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• Introduction (Supernatural Short Stories) • essay by Joshua Perry
• The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
• The Vampyre: A Tale • [Lord Ruthven] • (2011) • novelette by Dr. John William Polidori [as by John William Polidori]
• By the Waters of Paradise • novelette by F. Marion Crawford [as by Francis Marion Crawford]
• The Doll's Ghost • short story by F. Marion Crawford [as by Francis Marion Crawford]
• A Mother of Monsters • (2012) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La mère aux monstres 1883)
• The Horla • [Le Horla • 3] • (1903) • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• The Trip of the Horla • short fiction by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Voyage du Horla 1887)
• Moonlit Road • short story by Ambrose Bierce (variant of The Moonlit Road 1907)
• Present at a Hanging • [The Ways of Ghosts] • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• An Inhabitant of Carcosa • (1886) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The White People • (1904) • novelette by Arthur Machen
• Dracula's Guest • [Dracula] • (1914) • short story by Bram Stoker
• Between the Lights • (1912) • short story by E. F. Benson
• A Tale of an Empty House • (1925) • short story by E. F. Benson
• Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad • (1944) • novelette by M. R. James (variant of "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" 1904)
• Casting the Runes • (1911) • novelette by M. R. James
• The Ghost and the Bone-Setter • [The Purcell Papers • 1] • (1838) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Child That Went with the Fairies • (1870) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Race of Orven • [Prince Zaleski] • (1895) • novelette by M. P. Shiel
• The Werewolf Howls • (1941) • short story by Clifford Ball
• The Vampire, or Pedro Pacheco and the Bruxa - A Legend of Portugal • short fiction by William H. G. Kingston (variant of The Vampire; or, Pedro Pacheco and the Bruxa: A Legend of Portugal 1863)