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• 8 • The Landlady • (1959) • short story by Roald Dahl
• 18 • The Riddle • (1903) • short story by Walter de la Mare
• 23 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 34 • Through the Door • (1977) • short story by Ruth Ainsworth
• 47 • Man-Size in Marble • (1887) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 60 • The Tell-Tale Heart • (1843) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 66 • A Kind of Swan Song • (1984) • short story by Helen Cresswell
• 76 • The Clock Tower Ghost • (1981) • short story by Gene Kemp
• 85 • The Gorge of the Churels • (1951) • short story by H. Russell Wakefield
• 95 • The Haunted Trailer • (1962) • short story by Robert Arthur (variant of Death Thumbs a Ride 1942)
• 113 • The Stranger • (1909) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 119 • Bad Company • (1954) • short story by Walter de la Mare
• 127 • The Yellow Cat • (1924) • short story by Michael Joseph
• 137 • The Well • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 149 • Laura • (1914) • short story by Saki
• 155 • The Swan Child • (1982) • short story by Joan Aiken
• 167 • The Brown Hand • (1967) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle (variant of The Story of the Brown Hand 1899) [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 182 • The Red Room • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 192 • The Blades • juvenile • (1981) • short story by Joan Aiken
• 206 • Lost Hearts • (1895) • short story by M. R. James
• 217 • The Signalman • (1866) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 230 • The Picture of Dorian Gray (excerpt) • (1993) • short fiction by Oscar Wilde
• 247 • The Silver Mirror • (1908) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 256 • The Stolen Cigar-Case • non-genre • (1900) • short story by Bret Harte
• 266 • The Mysterious Mansion • non-genre • (1934) • short story by
  Honoré de Balzac^?Honore de Balzac
  (trans. of La Grande Bretèche 1832)
• 277 • Sweets from a Stranger • (1978) • short story by Nicholas Fisk
• 287 • The Hitch-Hiker • non-genre • (1977) • short story by Roald Dahl (variant of The Hitchhiker)
• 299 • The Dream Woman • (1874) • novelette by Wilkie Collins (variant of The Dream-Woman)
• 323 • The Masque of the Red Death • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of The Mask of the Red Death 1842)
• 329 • The Sailor-Boy's Tale • (1942) • short story by Karen Blixen
• 341 • The Horla • [Le Horla • 3] • (1903) • novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
• 365 • The Mummy's Foot • (1926) • short story by
  Théophile Gautier^?Theophile Gautier
  (trans. of Le pied de momie 1840)