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• Introduction (Haunted Tales: Classic Stories of Ghosts and the Supernatural) • essay by Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton
• The Ghost and the Bone-Setter • [The Purcell Papers • 1] • (1838) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• M. Anastasius • short fiction by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik [as by Dinah Mulock]
• The Lost Room • (1858) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• The Cold Embrace • (1860) • short story by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• The Phantom Coach • (1864) • short story by Amelia B. Edwards
• An Uncommon Sort of Spectre • (1879) • short story by Edward Page Mitchell
• Man-Size in Marble • (1966) • short story by E. Nesbit [as by Edith Nesbit]
• The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly • (1886) • short story by Rosa Mulholland
• An Original Revenge • (1897) • short story by W. C. Morrow
• Death • short fiction by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary Wilkins Freeman]
• The Story of the Spaniards, Hammersmith • [Flaxman Low] • (1916) • short story by Hesketh Prichard and Kate Prichard [as by E. Heron and H. Heron]
• The Inexperienced Ghost • (1902) • short story by H. G. Wells
• Jikininki • (1904) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• They • (1904) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling (variant of "They")
• The Bus-Conductor • (1906) • short story by E. F. Benson
• The Kit-Bag • (1908) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• The Screaming Skull • (1908) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• A Haunted House • (1921) • short story by Virginia Woolf
• The Laughing Thing • (1929) • short story by G. G. Pendarves