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• 7 • Introduction (Classic Stories of Mystery, Horror and Suspense) • essay by Simon Petherick
• 11 • The Ghostly Rental • (1876) • novelette by Henry James
• 46 • Markheim • (1885) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 64 • The Horla • [Le Horla • 3] • (1903) • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• 79 • The Dream-Woman • (1874) • novelette by Wilkie Collins
• 105 • A Confession Found in a Prison in the Time of Charles the Second • (1840) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 113 • Silence • (1910) • short story by
  Леонид Андреев^?Leonid Andreyev
  (trans. of
  Молчание^?Molchaniye
  1900) [as by Leonid Andreyev]
• 127 • The Withered Arm • (1888) • novelette by Thomas Hardy
• 158 • The Mysterious Mansion • non-genre • (1934) • short story by
  Honoré de Balzac^?Honore de Balzac
  (trans. of La Grande Bretèche 1832)
• 169 • Transformation • (1891) • short story by Mary Shelley (variant of The Transformation 1830) [as by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley]
• 187 • The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 193 • Some Terrible Letters from Scotland • (1832) • short story by James Hogg
• 207 • Lost Face • non-genre • (1908) • short story by Jack London
• 220 • True Revelation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal • short fiction by Daniel Defoe (variant of A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September 1705 1706)
• 230 • The Man and the Snake • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 238 • The Blast of the Book • [Father Brown] • (1933) • short story by G. K. Chesterton