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• ix • Introduction (The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories) • essay by Michael Cox and R. A. Gilbert
• 1 • The Tapestried Chamber • (1828) • short story by Sir Walter Scott
• 13 • The Phantom Coach • (1864) • short story by Amelia B. Edwards
• 25 • Squire Toby's Will • (1868) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
• 51 • The Shadow in the Corner • (1879) • short story by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• 69 • The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 87 • A Wicked Voice • (1890) • novelette by Vernon Lee
• 109 • The Judge's House • (1891) • short story by Bram Stoker
• 125 • Man-Size in Marble • (1887) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 137 • The Roll-Call of the Reef • short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch]
• 150 • The Friends of the Friends • (1896) • novelette by Henry James
• 172 • The Red Room • (1896) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 180 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 190 • The Lost Ghost • (1903) • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• 205 • "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" • (1904) • novelette by M. R. James
• 222 • The Empty House • [Jim Shorthouse] • (1906) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 236 • The Cigarette Case • (1910) • short story by Oliver Onions
• 247 • Rose Rose • (1910) • short story by Barry Pain
• 253 • The Confession of Charles Linkworth • (1912) • short story by E. F. Benson
• 266 • On the Brighton Road • (1912) • short story by Richard Middleton
• 270 • Bone to His Bone • (1912) • short story by E. G. Swain
• 277 • The True History of Anthony Ffryar • (1911) • short story by Arthur Gray
• 283 • The Taipan • (1922) • short story by W. Somerset Maugham
• 289 • The Victim • (1922) • novelette by May Sinclair
• 307 • A Visitor from Down Under • (1926) • short story by L. P. Hartley
• 322 • Fullcircle • (1920) • short story by John Buchan
• 335 • The Clock • (1928) • short story by William Fryer Harvey [as by William F. Harvey]
• 339 • Old Man's Beard • (1929) • short story by H. Russell Wakefield
• 354 • Mr. Jones • (1928) • short story by Edith Wharton
• 377 • Smee • (1929) • short story by A. M. Burrage
• 387 • The Little Ghost • (1933) • short story by Hugh Walpole (variant of A Little Ghost 1922)
• 399 • Ahoy, Sailor Boy! • (1933) • short story by A. E. Coppard
• 410 • The Hollow Man • (1933) • short story by Thomas Burke
• 421 • Et in Sempiternum Pereant • (1935) • short story by Charles Williams
• 430 • Bosworth Summit Pound • (1948) • short story by L. T. C. Rolt
• 438 • An Encounter in the Mist • (1949) • short story by A. N. L. Munby
• 444 • Hand in Glove • (1952) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
• 453 • A Story of Don Juan • (1941) • short story by V. S. Pritchett
• 458 • Cushi • (1952) • short story by Christopher Woodforde
• 465 • Bad Company • (1954) • short story by Walter de la Mare
• 471 • The Bottle of 1912 • (1961) • short story by Simon Raven
• 477 • The Cicerones • (1967) • short story by Robert Aickman
• 487 • Soft Voices at Passenham • (1935) • short story by T. H. White
• 495 • Notes (The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories) • essay by Michael Cox and R. A. Gilbert
• 500 • Select Bibliography (The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories) • essay by Michael Cox and R. A. Gilbert