Black Altars is a collection of six weird fiction stories. Contents: - Introduction by Quentin S. Crisp - Lichen - Nephilim (previously published in Stephen Jones' collection Visitants) - Patient 704 (revised/altered version of this story appears in author's Glyphotech) - Mysteries of the Abyss (first published in Dagon magazine in 1989) - The Ailuromorph - Dedicated to the Weird