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• vii • The Unquiet Grave • (1868) • poem by uncredited
• ix • Introduction (Ten Ghost Stories) • essay by R. A. Banks
• 1 • The Open Window • (1911) • short story by Saki
• 6 • No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman • (1927) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866)
• 19 • The Dream Woman • (1874) • novelette by Wilkie Collins (variant of The Dream-Woman)
• 43 • The Inexperienced Ghost • (1902) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 56 • A School Story • (1911) • short story by M. R. James
• 64 • The Canterville Ghost • (1887) • novelette by Oscar Wilde
• 91 • The Guardian • (1938) • short story by Walter de la Mare
• 104 • The Rocking-Horse Winner • (1926) • short story by D. H. Lawrence
• 120 • The Earlier Service • (1935) • short story by Margaret Irwin
• 135 • Thus I Refute Beelzy • (1940) • short story by John Collier