Search Worlds Without End

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Boris Karloff
• The Test - (1920) - shortstory by Maurice Level
• "John Gladwin Says..." - (1928) - shortstory by Oliver Onions
• The Black Pool - (1917) - novelette by Frederick Stuart Greene
• The Scoop - shortstory by Leonora Gregory
• Femme et Chatte - poem by Paul Verlaine
• The Hanging of Alfred Wadham - (1928) - shortstory by E. F. Benson
• The Departure - (1937) - shortstory by Selma Robinson
• The Adventure of Second Lieutenant Bubnov - (1916) - shortstory by Ivan Turgenev
• In the Wheat - (1920) - shortstory by Maurice Level
• The Madman - shortstory by Guy de Maupassant
• The Storm - (1944) - shortstory by McKnight Malmar
• L'Amour après la Mort - (1884) - shortstory by Lafcadio Hearn
• Rizpah - (1895) - poem by Lord Alfred Tennyson
• One Who Saw - (1931) - shortstory by A. M. Burrage
• My Favorite Murder - (1888) - shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
• The Grove of Ashtaroth - (1910) - novelette by John Buchan
• The Case of Lady Sannox - (1893) - shortstory by Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Black Godmother - (1912) - shortfiction by John Galsworthy
• The Stranger - (1927) - shortstory by Algernon Blackwood
• The Panelled Room - (1933) - shortstory by August Derleth
• The Mask - shortstory by F. Tennyson Jesse
• Richard Cory - poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson
• The Witness - (1910) - shortstory by Violet Hunt
• The Caged White Werewolf of the Saraban (excerpt) - shortfiction by William B. Seabrook
• Footsteps - shortstory by Eileen Verrinder
• The Island - (1924) - shortstory by L. P. Hartley
• The Red Lodge - shortstory by H. Russell Wakefield
• The Cyprian Cat - (1933) - shortstory by Dorothy L. Sayers
• An Official Position - shortstory by W. Somerset Maugham
• The Garden of Proserpine - poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• Little Louise Roque - novelette by Guy de Maupassant
• The Sutor of Selkirk - (1937) - shortstory by uncredited
• The Idol with Hands of Clay - (1923) - shortstory by Sir Frederick Treves
• Another American Tragedy - (1940) - shortstory by John Collier
• The Razor of Pedro Dutel - (1917) - shortstory by Richard Matthews Hallet
• The Crucifixion of the Outcast - shortstory by William Butler Yeats
• Ulalume - (1847) - poem by Edgar Allan Poe
• Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched - (1922) - novelette by May Sinclair
• The Ghost - (1926) - shortstory by Richard Hughes
• Jenshih, or The Fox Lady - shortstory by Shen Chi-chi
• Three O'Clock - novelette by Cornell Woolrich
• The Mortal - (1926) - shortstory by Oliver Onions
• The Listeners - (1911) - poem by Walter de la Mare
• The Well - (1902) - shortstory by W. W. Jacobs
• The Horrible God - (1934) - shortstory by Thomas Burke
• Mrs. Adis - (1934) - shortstory by Sheila Kaye-Smith
• Telling - (1927) - shortstory by Elizabeth Bowen
• The Death of the Poor - poem by Charles P. Baudelaire
• A Maniac - (1920) - shortstory by Maurice Level
• An Illusion in Red and White - (1900) - shortstory by Stephen Crane
• A Modest Proposal - (1729) - essay by Jonathan Swift
• The Chaser - (1940) - shortstory by John Collier
• Where the Tides Ebb and Flow - (1908) - shortstory by Lord Dunsany
• My Last Duchess - (1842) - poem by Robert Browning
• Out of the Deep - (1923) - novelette by Walter de la Mare
• Perchance to Dream - (1930) - shortstory by Michael Joyce
• The Empty House - (1920) - shortstory by Maurice Level
• Browdean Farm - (1927) - shortstory by A. M. Burrage
• Breakdown - (1929) - novelette by L. A. G. Strong
• The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan - (1932) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith
• The Angelus - (1935) - shortstory by William Younger
• Song of the Shirt - poem by Tom Hood
• The Silver Mask - (1932) - shortstory by Hugh Walpole
• The Viy - (1835) - novelette by Nikolai Gogol
• Death - shortfiction by Dorothy Richardson
• Prospice - poem by Robert Browning
• The Woman's Ghost Story - (1907) - shortstory by Algernon Blackwood
• The Brute - (1906) - shortstory by Joseph Conrad
• The Thing on the Doorstep - (1937) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft

Welcome to mystery's exalted secret kingdom. Do not be afraid. Boris Karloff is here to light your way down the dark, shuddering corridors of blood-chilling suspense. Come in, if you dare. Watch our for trap doors. And, oh yes, please close them behind you when you leave... if you still can...

Table of Contents:

• 9 - The Thirteenth Floor - (1949) - short story by Frank Gruber
• 26 - Child of the Winds - (1936) - short story by Edmond Hamilton
• 47 - The Cask of Amontillado - [Fortunato] - (1846) - short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 54 - The Opener of the Crypt - (1952) - short story by John Jakes [as by John W. Jakes]
• 62 - The Thing That Walked on the Wind - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1933) - short story by August Derleth
• 74 - The Scarlet King - (1954) - short story by Evan Hunter
• 85 - The Graveyard Reader - (1958) - short story by Theodore Sturgeon
• 99 - The Mindworm - (1950) - short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• 113 - Back from the Grave - (1958) - short story by Robert Silverberg [as by David Challon]
• 125 - Man from the South - (1948) - short story by Roald Dahl
• 136 - The Opener of the Way - (1936) - short story by Robert Bloch
• 152 - The Haunter of the Dark - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft

In this volume the incomparable bogey man, Boris Karloff, has taken a busman's holiday and gathered together his favorite stories for the delectation of his fans and terror enthusiasts. From hundreds of stories he has read, this leading exponent of the terrifying and macabre has selected his favorites and invites you to "surrender unconditionally to the delicious terrors of the Unknown."

Table of Contents:

• 9 - Introduction (Tales of Terror) - essay by Boris Karloff
• 17 - The Waxwork - (1931) - short story by A. M. Burrage
• 30 - Clay-Shuttered Doors - (1926) - short story by Helen R. Hull
• 50 - The Judge's House - (1891) - short story by Bram Stoker
• 70 - The Damned Thing - (1893) - short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 80 - The Tarn - (1923) - short story by Hugh Walpole
• 94 - The Furnished Room - (1904) - short story by O. Henry
• 101 - Our Feathered Friends - (1931) - short story by Philip MacDonald
• 111 - Father Macclesfield's Tale - (1907) - short story by R. H. Benson [as by Robert Hugh Benson]
• 119 - The Hound - non-genre - (1931) - short story by William Faulkner
• 133 - The Tell-Tale Heart - (1843) - short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 139 - Amy Foster - non-genre - (1901) - novelette by Joseph Conrad
• 170 - The Beast with Five Fingers - (1919) - novelette by William Fryer Harvey [as by William F. Harvey]
• 198 - The Willows - (1907) - novella by Algernon Blackwood
• 249 - The Beckoning Fair One - (1911) - novella by Oliver Onions