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• Introduction (Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories) • (1999) • essay by Robert Phillips
• Ghosts on the Lake • (1955) • short story by Ilse Aichinger (trans. of Seegeister 1953)
• Sonata for Harp and Bicycle • (1958) • short story by Joan Aiken
• Enoch Soames • (1916) • novelette by Max Beerbohm (variant of Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties)
• The Happy Autumn Fields • (1944) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
• Oh Father, Father, Why Have You Come Back? • (1959) • short story by John Cheever
• Dead Women's Things • (1998) • short fiction by Kathy Chwedyk
• The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• The Supper at Elsinore • (1934) • novella by Karen Blixen [as by Isak Dinesen]
• Lost Lives • (1999) • short story by Max Eberts
• The Shadowy Third • (1916) • novelette by Ellen Glasgow
• A Shape of Light • (1975) • short story by William Goyen
• W. S. • (1952) • short story by L. P. Hartley
• The Astral Body of a U.S. Mail Truck • (1963) • novella by James Leo Herlihy
• The Bus • (1965) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• The Friends of the Friends • (1896) • novelette by Henry James
• Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor • (1958) • novelette by Franz Kafka (trans. of
  Blumfeld, ein älterer Junggeselle^?Blumfeld, ein aelterer Junggeselle
  1936)
• "They" • (1904) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• The Highboy • (1990) • short story by Alison Lurie
• The Ghosts of August • (1993) • short story by
  Gabriel García Márquez^?Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  (trans. of Espantos de Agosto 1992)
• The Doll • (1980) • novelette by Joyce Carol Oates
• Wolfie • (1999) • short story by Robert Phillips
• A Spiritualist • (1927) • short story by Jean Rhys
• Owl • (1999) • short story by Elizabeth Spencer
• A Gracious Rain • (1990) • short story by Christopher Tilghman
• Mrs. Acland's Ghosts • (1975) • short story by William Trevor
• The Leaf-Sweeper • (1956) • short story by Muriel Spark
• Pomegranate Seed • (1931) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• Notes on the Authors (Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories) • (1999) • essay by uncredited