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• 2 • Preface (Twenty-Two Strange Stories) • essay by John L. Hardie
• 5 • The Cosy Room • (1929) • short story by Arthur Machen
• 9 • Dr. Heidegger's Experiment • (1837) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 16 • Running Wolf • (1920) • novelette by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson [as by Algernon Blackwood]
• 29 • The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar • (1845) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• 36 • The Monkey's Paw • (1902) • short story by W. W. Jacobs
• 44 • The Haunters and the Haunted: or, The House and the Brain • (1944) • novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain 1859)
• 63 • A Night at a Cottage • short story by Richard Hughes (variant of A Night at a Cottage ... 1926)
• 65 • The Spectre Bridegroom • (1819) • short story by Washington Irving
• 75 • Schalken the Painter • (1935) • novelette by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 92 • Markheim • (1885) • short story by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 104 • The Squire's Story • non-genre • (1853) • short story by Mrs. Gaskell
• 116 • The Three Strangers • non-genre • (1883) • novelette by Thomas Hardy
• 131 • A Singular Passage In the Life of The Late Henry Harris, D. D. • [The Ingoldsby Legends] • novelette by Richard Harris Barham (variant of Singular Passage in the Life of the Late Henry Harris 1831) [as by R. H. Barham]
• 147 • The Story of Mary Ancel • (1840) • short story by William Makepeace Thackeray
• 161 • The Accident • (1911) • short story by Oliver Onions
• 172 • A Terribly Strange Bed • (1852) • short story by Wilkie Collins
• 184 • The Mirror • (1828) • novelette by Sir Walter Scott (variant of My Aunt Margaret's Mirror)
• 202 • The Upper Berth • (1885) • novelette by F. Marion Crawford
• 217 • The Werewolf (excerpt) • (1938) • short story by Frederick Marryat (variant of The Werewolf (excerpt: chapter 39 of The Phantom Ship) 1839)
• 231 • Because Of The Dollars • non-genre • (1914) • short story by Joseph Conrad
• 255 • The Diamond Lens • (1858) • novelette by Fitz-James O'Brien
• 272 • A Watcher by the Dead • (1889) • short story by Ambrose Bierce