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• xiii • Introduction: The Spirit of Christmas (Christmas Ghosts) • (1987) • essay by David G. Hartwell
• 1 • Their Dear Little Ghost • (1898) • short story by Elia W. Peattie [as by Elia Wilkinson Peattie]
• 8 • The Curse of the Catafalques • (1882) • novelette by F. Anstey
• 43 • The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton • (1836) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 55 • Christmas Night • (1975) • novelette by Elizabeth Walter
• 76 • A New Christmas Carol • (1920) • short fiction by Arthur Machen (variant of Scrooge: 1920)
• 80 • A Christmas Game • (1949) • short story by A. N. L. Munby
• 90 • The Great Staircase at Landover Hall • (1900) • short story by Frank R. Stockton
• 105 • The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall • (1891) • short story by John Kendrick Bangs
• 115 • Christmas Meeting • (1952) • short story by Rosemary Timperley
• 119 • The Ghost • (1856) • novella by William D. O'Connor
• 167 • Christmas Reunion • (1946) • short story by Sir Andrew Caldecott
• 179 • The Ghosts at Grantley • (1878) • novelette by Leonard Kip
• 215 • The Christmas Banquet • (1843) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 235 • The Crown Derby Plate • (1933) • short story by Marjorie Bowen
• 249 • A Strange Christmas Game • (1987) • short story by Mrs. J. H. Riddell [as by Charlotte Riddell]
• 261 • Calling Card • (1982) • short story by Ramsey Campbell
• 268 • A Christmas Tree • (1850) • short story by Charles Dickens