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• Introduction (Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers: 1852-1923) • essay by Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton
• The Old Nurse's Story • (1935) • novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell]
• The Moonstone Mass • (1868) • short story by Harriet Prescott Spofford
• Lost in a Pyramid, or the Mummy's Curse • (1869) • short story by Louisa May Alcott (variant of Lost in a Pyramid)
• What Was the Matter? • (1869) • short story by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
• An Itinerant House • (1897) • short story by Emma Frances Dawson
• Nut Bush Farm • novelette by Mrs. J. H. Riddell [as by Mrs. J. H. (Charlotte) Riddell]
• The Gray Man • (1886) • short story by Sarah Orne Jewett
• In a Far-Off World • (1890) • short story by Olive Schreiner
• The Giant Wistaria • (1891) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Lady with the Carnations • (2016) • short story by Marie Corelli (variant of The Lady with the Carnations: a Dream or a Delusion? 1896)
• The Were-Wolf • (1890) • novelette by Clemence Housman
• Transmigration • (1900) • short fiction by Dora Sigerson Shorter
• The Wind in the Rose-Bush • (1902) • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• The Banshee's Halloween • (1903) • short fiction by Herminie Templeton Kavanagh
• In the Closed Room • (1904) • short story by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Dream-Baby • (1904) • short story by Olivia Howard Dunbar
• The Third Drug • (1908) • short story by E. Nesbit [as by E. Bland]
• The Pocket-Hunter's Story • (1909) • short fiction by Mary Austin
• Twilight • (1912) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
• The Swine-Gods • (1917) • short story by Regina Miriam Bloch
• Jordan's End • non-genre • (1923) • short story by Ellen Glasgow