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• \1 • The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• The White Villa • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
• The Oval Portrait • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Christmas Goblins • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton 1836)
• A Dark Mirror • (1890) • short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch
• Accessory Before the Fact • (1914) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• Gods of the North • (1934) • short story by Robert E. Howard
• Polaris • [Dream Cycle] • (1920) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Rose Garden • (1911) • short story by M. R. James
• At the Dip of the Road • (1896) • short story by Mary Louisa Molesworth
• A Mysterious Portrait • (1881) • short story by Mark Rutherford
• The Black Cat • (1989) • short story by W. J. Wintle [as by William J. Wintle]
• The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Terror of the Twins • (1909) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• Poetry and the Gods • (1959) • short story by Anna Helen Crofts and H. P. Lovecraft [as by H. P. Lovecraft]
• The Lame Priest • (1901) • short story by S. Carleton [as by Susan Carleton Jones]
• The Light in the Dormitory • (1921) • short story by W. J. Wintle [as by William J. Wintle]
• The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• Many Waters Cannot Quench Love • (1895) • short story by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin [as by Louisa Baldwin]
• The Black Cat • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe