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• ix • Introduction (Classic Horror Stories: Sixteen Legendary Stories of the Supernatural) • essay by Charles A. Coulombe
• 1 • I Kings 28.1-25 • short fiction by uncredited
• 5 • Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Book IV, xxv • short fiction by Philostratus
• 11 • The Feast of Redgauntlet • [Redgauntlet Excerpts] • (1824) • short fiction by Sir Walter Scott
• 43 • The Adventure of the German Student • [Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman] • (1824) • short story by Washington Irving
• 55 • Feathertop • (1938) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (variant of Feathertop: A Moralized Legend 1852)
• 89 • The Werewolf (excerpt from The Phantom Ship) • (1969) • short story by Frederick Marryat (variant of The Werewolf 1837) [as by H. B. Marryat]
• 117 • St. John's Eve • [
  Быль, рассказанная дьячком ***ской церкви^?Byl', rasskazannaya d'yachkom ***skoy tserkvi
  ] • (1945) • short story by
  Николай Гоголь^?Nikolai Gogol
  (trans. of
  Вечер накануне Ивана Купала^?Vecher nakanune Ivana Kupala
  1830) [as by Nikolai Gogol]
• 141 • No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman • (1927) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866)
• 165 • The Mark of the Beast • (1890) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 189 • Gabriel-Ernest • (1909) • short story by Saki
• 201 • The Botathen Ghost • (1867) • short story by R. S. Hawker
• 219 • Thurnley Abbey • (1907) • short story by Perceval Landon
• 247 • The Yellow Sign • [King in Yellow (Chambers)] • (1895) • novelette by Robert W. Chambers
• 281 • The Watcher • (1903) • short fiction by R. H. Benson [as by Robert Hugh Benson]
• 289 • The Dead Valley • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
• 305 • The Middle Toe of the Right Foot • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 321 • The Vampire of Croglin Grange • (1900) • short story by Augustus Hare