Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 9 • Editor's Foreword (Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Horror) • (1975) • essay by Hugh Lamb
• 13 • Purification • (1896) • short story by Robert Barr
• 22 • The Beckoning Hand • (1887) • novelette by Grant Allen
• 47 • Nothing But the Truth • (1868) • short story by Rhoda Broughton (variant of The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth)
• 58 • The Haunted House of Paddington • (1841) • short story by Charles Ollier
• 66 • A Dreadful Night • (1894) • short story by Edwin L. Arnold [as by Edward Lester Arnold]
• 77 • The House of Strange Stories • (1886) • short story by Andrew Lang
• 89 • 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]
• 106 • The Earth Draws • (1975) • short story by Jonas Lie (trans. of Jorden drager 1891)
• 114 • The Wondersmith • novelette by Fitz-James O'Brien [as by Fitz James O'Brien]
• 146 • The Basilisk • (1892) • short story by R. Murray Gilchrist
• 154 • A Dead Man's Teeth • short story by Sabine Baring-Gould [as by S. Baring Gould]
• 161 • The Doomed Man • (1899) • novelette by Dick Donovan
• 191 • Kentucky's Ghost • (1868) • short story by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps [as by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward]
• 204 • The Weird Woman • (1871) • short story by Anonymous