Fantasy) convention members to name their favourites, elaborate tabulation processes were performed, and here at last we have, in one volume, the finest stories of all time."

Edited by Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Greenberg

Contents:

• Introduction by Robert Silverberg
• The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe (1842)
• An Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce (1886)
• The Sword of Welleran by Lord Dunsany (1908)
• The Women of the Wood by A. Merritt (1926)
• The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan by Clark Ashton Smith (1932)
• The Valley of the Worm by Robert E. Howard (1934)
• Black God’s Kiss by C.L. Moore (1934)
• The Silver Key by H.P. Lovecraft (1937)
• Nothing in the Rules by L. Sprague de Camp (1939)
• A Gnome There Was by Henry Kuttner (1941)
• Snulbug by Anthony Boucher (1941)
• The Words of Guru by C.M. Kornbluth (1941)
• Homecoming by Ray Bradbury (1946)
• Mazirian the Magician by Jack Vance (1950)
• O Ugly Bird! by Manly Wade Wellman (1951)
• The Silken-Swift by Theodore Sturgeon (1953)
• The Golem by Avram Davidson (1955)
• That Hell-Bound Train by Robert Bloch (1958)
• Kings in Darkness by Michael Moorcock (1962)
• Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes by Harlan Ellison (1967)
• Gonna Roll the Bones by Fritz Leiber (1967)
• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin (1973)