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• xi • Warning to the Reader (Ghosts) • (1981) • essay by Marvin Kaye
• 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 • The Wind in the Rose-Bush • (1902) • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• 28 • Legal Rites • (1950) • novelette by Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl
• 55 • Smee • (1929) • short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X]
• 66 • Thurlow's Christmas Story • (1894) • short story by John Kendrick Bangs
• 79 • The Ghost, the Gallant, the Gael, and the Goblin • (1868) • poem by W. S. Gilbert
• 83 • A Quartet of Strange Things • (1981) • short fiction by Bernhardt J. Hurwood
• 91 • The Lady of Finnigan's Hearth • (1977) • novelette by Parke Godwin
• 122 • The Phantom Hag • (1904) • short story by uncredited [as by Guy de Maupassant]
• 125 • The Ghost of the Capuchins • (1981) • short story by Eugène Montfort (trans. of Le revenant des Cappuccinis 1919)
• 133 • Who Rides with Santa Anna? • (1959) • short story by Edward D. Hoch
• 136 • Jane • (1981) • short fiction by Barbara Gallow
• 147 • The Tale of the German Student • [Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman] • short story by Washington Irving (variant of The Adventure of the German Student 1824)
• 152 • The Hounds of Hell • (1920) • poem by John Masefield
• 171 • Doorslammer • (1963) • short story by Donald A. Wollheim
• 176 • The Ensouled Violin • (1892) • novelette by Helena P. Blavatsky
• 201 • The Monk of Horror or The Conclave of Corpses • short story by Joseph Snowe (variant of The Conclave of Corses 1839) [as by Anonymous]
• 205 • Mr. Justice Harbottle • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 234 • The Flying Dutchman • (1981) • poem by Traditional
• 236 • The Parlor-Car Ghost • (1981) • short fiction by A Lady (1849-1926) [as by Anonymous]
• 240 • The Red Room • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 249 • A Gathering of Ghosts • [Ebenezum] • (1981) • novelette by Craig Shaw Gardner
• 264 • The Woman's Ghost Story • (1907) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 272 • Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman • (1875) • short story by Wilkie Collins
• 294 • The Phantom Woman • (1904) • short fiction by Anonymous
• 300 • The Spectre Bride • (1904) • short story by Elia W. Peattie (variant of On the Northern Ice 1898) [as by uncredited]
• 303 • The Midnight Embrace • (1796) • short story by Matthew Gregory Lewis
• 311 • The Philosophy of Relative Existences • (1892) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 317 • 21 Main Street No. • short story by Z. Z. Jeromm
• 320 • Four Ghosts in Hamlet • (1965) • novelette by Fritz Leiber
• 351 • The Ghost of Sailboat Fred • (1981) • poem by Saralee Kaye [as by Saralee Terry]
• 353 • 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]
• 361 • The Old Mansion • (1904) • short story by A Sportsman
• 365 • The Haunting of Y-12 • (1981) • short story by Al Sarrantonio
• 372 • The Ghostly Rental • (1876) • novelette by Henry James
• 403 • Untitled Ghost Story (Prologue to "Automata") • short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Eine Spukgeschichte 1819)
• 411 • The Doll's Ghost • (1896) • short story by F. Marion Crawford
• 422 • Staley Fleming's Hallucination • (1906) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 425 • The Dead Woman's Photograph • (1904) • short story by Elia W. Peattie (variant of Story of an Obstinate Corpse 1898) [as by Anonymous]
• 429 • The Castle of the King • (1881) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 443 • The Canterville Ghost • (1887) • novelette by Oscar Wilde
• 469 • Blind Man's Bluff • (1929) • short story by H. Russell Wakefield (variant of Blind Man's Buff) [as by H. R. Wakefield]
• 473 • A Suffolk Miracle • (1981) • poem by Traditional
• 477 • Father Stein's Tale • (1907) • short story by R. H. Benson [as by Robert Hugh Benson]
• 482 • The Old Nurse's Story • (1935) • novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell]
• 501 • Money Talks • (1981) • short story by Dick Baldwin
• 506 • The Ghost of the Count • (1904) • short story by A Spinster (I)
• 513 • The Body Snatcher • (1884) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 530 • "The Penhale Broadcast" • (1947) • short story by Jack Snow
• 539 • The Last Traveler • (1965) • short story by Jean Ray (trans. of Le dernier voyageur 1932)
• 547 • The Phantom Regiment • (1847) • novelette by James Grant
• 574 • The Tale of the Bagman's Uncle • (1837) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Story of the Bagman's Uncle)
• 590 • The North Mail • (1865) • short story by Amelia B. Edwards (variant of The Phantom Coach 1864)
• 602 • How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery • (1911) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 617 • "Ralph" • short story by Marvin Kaye (variant of Ralph)