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• Introduction: The View from a Grave • essay by Michael Sims
• "They" • (1904) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• The Trial for Murder • (1929) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt 1865)
• The Yellow Sign • [King in Yellow (Chambers)] • (1895) • novelette by Robert W. Chambers
• The Moonlit Road • (1907) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• The Southwest Chamber • (1903) • novelette by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• The Old Nurse's Story • (1852) • novelette by Mrs. Gaskell
• Sir Edmund Orme • (1891) • novelette by Henry James
• The Phantom Coach • (1864) • short story by Amelia B. Edwards
• August Heat • (1910) • short story by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey]
• The Library Window • (1896) • novelette by Margaret Oliphant
• The Captain of the Pole-Star • (1991) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle (variant of The Captain of the Polestar 1883) [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]