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• 9 • Introduction (Christmas Spirits: Ghost Stories of the Festive Season) • essay by Peter Haining
• 13 • The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton 1836)
• 25 • The Haunted Man • (1871) • short story by Bret Harte (variant of The Haunted Man: A Christmas Story by Ch-r--s D-ck-ns 1865) [as by Ch-r-s D-c-k-n-s]
• 33 • Frights! • (1841) • short story by George Cruikshank
• 39 • Thurlow's Christmas Story • (1894) • short story by John Kendrick Bangs
• 54 • Our Ghost Party • (1891) • essay by Jerome K. Jerome
• 71 • The Ghost of Christmas Eve • (1890) • short story by J. M. Barrie
• 75 • The Ghosts of Stukeley Castle • (1890) • short story by Bret Harte
• 84 • The Irtonwood Ghost • (1911) • short story by Elinor Glyn
• 105 • The Lusitania Waits • (1916) • short story by Alfred Noyes
• 111 • The Festival • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1925) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 121 • Grimm's Ghost • (1927) • short story by Eden Phillpotts
• 135 • The Christmas Ghost • (1926) • short story by Stephen Leacock
• 140 • The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance • (1913) • short story by M. R. James
• 155 • A Christmas Ghost • (1949) • short story by A. N. L. Munby (variant of A Christmas Game)
• 165 • S.O.S. • (1918) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 173 • Blind Man's Hood • (1937) • short story by John Dickson Carr