Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• ix • Editor's Note (Great Ghost Stories in Large Print) • essay by Mary C. Allen
• 1 • August Heat • (1910) • short story by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey]
• 9 • The Empty House • [Jim Shorthouse] • (1906) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 35 • How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery • (1911) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 58 • The July Ghost • short story by A. S. Byatt [as by Antonia Byatt]
• 84 • The Library Window • novelette by Margaret Oliphant [as by Mrs. Margaret Oliphant]
• 150 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 167 • Pomegranate Seed • (1931) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 212 • The Shadows on the Wall • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary Wilkins-Freeman]
• 236 • The Signalman • (1866) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 257 • Smee • (1929) • short story by A. M. Burrage
• 276 • The Specter Bridegroom: A Traveler's Tale • (1921) • short story by Washington Irving (variant of The Spectre Bridegroom 1819)
• 299 • The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 332 • The Watcher • [Reminiscences of a Bachelor] • (1894) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]