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• 13 • Introduction (Spirits of Christmas) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• 19 • The Prescription • (1929) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
• 34 • The Mystery of My Grandmother's Hair Sofa • (1895) • short story by John Kendrick Bangs
• 41 • How the Bishop Sailed to Inniskeen • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 48 • Old Applejoy's Ghost • (1900) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 61 • Green Holly • (1944) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
• 70 • Floodlights • short story by Martha Soukup
• 79 • The Real and the Counterfeit • (1895) • short story by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin
• 93 • Snow Ghosts • short story by Richard A. Lupoff
• 103 • Unawares • (1908) • short story by Hildegarde Hawthorne
• 108 • A Midwinter's Tale • (1988) • short story by Michael Swanwick
• 122 • The Haunted Man • [Christmas Books] • (1852) • novella by Charles Dickens (variant of The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain 1848)
• 196 • The Haunted Man: A Christmas Story by Ch-r--s D-ck-ns • (1865) • short story by Bret Harte
• 203 • The Confessions of Ebenezer Scrooge • short story by James Morrow
• 210 • O Come Little Children ... • short story by Chet Williamson
• 219 • But Do You Recall ... ? • short story by Greg Cox
• 224 • A Handful of Silver • (1967) • short story by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
• 231 • A Masquerade of Voices • (1988) • short story by Susan Palwick
• 242 • The Breakdown • (1976) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
• 250 • The Peculiar Demesne • (1980) • novelette by Russell Kirk
• 274 • Icicle Music • short story by Michael Bishop