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• v • Introduction (Great Tales of Terror) • essay by S. T. Joshi
• 3 • The Haunted Dragoon • (1892) • short story by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch]
• 16 • The Graven Image • (1895) • short story by Fiona MacLeod [as by William Sharp]
• 26 • The Return of the Soul • (1895) • novella by Robert Hichens
• 74 • Of a Promise Broken • (1901) • short story by Lafcadio Hearn
• 81 • The Promise • (1919) • short story by Walter de la Mare (variant of Promise at Dusk)
• 91 • The Ghosts of Austerlitz: A Christmas Story • (1893) • short story by William Waldorf Astor
• 102 • The Coach • (1909) • short story by Violet Hunt
• 120 • Night School • (1914) • short story by James Hopper
• 131 • The Mummy's Foot • (1926) • short story by
  Théophile Gautier^?Theophile Gautier
  (trans. of Le pied de momie 1840)
• 144 • The Discomfited Demon • (1870) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• 146 • The Tortoise • (1910) • short story by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey]
• 157 • Borrhomeo the Astrologer • (1862) • short story by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu [as by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]
• 170 • The Diary of a God • (1901) • short story by Barry Pain
• 178 • The Three Drugs • (1908) • short story by E. Nesbit (variant of The Third Drug)
• 198 • The Window of Horrors • (1917) • short story by H. L. Mencken [as by William Drayham]
• 216 • The Man Who Lost His Head • (1935) • short story by Thomas Burke
• 229 • The Queen of the Bees • (1876) • short story by Alexandre Chatrian and
  Émile Erckmann^?Emile Erckmann
  (trans. of La reine des abeilles 1862) [as by Erckmann-Chatrian]
• 241 • The Caves of Death • (1886) • short story by Gertrude Atherton
• 250 • The Soldiers' Rest • (1914) • short story by Arthur Machen
• 257 • Romance • (1909) • short story by Lord Dunsany
• 261 • The Man Who Found Out • (1912) • short story by Algernon Blackwood and Wilfred Wilson [as by Algernon Blackwood]
• 278 • A Negligible Experiment • (1921) • short story by J. D. Beresford
• 284 • The Root-Gatherers • (1940) • short story by R. H. Barlow
• 291 • Notes on the Authors (Great Tales of Terror) • essay by uncredited