Intro -- Contents -- Translator's Introduction -- Flames from the Earth -- 1. A Meeting in Snow -- 2. At the Bedside of the Dying -- 3. The Dead Stradivarius -- 4. Last Will and Testament -- 5. In the Darkness -- 6. On the Other Side -- 7. The Bell Ringer -- 8. The Stranger -- 9. In the Cellar -- 10. Black Birds -- 11. Purifying the Dead -- 12. Piles of Clothes -- 13. The Tower -- 14. The Rope -- 15. Secrets of the Mound -- 16. Bones -- 17. The Decree -- 18. Flames from the Earth -- Translator's Afterword -- Translator's Acknowledgments -- Books by Isaiah Spiegel