Contents (view Concise Listing)

• vii • Foreword (The House of the Nightmare: And Other Eerie Tales) • essay by Kathleen Lines
• 3 • The House of the Nightmare • (1906) • short story by Edward Lucas White
• 15 • The Hauntings at Thorhallstead • short story by Allen French
• 25 • His Own Number • (1963) • short story by William Croft Dickinson
• 38 • Gabriel-Ernest • (1909) • short story by Saki
• 47 • Hand in Glove • (1952) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
• 61 • Mr. Fox • short fiction by Joseph Jacobs [as by Traditional English]
• 65 • Curfew • short story by L. M. Boston
• 77 • John Bartine's Watch: A Story by a Physician • (1910) • short story by Ambrose Bierce (variant of John Bartine's Watch 1893)
• 85 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 100 • My Grandfather, Hendry Watty • (1932) • short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch]
• 108 • A School Story • (1911) • short story by M. R. James
• 117 • The Red Cane • short story by E. F. Bozman
• 123 • A Diagnosis of Death • (1901) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 128 • Bad Company • (1954) • short story by Walter de la Mare
• 137 • Proof • (1964) • short story by Henry Cecil
• 142 • The Amulet • (1939) • short fiction by Thomas Raddall
• 159 • The Hair • (1928) • short story by A. J. Alan
• 170 • The Return of the Native • (1963) • short story by William Croft Dickinson
• 185 • The Earlier Service • (1935) • short story by Margaret Irwin
• 211 • The Man Who Died at Sea • essay by Rosemary Sutcliff