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• Introduction: The Imperishable Ghost • (1921) • essay by Dorothy Scarborough
• The Willows • (1907) • novella by Algernon Blackwood
• The Shadows on the Wall • (1903) • short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• The Messenger • [Dick Darrel • 3] • (1897) • novelette by Robert W. Chambers
• Lazarus • (1985) • short story by
  Леонид Андреев^?Leonid Andreyev
  (trans. of
  Елеазар^?Yeleazar
  1906) [as by Leonid Andreyev]
• The Beast with Five Fingers • (1919) • novelette by William Fryer Harvey [as by W. F. Harvey]
• The Mass of Shadows • (1908) • short story by Anatole France (trans. of La messe des ombres 1892)
• What Was It? • [Harry Escott] • (1859) • short story by Fitz-James O'Brien
• The Middle Toe of the Right Foot • (1890) • short story by Ambrose Bierce
• The Shell of Sense • (1908) • short story by Olivia Howard Dunbar
• The Woman at Seven Brothers • (1917) • short story by Wilbur Daniel Steele
• At the Gate • (1917) • short story by Myla Jo Closser
• Ligeia • (1838) • short story by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Haunted Orchard • (1912) • short story by Richard Le Gallienne
• The Bowmen • (1914) • short story by Arthur Machen
• A Ghost • (1921) • short story by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Apparition 1883)