Introduction (Some Things Dark and Dangerous) by Joan Kahn Mr. Loveday's Little Outing by Evelyn Waugh The White Cat of Drumgunniol by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu ] The Murder of Dr Burdell by Edmund Pearson The Destruction of Smith by Algernon Blackwood Wet Saturday by John Collier The Fantastic Horror of the Cat in the Bag by Dorothy L. Sayers Fatal Visit of the Inca To The Followers In The City of Caxamalca by William H. Prescott Man Overboard by F. Marion Crawford Portrait of a Murderer by Richard Wilson Webb & Hugh Callingham Wheeler [as by Q. Patrick ] The Dead Finger by Howard Pyle Boy Hunt by John Bartlow Martin Calling All Stars (Intercepted Radio Message Broadcast From The Planet Cybernetica) by Leo Szilard "These Terrible Men, the Harpes!" by Robert M. Coates [as by Robert Coates ] When the Bough Breaks by Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett] A Musical Enigma by C. P. Cranch The Sinking Ship by Robert Louis Stevenson Biographical Notes (Some Things Dark and Dangerous) by Joan Kahn
The only good story was “Mr. Loveday’s Little Outing.” The rest were a bit of a slog. Also the cover and descriptions make it look like scary stories, but none were scary at all.