Contents (view Concise Listing)

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