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• There Are Some Doors That Should Never Be Opened (Introduction) • essay by John Landis
• The Turn of the Screw • [The Turn of the Screw] • (1898) • novel by Henry James
• The Fall of the House of Usher • (1839) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Haunted and the Haunters • (1919) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859)
• The Empty House • [Jim Shorthouse] • (1906) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• The Red Room • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• The Shunned House • (1928) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Spook House • [Some Haunted Houses] • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Canterville Ghost • (1887) • novelette by Oscar Wilde
• Thurnley Abbey • (1907) • short story by Perceval Landon
• The Judge's House • (1891) • short story by Bram Stoker
• The Yellow Wallpaper • (1942) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
• The Haunted Dolls' House • (1923) • short story by M. R. James
• The Horla • [Le Horla • 3] • (1903) • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• The Reconciliation • (1900) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• The Open Window • (1911) • short story by Saki