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• Introduction (The Pocket Book of Mystery Stories) • (1941) • essay by William Lyon Phelps
• Manner • short fiction by Thomas Beer
• A. V. Laider • (1916) • short story by Max Beerbohm
• The Ghost at Massingham Mansions • non-genre • [Max Carrados] • (1923) • novelette by Ernest Bramah
• Back for Christmas • non-genre • (1939) • short story by John Collier
• Seaton's Aunt • (1922) • novelette by Walter de la Mare
• A Jungle Graduate • (1910) • short story by James Francis Dwyer
• The Case of Jacob Heylyn • (1937) • short fiction by Leonard Gribble
• How Love Came to Professor Guildea • (1897) • novella by Robert Hichens
• Casting the Runes • (1911) • novelette by M. R. James
• The Motive • (1937) • short fiction by Ronald A. Knox [as by Ronald Knox]
• Prince Charlie's Dirk • (1926) • novella by Eden Phillpotts
• The Fool's Heart • (1915) • novelette by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
• The Open Window • (1911) • short story by Saki
• The Body of the Crime • non-genre • (1930) • short story by Wilbur Daniel Steele
• Gemini • (1929) • short story by G. B. Stern
• The Dancing Stones • (1910) • short fiction by Edgar Wallace
• The Inexperienced Ghost • (1902) • short story by H. G. Wells
• Lukundoo • (1925) • short story by Edward Lucas White