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• xi • Introduction (Favourite Scary Stories from Graveside Al) • essay by Alan Maitland
• 1 • A Rose for Emily • non-genre • (1930) • short story by William Faulkner
• 14 • Fear • (1906) • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 15 • Which? • (1938) • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 17 • Kiss Me Again, Stranger • non-genre • (1952) • novelette by Daphne du Maurier
• 43 • The Fork in the Graveyard • (1988) • short story by Julie V. Watson
• 47 • Silent Snow, Secret Snow • (1932) • short story by Conrad Aiken
• 67 • Gabriel-Ernest • (1909) • short story by Saki
• 77 • The Trial for Murder • (1929) • short story by Charles Dickens (variant of To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt 1865)
• 91 • The Snail-Watcher • (1964) • short story by Patricia Highsmith (variant of The Snail Watcher)
• 101 • Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch... • (1947) • short story by Dorothy K. Haynes
• 117 • The Tomb of Sarah • (1900) • short story by F. G. Loring
• 133 • The Hollow of the Three Hills • (1830) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 139 • The Walker of the Snow • (1859) • poem by Charles Dawson Shanly
• 143 • The Body-Snatcher • (1895) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (variant of The Body Snatcher 1884)
• 165 • Angeline, or the Haunted House • (1898) • short story by Émile Zola (trans. of Angeline ou la maison hantée)
• 179 • The Pedler • (1893) • short story by Duncan Campbell Scott
• 185 • The Master of Rampling Gate • (1984) • novelette by Anne Rice
• 215 • Blue Beard • (1889) • short story by Charles Perrault (trans. of La barbe bleue 1697)
• 223 • The Terror of Blue John Gap • (1910) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 243 • Man from the South • (1948) • short story by Roald Dahl
• 257 • The Girl at the Gate • (1906) • short story by Lucy Maud Montgomery
• 263 • The Boarded Window • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 269 • Confession • (1921) • short story by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson [as by Algernon Blackwood]
• 291 • The Cask of Amontillado • [Fortunato] • (1846) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe