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• Introduction (Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday) • (1997) • essay by Italo Calvino (trans. of Introduzione (Racconti fantastici dell'Ottocento) 1983)
• The Story of the Demoniac Pacheco • (1990) • short story by Jan Potocki (trans. of Histoire du démoniaque Pacheco 1805)
• Autumn Sorcery • (1997) • short story by Joseph von Eichendorff (trans. of Die Zauberei im Herbste 1808)
• The Sandman • (1943) • novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Der Sandmann 1816)
• Wandering Willie's Tale • [Redgauntlet Excerpts] • (1824) • short story by Sir Walter Scott
• The Elixir of Life • (1897) • novelette by
  Honoré de Balzac^?Honore de Balzac
  (trans. of
  L'élixir de longue vie^?L'elixir de longue vie
  1830)
• The Eye with No Lid • (1997) • short fiction by Philarète Chasles (trans. of
  L'œil sans paupière^?L'oeil sans paupiere
  1832)
• The Enchanted Hand • (1997) • novelette by
  Gérard de Nerval^?Gerard de Nerval
  (trans. of
  La main enchantée^?La main enchantee
  1832)
• Young Goodman Brown • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Nose • (1960) • novelette by
  Николай Гоголь^?Nikolai Gogol
  (trans. of
  Нос^?Nos
  1836) [as by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol]
• The Beautiful Vampire • (1963) • novelette by
  Théophile Gautier^?Theophile Gautier
  (trans. of La morte amoureuse 1836)
• The Venus of Ille • (1966) • novelette by
  Prosper Mérimée^?Prosper Merimee
  (trans. of La Vénus d'Ille 1837)
• The Ghost and the Bonesetter • [The Purcell Papers • 1] • (1997) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (variant of The Ghost and the Bone-Setter 1838)
• The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Shadow • (1930) • short story by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of Skyggen 1847)
• The Signalman • (1866) • short story by Charles Dickens
• The Dream • (1979) • short story by
  Иван Тургенев^?Ivan Turgenev
  (trans. of
  Сон^?Son
  1877) [as by Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev]
• A Shameless Rascal • (1986) • short fiction by
  Николай Лесков^?Nikolay Leskov
  (trans. of
  Бесстыдник^?Besstydnik
  1877) [as by Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov]
• The Very Image • (1963) • short story by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (trans. of À s'y méprendre ! 1875) [as by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam]
• Night: A Nightmare • (1923) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of La nuit 1887)
• A Lasting Love • (1887) • novelette by Vernon Lee (variant of Amour Dure)
• Chickamauga • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Holes in the Mask • (1997) • short story by Jean Lorrain (trans. of Les trous du masque 1895)
• The Bottle Imp • (1891) • novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Friends of the Friends • (1896) • novelette by Henry James
• The Bridge-Builders • (1893) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• The Country of the Blind • (1904) • novelette by H. G. Wells