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• ix • Introduction (Dread and Delight: A Century of Children's Ghost Stories) • (1995) • essay by Philippa Pearce
• 1 • A School Story • (1911) • short story by M. R. James
• 7 • Out of the Sea • (1904) • short story by A. C. Benson
• 18 • Manfred's Three Wishes • (1910) • short story by H. F. W. Tatham
• 23 • The Light in the Dormitory • (1921) • short story by W. J. Wintle [as by William J. Wintle]
• 32 • Miss Jemima • juvenile • (1923) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
• 52 • Johnny Double • (1928) • short story by Arthur Machen
• 58 • Elsie Piddock Skips in Her Sleep • juvenile • (1928) • short story by Eleanor Farjeon
• 70 • The Tiger-Skin Rug • (1933) • short story by L. M. Boston [as by Lucy Boston]
• 84 • Elisabeth the Cow Ghost • (1936) • short story by
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• 87 • Georgie • (1944) • short fiction by Robert Bright
• 89 • All in the Night's Work • (1947) • short story by David Severn
• 96 • Richard • (1952) • short story by Christopher Woodforde
• 102 • The Wee Ghostie • (1962) • short story by Alison Uttley
• 106 • The Haunted Trailer • (1962) • short story by Robert Arthur (variant of Death Thumbs a Ride 1942)
• 122 • The House That Lacked a Bogle • (1964) • short story by Sorche Nic Leodhas
• 128 • The January Queen • (1966) • short story by Pamela Ropner
• 138 • Brownie • (1970) • short story by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• 151 • The Ghost of Top Wood • (1975) • short story by Michael Kenyon
• 155 • The Old White Ghost and the Old Grey Granddad • (1975) • short story by Dorothy Edwards
• 159 • Looking for a Ghost • juvenile • (1975) • short story by Margaret Mahy
• 164 • At the River-Gates • (1977) • short story by Philippa Pearce
• 170 • Somebody Lives in the Nobody House • (1978) • short story by Ruth Park
• 180 • The Ghostly Goat of Glaramara • (1979) • short story by J. S. Leatherbarrow
• 188 • She Was Afraid of Upstairs • (1980) • short story by Joan Aiken
• 195 • The Extinguished Lights • juvenile • (1980) • short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
• 200 • Who's a Pretty Boy, Then? • juvenile • (1981) • short story by Jan Mark
• 208 • Uninvited Ghosts • juvenile • (1981) • short story by Penelope Lively
• 213 • The Bride • (1982) • short story by Farrukh Dhondy
• 223 • Ivor • (1984) • short story by George Mackay Brown
• 233 • Siren Song • (1984) • short story by Vivien Alcock
• 237 • The Tower • (1987) • short story by Aidan Chambers
• 251 • The Guitarist • (1984) • short story by Grace Hallworth
• 253 • A Grave Misunderstanding • (1987) • short story by Leon Garfield
• 255 • Ghost Trouble • (1989) • short story by Ruskin Bond
• 265 • Spirits of the Railway • (1987) • short story by Paul Yee
• 269 • Many Happy Returns! • (1990) • short story by Barbara Griffiths
• 275 • The Beach • (1990) • short story by Robert Westall
• 285 • Across the Fields • juvenile • (1991) • novelette by Susan Price
• 301 • The Clearing • (1993) • short story by Tim Wynne-Jones
• 312 • The Burning Baby • (1992) • short story by John Gordon
• 325 • Biographical Notes (Dread and Delight: A Century of Children's Ghost Stories) • (1995) • essay by uncredited
• 346 • Acknowledgements (Dread and Delight: A Century of Children's Ghost Stories) • (1995) • essay by uncredited