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• ix • Introduction (Victorian Ghost Stories) • (1991) • essay by Michael Cox and R. A. Gilbert
• 1 • The Old Nurse's Story • (1935) • novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell]
• 19 • An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street • (1964) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. S. Le Fanu]
• 37 • The Miniature • (1853) • short story by John Yonge Akerman [as by J. Y. Akerman]
• 44 • The Last House in C— Street • (1856) • short story by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik [as by Dinah Mulock]
• 55 • To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt • (1865) • short story by Charles Dickens
• 65 • The Botathen Ghost • (1867) • short story by R. S. Hawker
• 74 • The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth • (1868) • short story by Rhoda Broughton
• 83 • The Romance of Certain Old Clothes • (1868) • short story by Henry James
• 100 • Pichon & Sons, of the Croix Rousse • (1991) • short fiction by uncredited [as by Anonymous]
• 115 • Reality or Delusion? • [Johnny Ludlow] • (1868) • short story by Mrs. Henry Wood
• 130 • Uncle Cornelius His Story • (1864) • short story by George MacDonald (variant of Uncle Cornelius, His Story 1869)
• 150 • The Shadow of a Shade • (1869) • short story by Tom Hood
• 163 • At Chrighton Abbey • (1871) • novelette by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
• 190 • No Living Voice • (1872) • short story by Thomas Street Millington
• 198 • Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman • (1875) • short story by Wilkie Collins
• 218 • The Story of Clifford House • (1878) • short fiction by Anonymous
• 239 • Was it an Illusion?: A Parson's Story • (1991) • short story by Amelia B. Edwards (variant of Was It an Illusion? 1881)
• 256 • The Open Door • (1882) • novelette by Mrs. J. H. Riddell [as by Charlotte Riddell]
• 283 • The Captain of the "Pole-Star" • (1971) • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle (variant of The Captain of the Polestar 1883) [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 303 • The Body-Snatcher • (1895) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson (variant of The Body Snatcher 1884)
• 319 • The Story of the Rippling Train • (1887) • short story by Mary Louisa Molesworth
• 328 • At the End of the Passage • (1890) • novelette by Rudyard Kipling
• 346 • "To Let" • (1890) • short story by B. M. Croker
• 360 • John Charrington's Wedding • (1891) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 367 • The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly • (1891) • short story by Rosa Mulholland
• 379 • The Man of Science • (1892) • short story by Jerome K. Jerome (variant of A Ghost Story)
• 385 • Canon Alberic's Scrapbook • (1895) • short story by M. R. James
• 396 • Jerry Bundler • (1897) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 403 • An Eddy on the Floor • (1899) • novella by Bernard Capes
• 431 • The Tomb of Sarah • (1900) • short story by F. G. Loring
• 442 • The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit • (1901) • short story by Barry Pain
• 445 • The Shadows on the Wall • (1903) • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary E. Wilkins]
• 459 • Father Macclesfield's Tale • (1907) • short story by R. H. Benson
• 466 • Thurnley Abbey • (1907) • short story by Perceval Landon
• 480 • The Kit-Bag • (1908) • short story by Algernon Blackwood
• 490 • Sources (Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology) • (1991) • essay by uncredited
• 493 • Select Chronological Conspectus of Ghost Stories: 1840-1910 (Victorian Ghost Stories) • (1991) • essay by uncredited