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• 9 • Introduction (Masters of Shades and Shadows) • essay by uncredited
• 13 • To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt • (1865) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 24 • The Secret of the Growing Gold • (1892) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 37 • The Dream Woman • (1874) • novelette by Wilkie Collins (variant of The Dream-Woman)
• 60 • Ligeia • (1838) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 75 • The White Cat • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (variant of The White Cat of Drumgunniol 1870) [as by Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 89 • Nothing But the Truth • (1868) • short story by Rhoda Broughton (variant of The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth)
• 99 • The Lost Ghost • (1969) • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary Wilkins Freeman]
• 119 • The Looking-Glass • (1923) • short story by Walter de la Mare
• 129 • The Real Right Thing • (1892) • short story by Henry James
• 142 • The Furnished Room • (1904) • short story by O. Henry
• 149 • The Ghosts • (1908) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 154 • Rats • (1929) • short story by M. R. James
• 163 • The Thing in the Moonlight • [Dream Cycle] • (1941) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Jack Chapman Miske [as by H. P. Lovecraft]
• 166 • Escort • (1940) • short story by Daphne du Maurier
• 182 • The Lake • (1944) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 189 • The Rock • (1951) • short story by Shirley Jackson
• 209 • About the Authors (Masters of Shades and Shadows) • essay by uncredited