Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Foreword (Mystery for Christmas) • (1990) • essay by Richard Dalby
• 1 • The Black Veil • (1836) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 12 • The Banshee's Warning • novelette by Mrs. J. H. Riddell (variant of Hertford O'Donnell's Warning 1867)
• 29 • The Citizen's Watch • (1870) • short story by Alexandre Chatrian and
  Émile Erckmann^?Emile Erckmann
  (trans. of La montre du doyen 1859) [as by Erckmann-Chatrian]
• 49 • What the Shepherd Saw • (1881) • short story by Thomas Hardy
• 68 • The Picture Puzzle • (1909) • short story by Edward Lucas White
• 81 • Ellison's Christmas Dinner • (1909) • short story by Dolf Wyllarde
• 89 • Marwood's Ghost Story • (1925) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
• 96 • The Man Who Came Back • (1936) • short story by Margery Lawrence [as by Margery H. Lawrence]
• 110 • The Chinese Apple • (1948) • short story by Marjorie Bowen [as by Joseph Shearing]
• 124 • Diary of a Poltergeist • (1967) • short story by Ronald Duncan
• 136 • The Leaf-Sweeper • (1956) • short story by Muriel Spark
• 142 • The Illuminated Office • (1990) • short story by Derek Stanford
• 155 • The Case of Seven Santas • (1990) • short story by H. R. F. Keating
• 174 • Mage of the Monkeys • (1990) • short story by Sydney J. Bounds
• 182 • Nostalgia • (1990) • short story by Maggie Ross
• 198 • The Reluctant Murderer • (1990) • short story by Roger F. Dunkley
• 206 • Cyanide for Christmas • (1990) • short story by John S. Glasby
• 219 • The Cloak of DeSouvre • (1990) • short story by Elizabeth Fancett
• 234 • The Soldier • short story by Roger Johnson
• 247 • The Case of the Fiery Messengers • (1990) • novelette by Ron Weighell
• 270 • The Codex • [Mr. Batchel] • (1990) • short story by David G. Rowlands
• 280 • Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Most Men • [Binscombe] • (1990) • short story by John Whitbourn
• 288 • Christmas Rose • (1990) • short story by Mary Williams