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• xi • Introduction (The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories) • (1996) • essay by Michael Cox
• 1 • In the Dark • (1910) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 12 • Rooum • (1910) • short story by Oliver Onions
• 25 • The Shadowy Third • (1916) • novelette by Ellen Glasgow
• 46 • The Diary of Mr Poynter • (1994) • short story by M. R. James (variant of The Diary of Mr. Poynter 1919)
• 56 • Mrs Porter and Miss Allen • (1921) • short story by Hugh Walpole (variant of Mrs. Porter and Miss Allen)
• 67 • The Nature of the Evidence • (1923) • short story by May Sinclair
• 77 • Night-Fears • (1924) • short story by L. P. Hartley (variant of Night Fears)
• 82 • Bewitched • (1925) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 101 • A Short Trip Home • (1927) • novelette by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 120 • Blind Man's Buff • (1929) • short story by H. Russell Wakefield
• 124 • The Blackmailers • (1935) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 132 • Yesterday Street • (1935) • short story by Thomas Burke
• 144 • Smoke Ghost • short story by Fritz Leiber [as by Fritz Leiber Jun.]
• 158 • The Cheery Soul • (1942) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
• 167 • All But Empty • (1947) • short story by Graham Greene
• 171 • Three Miles Up • (1951) • short story by Elizabeth Jane Howard
• 188 • Close Behind Him • (1953) • short story by John Wyndham
• 200 • The Quincunx • (1906) • short story by Walter de la Mare
• 210 • The Tower • (1955) • short story by Marghanita Laski
• 217 • Poor Girl • (1955) • short story by Elizabeth Taylor
• 234 •
  I Kiss Your Shadow—^?I Kiss Your Shadow-
  • (1956) • short story by Robert Bloch (variant of I Kiss Your Shadow)
• 250 • A Woman Seldom Found • (1956) • short story by William Sansom
• 254 • The Portobello Road • (1956) • novelette by Muriel Spark
• 273 • Ringing the Changes • (1955) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 299 • On Terms • (1965) • short story by Christine Brooke-Rose
• 309 • The Only Story • (1971) • short story by William Trevor
• 320 • The Loves of Lady Purple • (1974) • short story by Angela Carter
• 331 • Revenant As Typewriter • (1978) • short story by Penelope Lively
• 344 • The Little Dirty Girl • (1982) • novelette by Joanna Russ
• 362 • Watching Me, Watching You • (1981) • short story by Fay Weldon
• 376 • The July Ghost • (1982) • short story by A. S. Byatt
• 390 • The Highboy • (1990) • short story by Alison Lurie
• 403 • The Meeting House • (1994) • short story by Jane Gardam
• 411 • Notes and Sources (The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories) • (1996) • essay by uncredited