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•  The Fireside Book of Ghost Stories • interior artwork by Warren Chappell
• xi • Introduction (The Fireside Book of Ghost Stories) • essay by Edward Wagenknecht
• 3 • The Witch of Endor (excerpt) • short fiction by The Holy Bible
• 6 • The House in Athens • short story by Caius Plinius Lucius (trans. of Epistulæ, VII, 27 unknown) [as by Pliny the Younger]
• 8 • The Sandal (excerpt) • short fiction by Lucian of Samosata (variant of The Sandal (excerpt from The Lover of Lies)) [as by Lucian]
• 12 • Murder Will Out • (1387) • short story by Geoffrey Chaucer
• 14 • The Coverley Ghost • (1711) • short story by Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
• 19 • The Southwest Chamber • novelette by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman]
• 37 • The Room in the Tower • (1912) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 50 • No. 252 Rue M. Le Prince • (1895) • short story by Ralph Adams Cram
• 64 • The Crown Derby Plate • (1933) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
• 76 • Number 13 • (1904) • short story by M. R. James
• 92 • Brickett Bottom • (1921) • short story by Amyas Northcote
• 105 • The Curate and the Rake • (1935) • short story by Margaret Irwin
• 120 • The Sheraton Mirror • (1932) • short story by August Derleth [as by August W. Derleth]
• 131 • They Found My Grave • (1938) • short story by Marjorie Bowen [as by Joseph Shearing]
• 153 • Strangers and Pilgrims • (1936) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
• 177 • The Corner Shop • (1926) • short story by Cynthia Asquith
• 192 • Unto Salvation • short story by Julian Forrest
• 203 • The Song in the House • (1933) • short story by Ann Bridge
• 221 • The Silver Mirror • (1908) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 231 • The Green Scarf • (1926) • short story by A. M. Burrage
• 247 • Escort • (1940) • short story by Daphne du Maurier
• 265 • The Dream Woman • (1920) • novelette by Wilkie Collins (variant of The Dream-Woman 1874) [as by W. Wilkie Collins]
• 289 • The Avenging of Ann Leete • (1923) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
• 302 • The Jolly Corner • (1908) • novelette by Henry James
• 339 • The Ghost in the Chamber • short story by Edward Wagenknecht
• 348 • Playmates • (1927) • novelette by A. M. Burrage
• 373 • Courage • (1918) • short story by Forrest Reid
• 381 • How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery • (1911) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 399 • Madam Crowl's Ghost • (1870) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• 413 • The Spectre Lovers • [Ghost Stories of Chapelizod • 4] • (1851) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• 425 • Let Me Go • (1946) • short story by L. A. G. Strong
• 437 • All Souls' • (1937) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 460 • The House in Half Moon Street • (1934) • novelette by Hector Bolitho
• 497 • The Ghosts • short story by Elizabeth Daly
• 506 • The Unquiet Grave • (1935) • short story by F. M. Mayor
• 514 • The Creatures • (1920) • short story by Walter de la Mare
• 527 • Added Space • short story by Mary Johnston
• 534 • The Woman in the Way • (1924) • short story by Oliver Onions
• 553 • The Past • (1920) • novelette by Ellen Glasgow
• 577 • The Riddle • (1903) • short story by Walter de la Mare
• 582 • My Platonic Sweetheart • (1912) • short story by Mark Twain