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• The Canterville Ghost • (1887) • novelette by Oscar Wilde
• Teeny-Tiny • short story by Joseph Jacobs [as by Anonymous]
• The Signal-Man • (1875) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of The Signalman 1866)
• The Strange Visitor • poem by Joseph Jacobs [as by Anonymous]
• Madam Crowl's Ghost • (1870) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• A Ghostly Wife • short fiction by Lal Behari Day [as by Anonymous]
• Legend of Hamilton Tighe • [The Ingoldsby Legends] • poem by Richard Harris Barham [as by Richard Barham]
• The Phantom Ship (excerpt) • short fiction by Frederick Marryat [as by Captain Marryat]
• The Brown Hand • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle (variant of The Story of the Brown Hand 1899) [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• The Ghost-Brahman • short story by Lal Behari Day [as by Anonymous]
• The Ghost-Ship • (1912) • short story by Richard Middleton
• The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall • (1891) • short story by John Kendrick Bangs
• The Inexperienced Ghost • (1902) • short story by H. G. Wells
• The Buggane and the Tailor • (1951) • short fiction by Dora M. Broome [as by Dora Broome]
• Laura • (1914) • short story by Saki
• The Betrayal of Nance • (1924) • short story by R. Blakeborough
• The Ghost Who Was Afraid of Being Bagged • (unknown) • short story by Lal Behari Day [as by Anonymous]
• The Beast with Five Fingers • (1919) • novelette by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey]
• The Night the Ghost Got In • (1933) • short story by James Thurber
• The Story of Glam • short story by Andrew Lang (variant of The Ghost of Glam 1897)
• Introduction (Ghosts, Spooks and Spectres) • essay by William Mayne [as by Charles Molin]