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• 9 • Introduction (Best Black Magic Stories) • essay by John Keir Cross
• 17 • The Earlier Service • (1935) • short story by Margaret Irwin
• 33 • The Lady on the Grey • (1951) • short story by John Collier (variant of The Lady on the Gray)
• 42 • A Room in Leyden • [The Ingoldsby Legends] • novelette by Richard Harris Barham (variant of Singular Passage in the Life of the Late Henry Harris 1831)
• 66 • Mothering Sunday • short story by John Keir Cross
• 81 • The Snake • (1933) • short story by Dennis Wheatley
• 96 • The Hill • [Invasion (R. Ellis Roberts) • 1] • (1923) • short story by R. Ellis Roberts
• 110 • Casting the Runes • (1911) • novelette by M. R. James
• 133 • More Spinned Against • (1953) • short story by John Wyndham
• 146 • The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain • (1859) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• 185 • Homecoming • [The Elliott Family] • (1947) • short story by Ray Bradbury (variant of The Homecoming 1946)
• 200 • Couching at the Door • (1933) • novelette by D. K. Broster [as by Dorothy K. Broster]
• 225 • A Way of Thinking • (1953) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 256 • The Black Mass (chapter XIX from Là-Bas) • (1891) • short fiction by Joris-Karl Huysmans (trans. of Là-bas : "La messe du chanoine Docre")
• 266 • Envoi • essay by John Keir Cross