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• 3 • Introduction: About This Book (Spirits, Spooks, and Other Sinister Creatures) • essay by Helen Hoke
• 5 • Not Snow Nor Rain • (1959) • short story by Miriam Allen deFord
• 21 • Lodging for the Night • (1963) • short story by Joan Aiken
• 33 • The Bantam Phantom • (1971) • short story by Lael Littke [as by Lael J. Littke]
• 41 • Mouse • (1949) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 55 • Only a Dream • (1905) • short story by H. Rider Haggard
• 63 • The Dance of the Thirteen Skeletons • (1976) • poem by Jack Prelutsky
• 67 • Thurnley Abbey • (1907) • short story by Perceval Landon
• 85 • Monkeys • (1933) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 103 • The Wolves of Cernogratz • (1913) • short story by Saki
• 109 • The Monster of Poot Holler • short story by Ida Chittum
• 115 • A Most Unusual Murder • (1976) • short story by Robert Bloch
• 131 • The Third Level • (1950) • short story by Jack Finney