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• 11 • Foreword (The Clans of Darkness) • essay by Angus Wilson
• 15 • Introduction (The Clans of Darkness) • essay by Peter Haining
• 19 • Thomas the Rhymer • (1891) • short story by Traditional
• 23 • The Secret Commonwealth (excerpt) • (1691) • short fiction by Robert Kirk
• 34 • Satan's Invisible World Discovered; The Story of William Barton, a Warlock (excerpt) • (1685) • short fiction by George Sinclair
• 38 • A Night in the Grave, or, The Devil's Receipt (excerpt from Redgauntlet) • [Redgauntlet Excerpts] • (1824) • short fiction by Sir Walter Scott
• 57 • The Black Ferry • (1935) • short story by John Galt (variant of The Book of Life 1831)
• 70 • The Brownie of the Black Hags • (1828) • short story by James Hogg
• 86 • The Ghost with the Golden Casket • (1822) • short story by Allan Cunningham
• 101 • The Sea-Maiden • (1860) • short story by J. F. Campbell
• 113 • The Doom of Soulis • (1834) • short story by John Mackay Wilson
• 129 • The House of Eld • (1895) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 136 • The Man in the Bell • (1821) • short story by W. E. Aytoun
• 143 • Red Hand • (1896) • short story by Neil Munro
• 150 • Through the Veil • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 156 • The Outgoing of the Tide • (1902) • novelette by John Buchan
• 175 • The Wolves of God • novelette by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson [as by Algernon Blackwood]
• 198 • The Clock • (1929) • short story by Neil M. Gunn
• 206 • Tam Mackie's Trial • (1935) • short story by Hugh MacDiarmid
• 210 • The Strange Meeting • (1936) • short story by A. J. Cronin
• 215 • Music When Soft Voices Die ... • (1944) • short story by John Keir Cross
• 233 • Sealskin Trousers • (1947) • short story by Eric Linklater
• 250 • Dead Men Walk • novelette by Alex Hamilton