The Dark Descent

pt. 1. The color of evil. The reach / Stephen King --

Evening primrose / John Collier --

The ash-tree / M.R. James --

The new mother / Lucy Clifford --

There's a long, long trail a-winding / Russell Kirk --

The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft --

The summer people / Shirley Jackson --

The whimper of whipped dogs / Harlan Ellison --

[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) / Nathaniel Hawthorne --

Mr. Justice Harbottle --

J. Sheridan Le Fanu --

The crowd / Ray Bradbury --

The autopsy / Michael Shea --

John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit --

Sticks / Karl Edward Wagner --

Larger than oneself / Robert Aickman --

Belsen Express / Fritz Leiber --

Yours truly, Jack the Ripper / Robert Bloch --

If Damon comes / Charles L. Grant --

Vandy, Vandy / Manly Wade Wellman --

pt. 2. The Medusa in the shield. The swords / Robert Aickman --

The roaches / Thomas M. Disch --

Bright segment / Theodore Sturgeon --

Dread / Clive Barker --

The fall of the house of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe --

The monkey / Stephen King --

Within the walls of Tyre / Michael Bishop --

The rats in the walls / H.P. Lovecraft --

Schalken the painter / J. Sheridan Le Fanu --

The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --

A rose for Emily / William Faulkner --

How love came to Professor Guildea / Robert Hichens --

Born of man and woman / Richard Matheson --

My dear Emily / Joanna Russ --

You can go now / Dennis Etchison --

The rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence --

Three days / Tanith Lee --

Good country people / Flannery O'Connor --

Mackintosh Willy / Ramsey Campbell --

The jolly corner / Henry James --

pt. 3. A fabulous formless darkness. Smoke ghost / Fritz Leiber --

Seven American nights / Gene Wolfe --

The signal-man / Charles Dickens --

[Crouch End](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19650699W/Crouch_End) / Stephen King --

Night-side / Joyce Carol Oates --

Seaton's aunt / Walter de la Mare --

Clara Militch / Ivan Turgenev --

The repairer of reputations / Robert W. Chambers --

The beckoning fair one / Oliver Onions --

What was it? / Fitz-James O'Brien --

The beautiful stranger / Shirley Jackson --

[The damned thing](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20084265W/The_Damned_Thing) / Ambrose Bierce --

Afterward / Edith Wharton --

The willows / Algernon Blackwood --

The Asian shore / Thomas M. Disch --

The hospice / Robert Aickman --

A little something for us tempunauts / Philip K. Dick.