Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vii • Preface (The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories) • (1988) • essay by Richard Dalby
• ix • Introduction (Victorian Ghost Stories by Eminent Women Writers) • (1989) • essay by Jennifer Uglow
• 1 • Napoleon and the Spectre • (1919) • short story by Charlotte Brontë
• 4 • The Old Nurse's Story • (1935) • novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell]
• 22 • The Last House in C— Street • (1856) • short story by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik [as by Dinah Maria Mulock]
• 33 • Round the Fire (excerpt) • (1988) • short story by Catherine Crowe (variant of The Benighted Traveller 1859)
• 43 • The Cold Embrace • (1860) • short story by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• 51 • Not to Be Taken at Bed-Time • (1865) • short story by Rosa Mulholland
• 63 • The Story of Salome • (1867) • short story by Amelia B. Edwards
• 80 • The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth • (1868) • short story by Rhoda Broughton
• 89 • Reality or Delusion? • [Johnny Ludlow] • (1868) • short story by Mrs. Henry Wood
• 104 • Winthrop's Adventure • (1881) • novelette by Vernon Lee
• 135 • The Old House in Vauxhall Walk • (1882) • novelette by Mrs. J. H. Riddell [as by Charlotte Riddell]
• 150 • The Open Door • (1882) • novelette by Margaret Oliphant
• 185 • Cecilia de Noël • (1891) • novella by Lanoe Falconer
• 255 • Many Waters Cannot Quench Love • (1895) • short story by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin [as by Louisa Baldwin]
• 263 • The Prayer • (1895) • novelette by Violet Hunt
• 286 • Let Loose • (1890) • short story by Mary Cholmondeley
• 301 • The Villa Lucienne • (1896) • short story by Ella D'Arcy
• 309 • The Striding Place • (1896) • short story by Gertrude Atherton
• 315 • The Affair at Grover Station • (1900) • short story by Willa Cather
• 328 • The Vacant Lot • (1903) • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• 341 • Haunted! • (1898) • poem by Isabella Banks
• 343 • Notes on the Authors (The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories) • (1988) • essay by Richard Dalby