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• Introduction (The Ghost of Fear and Others) • essay by S. T. Joshi
• Idle Days on the Yann • [Beyond the Fields We Know • 1] • (1910) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man • (1837) • short fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Man Who Went Too Far • (1904) • novelette by E. F. Benson
• The Mark of the Beast • (1890) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• The Sin-Eater • (1895) • novelette by Fiona MacLeod
• The House of Sounds • (1911) • novelette by M. P. Shiel
• The Phantom Farmhouse • (1923) • novelette by Seabury Quinn
• One of Cleopatra's Nights • (1928) • novelette by
  Théophile Gautier^?Theophile Gautier
  (trans. of Une nuit de Cléopâtre 1838)
• The Stranger from Kurdistan • [Ismeddin] • (1925) • short story by E. Hoffmann Price
• The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• Novel of the White Powder • (1895) • short story by Arthur Machen
• The Dead Smile • (1899) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• The Ghost of Fear • (1926) • short story by H. G. Wells (variant of The Red Room 1896)
• Lukundoo • (1925) • short story by Edward Lucas White
• Bells of Oceana • (1927) • short story by Arthur J. Burks
• The Wind in the Portico • (1928) • novelette by John Buchan