Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Other Books By This Author; 1. Tentacles Longer Than Night; The Vast and Seething Cosmos (Poe, Lovecraft); Horror of Philosophy; On Supernatural Horror (A Personal History); I Can't Believe What I See, I Can't See What I Believe; 2. Meditations on the Demonic; On Hell (Dante's Inferno); Digression on Hell; Dead Tropes, Resurrected Bodies; As Above, So Below; Corruptible Bodies; Only That Which Falls Can Rise Again; Necrologies; Variations on Hell; Argento's Inferno; Disastrous Life; 3. Meditations on the Gothic
Book of Beasts (Lautréamont's Maldoror) Tooth and Claw, Flesh and Blood; The Bliss of Metamorphosis; I Carry Around a Cadaver; Against Literature, Against Life; Eaten Alive or Buried Alive; Dreams of the Cephalophore; Long Hair of Death; Floating Abattoir; Molten Media; 4. Meditations on the Weird; Frozen Thought (Blackwood, Lovecraft); The Logic of the Supernatural; Neither Fear nor Thought; Neither Life nor Death; Black Illumination; In Praise of Shadows; Black Matheme; Naturhorror; An Exegesis on Tentacles; We Are Not From Here (Ligotti)
Monastery Horror5. As If…; As If; The Wandering Philosopher; Dethroned; Phantasms (III); Horror Religiosus; A Once-Living Shadow; Phantasms (IV); The World Becomes a Phantom; Spectral Suicide; An Argument for the Categorical Imperative; Hymn to Horror; Unholy Matter; Qualitas Occulta; Phantasms (V); Notes
