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