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• A Ghost-Child • (1906) • short story by Bernard Capes
• Bone to His Bone • (1912) • short story by E. G. Swain
• Christmas Entertainment • (1979) • short story by Daphne Froome
• Christmas Meeting • (1952) • short story by Rosemary Timperley
• Foreword (Ghosts for Christmas) • (1988) • essay by Richard Dalby
• Gebal and Ammon and Amalek • [Father O'Connor] • (1988) • short story by David G. Rowlands
• Lucky's Grove • (1940) • short story by H. Russell Wakefield
• Markheim • (1885) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Our Ghost Party • (1891) • essay by Jerome K. Jerome
• Smee • (1929) • short story by A. M. Burrage [as by Ex-Private X]
• Someone in the Lift • (1955) • short story by L. P. Hartley
• The Christmas Present • (1975) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• The Dead Sexton • (1871) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Demon King • (1931) • short story by J. B. Priestley
• The Ghost Detective • (1865) • short story by Mark Lemon
• The Ghost of Christmas Eve • (1890) • short story by J. M. Barrie [as by Sir James M. Barrie]
• The Irtonwood Ghost • (1911) • short story by Elinor Glyn
• The Kit-Bag • (1908) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• The Prescription • (1929) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
• The Real and the Counterfeit • (1988) • short story by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin [as by Louisa Baldwin]
• The Sculptor's Angel • (1913) • short story by Marie Corelli
• The Shadow • (1910) • short story by E. Nesbit (variant of The Portent of the Shadow 1905)
• The Snow • (1929) • short story by Hugh Walpole
• The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance • (1913) • short story by M. R. James
• The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton • (1836) • short story by Charles Dickens
• Their Dear Little Ghost • (1898) • short story by Elia W. Peattie
• Thurlow's Christmas Story • (1894) • short story by John Kendrick Bangs
• Transition • (1913) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• Wolverden Tower • (1896) • novelette by Grant Allen
• 'I Shall Take Proper Precautions' • (1945) • short story by George H. Bushnell
• "Number Ninety" • (1895) • short story by B. M. Croker [as by Mrs. B. M. Croker]