"The Minister's Black Veil" is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The black veil represents 'secret sin', and how terrible human nature can be.

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"The Church at Garlock's Bend" is a short story by the American author, David Kaufman, first published in the April 1987 edition of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. "A mathematician returns to the abandoned town of Garlock's Bend and uncovers disturbing clues that suggest the mysterious force responsible for a decades-old tragedy may still lurk beneath the river."

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"Vampire Village" is a short story by Edmond Hamilton, first published in the November 1932 edition of Weird Tales. "A strange story of the ghoul-haunted village of Wieslant, and the eerie adventure of two American travellers."

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"The Master of the Crabs" is a Zothique Cycle story by Clark Ashton Smith, first published in the March 1948 edition of Weird Tales. "Strange books, they were, containing the erudition of buried aeons."

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"The Room in the Tower" is a short story by English writer, E. F. Benson, first published in 1912. The story tells of a young man and his recurring nightmare involving a terrifying room in the house of a friend.

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"The Man Who Was Saved" by B. W. Sliney, first appeared in Weird Tales in May 1926. In the story, the sole survivor of a wrecked ship tells of a terrifying encounter with a mysterious sea creature.

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"The White People" is a horror short story by Welsh author Arthur Machen. The tale centres around a young girl's initiation into a supernatural cult.

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Robert Grains is an independent author, occultist, and elite aesthete. For the first time ever, a selection of his writings, inspired by nameless powers, is available in English. In addition to classic hair-raisers, a rich cauldron of sophisticated weird fiction stories steeped in metaphysical and arcane allusions is presented to the gentle readers, a collection that will certainly enrich your personal eldritch studies and expedite your descent into madness.

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"The Return of the Undead" is a short story by Arthur Leeds, first published in the November 1925 edition of Weird Tales. "A hospital vampire–morphine–and a ward full of children."

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"Bells of Oceana" by Arthur J. Burks, was first published in the December 1927 edition of Weird Tales. The story tells of an encounter with something deadly in the uncharted waters of the North Pacific.

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