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• Introduction (The Mandrake Root) • (1946) • essay by Kay Dick [as by Jeremy Scott]
• Everlasting Fire (excerpt) • (1914) • short fiction by James Joyce
• The Man Who Was Milligan • (1923) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• The Stranger • (1923) • short story by Richard Hughes
• Changeling • (1943) • short story by Dorothy K. Haynes
• The Last Laugh • (1925) • short story by D. H. Lawrence
• The Leech of Folkestone • [The Ingoldsby Legends] • (1837) • novelette by Richard Harris Barham [as by Thomas Ingoldsby]
• The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain • (1945) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton [as by Edward Bulwer Lytton]
• The Wrinkled Women of St. Nepomuk • (1946) • short story by Fred Marnau
• Pickle My Bones • (1946) • short story by Arthur Calder-Marshall
• The Lemmings • (1946) • short story by Alex Comfort
• Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (excerpt) • (1822) • short fiction by Thomas De Quincey
• The Horla • [Le Horla • 3] • (1927) • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection • (1929) • short story by Virginia Woolf
• The Peach-House-Potting-Shed • (1944) • short story by William Sansom
• The White House • (1946) • short story by Wrey Gardiner
• Who Knocks at the Door? • (1923) • short fiction by Olive Schreiner
• An Air-Raid Seen from Above • (1919) • short story by Stella Benson
• The Open Window • (1911) • short story by Saki
• The Bell of Saint Euschemon • (1888) • short story by Richard Garnett
• The Story of a Panic • (1904) • novelette by E. M. Forster
• "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" • (1904) • novelette by M. R. James
• No Room • (1928) • short story by T. F. Powys
• Altarwise by Owl-Light • (1937) • short story by Pamela Hansford Johnson
• Winter • (1924) • short story by Walter de la Mare
• The Familiar • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• Mr. Hopkins and Galatea • (1946) • short story by James Laver
• The Diary of William Carpenter • (1943) • short story by John Atkins
• The Greeting • (1925) • short story by Osbert Sitwell [as by Sir Osbert Sitwell]
• A Selective Bibliography for the Enthusiast • (1946) • essay by uncredited