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• The House of the Past • (1914) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• They • (1904) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling (variant of "They")
• Mr. Gray's Strange Story • (1892) • short story by Louisa Murray
• John Mortonson's Funeral • (1906) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• Keeping His Promise • (1906) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• The Reporte of a Straunge and wonderful Spectacle • (1577) • short story by Abraham Fleming
• The Death of Halpin Frayser • (1891) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Apparition • (1910) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Apparition 1883)
• Old Mr. Wiley • (1951) • short story by Greye La Spina
• The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Signal-Man • (1875) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866)
• Mrs. Amworth • (1922) • short story by E. F. Benson
• A Case of Eavesdropping • [Jim Shorthouse] • (1900) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• A Tough Tussle • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Specter Bridegroom • (1928) • short story by Washington Irving (variant of The Spectre Bridegroom 1819)
• The Severed Hand • [Die Karawane / The Caravan • 3] • (1840) • short story by Wilhelm Hauff (trans. of Die Geschichte von der abgehauenen Hand 1825)
• The Ash Tree • (1962) • short story by M. R. James (variant of The Ash-Tree 1904)
• The Vision of Tom Chuff • (1870) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Cobweb • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Saki