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• xii • Introduction (Ghosts) • (1981) • essay by Marvin Kaye
• xvi • A Prologue of Last Words • (1981) • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 1 • Minuke • (1949) • short story by Nigel Kneale
• 12 • Legal Rites • (1950) • novelette by Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl
• 39 • Smee • (1929) • short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X]
• 50 • The Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael, and the Goblin • (1868) • poem by W. S. Gilbert
• 54 • A Quartet of Strange Things • (1981) • short fiction by Bernhardt J. Hurwood
• 62 • The Lady of Finnigan's Hearth • (1977) • novelette by Parke Godwin
• 93 • The Phantom Hag • (1904) • short story by uncredited [as by Guy de Maupassant]
• 96 • The Ghost of the Capuchins • (1981) • short story by Eugène Montfort (trans. of Le revenant des Cappuccinis 1919)
• 104 • Who Rides with Santa Anna? • (1959) • short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 107 • Jane • (1981) • short fiction by Barbara Gallow
• 118 • The Tale of the German Student • [Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman] • (1981) • short story by Washington Irving (variant of The Adventure of the German Student 1824)
• 123 • Doorslammer • (1963) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim
• 128 • The Monk of Horror or The Conclave of Corpses • (1796) • short fiction by Anonymous (variant of The Monk of Horror, or The Conclave of Corpses)
• 132 • The Parlor-Car Ghost • (1981) • short fiction by Eleanor F. Lewis [as by Anonymous]
• 136 • The Red Room • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 145 • A Gathering of Ghosts • [Ebenezum] • (1981) • novelette by Craig Shaw Gardner
• 160 • The Woman's Ghost Story • (1907) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 168 • The Phantom Woman • (1904) • short fiction by Anonymous
• 174 • The Spectre Bride • (1904) • short story by Elia W. Peattie (variant of On the Northern Ice 1898) [as by uncredited]
• 177 • The Philosophy of Relative Existences • (1892) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 183 • 21 Main Street No. • (1981) • short story by Z. Z. Jeromm
• 186 • Four Ghosts in Hamlet • (1965) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
• 217 • The Ghost of Sailboat Fred • (1981) • poem by Saralee Kaye [as by Saralee Terry]
• 219 • The Fisherman's Story • (1981) • short story by Anatole Le Braz (trans. of L'aventure du pilote 1889) [as by Faith Lancereau and Anatole Le Braz]
• 227 • The Old Mansion • (1904) • short story by A Sportsman
• 231 • The Haunting of Y-12 • (1981) • short story by Al Sarrantonio
• 238 • Untitled Ghost Story (Prologue to "Automata") • (1981) • short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Eine Spukgeschichte 1819)
• 246 • Staley Fleming's Hallucination • (1906) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 249 • The Dead Woman's Photograph • (1904) • short story by Elia W. Peattie (variant of Story of an Obstinate Corpse 1898) [as by Anonymous]
• 253 • The Castle of the King • (1881) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 267 • Blind Man's Bluff • (1929) • short story by H. Russell Wakefield (variant of Blind Man's Buff) [as by H. R. Wakefield]
• 271 • Father Stein's Tale • (1907) • short story by R. H. Benson [as by Robert Hugh Benson]
• 276 • Money Talks • (1981) • short fiction by Dick Baldwin
• 281 • The Ghost of the Count • (1904) • short story by A Spinster
• 288 • The Body Snatcher • (1884) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 305 • "The Penhale Broadcast" • (1947) • short story by Jack Snow
• 314 • Phantom Regiment • (1981) • novelette by James Grant (variant of The Phantom Regiment 1847)
• 341 • The Tale of the Bagman's Uncle • (1837) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Story of the Bagman's Uncle)
• 357 • The North Mail • (1865) • short story by Amelia B. Edwards (variant of The Phantom Coach 1864)
• 369 • How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery • (1911) • short story by E. F. Benson