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• ix • Introduction (Ghost Stories: Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense) • essay by Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton
• 1 • Sweet William's Ghost (a popular ballad) • short fiction by uncredited
• 5 • The Family Portraits • novelette by A. Apel (trans. of Die Bilder der Ahnen 1805) [as by Johann August Apel]
• 41 • The Tapestried Chamber, or The Lady in the Square • short story by Sir Walter Scott (variant of The Tapestried Chamber 1828)
• 57 • The Gray Champion • (1835) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 67 • Ligeia • (1838) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 85 • No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman • (1927) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866)
• 99 • Since I Died • (1873) • short story by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
• 107 • Mrs. Zant and the Ghost • (1885) • novelette by Wilkie Collins
• 143 • An Inhabitant of Carcosa • (1886) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 149 • The Last of Squire Ennismore • short story by Mrs. J. H. Riddell [as by Charlotte (Mrs. J. H.) Riddell]
• 157 • The Philosophy of Relative Existences • short story by Frank R. Stockton [as by Frank Stockton]
• 165 • The Real Right Thing • (1899) • short story by Henry James
• 179 • The Lady's Maid's Bell • (1902) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 201 • A Ghost Story • (1875) • short story by Mark Twain
• 209 • Oh, Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad • novelette by M. R. James (variant of "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" 1904)
• 229 • The Shell of Sense • (1908) • short story by Olivia Howard Dunbar
• 241 • The Bowmen • (1914) • short story by Arthur Machen
• 247 • The Substitute • (1914) • short story by Georgia Wood Pangborn