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•  Poems That Go Bump in the Night • interior artwork by William Geldart
• 7 • Watch Out, Ghosts Are About • essay by Ian Woodward and Zenka Woodward
• 9 • Foreword to some fiendishly hair-raising goose-pimply heebie-jeebie poems that go BUMP in the night • poem by Roger McGough
• 10 • In the Dark • poem by Jane Pridmore
• 11 • In Bed • poem by Charlotte Zolotow
• 12 • A Terrible Night • poem by Sarah Angharad
• 13 • Alone • poem by Sharon Hudson
• 14 • I'm Alone in the Evening • (1974) • poem by Michael Rosen
• 15 • When the Clock Strikes Eleven... • poem by Elizabeth Humphreys
• 15 • Am I Quite Safe in Bed? • poem by Hilary Pepler
• 16 • Fever Dream • poem by Edward Lowbury
• 16 • Night-fright • poem by unknown
• 17 • Night-light • poem by D. J. Enright
• 18 • Under the Stairs • poem by Daphne Lister
• 19 • Bully Night • (1983) • poem by Roger McGough
• 20 • Posting Letters • poem by Gregory Harrison
• 23 • Voices • (1971) • poem by Frances Bellerby
• 24 • The Way Through the Woods • (1910) • poem by Rudyard Kipling
• 25 • Night Crawler • poem by N. M. Bodecker
• 26 • The Midnight Ghost • poem by Victoria Osborne
• 27 • Check • (1915) • poem by James Stephens
• 28 • Winter Moon • (1926) • poem by Langston Hughes
• 28 • Night • poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• 29 • 'Like a ghost in a chair...' • poem by George MacDonald
• 30 • Owls • poem by Katherine Sanders
• 30 • The Vampire • (1976) • poem by Jack Prelutsky
• 32 • Cat in the Dark • poem by John Agard
• 33 • The Bat • poem by William Plomer
• 33 • Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat! • [Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)] • poem by Lewis Carroll
• 34 • Sixteen Dogs, Cats, Rats and Bats • poem by Geoffrey Grigson
• 35 • The Cat • poem by William H. Davies [as by W. H. Davies]
• 36 • Starlight Tom • poem by unknown
• 36 • Green Candles • (1925) • poem by Humbert Wolfe
• 37 • The Riddle • (1980) • poem by Louis MacNeice
• 38 • The Haunted House • (1976) • poem by Jack Prelutsky
• 40 • Only Marie • poem by Val Charteris
• 42 • The Ghost of Ware • poem by Stevie Smith
• 43 • John Mouldy • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 44 • Ghosts • poem by Kit Wright
• 45 • Ghost • (1977) • poem by Jack Prelutsky
• 46 • Full Moon in Trinidad • poem by Odette Thomas
• 46 • Countdown • (1979) • poem by Jack Prelutsky
• 46 • Song of Two Ghosts • (1932) • poem by Indian Song from Omaha, North America
• 48 • Apparition • poem by unknown
• 48 • The Island of Yorrick • (1982) • poem by N. M. Bodecker
• 49 • Midnight • poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• 50 • The Haunting of Wicked McNaught • poem by Jeremy Lloyd
• 52 • The Castle • poem by Sharon Hudson
• 53 • The Knee • poem by Christian Morgenstern
• 54 • The Hairy Toe • (1975) • poem by Traditional [as by Traditional American]
• 55 • The Shepherd's Hut • (1979) • poem by Andrew Young
• 56 • MacDrown • poem by Spike Milligan
• 57 • A Deadly, Acidy Mistake • poem by unknown
• 58 • Here Lies the Body... • poem by unknown
• 59 • Two dead men...such nonsense! • poem by unknown
• 59 • By St Thomas Water • poem by Charles Causley
• 62 • Dicky • (1960) • poem by Robert Graves
• 65 • Who Lies Here? • poem by unknown
• 65 • So Let Him Lie • poem by unknown
• 65 • Tombstone? • poem by unknown
• 66 • In This Box... • poem by unknown
• 67 • After Death • poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne
• 69 • Coffin • poem by unknown
• 69 • A fat gluttonous sinner in Hell • poem by unknown
• 70 • Ghosts • poem by Karen B. Harley
• 70 • The Ghosts' High Noon • (unknown) • poem by W. S. Gilbert
• 71 • In Still Midsummer Night • poem by Robert Bridges
• 73 • Fairy Story • (1971) • poem by Stevie Smith
• 74 • The Goblin • (1977) • poem by Jack Prelutsky
• 75 • Evening by Evening • (1862) • poem by Christina Rossetti
• 76 • The Loon • poem by Ted Hughes
• 77 • The Wendigo • poem by Ted Hughes
• 77 • The Slithergadee • (1962) • poem by Shel Silverstein
• 78 • The Swank • (1982) • poem by V. C. Vickers
• 78 • Ogres • poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 80 • The Sleepy Giant • poem by Charles E. Carryl [as by Charles Edward Carryl]
• 81 • The Bogeyman • (1976) • poem by Jack Prelutsky
• 82 • The Werewolf • (1976) • poem by Jack Prelutsky
• 83 • The Roaring Devil • poem by unknown
• 84 • As the Witch Said to the Skeleton • poem by unknown
• 85 • Skeleton Parade • poem by Jack Prelutsky
• 85 • And to Bed We Go • poem by unknown
• 86 • Rain and Sun • poem by Odette Thomas
• 86 •
  Afterword: From Things That Go BUMP in the Night–Rest Assured, Secure and in Peace^?Afterword: From Things That Go BUMP in the Night-Rest Assured, Secure and in Peace
  • poem by Francis Quarles