Search Worlds Without End

This is a collection of more than 50 short horror stories, both classic and modern.

Table of Contents:

• "Introduction: In Search of Masterpieces", essay by Marvin Kaye
• "Fiends and Creatures", essay by Marvin Kaye
• "Dracula's Guest" [Dracula], short story by Bram Stoker (1914)
• "The Professor's Teddy Bear", short story by Theodore Sturgeon (variant of The Professor's Teddy-Bear) (1948)
• "Bubnoff and the Devil", short story by Ivan Turgenev (translation of 1916 story) (1975)
• "The Quest for Blank Claveringi", short story by Patricia Highsmith (1967)
• "The Erl-King", poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (translation of Der Erlkönig 1782) (1979)
• "The Bottle Imp", novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson (1891)
• "A Malady of Magicks", short story by Craig Shaw Gardner (1978)
• "Lan Lung", novelette by M. Lucie Chin (1980)
• "The Dragon Over Hackensack", poem by Richard L. Wexelblat (year unknown)
• "The Transformation", short story by Mary Shelley [as by Mary W. Shelley] (1830)
• "The Faceless Thing", short story by Edward D. Hoch (1963)
• "Lovers and Other Monsters", essay by Marvin Kaye
• "The Anchor", short story by Jack Snow (1947)
• "When the Clock Strikes", short story by Tanith Lee (1980)
• "Oshidori", short story by Lafcadio Hearn (1904)
• "Carmilla" [Martin Hesselius], novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by Sheridan LeFanu] (1872)
• "Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory", novelette by Orson Scott Card (variant of Eumenides in the Fourth-Floor Lavatory) (1979)
• "Lenore", poem by Gottfried August Bürger (translation of Lenore 1774) (1985)
• "The Black Wedding", short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1958)
• "Hop-Frog", short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of Hop-Frog: Or, The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs) (1849)
• "Sardonicus", novelette by Ray Russell (1961)
• "Graveyard Shift", short story by Richard Matheson (1960)
• "Wake Not the Dead", novelette by Ludwig Tieck [as by Johann Ludwig Tieck] (1823)
• "Night and Silence", short story by Maurice Level (1922)
• "Acts of God and Other Horrors", essay by Marvin Kaye
• "Flies", short story by Isaac Asimov (1953)
• "The Night Wire", short story by H. F. Arnold (1926)
• "Last Respects", short story by Dick Baldwin (1975)
• "The Pool of the Stone God", short story by A. Merritt (1923)
• "A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor", poem by Ogden Nash (1955)
• "The Tree", short story by Dylan Thomas (1955)
• "Stroke of Mercy", novelette by Parke Godwin (1981)
• "Lazarus", short story by Leonid Andreyev (translation of 1906 story) (1921)
• "The Beast Within", essay by Marvin Kaye
• "The Waxwork", short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X] (1931)
• "The Silent Couple", short story by Pierre Courtois (1826)
• "Moon-Face", short story by Jack London (1902)
• "Death in the School-Room", short story by Walt Whitman (1841)
• "The Upturned Face", short story by Stephen Crane (1900)
• "One Summer Night", short story by Ambrose Bierce (1906)
• "The Easter Egg", short story by Saki [as by H. H. Munro ] (1930)
• "The House in Goblin Wood" (non-genre), novelette by John Dickson Carr (1947)
• "The Vengeance of Nitocris", short story by Tennessee Williams (1928)
• "The Informal Execution of Soupbone Pew", short story by Damon Runyon (1911)
• "His Unconquerable Enemy", short story by W. C. Morrow (1889)
• "Rizpah", poem by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1895)
• "The Question", short story by Stanley Ellin (variant of The Question My Son Asked) (1962)
• "Ghosts and Miscellaneous Nightmares", essay by Marvin Kaye
• "The Flayed Hand", short story by Guy de Maupassant (translation of La main d'écorché) (1875)
• "The Hospice", novelette by Robert Aickman (1975)
• "The Christmas Banquet", short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1843)
• "The Hungry House", novelette by Robert Bloch (1951)
• "The Demon of the Gibbet", poem by Fitz-James O'Brien (1881)
• "The Owl", shortfiction by Anatole Le Braz (year unknown)
• "No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince", short story by Ralph Adams Cram (1895)
• "The Music of Erich Zann", short story by H. P. Lovecraft (1922)
• "Riddles in the Dark", short story by J. R. R. Tolkien (1937)
• "Afterword: Is Terror a Dying Art?", essay by Marvin Kaye
• "Miscellaneous Notes (Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural)", essay by Marvin Kaye
• "Selected Bibliography (Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural)", essay by Marvin Kaye

Twenty-two years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. In the years after, their father, John, taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America...and he taught them how to kill it.

Sam and Dean have hit New York City to check out a local rocker's haunted house. But before they can figure out why a lovesick banshee in an '80s heavy-metal T-shirt is wailing in the bedroom, a far more macabre crime catches their attention. Not far from the house, two university students were beaten to death by a strange assailant. A murder that's bizarre even by New York City standards, it's the latest in a line of killings that the brothers soon suspect are based on the creepy stories of legendary writer Edgar Allan Poe.

Their investigation leads them to the center of one of Poe's horror classics, face-to-face with their most terrifying foe yet. And if Sam and Dean don't rewrite the ending of this chilling tale, a grisly serial killer will end their lives forevermore.

Twenty-two years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. In the years after, their father, John, taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America... and he taught them how to kill it.

Sam and Dean are headed for Key West, Florida, home to Hemingway, hurricanes, and a whole lot of demons. The tropical town has so many ghouls on the loose that one of its main moneymakers has long been a series of ghost tours. But the tours are no more, not since one of the guides was found dead of an apparent heart attack... his face frozen in mid-scream. No one knows what horrors he saw, but the Winchester brothers are about to find out.

Soon they'll be face-to-face with the ghosts of the island's most infamous residents, demons with a hidden agenda, and a mysterious ancient power looking for revenge. It's up to Sam and Dean to save the citizens of Key West... before the beautiful island is reduced to nothing more than a pile of bones.

Twenty-seven years ago, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. In the years after, their father, John, taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America... and he taught them how to kill it.

On the hunt for Lucifer, the boys find themselves in a small town in South Dakota where they meet Don - an angel with a proposition... Don sends them a very long way from home, on a mission to uncover the secret Satan never wanted them to find out.

Dean believes that Sam is in Hell so he is trying to keep his promise to his brother and live a normal live with Lisa and Ben.

When he realizes that a spell in the Necronomicon could raise Lucifer and therefore Sam, he convinces his new family to travel with him on vacation to Salem.

Meanwhile Sam is not as far away as Dean thinks and is determined to protect his brother from the Salem witches...