Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• vii • Introduction (Macabre Military Stories) • (1979) • essay by Ronald Holmes
• 1 • The Bold Dragoon • [Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman] • (1824) • short story by Washington Irving
• 11 • The Roll-Call of the Reef • (1931) • short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch]
• 27 • Master Ghost and I • (1973) • short story by Barbara Softly
• 47 • The Black Ferry • (1935) • short story by John Galt (variant of The Book of Life 1831)
• 61 • Apparitions (excerpt) • (1979) • short fiction by Rev. Bourchier Wrey Savile
• 73 • The Phantom Regiment • (1847) • novelette by James Grant
• 99 • The Copper Bowl • (1928) • short story by George Fielding Eliot
• 111 • The Soldiers' Rest • (1914) • short story by Arthur Machen
• 117 • A Trade Report Only • (1923) • short story by C. E. Montague
• 133 • The Living Dead • (1967) • short story by Robert Bloch (variant of Underground)
• 141 • And Give Us Yesterday • (1948) • short story by Seabury Quinn
• 159 • The Scarlet King • (1954) • short story by Evan Hunter
• 171 • The Battle • (1954) • short story by Robert Sheckley