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• xi • Introduction (Classic Tales of Horror) • essay by Stephanie Dowrick
• 1 • The Black Cat • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 11 • To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt • (1865) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 23 • The Spectre Lovers • [Ghost Stories of Chapelizod • 4] • (1973) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 35 • The Dream Woman • (1920) • novelette by Wilkie Collins (variant of The Dream-Woman 1874) [as by W. Wilkie Collins]
• 58 • The Open Door • (1882) • novelette by Margaret Oliphant
• 97 • A Cold Embrace • (1860) • short story by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (variant of The Cold Embrace) [as by Elizabeth Braddon]
• 107 • The Moonlit Road • (1907) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 117 • The Romance of Certain Old Clothes • (1868) • short story by Henry James
• 136 • The Judge's House • (1891) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 154 • The Hand • [La main d'écorché • 2] • (1910) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La main 1883)
• 161 • The Body Snatcher • (1884) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 179 • The Screaming Skull • (1908) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 207 • The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
• 224 • Lost Hearts • (1895) • short story by M. R. James
• 235 • Keeping His Promise • (1906) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 250 • The Music on the Hill • (1911) • short story by Saki
• 256 • Tarnhelm • (1929) • short story by Hugh Walpole