A Treasury of American Horror Stories

CONTENTSAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · Lost Face · Jack London ·Being · Richard Matheson · One Happy Family · John S. McFarland ·A Return to the Sabbath · Robert Bloch · The Autopsy · Michael Shea · The Believers · Robert Arthur · A Teacher’s Rewards · Robert S. Phillips · Chico Lafleur Talks Funny · Suzette Haden Elgin ·The Legend of Joe Lee · John D. MacDonald · Seventh Sister · Mary Elizabeth Counselman ·The Isle of Voices · Robert Louis Stevenson · One Man’s Harp · Babette Rosmond · Cannibalism in the Cars · Mark Twain ·The Smell of Cherries · Jeffrey Goddin · Away · Barry N. Malzberg ·Twilla · Tom Reamy · His Name Was Not Forgotten · Joel Townsley Rogers · Désirée’s Child · Kate Chopin ·The Children of Noah · Richard Matheson · 2The Man Who Collected Poe · Robert Bloch · Pickman’s Model · H. P. Lovecraft · The Screwfly Solution [as by Raccoona Sheldon] · James Tiptree, Jr. · The Unpleasantness at Carver House · Carl Jacobi · Mute Milton · Harry Harrison · Dumb Supper · Henderson Starke ·Lonely Train a’ Comin’ [“The Train”] · William F. Nolan ·Children of the Corn · Stephen King · Legal Rites [Pohl as James MacCreigh] · Isaac Asimov & Frederik Pohl ·The Devil and Daniel Webster · Stephen Vincent Benét · The Master of the Hounds · Algis Budrys · The Devil of the Picuris · Edwin L. Sabin · The Garrison [as by David Grinnell] · Donald A. Wollheim ·The Desrick on Yandro [John] · Manly Wade Wellman · Shaggy Vengeance · Robert Adams ·The Horsehair Trunk · Davis Grubb ·The Curse of Yig · Zealia Brown Reed Bishop · Peekaboo · Bill Pronzini ·Bird of Prey · Nelson S. Bond · The Haunter of the Dark · H. P. Lovecraft · Song of the Slaves · Manly Wade Wellman · The Eagle-Claw Rattle · Ardath Mayhar · Our Town · Jerome Bixby · Perverts · Whitley Strieber · The Goddess of Zion · David H. Keller, M.D. · Alannah [as by Stephen Grendon] · August Derleth · His Coat So Gay [Brigadier Ffellowes] · Sterling E. Lanier · Bigfish · Edward D. Hoch · ss *Lonely Road · Richard Wilson · Beyond the Threshold · August Derleth · The Monster of Lake LaMetrie · Wardon Allan Curtis