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•  Ghosts and Ghastlies • interior artwork by Bill Prosser
• 6 • About This book (Ghosts and Ghastlies) • essay by Helen Hoke
• 9 • The Calamander Chest • (1954) • short story by Joseph Payne Brennan
• 20 • 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)
• 43 • A Local Haunting • (1965) • poem by Charles Causley
• 47 • The Haunted Mill • (1891) • short story by Jerome K. Jerome
• 53 • The Fireplace • (1925) • short story by Henry S. Whitehead
• 71 • The Listeners • (1911) • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 74 • Meeting with a Double • (1951) • poem by George D. Painter
• 77 • The Mistress in Black • (1969) • short story by Rosemary Timperley
• 95 • A Jug of Syrup • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce (variant of A Jug of Sirup)
• 105 • The Open Window • (1911) • short story by Saki
• 111 • The Old Wife and the Ghost • juvenile • (1952) • poem by James Reeves
• 114 • The Wild Ride in the Tilt Cart • (1965) • short story by Sorche Nic Leodhas
• 123 • Old Wine in New Bottles • (1970) • short story by John Edgell
• 132 • The Inexperienced Ghost • (1902) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 149 • It • (1959) • short story by Norman Mailer
• 150 • Invitation to a Ghost • (1972) • short story by Noel Lloyd and Geoffrey Palmer
• 157 • An Apparition • (1968) • short story by Knut Hamsun (trans. of Et Spøkelse 1898)
• 166 • The Apple Tree • (1931) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen