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• Andrina • (1983) • short story by George Mackay Brown
• A Haunted Island • (1899) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• Afterward • (1910) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• Angeline, or the Haunted House • (1984) • short story by Émile Zola (trans. of Angeline ou la maison hantée 1898)
• Come and Get Me • (1973) • novelette by Elizabeth Walter
• Exorcizing Baldassare • (1965) • short story by Edward Hyams
• Footsteps in the Snow • (1965) • short story by Mario Soldati (trans. of I passi sulla neve 1962)
• Introduction (The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories) • (1984) • essay by J. A. Cuddon
• Mr. Justice Harbottle • [Martin Hesselius] • (1872) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• My Adventure in Norfolk • (1924) • short story by A. J. Alan
• One Who Saw • (1931) • short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X]
• Sir Edmund Orme • (1891) • novelette by Henry James
• Sonata for Harp and Bicycle • (1958) • short story by Joan Aiken
• The Axe • (1975) • short story by Penelope Fitzgerald
• The Beggarwoman of Locarno • (1984) • short story by Heinrich von Kleist (trans. of Das Bettelweib von Locarno 1810)
• The Buick Saloon • (1930) • short story by Ann Bridge
• The Entail • (1984) • novella by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Das Majorat 1817)
• The Game of Dice • (1965) • short story by Alain Danielou
• The Horla • [Le Horla • 3] • (1971) • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• The Inexperienced Ghost • (1902) • short story by H. G. Wells
• The July Ghost • (1982) • short story by A. S. Byatt
• The Leaf-Sweeper • (1956) • short story by Muriel Spark
• The Moonlit Road • (1907) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Old Nurse's Story • (1935) • novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell]
• The Open Door • (1882) • novelette by Margaret Oliphant
• The Queen of Spades • (1962) • novelette by
  Александр Пушкин^?Alexander Pushkin
  (trans. of
  Пиковая дама^?Pikovaya dama
  1834) [as by Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin]
• The Return of Imray • (1891) • short story by Rudyard Kipling (variant of The Recrudescence of Imray)
• The Room in the Tower • (1912) • short story by E. F. Benson
• The Rose Garden • (1911) • short story by M. R. James
• The Tower • (1955) • short story by Marghanita Laski
• The Wardrobe • (1936) • short story by Thomas Mann (trans. of Der Kleiderschrank 1899)
• The Wind • (1943) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• Wandering Willie's Tale • [Redgauntlet Excerpts] • (1824) • short story by Sir Walter Scott
• "Dear Ghost ..." • (1965) • short story by Fielden Hughes