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• 1 • Introduction (Poltergeist: Tales of Deadly Ghosts) • essay by Peter Haining
• 15 • The Haunted and the Haunters • (1970) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859) [as by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton]
• 56 • A Fruitless Assignment • [Some Haunted Houses] • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 60 • Haunted Subalterns • (1887) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 66 • The Death Room • (1923) • short story by Edgar Wallace
• 81 • Phantom Fingers • (1927) • short story by Robert S. Carr
• 93 • Thursday Evenings • (1920) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 106 • The Poltergeist • [Jules de Grandin] • (1927) • novelette by Seabury Quinn
• 133 • The Mystery of Beechcroft Farm • (1932) • short story by Elliott O'Donnell
• 145 • Parasite Mansion • (1942) • novelette by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
• 176 • Maggie's Bite • (1947) • short story by Laurence Housman
• 181 • Miss Cornelius • (1978) • short story by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey]
• 201 • The Beam • (1947) • short story by M. P. Dare
• 209 • A Knocking in the Wall • (1951) • short story by August Derleth
• 220 • The Haunted Bungalow • (1936) • short story by Charles Duff
• 227 • Minuke • (1949) • short story by Nigel Kneale
• 239 • Poltergeist! • short story by Kurt Singer