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• xv • Introduction (The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce) • essay by Michael Newton (UK)
• 3 • The Old Nurse's Story • (1935) • novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell]
• 25 • What Was It? • [Harry Escott] • (1859) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 39 • The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain • (1945) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton [as by Edward Bulwer Lytton]
• 67 • The Cold Embrace • (1860) • short story by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• 77 • The North Mail • (1865) • short story by Amelia B. Edwards (variant of The Phantom Coach 1864)
• 91 • No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman • (1927) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866)
• 105 • Green Tea • [Martin Hesselius] • (1970) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 140 • The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House • (1870) • short story by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• 151 • Thrawn Janet • (1881) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 162 • The Open Door • (1882) • novelette by Margaret Oliphant
• 204 • At the End of the Passage • (1890) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• 224 • Nightmare-Touch • (1900) • essay by Lafcadio Hearn
• 231 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 243 • The Wind in the Rose-Bush • (1969) • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary Wilkins Freeman]
• 261 • "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" • (1904) • novelette by M. R. James
• 281 • The Moonlit Road • (1907) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 291 • The Jolly Corner • (1908) • novelette by Henry James
• 326 • The Readjustment • (1908) • short story by Mary Austin
• 333 • Afterward • (1910) • novelette by Edith Wharton