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• ix • Introduction (H. P. Lovecraft Selects: Classic Horror Stories) • essay by Stefan Dziemianowicz
• 1 • The Sandman • (1974) • novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Der Sandmann 1816)
• 28 • The Vampyre • [Lord Ruthven] • (1970) • novelette by Dr. John William Polidori (variant of The Vampyre: A Tale 1819) [as by John Polidori]
• 45 • Carwin, The Biloquist: A Gothic Fragment • (1822) • novelette by Charles Brockden Brown
• 96 • The Tapestried Chamber, or The Lady in the Sacque • short story by Sir Walter Scott (variant of The Tapestried Chamber 1828)
• 109 • Clarimonde • (1953) • novelette by
  Théophile Gautier^?Theophile Gautier
  (trans. of La morte amoureuse 1836)
• 135 • The Venus of Ille • (1905) • novelette by
  Prosper Mérimée^?Prosper Merimee
  (trans. of La Vénus d'Ille 1837)
• 160 • Ligeia • (1838) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 174 • The Were-Wolf • (1837) • short story by Frederick Marryat [as by H. B. Marryatt]
• 188 • Ethan Brand: A Chapter from an Abortive Romance • (1850) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 202 • What Was It? • (1859) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 213 • The Waters of Death • (1909) • short story by Alexandre Chatrian and
  Émile Erckmann^?Emile Erckmann
  (trans. of L'araignée-crabe 1860) [as by Erckmann-Chatrian]
• 224 • On the River • (1903) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Sur l'eau 1876)
• 229 • The Ghostly Kiss • (1880) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• 232 • The Phantom 'Rickshaw • (1885) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• 251 • The Were-Wolf • (1890) • novelette by Clemence Housman
• 285 • The Death of Halpin Frayser • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 298 • Lot No. 249 • (1892) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 327 • The Dead Valley • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
• 335 • The Red Room • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 343 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 353 • The Southwest Chamber • (1903) • novelette by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• 377 • The Man Who Went Too Far • (1904) • novelette by E. F. Benson
• 396 • The Treasure of Abbot Thomas • (1904) • short story by M. R. James
• 412 • The Story of a Panic • (1904) • novelette by E. M. Forster
• 431 • The White People • (1904) • novelette by Arthur Machen
• 463 • For the Blood Is the Life • (1905) • short story by F. Marion Crawford
• 476 • Ancient Sorceries • [John Silence] • (1908) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood
• 516 • The House on the Borderland • (1908) • novel by William Hope Hodgson
• 624 • The Snout • (1909) • novelette by Edward Lucas White
• 653 • The Hoard of the Gibbelins • (1911) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 657 • The House of Sounds • (1911) • novelette by M. P. Shiel
• 682 • The Last Kiss • non-genre • (1920) • short story by Maurice Level (trans. of Le baiser dans la nuit 1912)
• 687 • The Bad Lands • (1920) • short story by John Metcalfe
• 697 • The Death-Mask • short story by Mrs. H. D. Everett (variant of The Death Mask 1920)
• 706 • Seaton's Aunt • (1922) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
• 732 • Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched • (1922) • short story by May Sinclair
• 751 • A Night in Malnéant • (1933) • short story by Clark Ashton Smith