* From "Blood Brothers," reprinted in Charles Beaumont, Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories, foreward by Ray Bradbury, afterword by William Shatner (New York: Penguin Classics/Penguin Books, 2015), at 130, 130.
Algernon Blackwood, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories, edited with an introduction and notes by S. T. Joshi (New York: Penguin Classics/Penguin Books, 2002) (From "Sand": "Lady Statham! At first the name had disappointed him. So many folk wear titles, as syllables in certain tongues wear accents--without them being mute, unnoticed, unpronounced. Nonentities, born to names, so often claim attention for their insignificance in this way." Id. at 273, 296.).
Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, foreward by Jeff Vandermeer (New York: Penguin Classics/Penguin Books, 2015).
Arthur Machen, The White People and Other Weird Stories, edited with an introduction and notes by S. T. Joshi, foreword by Guillermo Del Toro (New York: Penguin Classics/Penguin Press, 2011).
Joyce Carol Oates, The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror (New York: The Mysterious Press, 2016).
Ray Russell, The Case Against Satan, foreward by Laird Barron (New York: Penguin Classics/ Penguin Books, 2015) ( "It was never as if he lacked faith or doubted the existence of God. The idea of God sustained him. It is not difficult to believe in God. God is goodness, for which all men yearn; He is the fountainhead of life; He is Our Father Who Art in Heaven, a great concept, and there is nothing loftier, nothing nobler, nothing more dignified, nothing more awesome. 'God is not mocked,' for such a figure is beyond mockery; but the Devil is and has been mocked down through the centuries--he has been a sideshow puppet, a mustache-twirling city slicker, a costume for stage magicians, a trademark for a laxative water. No, it is not difficult to believe in God--the very flesh reaches out for such belief--but for an intelligent man of the twentieth century to wipe from his mind the centuries of ridicule that have been heaped upon the Devil, for him to take the Devil seriously, as seriously as he takes God; that is difficult. And yet to fail is heresy." Am I a heretic? . . ." Id. at 44.).
William Sloane, The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror, introduction by Stephen King (New York: New York Review Books, 2015) (includes To Walk the Night and The Edge of Running Water).
