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| Foreword : the Horror Writers Association : a shockingly brief and informal history of the HWA | |
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| The madness of art | |
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| Acceptance speech : the 2003 National Book Award for distinguished contribution to American letters | |
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| Why we write horror | |
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| What you are meant to know : twenty-one horror classics | |
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| Avoiding what's been done to death | |
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| Workshops of horror (and seminars and conferences) | |
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| Degrees of dread : horror in higher education | |
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| A world of dark and disturbing ideas | |
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| Mirror, mirror | |
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| Going there : strategies for writing the things that scare you | |
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| Honest lies and darker truths : history and horror fiction | |
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| Such horrible people | |
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| A hand on the shoulder | |
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| Eerie events and horrible happenings : plotting short horror fiction | |
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| Reality and the waking nightmare : setting and character in horror fiction | |
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| "He said?" : she asked : some thoughts about dialogue | |
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| Keep it moving, maniacs : writing action scenes in horror fiction | |
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| The dark enchantment of style | |
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| Innovation in horror | |
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| Depth of field : horror and literary fiction | |
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| Splat goes the hero : visceral horror | |
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| Darkness absolute : the standards of excellence in horror fiction | |
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| On horror : a conversation with Harlan Ellison | |
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| No more silver mirrors : the monster in our times | |
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| Fresh blood from old wounds : the alchemist meets the biochemist | |
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| More simply human | |
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| The possibility of the impossible | |
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| Take a scalpel to those tropes | |
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| That spectred isle : tradition, sensibility, and delivery or ghosts? : what ghosts? | |
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| New horrors : a roundtable discussion of horror today and tomorrow | |
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| Archetypes and fearful allure : writing erotic horror | |
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| Writing for the new pulps : horror-themed anthologies | |
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| Freaks and fiddles, banjos and beasts : writing redneck horror | |
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| Youth gone wild | |
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| Writing horror comic books - and graphic novels | |
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| Acts of madness : writing horror for the stage | |
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| Fear spins off : the tie-in novel comes into its own | |
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| The play's the thing on the doorstep : writing video and role-playing games | |
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| Now fear this : writing horror for audio theater | |
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| Good characters and cool kills : writing the horror screenplay | |
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| Dark fluidity : online research and marketing resources | |
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| The small press : filling shelves with rare books | |
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| Sharing the creeps : marketing short horror fiction, version 2.0 | |
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| For love or money : six marketing myths | |
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| One reader at a time : promoting your horror novel | |
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| Afterword : quiet lies the locust tells | |
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| The HWA members who contributed to this book | |