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• 9 • Introduction (Nightcaps and Nightmares) • essay by Peter Haining
• 13 • The Spectre of Tappington • [The Ingoldsby Legends] • (1837) • novelette by Richard Harris Barham
• 41 • The Lawyer and the Ghost • (1837) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 45 • The Wraith of Barnjum • (1879) • short story by F. Anstey
• 60 • The Canterville Ghost • (1887) • novelette by Oscar Wilde
• 90 • The Ghost Aristocracy • (1892) • essay by Kenneth Grahame
• 95 • The Haunted Mill • (1891) • short story by Jerome K. Jerome
• 100 • Ghosts That Have Haunted Me • (1896) • short story by John Kendrick Bangs
• 113 • The Inexperienced Ghost • (1902) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 127 • The Clothing of Ghosts • (1902) • essay by Ambrose Bierce
• 131 • A Ghost of a Chance • non-genre • (1903) • short story by O. Henry
• 140 • The Ghost Ship • (1912) • short story by Richard Middleton (variant of The Ghost-Ship)
• 152 • Buggam Grange • (1920) • short story by Stephen Leacock (variant of Buggam Grange: A Good Old Ghost Story)
• 161 • A Trip to Spirit Land • (1924) • short story by Robert Benchley
• 166 • The Night the Ghost Got In • (1933) • short story by James Thurber
• 172 • The White Horse; or, "The Great Southern Ghost Story" • (1955) • short story by Robert Graves (variant of The White Horse)
• 177 • Half-Way to Hell • (1941) • short story by John Collier (variant of Halfway to Hell 1934)
• 185 • The Indian Spirit Guide • (1948) • short story by Robert Bloch