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• ix • Introduction (Spooky Sea Stories) • essay by Tony Gibbs
• 1 • Fog • (1916) • short story by Dana Burnet
• 15 • MS. Found in a Bottle • [Tales of the Folio Club] • (1833) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 26 • Man Overboard! • (1903) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 61 • The Brute • (1906) • short story by Joseph Conrad
• 81 • A Strange Arrival • (1989) • short story by John William De Forest [as by John William DeForest]
• 100 • The Captain of the Pole-Star • novelette by Arthur Conan Doyle (variant of The Captain of the Polestar 1883) [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
• 123 • The Police Officer's Tale • (unknown) • short story by Henry Fielding
• 137 • The Story of the Haunted Ship • [Die Karawane / The Caravan • 2] • (1886) • short story by Wilhelm Hauff (trans. of Die Geschichte von dem Gespensterschiff 1825)
• 147 • The Derelict • (1912) • novelette by William Hope Hodgson
• 171 • The Cormorants of Andvær • (1893) • short story by Jonas Lie (trans. of Andværs-skarven 1891)
• 176 • From the Darkness and the Depths • (1913) • novelette by Morgan Robertson
• 197 • Kentucky's Ghost • (1868) • short story by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps [as by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward]
• 209 • Messengers at the Window • (1912) • short story by Henry van Dyke
• 217 • The Voodoo-Woman • (1907) • short story by Mary S. Watts
• 237 • The Ghost Ship • (1912) • short story by Richard Middleton (variant of The Ghost-Ship)