Contents (view Concise Listing)

• The Mark of the Beast • (1890) • short story by Rudyard Kipling
• The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes • (1885) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• A Ghost • (1889) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• Topaz • (1993) • short story by Ruskin Bond
• Anath Babu's Terror • (1962) • short story by Satyajit Ray
• Fritz • (1971) • short story by Satyajit Ray
• The Brown Hand • (1919) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle (variant of The Story of the Brown Hand 1899) [as by A. Conan Doyle]
• Introduction (The Penguin Book of Indian Ghost Stories) • essay by Ruskin Bond
• Out of the Dark • poem by Ruskin Bond
• Underdone, Overdone, Undone! • short story by F. W. Bain
• The Meerut Graveyard • (1858) • short story by John Lang
• The Fire-Jogi • short story by A. C. Renny
• The Fourth Man • (1930) • short story by Hilton Brown
• The Werewolf • short story by C. A. Kincaid
• The Tail-Light • short story by F. R. Corson
• Ghost of Korya Khar • short story by R. V. Smith
• The Yellow-Legged Man • short story by Sudhir Thapliyal
• Around the Temple • short story by R. K. Narayan
• A Shade Too Soon • short story by Jug Suraiya
• The Red Hydrangea • short story by Victor Banerjee
• Mixed Blood • short story by Ravi Shankar
• The Little Ones • short story by O. V. Vijayan
• The Loving Soul-Atma • short story by Jaishankar Kala