First published in 1974 by DAW as a Paperback

The collection is made up of stories and essays alternately, ie: story, essay, story etc…

Notable editions:Gregg Press released a limited edition HB of 300 copies as a set with The Second Book of Fritz Leiber. They contained an introduction by T. Collins

• Essays
  
• Monsters and Monster Lovers discusses
  Lovecraft, Machen, Bloch and several others and their memorable monsters
• Hottest and Coldest Molecules science
  essay
• Those Wild Alien Words: I discussion
  of the oddities of language
• Debunking the I Machine an anti-war
  (not a specific war) piece
• King Lear
• After Such Knowledge book review
  of James Blish’s Black Easter
• Weird World of the Knight chess
• The Whisperer Re-examined discusses
  Lovecraft’s “The Whisperer in Darkness
• Masters of Mace and Magic reviews of E. R. Eddison’s,The Worm Ouroboros, Mistress of Mistresses and A Fish Dinner in Memison. Also of Robert E. Howard’s (and various collaborators posthumously) King Kull, Conan, Conan the Warrior, Conan the Usurper and Conan the Conqueror

A Hitch in Space

Beauty and the Beasts

Cat's Cradle

Crazy Annaoj

Kindergarten

Knight to Move

The Spider

To Arkham and the Stars

When the Last Gods Die

Yesterday House