Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 7 • Old Cornish Litany • (unknown) • poem by Traditional [as by unknown]
• 8 • The Haunted House • (1970) • poem by Vic Crume
• 10 • A Skeleton Once in Khartoum • (unknown) • poem by unknown
• 10 • In Memory of Anna Hopewell • (unknown) • poem by unknown
• 11 • The Devil's Pocket • (1970) • short story by George Mendoza
• 17 • The Old Wife and the Ghost • juvenile • (1952) • poem by James Reeves
• 19 • Mother Goose (Circa 2054) • (1954) • poem by Irene Sekula
• 19 • The Superstitious Ghost (excerpt) • (1970) • poem by Arthur Guiterman
• 21 • The Flattered Flying Fish (The Shark and the Flying Fish) • (1962) • poem by E. V. Rieu
• 23 • Ruth and Johnnie • (unknown) • poem by unknown
• 23 • It Isn't the Cough • (unknown) • poem by unknown
• 24 • Adventures of Isabel • (1936) • poem by Ogden Nash
• 26 • The Velvet Ribbon • (1970) • short story by Ann McGovern
• 28 • Little Willie • (unknown) • poem by unknown
• 28 • Jerry Jones • (unknown) • poem by unknown
• 29 • The Cradle That Rocked by Itself • (1959) • short story by Maria Leach
• 32 • The Wreck of the Hesperus • (1842) • poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• 38 • The Yarn of the 'Nancy Bell' (excerpt) • (1970) • poem by W. S. Gilbert [as by William Schwenck Gilbert]
• 42 • A Sea Dirge • (1970) • poem by William Shakespeare
• 43 • The Ghost Catcher • (unknown) • short story by E. B. Chance
• 48 • The Great Auk's Ghost • (1907) • poem by Ralph Hodgson
• 48 • Any Day Now • (1954) • poem by David McCord
• 49 • The Witch of Willowby Wood (excerpt) • (1950) • poem by Rowena Bennett
• 49 • A Young Lady from Glitch • juvenile • (1969) • poem by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers [as by Tamara Kitt]
• 50 • The Purist • (1935) • poem by Ogden Nash
• 50 • The Kilkenny Cats • (unknown) • poem by unknown
• 51 • Dust • (1949) • poem by Sydney King Russell
• 53 • Windy Nights • (1885) • poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 54 • Voices • (1970) • poem by Felice Holman
• 55 • Winter Moon • (1926) • poem by Langston Hughes
• 55 • November Night • (1922) • poem by Adelaide Crapsey
• 56 • The Erl-King • (1957) • poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. of Der Erlkönig 1782)
• 58 • Shadows Before Dawn • (1970) • poem by Alfred Noyes
• 59 • Sir Roderic's Song (excerpt) • (1887) • poem by W. S. Gilbert [as by William Schwenck Gilbert]
• 60 • The Bat • (1938) • poem by Theodore Roethke
• 61 • The Listeners • (1911) • poem by Walter de la Mare
• 63 • The Red Room (abridged) • short story by H. G. Wells
• 77 • The Two Old Women of Mumbling Hill • (1950) • poem by James Reeves
• 79 • Spooks • (1926) • poem by Nathalia Crane