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• ix • Introduction (Famous Ghost Stories) • (1944) • essay by Bennett Cerf
• 3 • The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain • (1859) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
• 32 • The Damned Thing • (1893) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 42 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 54 • The Phantom 'Rickshaw • (1885) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• 78 • The Willows • (1907) • novella by Algernon Blackwood
• 131 • The Rival Ghosts • (1884) • novelette by Brander Matthews
• 150 • The Man Who Went Too Far • (1904) • novelette by E. F. Benson
• 173 • The Mezzotint • (1904) • short story by M. R. James
• 186 • The Open Window • (1911) • short story by Saki
• 190 • The Beckoning Fair One • (1911) • novella by Oliver Onions
• 260 • On the Brighton Road • (1912) • short story by Richard Middleton
• 264 • The Considerate Hosts • (1939) • short story by Thorp McClusky
• 276 • August Heat • (1910) • short story by William Fryer Harvey
• 282 • The Return of Andrew Bentley • (1933) • short story by August Derleth and Mark Schorer
• 300 • The Supper at Elsinore • (1934) • novella by Karen Blixen [as by Isak Dinesen]
• 351 • The Current Crop of Ghost Stories • (1944) • essay by Bennett Cerf