Foreward: In the night, in the dark -- Part One: Studies in shadow -- The medusa -- Conversations in a dead language -- The prodigy of dreams -- Mrs. Rinaldi's angel -- Part Two: Discourse on blackness -- The tsalal -- Mad night of atonement -- The strange design of Master Rignolo -- The voice in the bones -- Part three: Notebook of the night -- The master's eyes shinning with secrets -- Salvation by doom -- New faces in the city -- Autumnal -- One may be dreaming -- Death without end -- The unfamiliar -- The career of nightmares -- The physic -- The demon man -- The puppet masters -- The special estate -- Primordial loathing -- The nameless horror -- Invocation to the void -- The mocking mystery-- The interminable equation -- The eternal mirage -- The order of illusion