Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 9 • Introduction (Great Ghost Stories) • essay by Editors of Reader's Digest
• 13 • Ringing the Changes • (1955) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 36 • The Corner Shop • (1926) • short story by Cynthia Asquith
• 48 • The Whip Hand • (1977) • short story by A. L. Barker
• 60 • A Tough Tussle • (1888) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 66 • Transition • (1913) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 71 • The Crowd • (1943) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 79 • The Buick Saloon • (1930) • short story by Ann Bridge
• 92 • The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth • (1868) • short story by Rhoda Broughton
• 101 • Smee • (1929) • short story by A. M. Burrage
• 110 • The July Ghost • (1982) • short story by A. S. Byatt
• 122 • "To Let" • (1890) • short story by B. M. Croker
• 135 • The Ghost Who Vanished by Degrees • (1982) • short story by Robertson Davies
• 143 • Seaton's Aunt • (1922) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
• 166 • No. 1 Branch Line, the Signalman • (1868) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866)
• 176 • Autumn Cricket • (1950) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 180 • The Ghosts of Calagou • (1991) • short story by Elizabeth Fancett
• 187 • The Shepherd • (1975) • novelette by Frederick Forsyth
• 209 • Florinda • (1956) • short story by Shamus Frazer
• 216 • The Old Nurse's Story • (1935) • novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell]
• 232 • A Little Place Off the Edgware Road • (1939) • short story by Graham Greene
• 237 • Someone in the Lift • (1955) • short story by L. P. Hartley
• 242 • The Gateway of the Monster • [Carnacki (Hodgson)] • (1910) • novelette by William Hope Hodgson
• 258 • The Shadow of a Shade • (1869) • short story by Tom Hood
• 270 • The Old Man • (1931) • short story by Holloway Horn
• 275 • Three Miles Up • (1951) • short story by Elizabeth Jane Howard
• 290 • The Romance of Certain Old Clothes • (1868) • short story by Henry James
• 305 • The Ash Tree • (1962) • short story by M. R. James (variant of The Ash-Tree 1904)
• 315 • The Phantom Rickshaw • novelette by Rudyard Kipling (variant of The Phantom 'Rickshaw 1885)
• 332 • The Tower • (1955) • short story by Marghanita Laski
• 338 • Schalken the Painter • (1851) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• 356 • Black Dog • (1978) • short story by Penelope Lively
• 362 • The Highboy • (1990) • short story by Alison Lurie
• 373 • The Taipan • (1922) • short story by W. Somerset Maugham
• 379 • An Apparition • (1923) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Apparition 1883)
• 385 • Man-Size in Marble • (1966) • short story by E. Nesbit [as by Edith Nesbit]
• 396 • William Wilson • (1850) • novelette by Edgar Allan Poe (variant of William Wilson: A Tale 1839)
• 411 • The Queen of Spades • (1927) • novelette by
  Александр Пушкин^?Alexander Pushkin
  (trans. of
  Пиковая дама^?Pikovaya dama
  1834) [as by Alexander Pushkin]
• 431 • I Used to Live Here Once • (1976) • short fiction by Jean Rhys
• 433 • The Body-Snatcher • (1895) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (variant of The Body Snatcher 1884)
• 447 • The Judge's House • (1891) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 461 • Poor Girl • (1955) • short story by Elizabeth Taylor
• 476 • Blind Man's Bluff • (1929) • short story by H. Russell Wakefield (variant of Blind Man's Buff) [as by H. R. Wakefield]
• 480 • Dual Control • (1975) • short story by Elizabeth Walter
• 488 • Breakages • (1978) • short story by Fay Weldon
• 496 • The Canterville Ghost: A Hylo-Idealistic Romance • novelette by Oscar Wilde (variant of The Canterville Ghost 1887)
• 518 • Angeline, or the Haunted House • (1984) • short story by Émile Zola (trans. of Angeline ou la maison hantée 1898)