Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown (Guild America Books)

xiii • Introduction: Gather Ye Nosegays • essay by Marvin Kaye 1 • Ghosts and Miscellaneous Nightmares • essay by Marvin Kaye 3 • The Others • (1987) • shortstory by Joyce Carol Oates 8 • Tap Dancing • (1991) • shortstory by John Gregory Betancourt 14 • The Hungry Stones • (1916) • shortstory by Rabindranath Tagore 25 • The Southwest Chamber • (1903) • novelette by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 42 • The Lost Room • (1858) • shortstory by Fitz-James O'Brien 57 • The Ghost to His Ladye Love • (1869) • poem by W. S. Gilbert 59 • The Happy Children • (1920) • shortstory by Arthur Machen 64 • Darby O'Gill and the Good People • (1901) • shortstory by Herminie Templeton Kavanagh 77 • Keeping His Promise • (1906) • shortstory by Algernon Blackwood 90 • A Day in the Life of Comrade Lenin • shortstory by Carole Buggé 103 • The Throwing Suit • (1990) • shortstory by Darrell Schweitzer and Jason Van Hollander 120 • The Man Who Wanted to Be in the Movies • (1962) • shortstory by John Jakes 127 • The Beast Within • essay by Marvin Kaye 129 • Fidel Bassin • (1925) • shortstory by W. J. Stamper 137 • Unsigned Original • (1975) • shortstory by Parke Godwin 142 • The Clemency of the Court • (1893) • shortstory by Willa Cather 150 • The Empty Zoo • (1965) • shortstory by Edward D. Hoch 157 • Beyond Sleep • (1970) • shortstory by Barry N.