Contents: 7 • Introduction (Horror Times Ten) • (1967) • essay by Alden H. Norton 10 • The Trunk Lady • (1944) • shortstory by Ray Bradbury 30 • Cool Air • (1928) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft 40 • The Lonesome Place • (1941) • shortstory by August Derleth 49 • The Dead Remember • (1936) • shortstory by Robert E. Howard 58 • The Captain of the "Pole-Star" • (1883) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle (aka The Captain of the Polestar) 82 • That Receding Brow • (1919) • novelette by Max Brand 124 • His Unconquerable Enemy • (1889) • shortstory by W. C. Morrow 135 • The Dead Valley • (1895) • shortstory by Ralph Adams Cram 145 • The Gorgon's Head • (1899) • shortstory by Gertrude Bacon (aka The Gorgon) 157 • The Skeleton in the Closet • (1943) • shortstory by Robert Bloch