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• 7 • Introduction (The Best Ghost Stories) • essay by Charles Fowkes
• 13 • The House and the Brain • (1899) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859)
• 45 • The Masque of the Red Death • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Mask of the Red Death 1842)
• 51 • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 59 • Ligeia • (1838) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 72 • Carmilla • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• 132 • Was It a Dream? • (1903) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La morte 1887)
• 137 • The Horla • [Le Horla • 3] • (1903) • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• 157 • Count Magnus • (1904) • short story by M. R. James
• 168 • An Episode of Cathedral History • (1914) • short story by M. R. James
• 182 • The Diary of Mr. Poynter • (1919) • short story by M. R. James
• 191 • Casting the Runes • (1911) • novelette by M. R. James
• 209 • The Furnished Room • (1904) • short story by O. Henry
• 215 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 224 • The Novel of the White Powder • (1895) • short story by Arthur Machen (variant of Novel of the White Powder)
• 238 • The Great God Pan • (1894) • novella by Arthur Machen
• 282 • The Novel of the Black Seal • (1895) • novelette by Arthur Machen (variant of Novel of the Black Seal)
• 314 • How Love Came to Professor Guildea • (1897) • novella by Robert Hichens
• 352 • Lukundoo • (1925) • short story by Edward Lucas White
• 364 • The Man Who Went Too Far • (1904) • novelette by E. F. Benson
• 382 • Negotium Perambulans • (1922) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 394 • The Willows • (1907) • novella by Algernon Blackwood
• 434 • The Glamour of the Snow • (1911) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
• 451 • The Decoy • (1921) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson [as by Algernon Blackwood]
• 467 • Ancient Sorceries • [John Silence] • (1908) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
• 505 • Gabriel-Ernest • (1909) • short story by Saki
• 511 • The Music on the Hill • (1911) • short story by Saki
• 516 • All Hallows • (1926) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
• 542 • Mr. Kempe • (1925) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
• 564 • The Beckoning Fair One • (1911) • novella by Oliver Onions
• 618 • The Story of a Panic • (1904) • novelette by E. M. Forster
• 636 • The Story of the Siren • (1920) • short story by E. M. Forster
• 643 • The Sailor-Boy's Tale • (1942) • short story by Karen Blixen
• 652 • Pickman's Model • (1927) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 663 • The Dunwich Horror • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1929) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 700 • The Music of Erich Zann • [Erich Zann] • (1922) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 707 • The Rats in the Walls • (1924) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 724 • The Shout • (1929) • novelette by Robert Graves
• 741 • Are You Too Late or Was I Too Early? • (1951) • short story by John Collier
• 745 • A Woman Seldom Found • (1956) • short story by William Sansom