An abridged version was published in 1964 with only 12 stories. The stories included in that edition are marked in red.

1. The Black Druid—Frank Belknap Long
2. The Black Stone—Robert E Howard
3. The Cane—Carl Jacobi
4. Cassius—Henry S Whitehead
5. Count Magnus—M R James
6. A Gentleman from Prague—Stephen Grendon (August Derleth)
7. The Hand of the O’Mecca—Howard Wandrei
8. “He Cometh and He Passeth By”—H Russell Wakefield
9. The Horror in the Burying Ground—Hazel Heald
10. The House of Sounds—M P Shiel
11. Johnson Looked Back—Thomas Burke
12. The Kennel—Maurice Level
13. The Mannikin—Robert Bloch
14. Midnight Express—Alfred Noyes
15. The Occupant of the Room—Algernon Blackwood
16. The Rats in the Walls—H P Lovecraft
17. The Return of the Sorcerer—Clark Ashton Smith
18. Thus I Refute Beelzy—John Collier
19. Two Black Bottles—Wilfred Blanch Talman
20. The Yellow Sign—Robert W Chambers