Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Editors' Foreword (The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One) • essay by Ryan Cagle and James D. Jenkins
• Aunty Green • (1977) • short story by John Blackburn
• Miss Mack • (1986) • short story by Michael McDowell
• School Crossing • (1976) • short story by Francis King
• A Psychological Experiment • (1900) • short story by Richard Marsh
• The Progress of John Arthur Crabbe • (1982) • short story by Stephen Gregory
• The Frozen Man • (1910) • short story by Ernest G. Henham [as by John Trevena]
• California Burning • (2009) • novelette by Michael Blumlein
• Let Loose • (1890) • short story by Mary Cholmondeley
• Out of Sorts • (1983) • short story by Bernard Taylor
• The Head and the Hand • (1972) • short story by Christopher Priest
• The Ghost of Charlotte Cray • (1883) • short story by Florence Marryat
• The Grim White Woman • (1801) • poem by Matthew Gregory Lewis [as by M. G. Lewis]
• The Terror on Tobit • (1933) • short story by Charles Birkin
• Furnished Apartments • novelette by Forrest Reid
• Something Happened • short story by Hugh Fleetwood
• The Tarn • (1923) • short story by Hugh Walpole
• The Gentleman All in Black • (1942) • short story by Gerald Kersh