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• xi • Introduction (Witches, Wraiths and Warlocks: Supernatural Tales of the American Renaissance) • essay by Ronald Curran
• 1 • Enchantments Encounter'd • (1693) • short story by Cotton Mather
• 9 • Old Deb and Other Old Colony Witches • (1893) • short story by William Root Bliss
• 13 • General Andrew Jackson: The Great Soldier and Statesman's Visit to The Bell Witch • short story by M. V. Ingram (variant of General Andrew Jackson and the Bell Witch (Chapter XI from An Authenticated History of the Famous Bell Witch) 1894)
• 17 • The Cat-Witch • (1956) • short story by Richard M. Dorson
• 19 • The Witch Dance on the Brocken • (1840) • short story by Friedrich Gottschalck (trans. of Der Hexentanz auf dem Brocken 1814) [as by Frederick Gottschalck]
• 21 • The Leeds Devil • (1903) • short story by Charles M. Skinner
• 23 • Stolen Fire • (1900) • short story by Virginia Frazer Boyle
• 27 • Seeing the Devil in Three Shapes • short story by Richard M. Dorson
• 29 • Jonathan Moulton and the Devil: (From "The Heart of the White Mountains.") • (1901) • short fiction by Samuel Adams Drake
• 34 • Barney Oxman and the Devil • (1846) • short story by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
• 38 • The Death Waltz • (1896) • short story by Charles M. Skinner
• 40 • The Haunted House • (1956) • short story by Richard Chase
• 43 • The Ghost • short story by uncredited
• 45 • The Long Sleep • (1903) • short story by Charles M. Skinner
• 49 • The Legend of the Pipe • (1828) • short story by Launcelot
• 53 • Coffined Alive • (1832) • short story by uncredited
• 57 • The Castle of Costanzo • (1784) • short story by uncredited
• 63 • The Parricide Punished • (1784) • short story by M** à un de ses Amis (trans. of Avanture Singuliere 1766) [as by uncredited]
• 67 • The Wig and the Black Cat • short story by John Galt [as by uncredited]
• 71 • The Witch • short story by Elizabeth P. Hall (variant of The Witch: A Tale of the Dark Ages 1841) [as by Miss Elizabeth P. Hall]
• 86 • The Veil • (1838) • short story by E. E.
• 94 • The Midnight Voyage of the Seagull • (1842) • novelette by Mrs. Volney E. Howard
• 123 • The Sphinx: An Extravaganza Etched in the Manner of Callot • (1828) • short story by B. S. Ingemann (trans. of Sphinxen 1820) [as by uncredited]
• 145 • Tale of a Conjurer • (1833) • short story by Caroline Henrietta Sheridan [as by uncredited]
• 150 • The Enchanter Faustus and Queen Elizabeth • (1822) • short story by Count Anthony Hamilton (trans. of L'enchanteur Faustus 1789) [as by uncredited]
• 159 • The Dream • (1824) • short story by uncredited
• 168 • The Captive's Dream: from the Papers of a Student • (1833) • short story by uncredited
• 176 • The Wooden Legged Ghost • (1840) • short story by John Waters
• 182 • A Ghost Story • (1831) • short story by I. P. A.
• 185 • The Village Doctor • short story by Rudolph
• 193 • Young Goodman Brown • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 206 • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow • (1819) • novelette by Washington Irving
• 235 • The Black Cat • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 244 • A Ghost Story • (1875) • short story by Mark Twain
• 250 • Rappaccini's Daughter • [Rappaccini • 1] • (1844) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 278 • The Tartarus of Maids • (1855) • short story by Herman Melville
• 292 • Ligeia • (1838) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 308 • Rip Van Winkle • (1819) • short story by Washington Irving
• 324 • The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• 343 • The Bell-Tower • (1855) • short story by Herman Melville