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• ix • Introduction (The Body-Snatcher and Other Classic Ghost Stories) • essay by Michael Kelahan
• 1 • The Tapestried Chamber; or, The Lady in the Sacque • (1910) • short story by Sir Walter Scott (variant of The Tapestried Chamber 1828)
• 14 • Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter • (1894) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 35 • No. 1 Branch Line—The Signal-man • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866)
• 47 • The Romance of Certain Old Clothes • (1868) • short story by Henry James
• 63 • The Captain of the Pole-star • (2001) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle (variant of The Captain of the Polestar 1883) [as by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle]
• 83 • Dr. Trifulgas • (1892) • short story by Jules Verne (trans. of Frritt-Flacc 1886)
• 90 • The Body-Snatcher • (1895) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (variant of The Body Snatcher 1884)
• 106 • The Phantom 'Rickshaw • (1885) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• 125 • The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 143 • The Judge's House • (1891) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 159 • Over an Absinthe Bottle • (1893) • short story by W. C. Morrow
• 168 • In Kropfsberg Keep • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
• 177 • How Love Came to Professor Guildea • (1957) • novella by Robert Hichens [as by Robert S. Hichens]
• 217 • A:B:O. • (1971) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
• 232 • A Haunted Island • (1899) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 246 • The Bride • (1902) • short story by M. P. Shiel
• 257 • The Shadows on the Wall • (1903) • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• 271 • "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" • (1904) • novelette by M. R. James
• 288 • The Well • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 299 • The Stranger • (1909) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 304 • Afterward • (1910) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 330 • The Beckoning Fair One • (1911) • novella by Oliver Onions
• 385 • On the Brighton Road • (1912) • short story by Richard Middleton
• 389 • The Clock • (1928) • short story by William Fryer Harvey
• 394 • The Shadowy Third • (1916) • novelette by Ellen Glasgow
• 414 • The Nature of the Evidence • (1923) • short story by May Sinclair
• 424 • The Haunted Jarvee • [Carnacki (Hodgson)] • (1929) • short story by William Hope Hodgson
• 439 • Brenner's Boy • (1932) • short story by John Metcalfe
• 454 • In the Vault • (1925) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft