Contents

ix Preface (Angels of Darkness: Tales of Troubled and Troubling Women) (1995) essay by Marvin Kaye
xi Introduction (Angels of Darkness: Tales of Troubled and Troubling Women) (1995) essay by Paula Volsky
3 The Last Kiss non-genre (1920) short story by Maurice Level (trans. of Le baiser dans la nuit 1912)
8 A Bride for the Devil (1949) short story by Stuart Palmer (1905-1968)
17 The Unspeakable Betrothal (1949) short story by Robert Bloch
31 Am I Insane? (1903) short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Fou ? 1882)
34 Game for Motel Room (1963) short story by Fritz Leiber
44 Porphyria's Lover (1836) poem by Robert Browning
46 The Peace That Crusheth Understanding (1995) short story by Julia L. Keefer
56 Lovedeath (1988) short story by Marvin Kaye
61 The Countess Kathleen O'Shea (1888) short story by Timothée Trimm (trans. of Les marchands d'ames 1865) [as by W. B. Yeats (in error)]
65 Centaurus Changeling (1954) novelette by Marion Zimmer Bradley
108 Snow (1995) short story by C. H. Sherman
115 Lydia's Season (1995) short story by Patricia Mullen
124 Spirits novelette by Иван Тургенев? (trans. of Призраки? 1864) [as by Ivan Turgenev]
153 The Mystery of Black Jean (1923) short story by Julian Kilman
163 Lady Eleanore's Mantle (1838) short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
178 The Thing at Ghent (1900) short fiction by Honoré de Balzac?
180 The Sisters (1833) poem by Alfred Tennyson [as by Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
182 Malevendra's Pool (1989) short story by Darrell Schweitzer
199 Sylvia (1955) short story by Ira Levin
211 Amour Dure (1887) novelette by Vernon Lee
242 The Were-Wolf (1890) novelette by Clemence Housman
277 The River Styx Runs Upstream (1982) short story by Dan Simmons
293 Passeur (1897) short story by Robert W. Chambers
298 Putting the Devil Into Hell non-genre (1886) short story by Giovanni Boccaccio (trans. of Novella decima: Alibech diviene romita, a cui Rustico monaco insegna rimettere il diavolo in inferno; poi, quindi tolta, diventa moglie di Neerbale. 1358)
303 The Lady in the Tower [Tower and the Hive] (1959) novelette by Anne McCaffrey
322 The White Dog (1915) short story by Фёдор Сологуб? (trans. of Собака? 1908) [as by Feodor Sologub]
328 The Visit (1995) short story by Carole Buggé
331 The Friends of the Friends (1896) novelette by Henry James
355 Past a Year and a Day (1995) poem by Annette Covino
357 Ladies' Choice (1995) short story by Saralee Kaye
360 The Night People (1961) short story by Edward D. Hoch
368 Duet (1995) short story by Alexandra Elizabeth Honigsberg
387 The Wooden Damsel (1995) short story by Toby Sanders
396 Love Song from the Stars (1989) short story by Robert Sheckley
402 Diesel Dream (1991) short story by Alan Dean Foster
413 The Strange Voyage of Dr. Morbid (1995) short story by Jessica Amanda Salmonson (variant of The Strange Voyage of Doctor Morbid)
419 Bone Wings (1990) poem by Jessica Amanda Salmonson
421 The Gift (1995) short story by Susan C. Stone
425 Vanishing (1995) short story by Hope Manville
435 A Room with a Vie (1980) short story by Tanith Lee
450 Babchi's Drawer (1995) short story by Gina M. Angelone
455 Untitled (1995) short story by Morgan Llywelyn
466 A Child's Game (1995) poem by Maryellen B. Wanderer
468 The Wake of Reddy (1995) short story by Barbara Gallow
472 The Other Mother (1980) novelette by Lisa Tuttle
494 A Dozen Roses (1995) short story by Jean Paiva
507 Propagation of the Faith (1995) short story by Joan Vander Putten
515 Angelica (1979) short story by Jane Yolen
519 Walking Aunt Daid (1955) short story by Zenna Henderson