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• 11 • Preface (A Gathering of Ghosts) • essay by Gogo Lewis and Seon Manley
• 21 • The Panelled Room • (1933) • short story by August Derleth
• 35 • The Inexperienced Ghost • (1902) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 51 • The Lamp • (1933) • short story by Agatha Christie
• 63 • Cool Air • (1928) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 75 • The Haunted House • short story by Caius Plinius Lucius (trans. of Epistulæ, VII, 27 unknown) [as by Pliny the Younger]
• 81 • Quite Immaterial • essay by Alexander Woollcott
• 89 • The Tapestried Chamber • (1828) • short story by Sir Walter Scott
• 107 • The Ghost's Song • poem by Anonymous
• 107 • Dibdin's Ghost • (1889) • poem by Eugene Field
• 109 • Haunted Houses • (1858) • poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• 111 • The Phantom-Wooer • (1850) • poem by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
• 112 • The Only Ghost I Ever Saw • (1891) • poem by Emily Dickinson
• 112 • To an Importunate Ghost • (1885) • poem by James Whitcomb Riley
• 113 • As If a Phantom Caress'd Me • (1855) • poem by Walt Whitman
• 113 • The Composite Ghost • (1903) • poem by Marion Couthouy Smith
• 121 • The Dream • short story by Apuleius
• 129 • The Screaming Skull • (1908) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 163 • The Ghost of Hamlet's Father • short story by William Shakespeare (variant of Hamlet's Ghost 1932)
• 175 • Dracula's Guest • [Dracula] • (1914) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 191 • The Transferred Ghost • (1882) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 207 • Ghosts in Literature • essay by Gogo Lewis and Seon Manley
• 213 • About the Contributors (A Gathering of Ghosts) • essay by uncredited