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•  H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: 20 Classics of the Macabre, Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself • (2006) • interior artwork by Randy Broecker
• xv • Introduction: Supernatural Horror in Literature • (2006) • essay by Stephen Jones
• xix • Foreword: Notes on Writing Weird Fiction • [Supernatural Horror in Literature] • (1937) • essay by H. P. Lovecraft (variant of Supernatural Horror in Literature 1927)
• 1 • The Tale of the German Student • [Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman] • (1981) • short story by Washington Irving (variant of The Adventure of the German Student 1824)
• 11 • Markheim • (1885) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 33 • Who Knows? • (1910) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Qui sait ? 1890)
• 49 • The Invisible Eye • (1870) • short story by Alexandre Chatrian and
  Émile Erckmann^?Emile Erckmann
  (trans. of L'œil invisible ou L'auberge des trois pendus 1857) [as by Erckmann-Chatrian]
• 71 • The Torture by Hope • (1894) • short story by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. of La torture par l'espérance 1883) [as by Villiers de l'Isle Adam]
• 79 • MS. Found in a Bottle • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1833) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 93 • What Was It? • [Harry Escott] • (1899) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien [as by Fitz James O'Brien]
• 111 • The Middle Toe of the Right Foot • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 123 • The Turn of the Screw • [The Turn of the Screw] • (1898) • novel by Henry James
• 255 • The Dead Smile • (1899) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 283 • The Wind in the Rose-Bush • (1974) • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman]
• 305 • The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
• 327 • The Recrudescence of Imray • (1891) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 343 • The Hands of Karma (Ingwa-banashi) • (2006) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn (variant of Ingwa-Banashi 1899)
• 349 • The Burial of the Rats • non-genre • (1914) • novelette by Bram Stoker
• 379 • The Red Lodge • (1928) • short story by H. Russell Wakefield [as by H. R. Wakefield]
• 391 • The Captain of the Pole-Star • (1991) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle (variant of The Captain of the Polestar 1883) [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 427 • The Villa Desiree • (1921) • short story by May Sinclair
• 443 • The Voice in the Night • (1907) • short story by William Hope Hodgson
• 461 • Novel of the White Powder • (1895) • short story by Arthur Machen