Sea-Cursed: Thirty Terrifying Tales of the Deep. A collection of classic stories by Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, Roger Zelazny, Edgar Allan Poe, and many others. Featuring Sea Curse by Robert E. Howard (part of the Faring Town stories).

Contents

• ix • Introduction (Sea-Cursed) • essay by Stefan Dziemianowicz and T. Liam McDonald
• 1 • A Descent Into the Maelström?
• • (1841) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 15 • The Captain of the Pole-Star • (1991) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle (variant of The Captain of the Polestar 1883) [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 34 • The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 52 • The Brute • (1906) • short story by Joseph Conrad
• 70 • The Boats of the Glen Carrig (excerpt) • (1907) • short fiction by William Hope Hodgson
• 181 • The Song of the Sirens • (1919) • novelette by Edward Lucas White
• 207 • The Ship of Silent Men • (1920) • novelette by Philip M. Fisher
• 240 • The Temple • (1925) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 251 • Bells of Oceana • (1927) • short story by Arthur J. Burks
• 262 • Second Night Out • (1946) • short story by Frank Belknap Long (variant of The Black, Dead Thing 1933)
• 270 • The Black Kiss • [Michael Leigh] • (1937) • short story by Robert Bloch and Henry Kuttner
• 287 • The Sea Thing • (1940) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt
• 313 • Sea Curse • [Faring Town] • (1928) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• 319 • A Vintage from Atlantis • [Poseidonis] • (1933) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith
• 325 • Derelict • (1937) • short story by Hugh B. Cave
• 337 • Sea-Tiger • (1932) • short story by Henry S. Whitehead
• 345 • The Women • (1948) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 354 • The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth • (1965) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
• 383 • The Wine-Dark Sea • (1966) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 413 • The Ferries • (1982) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 424 • The Night Sea-Maid Went Down • (1971) • short story by Brian Lumley
• 433 • Down by the Sea Near the Great Big Rock • (1984) • short story by Joe R. Lansdale
• 437 • Message Found in a Bottle II, or: An Invitation from Your Captain • (1990) • short story by Nancy Holder
• 443 • A Sailor’s Pay • (1991) • short story by Jack Cady
• 459 • Deep Sleep • (1992) • short story by Matthew J. Costello
• 470 • Scape-Goats • (1984) • novelette by Clive Barker
• 493 • Between the Windows of the Sea • (1985) • short story by Jack Dann
• 505 • Dip in the Pool • non-genre • (1952) • short story by Roald Dahl
• 515 • The Night Ocean • novelette by R. H. Barlow and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Robert H. Barlow]
• 534 • Spawn of the Sea • (1933) • short story by Donald Wandrei

Notes

Editors: Stefan Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg, T. Liam McDonald.