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• 13 • Introduction (American Ghost Stories) • essay by C. Armitage Harper
• 19 • The Spectre Bridegroom • (1819) • short story by Washington Irving
• 37 • Ligeia • (1838) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 57 • The Ghost of Dr. Harris • (1900) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 65 • What Was It? • [Harry Escott] • (1859) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 83 • A Ghost Story • (1875) • short story by Mark Twain
• 91 • The Transferred Ghost • (1882) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 107 • A Ghost Story • (1883) • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 113 • The Rival Ghosts • (1884) • novelette by Brander Matthews
• 135 • The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 147 • The Eyes • (1910) • short story by Edith Wharton
• 173 • The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall • (1891) • short story by John Kendrick Bangs
• 185 • The Shadows on the Wall • (1920) • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman]
• 201 • The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 227 • "Dey Ain't No Ghosts" • (1913) • short story by Ellis Parker Butler
• 241 • The Woman at Seven Brothers • (1917) • short story by Wilbur Daniel Steele
• 265 • The Hand • (1919) • short story by Theodore Dreiser