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Tables of Contents for The Dark Descent
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
1
14
PART I: The Color of Evil
The Reach
15
16
Stephen King
Evening Primrose
31
9
John Collier
The Ash-Tree
40
10
M. R. James
The New Mother
50
9
Lucy Clifford
There's a Long, Long Trial A-Winding
59
26
Russell Kirk
The Call of Cthulhu
85
23
H. P. Lovecraft
The Summer People
108
10
Shirley Jackson
The Whimper of Whipped Dogs
118
14
Harlan Ellison
Young Goodman Brown
132
10
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mr. Justice Harbottle
142
25
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Crowd
167
8
Ray Bradbury
The Autopsy
175
28
Michael Shea
John Charrington's Wedding
203
6
E. Nesbit
Sticks
209
16
Karl Edward Wagner
Larger Than Oneself
225
20
Robert Aickman
Belsen Express
245
10
Fritz Leiber
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
255
13
Robert Bloch
If Damon Comes
268
10
Charles L. Grant
Vandy, Vandy
278
13
Manly Wade Wellman
PART II: The Medusa in the Shield
The Swords
291
21
Robert Aickman
The Roaches
312
9
Thomas M. Disch
Bright Segment
321
18
Theodore Sturgeon
Dread
339
29
Clive Barker
The Fall of the House of Usher
368
14
Edgar Allan Poe
The Monkey
382
28
Stephen King
Within the Walls of Tyre
410
21
Michael Bishop
The Rates in the Walls
431
14
H. P. Lovecraft
Schalken the Painter
445
15
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Yellow Wallpaper
460
12
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A Rose for Emily
472
8
William Faulkner
How Love Came to Professor Guildea
480
33
Robert Hichens
Born of Man and Woman
513
3
Richard Matheson
My Dear Emily
516
16
Joanna Russ
You Can Go Now
532
9
Dennis Etchison
The Rocking-horse Winner
541
12
D. H. Lawrence
Three Days
553
23
Tanith Lee
Good Country People
576
15
Flannery O'Connor
Mackintosh Willy
591
11
Ramsey Campbell
The Jolly Corner
602
27
Henry James
PART III: A Fabulous Formless Darkness
Smoke Ghost
629
12
Fritz Leiber
Seven American Nights
641
39
Gene Wolfe
The Signal-Man
680
10
Charles Dickens
Crouch End
690
22
Stephen King
Night-Side
712
19
Joyce Carol Oates
Seaton's Aunt
731
22
Walter de la Mare
Clara Militch
753
40
Ivan Turgenev
The Repairer of Reputations
793
24
Robert W. Chambers
The Beckoning Fair One
817
47
Oliver Onions
What Was It?
864
10
Fitz-James O'Brien
The Beautiful Stranger
874
6
Shirley Jackson
The Damned Thing
880
7
Ambrose Bierce
Afterward
887
22
Edith Wharton
The Willows
909
35
Algernon Blackwood
The Asian Shore
944
26
Thomas M. Disch
The Hospice
970
25
Robert Aickman
A Little Something for Us Tempunauts
995
Philip K. Dick