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• vii • Introduction (The Lifted Veil) • essay by A. Susan Williams
• 1 • The Spectre; or, The Ruins of Belfont Priory • (1806) • short story by Sarah Wilkinson
• 20 • The Mortal Immortal, A Tale • short story by Mary Shelley (variant of The Mortal Immortal 1833)
• 33 • Napoleon and the Spectre • (1919) • short story by Charlotte Brontë
• 37 • The Old Nurse's Story • (1935) • novelette by Mrs. Gaskell [as by Elizabeth Gaskell]
• 57 • The Lifted Veil • (1859) • novelette by George Eliot
• 97 • Circumstance • (1860) • short story by Harriet Prescott Spofford
• 110 • The Phantom Coach • (1864) • short story by Amelia B. Edwards
• 123 • The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation • (1867) • novella by Louisa May Alcott (variant of The Abbot's Ghost: or, Maurice Treherne's Temptation: A Christmas Story) [as by A. M. Barnard]
• 185 • Kentucky's Ghost • (1868) • short story by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
• 201 • The Ghost in the Cap'n Brown House • (1870) • short story by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• 211 • Behold It Was a Dream • (1872) • short story by Rhoda Broughton
• 227 • The Secret Chamber • (1876) • novelette by Margaret Oliphant
• 255 • The Ghost of Charlotte Cray • (1879) • short story by Florence Marryat
• 272 • Lady Farquhar's Old Lady, A True Ghost Story • short story by Mary Louisa Molesworth (variant of Lady Farquhar's Old Lady 1873) [as by Mrs. Molesworth]
• 286 • In a Far-Off World • (1890) • short story by Olive Schreiner
• 288 • Death and the Woman • (1892) • short story by Gertrude Atherton
• 293 • Man-Size in Marble • (1887) • short story by E. Nesbit
• 306 • The Banshee's Warning • (1990) • novelette by Mrs. J. H. Riddell (variant of Hertford O'Donnell's Warning 1867)
• 325 • Caulfield's Crime • (1892) • short story by Alice Perrin
• 333 • The Wind in the Rosebush • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (variant of The Wind in the Rose-Bush 1902)
• 350 • Sultana's Dream • (1905) • short story by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
• 361 • The Woman with the Hood • (1897) • short story by L. T. Meade
• 376 • If I Were a Man • (1914) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• 383 • Consequences • (1915) • short story by Willa Cather
• 402 • Kerfol • (1916) • novelette by Edith Wharton
• 424 • A Suburban Fairy Tale • (1917) • short story by Katherine Mansfield
• 428 • A Haunted House • (1921) • short story by Virginia Woolf
• 430 • The Nature of the Evidence • (1923) • short story by May Sinclair
• 441 • The Unbolted Door • (1929) • short story by Marie Belloc Lowndes
• 448 • The Buick Saloon • (1930) • short story by Ann Bridge [as by Mary O'Malley]
• 464 • Shambleau • [Northwest Smith] • (1933) • novelette by C. L. Moore
• 492 • The Supper at Elsinore • (1934) • novella by Karen Blixen [as by Isak Dinesen]
• 537 • The English Gentleman's Tale — The Gold Bride • short story by Christina Stead (variant of The Gold Bride 1934)
• 545 • The Mask of Sacrifice • (1923) • short story by Margery Lawrence
• 559 • Notes on the Authors (The Lifted Veil) • essay by uncredited