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• 1 • Introduction (Mysterious Sea Stories) • essay by Peter Haining [as by William Pattrick]
• 5 • MS. Found in a Bottle • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1833) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 19 • The Legend of the Bell Rock • (1836) • short story by Frederick Marryat [as by Captain Frederick Marryat]
• 31 • Hood's Isle and the Hermit Oberlus • non-genre • (1854) • short story by Herman Melville
• 43 • A Bewitched Ship • (1884) • short story by W. Clark Russell
• 57 • J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement • (1968) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 91 • The Benevolent Ghost and Captain Lowrie • (1940) • novelette by Richard Sale (variant of Till Doomsday)
• 113 • Make Westing • non-genre • (1909) • short story by Jack London (variant of "Make Westing!" 1908)
• 123 • The Black Mate • (1908) • novelette by Joseph Conrad
• 153 • A Matter of Fact • (1892) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• 169 • The Finding of the Graiken • [Sargasso Sea] • (1913) • novelette by William Hope Hodgson
• 193 • Davy Jones's Gift • (1905) • short story by John Masefield
• 199 • In the Abyss • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 217 • Undersea Guardians • (1944) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 235 • The Turning of the Tide • (1934) • short story by C. S. Forester (variant of The Turn of the Tide)