[NOTE: DIGITS IN BRACKETS CORRESPOND TO CHAPTER NUMBERS IN THE AUDIOBOOK EDITION]

• Foreword [1 ] xiii
  
  
• 1908: Refuge in Poetry [2] 3
  • The Beast in the Cave (1905) [3] 5
  • The Alchemist [4] 11
• 1917: Return to the Field [5] 21
  • The Tomb [6] 23
  • Dagon [7] 33
  • A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson [8] 39
  • Nemesis [9] 45
• 1918: Starry Darkness [10] 51
  • Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme [11] 53
  • Polaris [12] 65
• 1919: The Gentleman Fictioneer [13] 69
  • Beyond the Wall of Sleep [14] 71
  • Memory [15] 81
  • Old Bugs [16] 83
  • The Transition of Juan Romero [17] 91
  • The White Ship [18] 99
  • The Street [19] 105
  • The Doom that Came to Sarnath [20] 111
  • The Statement of Randolph Carter [21] 119
• 1920: Out of the Chrysalis [22] 125
  • Ex Oblivione [23] 127
  • The Terrible Old Man [24] 131
  • The Tree [25] 135
  • The Cats of Ulthar [26] 141
  • The Temple [27] 145
  • Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family [28] 159 I [29] 160 II [30] 163
  • Celephais [31] 169
  • From Beyond [32] 175
  • Nyarlarthotep [33] 183
  • The Picture in the House [34] 187
• 1921: Will the Circle Be Unbroken [35] 195
  • The Nameless City [36] 197
  • The Quest of Iranon [37] 209
  • The Moon Bog [38] 217
  • The Outsider [39] 225
  • The Other Gods [40] 233
  • The Music of Erich Zann [41] 239
  • Herbert West, Reanimator [42] 247
    • I. From the Dark [43] 248
    • II. The Plague-D‘mon [44] 252
    • III. Six Shots by Midnight [45] 257
    • IV. The Scream of the Dead [46] 261
    • V. The Horror from the Shadows [47] 265
    • VI. The Tomb-Legions [48] 269
• 1922: New Thresholds [49] 275
  • Hypnos [50] 277
  • Azathoth [51] 285
  • What the Moon Brings [52] 287
  • The Hound [53] 291
  • The Lurking Fear [54] 299
    • I. A Shadow on the Chimney [55] 299
    • II. A Passer in the Storm [56] 304
    • III. What the Red Glare Meant [57] 307
    • IV. The Horror in the Eyes [58] 311
• 1923: The Weird Tales Era [59] 317
  • The Rats in the Walls [60] 319
  • The Unnamable [61] 337
  • The Festival [62] 345
• 1924: Family Man [63] 355
  • The Shunned House [64] 359
• 1925: Exile [70] 385
  • The Horror at Red Hook [71] 389
  • He [79] 409
  • In the Vault [80] 419
• Afterword [81]
• 427 Appendix A: Other Writings [82] 429
  • Sweet Ermengarde; or, The Heart of a Country Girl [83] 431
    • I. A Simple Rustic Maid [84] 432
    • II. And the Villain Still Pursued Her [85] 434
    • III. A Dastardly Act [86] 435
    • IV. Subtle Villainy [87] 435
    • V. The City Chap [88] 436
    • VI. Alone in the Great City [89] 436
    • VII. Happy Ever Afterward [90] 437
  • The History of the Necronomicon [91] 439
  • Supernatural Horror in Literature [92] 443
    • I. Introduction [93] 444
    • II. The Dawn of the Horror-Tale [94] 447
    • III. The Early Gothic Novel [95] 451
    • IV. The Apex of Gothic Romance [96] 455
    • V. The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction [97] 459
    • VI. Spectral Literature on the Continent [98] 465
    • VII. Edgar Allan Poe [99] 470
    • VIII. The Weird Tradition in America [100] 475
    • IX. The Weird Tradition in the British Isles [101] 485
    • X. Modern Masters [102] 493
• Appendix B: Timeline of H.P. Lovecraft's Life and Work [103] 507