14 stories from the master of the macabre and a memoir of the author by E. Hoffmann Price. Comprises: Master of the Asteroid; The Seed from the Sepulcher; The Root of Ampoi; The Immortals of Mercury; Murder in the Fourth Dimension; Seedling of Mars; The Maker of Gargoyles; The Great God Awto; Mother of Toads; The Tomb-Spawn; Schizoid Creator; Symposium of the Gorgon; The Theft of Thirty-Nine Girdles; and Morthylla.