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• Foreword (Great Ghost Stories) • (2004) • essay by Stephen Jones
• Introduction (Great Ghost Stories) • (2004) • essay by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• The Four-Fifteen Express • (1866) • novelette by Amelia B. Edwards
• On the Brighton Road • (1912) • short story by Richard Middleton
• The Moonlit Road • (1907) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Whittaker's Ghost • (1879) • short story by George Bernard Shaw [as by G. B. S.]
• The Leaden Ring • (1904) • short story by Sabine Baring-Gould [as by S. Baring-Gould]
• The Tapestried Chamber • (1828) • short story by Sir Walter Scott
• Ghost Stories of the Tiled House • (1861) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Dead Smile • (1899) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• The Ghost of Dorothy Dingley • (1722) • short story by Daniel Defoe
• The Dead Man of Varley Grange • (1878) • short story by uncredited
• John Charrington's Wedding • (1891) • short story by E. Nesbit
• The Night Walkers • (1979) • short story by Sydney J. Bounds
• Brickett Bottom • (1921) • short story by Amyas Northcote
• The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall • (1891) • short story by John Kendrick Bangs
• The Reaper's Image • (1969) • short story by Stephen King
• Christmas Eve in the Blue Chamber • (1891) • short story by Jerome K. Jerome (variant of The Ghost of the Blue Chamber)
• Housewarming • (1982) • short story by Steve Rasnic Tem
• The Ferries • (1982) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• The Fetch • (1983) • short story by Tina Rath
• Guests from Gibbet Island • (1839) • short story by Washington Irving
• The Tryst • (1983) • short story by Garry Kilworth
• An Apparition • (1923) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Apparition 1883)
• Aunt Hester • (1975) • short story by Brian Lumley
• Our Lady of the Shadows • (1984) • short story by Tony Richards
• She Walks on Dry Land • (1980) • short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes