Dark Fantasy — 1941

Blake goes to have it out with Grange over his wife, and Grange shoots him down confident that self-defence will cover it -- but the dying man's promise to come back for him is kept, and the revolver left waiting holds exactly one bullet.

A young couple carry a little brass figure home from San Francisco, cut with the warning 'Possess Me and Die', and very nearly make good on it -- a story out of the old tombs of China.

A film star's yacht bound for New Zealand lies dead in the water for two days with nothing wrong with the engines, and the calm turns out to belong to the drowned island of Ebaan, whose spirits take a living body to walk in.

Barlow Forest is left alone because of the oak said to strangle anyone who walks under it; the party that goes in anyway learns the tree has a family grudge and a long memory.

Dr Terhune shrinks himself out of our world and into one no bigger than a moonbeam, stops a plague among its people, loses his heart to their princess, and comes home to a sister ready to have him committed.

A writer of weird tales named Bishop dreams of a wise man called Word, who sends him around the world after a phrase rather than a place -- and the search ends where the phrase is a town's name.